While ancestral tetraploid wheats were predominantly spring-types with single VRN-A1 gene copies, later mutations in common wheat created winter varieties through altered gene copy numbers and ...

Phys.org relayed that the team identified "Knr4 as a critical driver of infection for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) and Septoria tritici blotch (STB) — two of the most common diseases of wheat." ...