Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) production is increasingly threatened by biotic and abiotic stresses. Developing varieties with improved stress tolerance and desirable end-use qualities is crucial for meeting growing global demand. Genome-editing technologies, particularly Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats and CRISPR-associated proteins (CRISPR/Cas)-derived systems, represent powerful tools to accelerate trait discovery and crop improvement. Here, we present a comprehensive atlas of cloned wheat genes and discuss examples and strategies for using it to identify candidate targets for CRISPR/Cas-mediated improvement. Finally, we recommend ways to integrate gene editing into breeding timelines and accelerate the incorporation of desirable alleles.
Alhabsi et al. (Fri,) studied this question.