Breeding wheat for resistance to Fusarium head blight in the Global North: China, USA, and Canada

The objective of this paper is to review progress made in wheat breeding for Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance in China, the United States of America (USA), and Canada. In China, numerous Chinese landraces possessing high levels of FHB resistance were grown before the 1950s. Later, pyramiding mu...

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Main Authors: Zhanwang Zhu, Yuanfeng Hao, Mohamed Mergoum, Guihua Bai, Gavin Humphreys, Sylvie Cloutier, Xianchun Xia, Zhonghu He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2019-12-01
Series:Crop Journal
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514119300832