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Wheat breeding for resistance to the Sunn pest (Eurygaster spp.): Does risk occur?

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Russian Journal of Genetics: Applied Research

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Wheat is among the most valuable daily foodstuff items. However, it induces allergies or celiac disease in approximately 1 out of 100 persons, most often in children. In many regions, harmful Sunn bugs considerably reduce crop yield and grain quality. Climate warming provides favorable conditions for the expansion of the geographic range of these bugs and “enhances their harmfulness.” There are two major approaches to tackling this problem: genetic protection of the plant itself and genetic protection of the seed, i.e., the progeny. The former approach appears to be less risky to human health. Wheat requires protection against Sunn bugs that impairs neither the gluten rheology nor the nutritional value of the grain. The basic method is the development of an integrated system for controlling bugs that would include, in addition to technological, biological, and chemical methods, genetic protection. Taken together, these components allow the cultivation of environmentally safe wheat. It is also relevant to develop wheat cultivars with reduced contents of allergy and celiac disease determinants.

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Krupnov, 2011, published in Vavilovskii Zhurnal Genetiki i Selektsii, 2011, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 572–578.

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Krupnov, V.A. Wheat breeding for resistance to the Sunn pest (Eurygaster spp.): Does risk occur?. Russ J Genet Appl Res 2, 79–84 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S207905971201011X

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