Unlocking plant genetics with telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies

V Garg, A Bohra, M Mascher, M Spannagl, X Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Contiguous genome sequence assemblies will help us to realize the full potential of crop
translational genomics. Recent advances in sequencing technologies, especially long-read …

Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium … - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the most widely cultivated crop on Earth,
contributing about a fifth of the total calories consumed by humans. Consequently, wheat …

A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome

M Mascher, H Gundlach, A Himmelbach, S Beier… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Cereal grasses of the Triticeae tribe have been the major food source in temperate regions
since the dawn of agriculture. Their large genomes are characterized by a high content of …

Building on a foundation: advances in epidemiology, resistance breeding, and forecasting research for reducing the impact of fusarium head blight in wheat and …

WGD Fernando, AO Oghenekaro… - Canadian Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a major fungal disease that contributes to severe economic
losses for wheat and barley production in Canada and other parts of the world. Rapid …

Pangenomic analysis identifies structural variation associated with heat tolerance in pearl millet

H Yan, M Sun, Z Zhang, Y **, A Zhang, C Lin, B Wu… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Pearl millet is an important cereal crop worldwide and shows superior heat tolerance. Here,
we developed a graph-based pan-genome by assembling ten chromosomal genomes with …

Durum wheat genome highlights past domestication signatures and future improvement targets

M Maccaferri, NS Harris, SO Twardziok, RK Pasam… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The domestication of wild emmer wheat led to the selection of modern durum wheat, grown
mainly for pasta production. We describe the 10.45 gigabase (Gb) assembly of the genome …

Wild emmer genome architecture and diversity elucidate wheat evolution and domestication

R Avni, M Nave, O Barad, K Baruch, SO Twardziok… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Wheat (Triticum spp.) is one of the founder crops that likely drove the Neolithic transition to
sedentary agrarian societies in the Fertile Crescent more than 10,000 years ago. Identifying …

Development and evaluation of a barley 50k iSelect SNP array

MM Bayer, P Rapazote-Flores, M Ganal… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
High-throughput genoty** arrays continue to be an attractive, cost-effective alternative to
sequencing based approaches. We have developed a new 50k Illumina Infinium iSelect …

Aegilops sharonensis genome-assisted identification of stem rust resistance gene Sr62

G Yu, O Matny, N Champouret, B Steuernagel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The wild relatives and progenitors of wheat have been widely used as sources of disease
resistance (R) genes. Molecular identification and characterization of these R genes …

TRITEX: chromosome-scale sequence assembly of Triticeae genomes with open-source tools

C Monat, S Padmarasu, T Lux, T Wicker, H Gundlach… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Chromosome-scale genome sequence assemblies underpin pan-genomic studies. Recent
genome assembly efforts in the large-genome Triticeae crops wheat and barley have relied …