Tofazzal Islam, Daniel Croll, Pierre Gladieux, Darren M. Soanes et al.
BACKGROUND: In February 2016, a new fungal disease was spotted in wheat fields across eight districts in Bangladesh. The epidemic spread to an estimated 15,000 hectares, about 16 % of the cultivated wheat area in Bangladesh, with yield losses reaching up to 100 %. Within weeks of the onset of the ep...
Ravi P. Singh, P. K. Singh, Jessica Rutkoski, David Hodson et al.
Wheat is grown worldwide in diverse geographical regions, environments, and production systems. Although many diseases and pests are known to reduce grain yield potential and quality, the three rusts and powdery mildew fungi have historically caused major crop losses and continue to remain economica...
Md Atiqul Haque, Yihui Wang, Zhiqiang Shen, Xiaohui Li et al.
Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced mainly by fungi belonging to the genera Aspergillus, Fusarium, Penicillium, Claviceps, and Alternaria that contaminate basic food products throughout the world, whether developing countries becoming predominantly affected. Currently, more than 500 mycoto...
Yoshihiro Inoue, Trinh Thi Phuong Vy, Kentaro Yoshida, Hokuto Asano et al.
Genetic analysis of disease emergence In the 1980s, wheat crops began to fall to the fungal pathogen that causes blast disease. First seen in Brazil, wheat blast last year caused devastating crop losses in Bangladesh. Inoue et al. tracked down the shifting genetics that have allowed the emergence of...
Philomin Juliana, Jesse Poland, Julio Huerta‐Espino, Sandesh Shrestha et al.
Bread wheat improvement using genomic tools is essential for accelerating trait genetic gains. Here we report the genomic predictabilities of 35 key traits and demonstrate the potential of genomic selection for wheat end-use quality. We also performed a large genome-wide association study that ident...
C. D. Cruz, Barbara Valent
Wheat blast is caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae Triticum pathotype (MoT). The potential for wheat blast to cause widespread losses demands immediate action to understand and manage this explosive disease. The recent appearance of wheat blast in Bangladesh demonstrates the threat of global spr...
Akbar Hossain, Milan Skalický, Marián Brestič, Sagar Maitra et al.
Wheat is one of the world’s most commonly consumed cereal grains. During abiotic stresses, the physiological and biochemical alterations in the cells reduce growth and development of plants that ultimately decrease the yield of wheat. Therefore, novel approaches are needed for sustainable wheat prod...
Paritosh Kumar Malaker, NCD Barma, T. P. Tiwari, W. J. Collis et al.
Suchismita Mondal, Ravi P. Singh, José Crossa, Julio Huerta‐Espino et al.
High temperatures are a primary concern for wheat production in South Asia. A trial was conducted to evaluate the grain yield performance of high yielding, early maturing heat tolerant CIMMYT wheat lines, developed recently in Mexico for adaptation to high temperature stresses in South Asia. The tri...
M. A. Matin, Jarvis H. Brown, Hayden Ferguson
Abstract Rapid drought resistance screening techniques could accelerate selection of improved cultivars for semiarid areas. This study was conducted to determine if total leaf water potential, leaf relative water content, and leaf diffusive resistance could be used to differentiate between barley ( ...
Batiseba Tembo, Rabson M. Mulenga, Suwilanji Sichilima, Kenneth K. M’siska et al.
Wheat blast caused by Magnaporthe oryzae pathotype Triticum (MoT) is a threat to wheat production especially in the warmer-humid environments. In Zambia, wheat blast symptoms were observed for the first time on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grown in experimental plots and five farmers' fields in Mpik...
Paulo Cézar Ceresini, Vanina L. Castroagudín, Fabrício Ávila Rodrigues, Jonas Alberto Rios et al.
The devastating wheat blast disease first emerged in Brazil in 1985. The disease was restricted to South America until 2016, when a series of grain imports from Brazil led to a wheat blast outbreak in Bangladesh. Wheat blast is caused by Pyricularia graminis-tritici ( Pygt), a species genetically di...
Guiju Sun, S. Wang, Xu Hu, Jianjia Su et al.
Aflatoxins and fumonisins are ubiquitous foodborne toxicants and the co-occurrence of these mycotoxins in human foods represents a significant public health concern, which has been strongly associated with human aflatoxicosis, neural tube defects, as well as many types of primary cancers. In this st...
Xiuling Tian, Weie Wen, Li Xie, Luping Fu et al.
Height is an important trait related to plant architecture and yield potential in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). We previously identified a major quantitative trait locus (QTL) QPH.caas-6A flanked by simple sequence repeat markers Xbarc103 and Xwmc256 that reduced height by 8.0–10.4%. Here QPH....
Marta S. Lopes, Matthew Reynolds, M.R. Jalal-Kamali, Medhat Moussa et al.
Genetic progress in yield will increase if more traits conferring better agronomic and physiological performance are brought together in the same variety through full exploitation of genotyping and phenotyping techniques in breeding. A set of 288 spring wheat advanced lines was tested in different c...