Mycotoxin-producing Fusarium graminearum and related species cause Fusarium head blight on cultivated grasses, such as wheat and barley. However, these Fusarium species may have had a longer evolutionary history with North American grasses than with cultivated crops and may interact with the ancestral hosts in ways which are biochemically distinct. We assayed 25 species of asymptomatic native g...

A simple, nondestructive PCR-based screening method has been developed for identifying putative transgenic soft white winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) carrying the coat protein gene of wheat streak mosaic virus. Removal of the endosperm end of individual seed provided sufficient material for DNA extraction and PCR. DNA from seed is more free of the secondary, metabolites found in leaf tissue...

CRISPR/Cas technology has recently become the molecular tool of choice for gene function studies in plants as well crop improvement. Wheat is a globally important staple with annotated genome and there plenty scope improving its agriculturally traits using editing technologies, such CRISPR/Cas. As part this study we targeted three different genes hexaploid wheat Triticum aestivum: TaBAK1-2 spri...