supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0100402);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31671687);the National Major Project for Developing New GM Crops (2016ZX08009001);Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of CAAS
Grain Weight 8(GW8) in rice is a SQUAMOSA Promoter-Binding Protein-Like(SPL) family transcription factor with multiple biological functions. In this study, three GW8 homoeologs were cloned from homoeologous group 7 ch...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2017YFD0101000);Science and Technology Service Network Program (STS Program) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KFJ-STS-ZDTP-024);National Natural Science Foundation of China (31371611)
Grain yield in cereal crops is a complex trait controlled by multiple genes and influenced by developmental processes and environment. Here we report the effects of alleles Rht8 and Ppd-D1 a on plant height, time to h...
Financial support provided by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFD0101000);the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program is acknowledged
Common wheat is the major cereal crop that underpins the food safety of China. Both winter wheat and spring wheat are grown on ~24 million ha. This review aims to summarize the current status of wheat production and b...
financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFD0101000);International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Project (2016YFE0108600);Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of CAAS
The objective of this paper is to review progress made in wheat breeding for Fusarium head blight(FHB) resistance in China, the United States of America(USA), and Canada. In China,numerous Chinese landraces possessing...
Funding from the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Peer Review and Growing Forward programs,and Ducks Unlimited Canada is greatly appreciated
We report on pyramiding different disease resistance genes against fungal pathogens in Canadian winter wheat germplasm based on available DNA markers and gene sequences.Genetic resistance represents a safe, economical...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFD0101004);the Science and Technology Service Network Initiative of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KFJ-STS-ZDTP-024)
Stripe rust and powdery mildew are both devastating diseases for durum and common wheat.Pyramiding of genes conferring resistance to one or more diseases in a single cultivar is an important breeding approach to provi...
supported by funding from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0102000);Shanxi Provincial Key Platform for Science and Technology Innovation Program (201605D151002);Shanxi Provincial International Cooperation in Science and Technology Program (201803D221018-5);Shanxi Provincial Key Research and Development Project (201803D421020 and 201703D211007);Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Project YGG17123)
Powdery mildew, caused by the biotrophic fungus Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici(Bgt), is a prevalent disease in common wheat(Triticum aestivum L.) and causes serious yield losses worldwide. We used a map-based approa...
partly funded by US Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative and the National Research Initiative Competitive Grants (2017-6700725939, 2017-67007-25929) from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture;from Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (BK20170596);Jiangsu Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Fund, China (CX (17) 3004)
Epidemics of Fusarium head blight(FHB), incited by Fusarium graminearum Schwabe, in wheat cause significant reductions in grain yield and quality. Numerous quantitative trait loci(QTL) for FHB resistance have been rep...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0101802, 2017YFD010060);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31771881, 31401468);the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program
The gene Fhb1 has been used in many countries to improve wheat Fusarium head blight(FHB) resistance. To make better use of this gene in the Yellow-Huai River Valleys Winter Wheat Zone(YHWZ), the most important wheat-p...
supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA), Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat (DRRW)/Delivering Genetic Gains in Wheat (DGGW) and the CGIAR Research Program for Wheat (CRP WHEAT) project;the financial support of The National Key Research and Development Program of China on Molecular Design Breeding in Wheat (2016YFD0101802)
Tan spot(TS) and Septoria nodorum blotch(SNB), caused by Pyrenophora tritici-repentis and Parastagonospora nodorum, respectively, are important fungal leaf-spotting diseases of wheat that cause significant losses in g...