Hao Li, Lele Zhu, Ruixiao Fan, Zheng Li, Yifan Liu, Aaqib Shaheen, Fang Nie, Can Li, Xuqin Liu, Yuanyuan Li, Wenjuan Liu, Yingying Yang, Tutu Guo, Yu Zhu, Mengchen Bu, Chenglin Li, Huihui Liang, Shenglong Bai, Feifei Ma, Guanghui Guo, Zhen Zhang, Jinling Huang, Yun Zhou, Chun-Peng Song
Breeding new and sustainable crop cultivars of high yields and desirable traits has been a major challenge for ensuring food security for the growing global human population. For polyploid crops such as wheat, introducing genetic variation from wild relatives of its subgenomes is a key strategy to improve the quality of their breeding pools. Over the past decades, considerable progress has been made in speed breeding, genome sequencing, high-throughput phenotyping and genomics-assisted breeding, which now allows us to realize whole-genome introgression from wild relatives to modern crops...
November 28, 2023: Nature Protocols