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Cover Caption: Breeding with Endemic Wheat Subspecies
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of integrative plant biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.734
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1744-7909
pISSN - 1672-9072
DOI - 10.1111/jipb.12264
Subject(s) - subspecies , introgression , biology , yield (engineering) , agronomy , geography , ecology , genetics , gene , materials science , metallurgy
Endemic wheat subspecies are useful germplasms for improving the yield and environmental adaptabilities of common wheat. In this issue, Gu et al. (pp. 688–697) report the development of four sets of introgression lines using Chinese endemic subspecies including Tibetan semi‐wild wheat, Xinjiang wheat and Yunnan wheat as donors. These introgression lines have been used to improve agronomic traits of bread wheat and to map yield‐related QTLs.