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 …

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 …

Sequence assembly of large and repeat-rich plant genomes has been challenging,
requiring substantial computational resources and often several complementary sequence …

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 …

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 …

Abstract Background Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of large plant
genomes and main drivers of genome evolution. The most recent assembly of hexaploid …

Identification of causal mutations in barley and wheat is hampered by their large genomes
and suppressed recombination. To overcome these obstacles, we have developed …

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 …

During meiosis, crossover rates are not randomly distributed along the chromosome and
their location may have a strong impact on the functioning and evolution of the genome. To …

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 …