Designing future crops: genomics-assisted breeding comes of age

RK Varshney, A Bohra, J Yu, A Graner, Q Zhang… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

Genomic resources in plant breeding for sustainable agriculture

M Thudi, R Palakurthi, JC Schnable… - Journal of Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

Speed breeding is a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding

A Watson, S Ghosh, MJ Williams, WS Cuddy… - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
The growing human population and a changing environment have raised significant
concern for global food security, with the current improvement rate of several important crops …

Genomics-informed prebreeding unlocks the diversity in genebanks for wheat improvement

AW Schulthess, SM Kale, F Liu, Y Zhao, N Philipp… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The great efforts spent in the maintenance of past diversity in genebanks are rationalized by
the potential role of plant genetic resources (PGR) in future crop improvement—a concept …

A chromosome-based draft sequence of the hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome

International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium … - Science, 2014 - science.org
An ordered draft sequence of the 17-gigabase hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum)
genome has been produced by sequencing isolated chromosome arms. We have annotated …

Characterization of polyploid wheat genomic diversity using a high‐density 90 000 single nucleotide polymorphism array

S Wang, D Wong, K Forrest, A Allen… - Plant biotechnology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
High‐density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping arrays are a powerful tool
for studying genomic patterns of diversity, inferring ancestral relationships between …

The Wheat 660K SNP array demonstrates great potential for marker‐assisted selection in polyploid wheat

C Sun, Z Dong, L Zhao, Y Ren… - Plant biotechnology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid development and application of molecular marker assays have facilitated genomic
selection and genome‐wide linkage and association studies in wheat breeding. Although …

The pangenome of hexaploid bread wheat

JD Montenegro, AA Golicz, PE Bayer… - The Plant …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is an increasing understanding that variation in gene presence–absence plays an
important role in the heritability of agronomic traits; however, there have been relatively few …

Genomic analyses in cotton identify signatures of selection and loci associated with fiber quality and yield traits

L Fang, Q Wang, Y Hu, Y Jia, J Chen, B Liu, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is the most important natural fiber crop in the world.
The overall genetic diversity among cultivated species of cotton and the genetic changes …

Exome sequencing highlights the role of wild-relative introgression in shaping the adaptive landscape of the wheat genome

F He, R Pasam, F Shi, S Kant, G Keeble-Gagnere… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Introgression is a potential source of beneficial genetic diversity. The contribution of
introgression to adaptive evolution and improvement of wheat as it was disseminated …