Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops in the world as it is used in the production of
a diverse range of traditional and modern processed foods. The ancient varieties einkorn …

Many important crop species have genomes originating from ancestral or recent
polyploidisation events. Multiple homoeologous gene copies, chromosomal rearrangements …

With advanced sequencing technology, dozens of complex polyploid plant genomes have
been characterized. However, for many polyploid species, their diploid ancestors are …

Although commonplace in human disease genetics, genome-wide association (GWA)
studies have only relatively recently been applied to plants. Using 32 phenotypes in the …

To improve our understanding of the organization and evolution of the wheat (Triticum
aestivum) genome, we sequenced and annotated 13-Mb contigs (18.2 Mb) originating from …

Molecular markers play an essential role today in all aspects of plant breeding, ranging from
the identification of genes responsible for desired traits to the management of backcrossing …

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the most important crops worldwide. However,
because of its large, hexaploid, highly repetitive genome it is a challenge to develop efficient …

LTR (long terminal repeat) retrotransposons are the main components of higher plant
genomic DNA. They have shaped their host genomes through insertional mutagenesis and …

The genomes of barley and wheat, two of the world's most important crops, are very large
and complex due to their high content of repetitive DNA. In order to obtain a whole‐genome …

LTR retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) are ubiquitous and represent the dominant repeat element
in plant genomes, playing important roles in functional variation, genome plasticity and …