Characterization of Ethiopian genetic resources for durum wheat
Enrico Pè (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)
Signature of selection sweeps in the tetraploid wheat germplasm
Marco Maccaferri (University of Bologna, Italy)
Session 2.
Tetraploid wheat genetic resources for the improvement of durum and bread wheat
Chairs: Tzion Fahima (University of Haifa, Israel),
Edward Akhunov (Kansas State University, USA)
Edward Akhunov (Kansas State University, USA)
Rht18 Semi-dwarfism reveals a new height-reducing mechanism in wheat
Wolfgang Spielmeyer (CSIRO, Australia)
Yr15 Gene (WTK1) encodes two kinase-like protein domains and confers broad-spectrum resistance to stripe rust
Tzion Fahima (University of Haifa, Israel)
Editing the wheat genome
Eduard Akhunov (Kansas State University, USA)
The durum wheat genome
Annamaria Mastrangelo (CREA, Italy)