The WGRC IUCRC is an Industry/University research consortium focused on utilizing genetics from wheat’s ancient ancestors to protect the regional and global wheat supply and meet consumer demands for nutrition, flavor and functional ingredients.
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Mining wheat’s wild side for global food security
MANHATTAN — A Kansas State University wheat geneticist is receiving nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National...
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Punya Nachappa discusses Wheat Curl Mites
Punya Nachappa, assistant professor at Colorado State University explains how wheat curl mites avoid insecticides, how climate change is leading...
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Take a tour of the greenhouse
Join us for a virtual tour of wheat's wild relatives in our greenhouse space at the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center
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Landmark study of wild wheat ancestor
K-State scientists are part of an international team of researchers that have deciphered the genetic code of a wild ancestor of wheat.
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Gene identified to resist wheat streak mosaic virus
K-State researchers have identified a gene that will provide resistance to the wheat streak mosaic virus.
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Kansas State University researchers uncover new genetic markers for wheat improvement
Kansas State University wheat scientists have completed the first study of a chromosome in a tertiary gene pool and have called it a breakthrough in exploring wheat wild relatives for future crop improvement.
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Kansas State University’s leadership in wheat research recognized with $1.6M grant
Kansas State University wheat researchers are leading efforts to develop a better understanding of the wheat genome.
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From better seeds to beneficial insects, K-State researchers fight world hunger
Can a wasp feed the world? It can help. If its larvae are nurtured near millet fields where a devastating moth steals harvests from the field, they can grow to become predators that destroy the pests and save a crop. And that just might put more food in more mouths and earn money for struggling farmers in the world’s poorest countries.
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Putting up resistance
Will the public swallow science’s best solution to one of the most dangerous wheat pathogens on the planet?
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Dr. Jesse Poland to Outline Breakthroughs in Genomic Selection and Precision Phenotyping at Borlaug Summit on Wheat for Food Security
To accelerate the continual development of new and improved wheat varieties, novel approaches are needed to extend conventional selection methods, according to Dr. Jesse Poland, an assistant professor at Kansas State University and director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Applied Wheat Genomics.
Read MoreRECENT PUBLICATIONS
Registration of Hessian fly‐resistant germplasm KS18WGRC65 carrying H26 in hard red winter wheat ‘Overley’ background
Journal of Plant Registrations
In-silico detection of aneuploidy and chromosomal deletions in wheat using genotyping-by-sequencing
Plant Methods
Resistance gene cloning from a wild crop relative by sequence capture and association genetics
Nature Biotechnology
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