The Glanville fritillary genome retains an ancient karyotype and reveals selective chromosomal fusions in Lepidoptera

V Ahola, R Lehtonen, P Somervuo, L Salmela… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Previous studies have reported that chromosome synteny in Lepidoptera has been well
conserved, yet the number of haploid chromosomes varies widely from 5 to 223. Here we …

Genome wide association study of seedling and adult plant leaf rust resistance in elite spring wheat breeding lines

L Gao, MK Turner, S Chao, J Kolmer, JA Anderson - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Leaf rust is an important disease, threatening wheat production annually. Identification of
resistance genes or QTLs for effective field resistance could greatly enhance our ability to …

Cross-species hybridization and the origin of North African date palms

JM Flowers, KM Hazzouri… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a major fruit crop of arid regions that were
domesticated∼ 7,000 y ago in the Near or Middle East. This species is cultivated widely in …

The western redcedar genome reveals low genetic diversity in a self-compatible conifer

TJ Shalev, OG El-Dien, MMS Yuen… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
We assembled the 9.8-Gbp genome of western redcedar (WRC; Thuja plicata), an
ecologically and economically important conifer species of the Cupressaceae. The genome …

[PDF][PDF] An ancestral balanced inversion polymorphism confers global adaptation

M Kapun, ED Mitchell, TJ Kawecki… - … Biology and Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Since the pioneering work of Dobzhansky in the 1930s and 1940s, many chromosomal
inversions have been identified, but how they contribute to adaptation remains poorly …

Genome-wide association analysis and genomic prediction for adult-plant resistance to Septoria tritici blotch and powdery mildew in winter wheat

A Alemu, G Brazauskas, DS Gaikpa… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Septoria tritici blotch (STB) caused by the fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici and powdery
mildew (PM) caused by Blumeria graminis f. sp tritici (Bgt) are among the forefront foliar …

High‐density molecular characterization and association mapping in Ethiopian durum wheat landraces reveals high diversity and potential for wheat breeding

DK Mengistu, YG Kidane, M Catellani… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum) is a key crop worldwide, and yet, its
improvement and adaptation to emerging environmental threats is made difficult by the …

Genome-wide association mapping of date palm fruit traits

KM Hazzouri, M Gros-Balthazard, JM Flowers… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) are an important fruit crop of arid regions of the Middle East
and North Africa. Despite its importance, few genomic resources exist for date palms …

Concordant divergence of mitogenomes and a mitonuclear gene cluster in bird lineages inhabiting different climates

HE Morales, A Pavlova, N Amos, R Major… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Metabolic processes in eukaryotic cells depend on interactions between mitochondrial and
nuclear gene products (mitonuclear interactions). These interactions could have a direct role …

Genome-wide association study (GWAS) of salt tolerance in worldwide soybean germplasm lines

A Zeng, P Chen, K Korth, F Hancock, A Pereira… - Molecular …, 2017 - Springer
Salt is a severe abiotic stress causing soybean yield loss in saline soils and irrigated fields.
Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is a powerful genomic tool for improving the efficiency of …