Domestication of plants and animals is the major factor underlying human civilization and is
a gigantic evolutionary experiment of adaptation and speciation, generating incipient …

Key message Current development of advanced biotechnology tools allows us to
characterize the role of key genes in plant productivity. The implementation of this …

Arabidopsis thaliana is native to Eurasia and is naturalized across the world. Its ability to be
easily propagated and its high phenotypic variability make it an ideal model system for …

This 2013 edition of the Catalogue of Gene Symbols for Wheat represents 45 years of
curation of wheat genetic information which began with my appointment as Curator at the …

We report the map-based cloning of the leaf rust resistance gene Lr21, previously mapped
to a generich region at the distal end of chromosome arm 1DS of bread wheat (Triticum …

Because of polyploidy and large genome size, deletion stocks of bread wheat are an ideal
material for physically allocating ESTs and genes to small chromosomal regions for targeted …

Abstract Development of high-yielding wheat varieties with good end-use quality has always
been a major concern for wheat breeders. To genetically dissect quantitative trait loci (QTLs) …

The commercialisation of GM crops in Europe is practically non-existent at the present time.
The European Commission has instigated changes to the regulatory process to address the …

Nuclear processes that silence plant transgenes are being revealed by analyses of natural
triggers of epigenetic modifications, particularly cytosine methylation, and by comparisons of …

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 …