Discovery Of Wheat’s Clustered Chemical Defenses Creates New Avenues for Research
Published:20 Apr.2022 Source:John Innes Centre
A research collaboration has helped to explain the chemical defenses that protect wheat plants against disease -- opening potential new avenues of study in this globally cultivated crop.
Researchers at the John Innes Centre leveraged recent advances in mapping of bread wheat's complex genome to make the discovery. The Osbourn and Uauy groups collaborated to generate data that led to the discovery of several sets of genes in wheat that are switched on when the plant is attacked by disease-causing microbes.