Fig. 1

Overall strategy used in this study for the identification of candidate genes associated with the 2DL QTL for FHB resistance. The identification of DEG between tissues of a wheat NIL containing the 2DL QTL (2–2618) and a NIL without the 2DL QTL (2–2890) were described in Biselli et al. [32]. The RNA-Seq data for Wuhan 1 and Nyubai is described in [37]. UN25696 was first identified as TA.25696 in [31]. sp., spikelet; rach, rachis; Fg, F. graminearum; DEG, differentially expressed genes; log₂ FC, log base 2 fold change