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Fighting wheat powdery mildew: from genes to fields

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Host resistance conferred by Pm genes provides an effective strategy to control powdery mildew. The study of Pm genes helps modern breeding develop toward more intelligent and customized.

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Powdery mildew of wheat is one of the most destructive diseases seriously threatening the crop yield and quality worldwide. The genetic research on powdery mildew (Pm) resistance has entered a new era. Many Pm genes from wheat and its wild and domesticated relatives have been mined and cloned. Meanwhile, modern breeding strategies based on high-throughput sequencing and genome editing are emerging and developing toward more intelligent and customized. This review highlights mining and cloning of Pm genes, molecular mechanism studies on the resistance and avirulence genes, and prospects for genomic-assisted breeding for powdery mildew resistance in wheat.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32072053 and 31900265), the Key Research and Development Project of Shandong Province (2020CXGC010805), and the Key Research and Development Project of Yantai City (2022XCZX092).

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PM conceived the review. BW, TM, and BX drafted the manuscript. BX and TY drafted the figures. TY and YJ revised the manuscript.

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Correspondence to Pengtao Ma.

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Communicated by Rajeev K. Varshney.

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Wang, B., Meng, T., Xiao, B. et al. Fighting wheat powdery mildew: from genes to fields. Theor Appl Genet 136, 196 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-023-04445-4

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