Breeding for mycotoxin resistant crops

Plant breeding has brought farmers already many improvements and already, numerous cultivars, breeding lines and other genetic resources have been described for their good to excellent resistance to Fusarium head blight. But it all starts with a thorough phenotypic evaluation of new breeding lines. By Hermann Buerstmayr, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria A survey conducted amongst breeders during the International Wheat Genetics Symposium (Sept. 2013