Wheat is a fundamental staple crop worldwide, contributing significantly to global food security due to its versatility and nutritional value. However, gluten proteins, including gliadins and glutenins, have been implicated in various health problems, such as celiac disease, non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and wheat allergies. These disorders affect a wide variety of people globally, creating demand for wheat varieties that balance high-end-use quality with reduced immunogenic potential. This review examines the molecular and genetic mechanisms that regulate gluten protein synthesis, highlighting recent advances in genomic and mutagenic approaches aimed at modifying gluten proteins to enhance the health and quality traits of wheat. Technologies such as RNAi and CRISPR/Cas9 offer promising avenues for reducing wheat immunogenicity without compromising its functional properties in food production. This study also examines the challenges and prospects of utilizing these genetic tools to develop wheat varieties that achieve the dual objectives of enhanced health outcomes and high product quality.

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the world's three staple crops and accounts for approximately 20% of the total calories consumed by the world's population. It is known that wheat is a difficult crop to introduce foreign genes into, having a large genome (16 Gb) containing three highly related subgenomes (AABBDD). Owing to the low transformation efficiency of wheat, it is difficult to apply new technologies such as genome editing and basic research based on molecular biology, such as the discovery of useful genes and functional analysis. Recently, the completion of a wheat genome map by the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) and the development of a stable and reproducible wheat transformation system have accelerated research regarding the expression and control of useful genes. In this review, we introduce in detail the recently developed highly efficient Agrobacterium-mediated wheat transformation system and its applications in plant biotechnology, such as RNA interference (RNAi), overexpression, and gene editing using this system.