Finger millet: a “certain” crop for an “uncertain” future and a solution to food insecurity and hidden hunger under stressful environments

SM Gupta, S Arora, N Mirza, A Pande, C Lata… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Crop growth and productivity has largely been vulnerable to various abiotic and biotic
stresses that are only set to be compounded due to global climate change. Therefore …

Importance of landraces in cereal breeding for stress tolerance

D Marone, MA Russo, A Mores, DBM Ficco, G Laidò… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
The renewed focus on cereal landraces is a response to some negative consequences of
modern agriculture and conventional breeding which led to a reduction of genetic diversity …

Long-read sequence assembly: a technical evaluation in barley

M Mascher, T Wicker, J Jenkins, C Plott, T Lux… - The Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Sequence assembly of large and repeat-rich plant genomes has been challenging,
requiring substantial computational resources and often several complementary sequence …

A chromosome-based draft sequence of the hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome

International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium … - Science, 2014 - science.org
An ordered draft sequence of the 17-gigabase hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum)
genome has been produced by sequencing isolated chromosome arms. We have annotated …

A physical, genetic and functional sequence assembly of the barley genome.

KF Mayer, R Waugh, P Langridge, TJ Close, RP Wise… - Nature, 2012 - iris.unito.it
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is among the world's earliest domesticated and most important
crop plants. It is diploid with a large haploid genome of 5.1 gigabases (Gb). Here we present …

Impact of transposable elements on genome structure and evolution in bread wheat

T Wicker, H Gundlach, M Spannagl, C Uauy, P Borrill… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of large plant
genomes and main drivers of genome evolution. The most recent assembly of hexaploid …

Rapid gene isolation in barley and wheat by mutant chromosome sequencing

J Sánchez-Martín, B Steuernagel, S Ghosh, G Herren… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Identification of causal mutations in barley and wheat is hampered by their large genomes
and suppressed recombination. To overcome these obstacles, we have developed …

Aegilops tauschii draft genome sequence reveals a gene repertoire for wheat adaptation

J Jia, S Zhao, X Kong, Y Li, G Zhao, W He, R Appels… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
About 8,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, a spontaneous hybridization of the wild
diploid grass Aegilops tauschii (2 n= 14; DD) with the cultivated tetraploid wheat Triticum …

Natural variation in a homolog of Antirrhinum CENTRORADIALIS contributed to spring growth habit and environmental adaptation in cultivated barley

J Comadran, B Kilian, J Russell, L Ramsay, N Stein… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
As early farming spread from the Fertile Crescent in the Near East around 10,000 years
before the present, domesticated crops encountered considerable ecological and …

Meta-QTLs, ortho-meta-QTLs and candidate genes for grain yield and associated traits in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

DK Saini, P Srivastava, N Pal, PK Gupta - Theoretical and Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Key message In wheat, 2852 major QTLs of 8998 QTLs available for yield and related traits
were used for meta-analysis; 141 meta-QTLs were identified, which included 13 breeder's …