The human population will be 10 billion by 2050. Classic #breeding requires 10 years to release a variety, making it hard to improve #yields at the needed pace. To ensure #foodsecurity, innovative solutions are needed. #CRISPR etc. can speed up breeding: doi.org/10.1007/978-98…

Thanks for sharing. Classical #breeding efforts are inefficient to ensure #foodsecurity requiring #innovative techniques such as #MarkerAssisted & #Speed #Breeding #GenomicSelection and #CRISPR etc. to boost crop #yields to feed 10 billion by 2050. Babar Hussain Springer Nature

Out now and in open access. Congrats Hikmet Budak and all authors for the great review. Capturing Wheat Phenotypes at the Genome Level frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

wheatgenome Hikmet Budak Great review. Anyone interested in silico gene discovery in wheat should checkout the free wheat KnetMiner resource.

New review paper “Capturing wheat phenotypes at the genome level” led by Hikmet Budak out now. Great contributions from the CIMMYT wheat team working on identification of genomic variation for breeding @CimmytWMB & enhancing pest resistance Leonardo Crespo frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Great review out now and in open access capturing Wheat Phenotypes at the Genome Level frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Hikmet Budak Alison Bentley Benjamin Kilian Dr. Götz Hensel Taner Sen Sivakumar Sukumaran and all authors!

CRISPR Helps Scientists Develop Canker-resistant Citrus Lines in Less Than a Year isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotech…

So excited that our ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding for Agricultural Futures has been funded! The Centre involved 7 unis, 30 partner orgs, and will train 31 PhDs, 7 Postdocs and advance predictive breeding methodology across 21 agriculturally important species

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Genome-wide characterization of MLO family genes in bread wheat shed light on their role in powdery mildew, rusts, blight, abiotic stresses, and development biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Genome-wide characterization of MLO family genes in bread wheat shed light on their role in powdery mildew, rusts, blight, abiotic ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_bioinfo

bioArXiv_ Genome-wide characterization of MLO family genes in bread wheat shed light on their role in powdery mildew, rusts, blight, abiotic stresses, and development dlvr.it/SwYfQ7

Our #GeneticsFoodRevolution conference has a fantastic programme and includes our 2023 Mendel Medal Lecture with Caroline Dean! Register here: genetics.org.uk/events/genetic… John Innes Centre

#interesting #science

In our preprint on bioRxiv we expanded the MLO genes in bread wheat from 7 to 47 and potential CRISPR/Cas9 targets from from 3 to 47for improving powdery mildew, rusts, development and abiotic stresses biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Wheat Initiative Expert Working Group on #Wheat #Pathogens holds new WEBINAR! Brande Wulff will be speaking about “Harnessing #genetic diversity in wheat and its wild relatives for disease resistance”. Please find all info here! 👇🌾👇 wheatinitiative.org/new-events/ewg…

Read our book chapter on rice that discusses how New Breeding Techniques and Biotechnology can boost rice yield to feed up to 5 Billion out of 10 Billion expected in 2050.