Introduction Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major staple food for one-third of the human race and supplies ~20% of daily calorie intake for humans1. Wheat production accounts for ~30% of global cereal crops2. To feed the growing world population, it is estimated that wheat yield needs...
The genomic data and analysis tools made public with this paper can assist wheat researchers to discover and use functional diversity that may be essential for meeting these challenges. The massive scale of the genotypic data, describing nearly 80,000 publicly available germplasm accessions, offer amp...
1. Introduction Powdery mildew caused by Blumeria graminis (DC.) E. O. f. sp. tritici (Bgt) is one of the most economically important wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) diseases worldwide [1]. Resistant cultivars are the preferred means to control powdery mildew. Although resistance alleles at 68...
1. Introduction Winter wheat is a globally important cereal crop, providing the primary caloric and nutritional source for millions of people around the world (FAO 2018). Timely and accurate monitoring of winter wheat growth and yield prediction is essential to ensure food security (Becker-Reshef ...
The continued need to invest in wheat productivity enhancement while staying within planetary boundaries. 4.2Introduction Wheat is one of the world’s oldest and most widely used food crops, domesticated more than 10,000 years ago in the Near East’s Fertile Crescent. Its domestication took place...
INTRODUCTION A major portion of ration of ruminant livestock in South-east Asia including India is based on cereal crop residues. The scarcity of green fodder, pasture and quality hay has increased the onus over cereal crop residues, as their feeding to livestock offers no direct competition with...
Introduction Sustainable intensification has been defined as novel strategic framework for post-green revolution agriculture (Collette et al.2011). It aims to provide answers to two key challenges: reversion of the decreasing trend in yield advance for major staple crops observed since the 1990s (Bris...
The membrane of wheat root cells depolarized upon introduction of K+, PHE, or both K+ and PHE (Figure 3). This depolarization was only transient. Depolarization recovered spontaneously while still in the presence of K+, PHE, or both K+ and PHE. When either K+ or PHE, or both K+ and...
Introduction Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a staple crop worldwide, providing 20% of total food needs of the world population1,2. Plant architecture is a complex trait mainly depends on the three dimensional structure of the plant stature including branching pattern, morphology of leaves and ...
Introduction Bread wheat (Triticum aestivumL., 2n = 6x = 42) is one of the most important crops in the world and provides 20% of the total daily calories and protein for humans1. Wheat powdery mildew, caused by the fungusBlumeria graminisf. sp.tritici(Bgt), is one of the mos...