Plant domestication is an outstanding example of plant–animal co-evolution and is a far
richer model for studying evolution than is generally appreciated. There have been …

Wheat was domesticated about 10,000 years ago and has since spread worldwide to
become one of the major crops. Its adaptability to diverse environments and end uses is …

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 …

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), with a large genome (16000 Mb) and high proportion (∼ 80%)
of repetitive sequences, has been a difficult crop for genomics research. However, the …

In spite of more than 200 years of botanical exploration of the Orient, resulting in many
herbaria and germplasm collections, sequence data, and transferred alleles, our knowledge …

Wild crop relatives have been playing enormously important roles both in the depiction of
plant genomes and the genetic improvement of their cultivated counterparts. They have …

Spike number per unit area, number of grains per spike, and thousand kernel weight (TKW)
are important yield components. In China, increases in wheat (Triticum aestivum) yields are …

End-use quality is one of the priorities of modern wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) breeding.
Even though quality is a complex trait, high molecular weight (HMW) glutenins play a major …

Key message Recent genomic and functional genomics analyses have substantially
improved the understanding on gluten proteins, which are important determinants of wheat …

The emergence of new sequencing technologies has provided fast and cost-efficient
strategies for high-resolution mapping of complex genomes. Although these approaches …