Barley (H ordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare) is an excellent model for understanding agricultural
responses to climate change. Its initial domestication over 10 millennia ago and subsequent …

Genetic diversity is key to crop improvement. Owing to pervasive genomic structural
variation, a single reference genome assembly cannot capture the full complement of …

Diversification and breeding following domestication and under current climate change
across the globe are the two most significant evolutionary events experienced by major …

Barley is cultivated both in highly productive agricultural systems and also in marginal and
subsistence environments. Its distribution is worldwide and is of considerable economic …

Elucidating the factors influencing genetic differentiation is an important task in biology, and
the relative contribution from natural selection and genetic drift has long been debated. In …

The considerable drought tolerance of wild cereal crop progenitors has diminished during
domestication in the pursuit of higher productivity. Regaining this trait in cereal crops is …

Photoperiodic flowering is a major factor determining crop performance and is controlled by
interactions between environmental signals and the circadian clock. We proposed Hvlux1 …

Phytochromes play an important role in light signaling and photoperiodic control of flowering
time in plants. Here we propose that the red/far-red light photoreceptor HvPHYTOCHROME …

Divergent selection of populations in contrasting environments leads to functional genomic
divergence. However, the genomic architecture underlying heterogeneous genomic …

The geographic distribution of genetic diversity and the population structure of tetraploid
wheat landraces in the Mediterranean basin has received relatively little attention. This is …