Accessing complex crop genomes with next-generation sequencing

D Edwards, J Batley, RJ Snowdon - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2013‏ - Springer
Many important crop species have genomes originating from ancestral or recent
polyploidisation events. Multiple homoeologous gene copies, chromosomal rearrangements …

Current Status and Challenges in Identifying Disease Resistance Genes in Brassica napus

TX Neik, MJ Barbetti, J Batley - Frontiers in plant science, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
Brassica napus is an economically important crop across different continents including
temperate and subtropical regions in Europe, Canada, South Asia, China and Australia. Its …

Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-Neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome

B Chalhoub, F Denoeud, S Liu, IAP Parkin, H Tang… - science, 2014‏ - science.org
Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) was formed~ 7500 years ago by hybridization between B.
rapa and B. oleracea, followed by chromosome doubling, a process known as …

Assembly and comparison of two closely related Brassica napus genomes

PE Bayer, B Hurgobin, AA Golicz… - Plant biotechnology …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
As an increasing number of plant genome sequences become available, it is clear that gene
content varies between individuals, and the challenge arises to predict the gene content of a …

Characterization of disease resistance genes in the Brassica napus pangenome reveals significant structural variation

A Dolatabadian, PE Bayer, S Tirnaz… - Plant biotechnology …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Methods based on single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), copy number variation (CNV)
and presence/absence variation (PAV) discovery provide a valuable resource to study gene …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in genomics for adapting crops to climate change

A Scheben, Y Yuan, D Edwards - Current Plant Biology, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Climate change is a major threat to food security in a world of rising crop demand. Although
increases in crop production have previously been achieved through the use of fertilisers …

An update on the arsenal: mining resistance genes for disease management of Brassica crops in the genomic era

H Lv, Z Fang, L Yang, Y Zhang, Y Wang - Horticulture Research, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Brassica species include many economically important crops that provide nutrition and
health-promoting substances to humans worldwide. However, as with all crops, their …

Current Status of the Disease-Resistant Gene(s)/QTLs, and Strategies for Improvement in Brassica juncea

KP Singh, P Kumari, PK Rai - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Brassica juncea is a major oilseed crop in tropical and subtropical countries, especially in
south-east Asia like India, China, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. The widespread cultivation of …

Molecular marker applications in plants

AC Hayward, R Tollenaere, J Dalton-Morgan… - … : Methods and protocols, 2015‏ - Springer
Individuals within a population of a sexually reproducing species will have some degree of
heritable genomic variation caused by mutations, insertion/deletions (INDELS), inversions …

GWAS hints at pleiotropic roles for FLOWERING LOCUS T in flowering time and yield-related traits in canola

H Raman, R Raman, Y Qiu, AS Yadav, S Sureshkumar… - Bmc Genomics, 2019‏ - Springer
Background Transition to flowering at the right time is critical for local adaptation and to
maximize grain yield in crops. Canola is an important oilseed crop with extensive variation in …