Delivering breeding-oriented genetic tools for cereal disease resistance

该项目将特别侧重于向行业合作伙伴提供遗传工具，以帮助其小麦和大麦育种者提高将持久小麦条锈病和大麦叶锈病抗性分别纳入其核心种质库的准确性和效率。预期的结果也将有助于填补我们在理解谷物锈病先天免疫系统方面的知识空白，并使其他谷物真菌病理系统受益。拟议项目预期成果的广泛应用将减少杀菌剂的使用，从而有助于提高谷类作物的适应力和可持续的全球粮食安全。

This project will focus specifically on delivering the genetic tools to the industry partner to assist its wheat and barley breeders to increase the accuracy and efficiency of incorporating the durable wheat stripe rust disease and barley leaf rust disease resistance into their core germplasm collections, respectively. The expected outcomes will also contribute to filling our knowledge gap in understanding the cereal rust innate immune system and benefit other cereal fungal pathosystems. The wide application of the expected outcomes from the proposed project will reduce the utilisation of fungicides and subsequently will subsequently contribute to the resilience of cereal crops and sustainable global food security.