Advances in plant gene-targeted and functional markers: a review

P Poczai, I Varga, M Laos, A Cseh, N Bell… - Plant methods, 2013 - Springer
Public genomic databases have provided new directions for molecular marker development
and initiated a shift in the types of PCR-based techniques commonly used in plant science …

Cereal breeding takes a walk on the wild side

C Feuillet, P Langridge, R Waugh - Trends in genetics, 2008 - cell.com
Elite cultivated crop gene pools of the Triticeae tribe (wheat, barley and rye) exhibit limited
genetic diversity, raising concerns about our ability to increase or simply sustain crop yield …

The transcriptional landscape of polyploid wheat

RH Ramírez-González, P Borrill, D Lang… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Polyploidy, arising from whole-genome duplication or interspecific
hybridization, is ubiquitous across the plant and fungal kingdoms. The presence of highly …

Transferable EST-SSR markers for the study of polymorphism and genetic diversity in bread wheat

PK Gupta, S Rustgi, S Sharma, R Singh… - Molecular genetics and …, 2003 - Springer
Nearly 900 SSRs (simple sequence repeats) were identified among 15,000 ESTs
(expressed sequence tags) belonging to bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The SSRs were …

A reductionist approach to dissecting grain weight and yield in wheat

J Brinton, C Uauy - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Grain yield is a highly polygenic trait that is influenced by the environment and integrates
events throughout the life cycle of a plant. In wheat, the major grain yield components often …

Discovering consensus genomic regions in wheat for root-related traits by QTL meta-analysis

JM Soriano, F Alvaro - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Root system architecture is crucial for wheat adaptation to drought stress, but phenoty**
for root traits in breeding programmes is difficult and time-consuming owing to the …

A haplotype-led approach to increase the precision of wheat breeding

J Brinton, RH Ramirez-Gonzalez, J Simmonds… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Crop productivity must increase at unprecedented rates to meet the needs of the growing
worldwide population. Exploiting natural variation for the genetic improvement of crops plays …

Molecular markers from the transcribed/expressed region of the genome in higher plants

PK Gupta, S Rustgi - Functional & integrative genomics, 2004 - Springer
In recent years, molecular marker technology in higher plants has witnessed a shift from the
so-called random DNA markers (RDMs), developed in the past arbitrarily from genomic DNA …

A workshop report on wheat genome sequencing: International Genome Research on Wheat Consortium

BS Gill, R Appels, AM Botha-Oberholster, CR Buell… - Genetics, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of
Agriculture, a wheat genome sequencing workshop was held November 10–11, 2003, in …

Meta‐analysis of chromosome‐scale crossover rate variation in eukaryotes and its significance to evolutionary genomics

Q Haenel, TG Laurentino, M Roesti… - Molecular ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the distribution of crossovers along chromosomes is crucial to evolutionary
genomics because the crossover rate determines how strongly a genome region is …