Designing future crops: genomics-assisted breeding comes of age

RK Varshney, A Bohra, J Yu, A Graner, Q Zhang… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

Transport and metabolism in legume-rhizobia symbioses

M Udvardi, PS Poole - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Symbiotic nitrogen fixation by rhizobia in legume root nodules injects approximately 40
million tonnes of nitrogen into agricultural systems each year. In exchange for reduced …

Drought stress in grain legumes during reproduction and grain filling

M Farooq, N Gogoi, S Barthakur… - Journal of Agronomy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Water scarcity is a major constraint limiting grain legume production particularly in the arid
and semi‐arid tropics. Different climate models have predicted changes in rainfall …

An integrated analysis of plant and bacterial gene expression in symbiotic root nodules using laser‐capture microdissection coupled to RNA sequencing

B Roux, N Rodde, MF Jardinaud, T Timmers… - The Plant …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Rhizobium‐induced root nodules are specialized organs for symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
Indeterminate‐type nodules are formed from an apical meristem and exhibit a spatial …

An expanded maize gene expression atlas based on RNA sequencing and its use to explore root development

SC Stelpflug, RS Sekhon, B Vaillancourt… - The plant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive and systematic transcriptome profiling provides valuable insight into
biological and developmental processes that occur throughout the life cycle of a plant. We …

Genome‐wide atlas of transcription during maize development

RS Sekhon, H Lin, KL Childs, CN Hansey… - The Plant …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Maize is an important model species and a major constituent of human and animal diets. It
has also emerged as a potential feedstock and model system for bioenergy research due to …

Positional cloning and characterization reveal the molecular basis for soybean maturity locus E1 that regulates photoperiodic flowering

Z **a, S Watanabe, T Yamada… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The complex and coordinated regulation of flowering has high ecological and agricultural
significance. The maturity locus E1 has a large impact on flowering time in soybean, but the …

A draft genome sequence of the pulse crop chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)

M Jain, G Misra, RK Patel, P Priya, S Jhanwar… - The Plant …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Cicer arietinum L.(chickpea) is the third most important food legume crop. We have
generated the draft sequence of a desi‐type chickpea genome using next‐generation …

SNP discovery through next-generation sequencing and its applications

S Kumar, TW Banks, S Cloutier - Crop Breeding, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Molecular markers are widely used in plant genetic research and breeding. Single
Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are currently the marker of choice due to their large …

Genome-wide survey and expression analysis of the plant-specific NAC transcription factor family in soybean during development and dehydration stress

DT Le, RIE Nishiyama, Y Watanabe, K Mochida… - DNA …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Plant-specific NAC transcription factors (TFs) play important roles in regulating diverse
biological processes, including development, senescence, growth, cell division and …