Non-invasive diagnosis of wheat stripe rust progression using hyperspectral reflectance.

Wheat stripe rust (WSR), a fungal disease capable of inflicting severe crop loss, threatens most of global wheat production. Breeding for genetic resistance is the primary defense against stripe rust infection. Further development of rust-resistant wheat varieties depends on the ability to accurately and rapidly quantify rust resilience.

Climate change impacts on temperate fruit and nut production: a systematic review.

Temperate fruit and nut crops require distinctive cold and warm seasons to meet their physiological requirements and progress through their phenological stages. Consequently, they have been traditionally cultivated in warm temperate climate regions characterized by dry-summer and wet-winter seasons. However, fruit and nut production in these areas faces new challenging conditions due to increasingly severe and erratic weather patterns caused by climate change.

Conserved residues in the wheat (Triticum aestivum) NAM-A1 NAC domain are required for protein binding and when mutated lead to delayed peduncle and flag leaf senescence.

Background: NAC transcription factors contain five highly conserved subdomains which are required for protein dimerisation and DNA binding. Few residues within these subdomains have been identified as essential for protein function, and fewer still have been shown to be of biological relevance in planta. Here we use a positive regulator of senescence in wheat, NAM-A1, to test the impact of missense mutations at specific, highly conserved residues of the NAC domain on protein function.

Identification of a Dominant Chlorosis Phenotype Through a Forward Screen of the cv. Kronos TILLING Population.

Durum wheat () derives from a hybridization event approximately 400,000 years ago which led to the creation of an allotetraploid genome. The evolutionary recent origin of durum wheat means that its genome has not yet been fully diploidised. As a result, many of the genes present in the durum genome act in a redundant fashion, where loss-of-function mutations must be present in both gene copies to observe a phenotypic effect.

A High-Resolution Map of Wheat , an Adult Plant Stripe Rust Resistance Locus in the Same Chromosomal Region as .

The appearance of highly virulent and more aggressive races of f. sp. () during the last two decades has led to stripe rust epidemics worldwide and to the rapid erosion of effective resistance genes.