Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGY, cilt.23, sa.1, ss.121-130, 2020 (SCI-Expanded)
According to the UN prediction, the human population will be more than 12 billion by the year 2050. This situation will lead to a shortage of agricultural product. Nearly all agricultural products are easily damaged by pathogens to the varying degree of disease severity if the crops are not protected from the pathogenic attack. Especially, the durability of resistance is a highly variable genetic trait and its genetical structure is still not understood completely. Wheat is a leading crop among the major food commodities of the world. In order to be more productive and to be less affected by rust diseases of wheat (Triticum spp.), the transfer of resistance genes "wild germplasm(s)" to the cultivated high yielding varieties is a viable approach This review covers wild wheat and their relatives' and new rust resistance genes that can be used in terms of plant breeding in wheat improvement programs. With the aid of suit breeding methods, the use of "wild germplasm diversity" inbreeding programs opened up new horizon(s) and possibilities about the wild relatives, the possibility of their use, and the information of genetic background for the "durable resistance". In parallel with this, application of relevant biological approaches such as classical and modern wheat breeding programs, biotechnology, genetic engineering, molecular markers will always keep alive inevitable importance of the resistance of wild relative. (C) 2020 Friends Science Publishers