To support its variety development program, USask's Crop Development Center (CDC) has been diving back into the gene pool of wheat and screening its wild relatives for useful traits that can be ...

"We also found that genetic diversity within the often-criticised modern wheat gene pool is rich enough to generate a further 23 per cent increase in yields." Dr Voss-Fels said the findings might ...

"We also found that genetic diversity within the often-criticised modern wheat gene pool is rich enough to generate a further 23 per cent increase in yields." ...

A research team has identified two novel genetic mechanisms for disease resistance in wheat, offering promising strategies to enhance resilience against powdery mildew and stripe rust. The ...

A team of scientists has therefore turned to einkorn, which because it has maintained a larger gene pool could hold the genetic secrets needed to develop bread wheat that can continue to feed the ...

Genetic detective work has uncovered an obscure ancestor of modern bread wheat, in a finding similar to uncovering a famous long-lost relative through DNA analysis in humans.

A team of researchers at the University of California, Davis, has pieced together a clearer picture of how wheat has been able to adapt to such a wide range of climates and become one of the world's ...

Sequencing of these isolates allowed us to sample genetic diversity of the wheat powdery mildew gene pool in different geographic regions (from the UK and Israel) as well as within the same ...

In the quest to separate the good traits from the bad, bioinformatics (computational biology) research at the Earlham Institute (EI), using a data driven strategy in wheat, find the first ever ...

Unusual gene duo in wild wheat offers new hope against crop diseases by Erin Matthews, University of Saskatchewan edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...