Title: The battle against different fungal diseases in wheat by both conventional and modern approaches

Biography:

He is a Ph.D student  in Lovely Professional University,India

Abstract

WHeat ranked 2nd in terms of global production and opted as primary staple food by many countries across the world. With the advent of technology and improved varieties the balance between wheat grain supply and demand was maintained in past few decades. However, rapidly increasing population and changing food habits are widening the gap between supply and demand. There is an urgent need of considerable increase in wheat production to fulfil the global food requirement. Many biotic and abiotic stresses diminishing the plant growth and grain yield. Among all biotic stresses, fungal diseases are most dangerous and widely spread throughout the planet. Fungal disease eradication and management with the help of both traditional and modern approaches can significantly increase the grain yield, as each year there is about 15-20% yield loss majorly due to rusts, blotches, smuts, blights and scabs. For the development of fungal disease resistant, varieties traditional breeding methods seems not as promising as they are labours and time consuming. However, increasing genomic information regarding wheat provided the platform for various genome editing and reverse genetic approaches. In this review, we described the impact of different fugal diseases and also discussed their management strategies.