The National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) is a vital resource for genetic diversity, yet utilization of this requires thorough understanding the germplasm and diversity. Intermediate wheatgrass (IWG, Thinopyrum intermedium) perennial grass species that has been improved forage production through breeding utilizing NPGS collection also targeted domestication as grain crop. To better characteriz...

Powdery mildew is one of the most destructive wheat diseases, and it causes a constant need for improvement resistance. Transfer resistance genes from wild relatives into genetic pool could be an alternative to use fungicides. This review contains classification powdery on different ontogenetic stages (seedling adult resistance), expression trait (quantitative qualitative), conferring (wide-spe...

Graminaceous arabinoxylans are distinguished by decoration with feruloylated monosaccharidic and oligosaccharidic side-chains. Although it is hypothesized that structural complexity and abundance of these feruloylated arabinoxylan side-chains may contribute, among other factors, to resistance of plant cell walls to enzymatic degradation, quantitative profiling approaches for these structural un...

Integrating use of seeded perennial cool-season grass pastures with native rangeland can increase available forage and provide a high plane of nutrition for grazing livestock. Our objective was to compare performance of yearling beef heifers grazing native rangeland with those grazing an integrated system that included seeded forages. Twice-replicated, 3-ha pastures seeded to either ‘Rosana’ we...

Agropyron elongatum (Host.) Neviski (synonym, Thinopyrum ponticum Podp., 2n = 70) has been used extensively as a valuable source for wheat breeding. Numerous chromosome fragments containing valuable genes have been successfully translocated into wheat from A. elongatum. However, reports on the transfer of powdery mildew resistance from A. elongatum to wheat are rare. In this study, a novel whea...

Wheat sharp eyespot, primarily caused by a soil-borne fungus Rhizoctonia cerealis, has become one of the most serious diseases of wheat in China. In this study, an ethylene response factor (ERF) gene from a wheat relative Thinopyrum intermedium, TiERF1, was characterized further, transgenic wheat lines expressing TiERF1 were developed, and the resistance of the transgenic wheat lines against R....