Key message This review summarizes the allelic series, effects, interactions between genes
and with the environment, for the major flowering time genes that drive phenological …

Leveraging innovative tools to speed up prebreeding and discovery of genotypic sources of
adaptation from landraces, crop wild relatives, and orphan crops is a key prerequisite to …

Waterlogging is one of the main abiotic stresses severely reducing barley grain yield. Barley
breeding programs focusing on waterlogging tolerance require an understanding of genetic …

Changing production scenarios resulting from unstable climatic conditions are challenging
crop improvement efforts. A deeper and more practical understanding of plant genetic …

Fusarium head blight (FHB) of barley (Hordeum vulgare) causes yield losses and
accumulation of trichothecene mycotoxins (eg deoxynivalenol [DON]) in grains …

The distribution of recombination events along large cereal chromosomes is uneven and is
generally restricted to gene‐rich telomeric ends. To understand how the lack of …

Crop wild relatives host unique adaptation strategies that enable them to thrive across a
wide range of habitats. As pressures from a changing climate mount, a more complete …

Understanding the local adaptation of crops has long been a concern of evolutionary
biologists and molecular ecologists. Identifying the adaptive genetic variability in the …

Crop wild relatives (CWR) provide a valuable resource for improving crops. They possess
desirable traits that confer resilience to various environmental stresses. To fully utilize crop …

Understanding the mechanisms and genes that enable animal populations to adapt to
pathogens is important from an evolutionary, health and conservation perspective …