Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops

A Bohra, B Kilian, S Sivasankar, M Caccamo… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have provided breeders with several'game-changing'traits or
genes that have boosted crop resilience and global agricultural production. Advances in …

Piercing the dark matter: bioinformatics of long-range sequencing and map**

FJ Sedlazeck, H Lee, CA Darby, MC Schatz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Several new genomics technologies have become available that offer long-read sequencing
or long-range map** with higher throughput and higher resolution analysis than ever …

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 …

Efficient and transgene-free genome editing in wheat through transient expression of CRISPR/Cas9 DNA or RNA

Y Zhang, Z Liang, Y Zong, Y Wang, J Liu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Editing plant genomes is technically challenging in hard-to-transform plants and usually
involves transgenic intermediates, which causes regulatory concerns. Here we report two …

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 …

Gene duplication and evolution in recurring polyploidization–diploidization cycles in plants

X Qiao, Q Li, H Yin, K Qi, L Li, R Wang, S Zhang… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background The sharp increase of plant genome and transcriptome data provide valuable
resources to investigate evolutionary consequences of gene duplication in a range of taxa …

Wheat genomic study for genetic improvement of traits in China

J **ao, B Liu, Y Yao, Z Guo, H Jia, L Kong… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major crop that feeds 40% of the world's population.
Over the past several decades, advances in genomics have led to tremendous …

Genome sequence of the cultivated cotton Gossypium arboreum

F Li, G Fan, K Wang, F Sun, Y Yuan, G Song, Q Li… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The complex allotetraploid nature of the cotton genome (AADD; 2 n= 52) makes genetic,
genomic and functional analyses extremely challenging. Here we sequenced and …

Simultaneous modification of three homoeologs of TaEDR1 by genome editing enhances powdery mildew resistance in wheat

Y Zhang, Y Bai, G Wu, S Zou, Y Chen, C Gao… - The Plant …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) incurs significant yield losses from powdery mildew, a major
fungal disease caused by Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt). enhanced disease resistance1 …

Whole-genome sequencing of cultivated and wild peppers provides insights into Capsicum domestication and specialization

C Qin, C Yu, Y Shen, X Fang, L Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
As an economic crop, pepper satisfies people's spicy taste and has medicinal uses
worldwide. To gain a better understanding of Capsicum evolution, domestication, and …