Publications by authors named "Xingdong Bian"
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- Aegilops tauschii is a wild ancestor of bread wheat that contains valuable genetic diversity for enhancing wheat's performance and resilience.
- Researchers sequenced 242 accessions of Ae. tauschii and discovered a unique lineage from Georgia that contributed to the development of modern bread wheat.
- Using advanced mapping techniques, they identified key genomic regions linked to disease and pest resistance and successfully transferred these traits into wheat, facilitating faster trait discovery for breeding.
Background: The increase in human populations around the world has put pressure on resources, and as a consequence food security has become an important challenge for the 21st century. Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the most important crops in human and livestock diets, and the development of wheat varieties that produce higher yields, combined with increased resistance to pests and resilience to changes in climate, has meant that wheat breeding has become an important focus of scientific research. In an attempt to facilitate these improvements in wheat, plant breeders have employed molecular tools to help them identify genes for important agronomic traits that can be bred into new varieties.
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