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 …

Hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L. em. Thell) is one of the world's most important
crop plants and displays a very low level of intraspecific polymorphism. We report the …

In recent years, considerable emphasis has been placed on the development of molecular
markers to be used for a variety of objectives. This review attempts to give an account of …

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 …

The variation in grain hardness is the single most important trait that determines end-use
quality of wheat. Grain texture classification is based primarily on either the resistance of …

Microsatellite DNA markers are consistently found to be more informative than other classes
of markers in hexaploid wheat. The objectives of this research were to develop new primers …

Cytogenetics plays an important role in understanding the chromosomal and genetic
architecture of plant species. Plant Cytogenetics, Third Edition follows the tradition of its …

A 2275-marker genetic map of rice (Oryza sativa L.) covering 1521.6 cM in the Kosambi
function has been constructed using 186 F2 plants from a single cross between the japonica …

Meiosis is a special type of cell division that produces haploid gametes from diploid parental
cells. Chromosome number is reduced during meiosis because a single round of DNA …