Wheat production and productivity are challenged by recurrent droughts associated with
climate change globally. Drought and heat stress resilient cultivars can alleviate yield loss in …

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

Advances in genomics have expedited the improvement of several agriculturally important
crops but similar efforts in wheat (Triticum spp.) have been more challenging. This is largely …

High‐density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genoty** arrays are a powerful tool
for studying genomic patterns of diversity, inferring ancestral relationships between …

There is an increasing understanding that variation in gene presence–absence plays an
important role in the heritability of agronomic traits; however, there have been relatively few …

Controlled pedigrees and the multi-decade timescale of national crop plant breeding
programs offer a unique experimental context for examining how selection affects plant …

Background Bread wheat is an allopolyploid species with a large, highly repetitive genome.
To investigate the impact of selection on variants distributed among homoeologous wheat …

The current rate of yield gain in crops is insufficient to meet the predicted demands.
Capturing the yield boost from heterosis is one of the few technologies that offers rapid gain …

Recent technological advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have
dramatically reduced the cost of DNA sequencing, allowing species with large and complex …

Wheat landraces, wild relatives and other 'exotic'accessions are important sources of new
favorable alleles. The use of those exotic alleles is facilitated by having access to …