Dissecting culm strength in wheat: anatomical, biochemical, and genetic insights into lodging tolerance
Ronak Majid, Jajati Keshari Nayak, Sofora Jan, Sadaf Salam, Amir Nazir, Mohd Anwar Khan, Neeraj Pal, Raju Ratan Yadav, Santvana Tyagi, Pooja Joshi, Narendra Singh Dhaka, Vinay Kumar Singh, Parvaze Ahmad Sofi, Sundip Kumar, Manish K Vishwakarma, Pradeep Bhati, Uttam Kumar, Rajeev Kumar Varshney, Reyazul Rouf Mir · 2026
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Ronak Majid and a large team of co-authors dissect what makes a wheat stem strong enough to stay upright, in a 2026 study. Lodging, where stems bend or break near harvest, steals yield across wheat regions. The team measured stem traits along the first three segments of many wheat types, from wall thickness to fiber makeup, and hunted gene markers tied to strength.
The second segment from the base carried the day. Types that resist lodging packed that segment with thicker walls, more weight, more fiber, and more of the stiffening compound lignin. Weak types stretched the segment longer and thinner instead. Two gene markers each explained close to a quarter of the strength gap, giving breeders handles for tougher wheat.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ronak Majid, Jajati Keshari Nayak, Sofora Jan, Sadaf Salam, Amir Nazir, Mohd Anwar Khan, Neeraj Pal, Raju Ratan Yadav, Santvana Tyagi, Pooja Joshi, Narendra Singh Dhaka, Vinay Kumar Singh, Parvaze Ahmad Sofi, Sundip Kumar, Manish K Vishwakarma, Pradeep Bhati, Uttam Kumar, Rajeev Kumar Varshney, Reyazul Rouf Mir |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48179 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |