Harnessing genomics approaches for heat stress resilience in wheat: from discovery to deployment.

Genomics and biotechnology advances have identified key genetic loci and mechanisms that enable wheat to tolerate heat stress, accelerating breeding for climate resilience.

• Why it matters: Wheat production is increasingly threatened by global warming, especially during reproductive stages, necessitating rapid development of heat-tolerant cultivars to ensure food security.
• What they did: The review synthesizes progress in genetic mapping, multi-omics, and genome editing techniques, including QTL mapping, GWAS, and CRISPR, to understand and enhance wheat thermotolerance.
• The result: These integrated approaches enable precise breeding strategies and cultivar development, helping to bridge the gap from discovery to deployment of climate-ready wheat varieties.