The development of perennial grain crops is driven by the vision simultaneous food production and enhanced ecosystem services. Typically, like intermediate wheatgrass (IWG)[Thinopyrum intermedium (Host) Barkworth & D.R Dewey] have low seed yield other detrimental traits. Next-generation sequencing has made genomic selection (GS) a tractable viable breeding method. To investigate how an IWG prog...

There is considerable variability in salt tolerance amongst members of the Triticeae, with the tribe even containing a number of halophytes. This is a review of what is known of the differences in salt tolerance of selected species in this tribe of grasses, and the potential to use wild species to improve salt tolerance in wheat. Most investigators have concentrated on differences in ion accumu...

Recent molecular phylogenetic studies of polyploid plants have successfully clarified complex patterns of reticulate evolution. In this study of Elymus repens, an allohexaploid member of the wheat tribe Triticeae, chloroplast and nuclear DNA data reveal an extreme reticulate pattern, revealing at least five distinct gene lineages coexisting within the species, acquired through a possible combin...

Problems associated with annual grain agriculture, such as soil erosion and water and air pollution, indicate that reliance on annual grain production is a fundamental problem of current agricultural practice (23). Annual plant roots are less efficient micromanagers of water, soil, and soil nutrients than their perennial counterparts, resulting in nutrient and pesticide contamination of water s...

Vegetative filter strip characteristics such as perenniality drive hydrology and subsequent ecosystem services. However, the extent potential for forage–biomass crops to improve water quality, provide fodder, optimize nutrient cycling in multifunctional systems is unknown. We evaluated (a) how species, perenniality, plant community composition are linked quality; (b) multiuse of strips. Whole p...

The Lr19/Sr25 genes in 7DS-7DL-7Ae#1L translocation (from Thinopyrum ponticum Podp) and Lr37/Sr38/Yr17/Cre5/Rkn3 Aegilops ventricosa Tausch) attract the attention of bread wheat breeders by their resistance to leaf stem rust pathogens, as well a positive effect on agronomical important traits. However, combination these translocations is poorly understood. In presented study, agronomic performa...