Wheat cultivars developed through distant hybrid between wheat and Tall Wheatgrass (Thinopyrum ponticum, 2n=10x=70) play an important role in food security in China. For instance, Xiaoyan6, as one the most famous cultivars from distant hybrid breeding, had been widely grown in China for decades. It has high yield, great flour quality and durable resistance. Despite of those excellent traits, we have little knowledge about the mechanisms of its breeding process. We do not yet know what kind of genes from the Tall Wheatgrass were introgressed and selected by breeders. My lab will leverage data-driven approaches on the mechanism of distant hybrid. The long-term goal of my lab is to develop a more efficient breeding strategy for targeted deployment of foreign DNA into elite wheat lines