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

To feed more than 9 billion people by 2050, increased food production must be
accomplished with reduced agricultural inputs in the face of climate change. Wild relatives of …

The species tree paradigm that dominates current molecular systematic practice infers
species trees from collections of sequences under assumptions of the multispecies …

Soybean is an important food crop that provides edible protein and oil for human and animal
nutrition. Conventional phenotypic‐based breeding approaches have made significant …

Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is a selection method for improving agriculturally essential
traits in wheat. MAS allows efficient screening of difficult-to-phenotype traits, introgression of …

In bread wheat, meta-QTL analysis was conducted using 353 QTLs that were available from
earlier studies. When projected onto a dense consensus map comprising 76,753 markers …

Key message Marker-assisted selection is important for cultivar development. We propose a
system where a training population genotyped for QTL and genome-wide markers may …

Heat stress (HS) causes substantial damages to worldwide crop production. As a cool
season crop, wheat (Triticum aestivum) is sensitive to HS‐induced damages. To support the …

Fingerprinting of crops is gaining importance in plant breeding due to its applications for
variety protection, dispute resolution, and forensic science studies. Before the development …

Drought and heat frequently co-occur during crop growth leading to devastating yield loss.
The knowledge of the genetic loci governing component traits of yield under combined …