Genome Targeted Introgression of Resistance to African Stem Rust from Aegilops sharonensis into Bread Wheat

Many accessions of the wheat wild relative Sharon goatgrass ( Eig., ) are resistant to African races of the stem rust pathogen (i.e., Ug99 group races), which currently threaten wheat production worldwide. A procedure was designed to introgress the respective resistances to specific bread wheat geno...

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Main Authors: Eitan Millet, Brian J. Steffenson, Renée Prins, Hanan Sela, Alexandra M. Przewieslik-Allen, Zacharias A. Pretorius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-11-01
Series:The Plant Genome
Online Access:https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/tpg/articles/10/3/plantgenome2017.07.0061