This review focuses on the major factors affecting wheat pre-harvest sprouting (PHS), the measures to solve the wheat PHS problems, the recent advances in QTL/gene for wheat PHS resistance, and the identification of the molecular marker for the PHS tolerance and its application in the wheat MAS breeding made by our research group in recent years. The results reveal that the temperature and the rainfalls are the major factors affecting the wheat PHS in the field, and the development of wheat varieties with the PHS resistance can effectively solve this problem. Using different mapping populations, several major QTLs and molecular markers for the wheat PHS resistance are identified.

wheat  /  pre-harvest sprouting  /  seed dormancy  /  MAS  /  QTL