Food security is increasingly challenging at the time of population growth and climate change. As the most widely grown staple cereal crop, wheat plays a crucial role in sustaining the global food system. Recently, the rapid advancement in technologies, particularly in genomics and genome editing, propelled significant progress in various aspects of wheat biological research. This special issue on Wheat Biology delves into molecular mechanisms that underlies wheat’s evolution, as well as its response to biotic and abiotic stresses, highlighting modern molecular and computational techniques in wheat genetics and breeding.

Edited by Zhongfu Ni, Guangmin Xia, Zhiyong Liu, Fei Lu 

Volume 50, Issue 11,

Pages 815-924 (November 2023)