In addition to wild relatives, cultivated Triticeae species such as barley can also serve as an excellent gene source to improve the agronomic traits of bread wheat. The Asakaze-Manas addition lines previously developed in Martonvásár exhibit low fertility and unstable inheritance; nonetheless, they could serve as ’bridge materials’ for the incorporation of barley chromatin into the wheat genome. By leveraging the centric brea...

There are 32 diseases of agronomical importance in wheat, which makes disease management in this crop of worldwide importance extremely challenging. Wheat diseases affecting the leaves and the ears are major drivers of chemical fungicides use in Sweden and worldwide. Swedish fields are regularly infested with head blight diseases caused by a complex of Fusarium and non-fusarium taxa, head molds caused by weakly pathogenic or s...

Host plant resistance is the most effective and environmentally sustainable means of reducing yield losses caused by fungal foliar pathogens of cereal species. Cereal genebank collections hold diverse pools of potentially underutilized disease resistance alleles, and cereal genomic resources are well advanced due to large-scale sequencing and genotyping efforts. Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) have emerged as the predom...