Wheat diseases cause significant economic losses every year. To ensure global food security, newly released cultivars must possess increased levels of broadly-effective resistance against wheat pathogens, acceptable end-use ...

Heat stress is one of the major environmental constraints for wheat production worldwide. High temperature during grain filling in wheat leads to a significant reduction in yield. In this research, three different projects ...

Leaf rust, caused by fungus Puccinia triticina, is an important foliar disease of wheat worldwide. Breeding for race-nonspecific resistant cultivars is the best strategy to combat this disease. Aegilops tauschii, D genome ...

Caenorhabditis elegans are free-living bacterivorous nematodes that naturally consume bacteria as food source. As an excellent genetic model, C. elegans has proven to be a successful system to study innate immune responses ...