Abstracts

Climate change intensifies abiotic stress and disease pressure on crops, while domestication has narrowed genetic diversity. Advances in high-throughput sequencing, pangenomics and genome editing enable discovery, validation and precise deployment of beneficial alleles from landraces and wild relatives. These approaches transform plant breeding into a predictive, sustainable discipline, illustrated here on barley and wheat resistance breeding.

Keywords

Gene isolation, Pangenome, CRISPR/Cas, Barley, Wheat, Resistance breeding

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