Wheat genomic study for genetic improvement of traits in China

J Xiao, B Liu, Y Yao, Z Guo, H Jia, L Kong… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major crop that feeds 40% of the world's population.
Over the past several decades, advances in genomics have led to tremendous …

Genomics of crop wild relatives: expanding the gene pool for crop improvement

M Brozynska, A Furtado… - Plant biotechnology journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Plant breeders require access to new genetic diversity to satisfy the demands of a growing
human population for more food that can be produced in a variable or changing climate and …

Pangenomic analysis identifies structural variation associated with heat tolerance in pearl millet

H Yan, M Sun, Z Zhang, Y Jin, A Zhang, C Lin, B Wu… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Pearl millet is an important cereal crop worldwide and shows superior heat tolerance. Here,
we developed a graph-based pan-genome by assembling ten chromosomal genomes with …

GENESPACE tracks regions of interest and gene copy number variation across multiple genomes

JT Lovell, A Sreedasyam, ME Schranz, M Wilson… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The development of multiple chromosome-scale reference genome sequences in many
taxonomic groups has yielded a high-resolution view of the patterns and processes of …

Deeply conserved synteny and the evolution of metazoan chromosomes

O Simakov, J Bredeson, K Berkoff, F Marletaz… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Animal genomes show networks of deeply conserved gene linkages whose phylogenetic
scope and chromosomal context remain unclear. Here, we report chromosome-scale …

Horizontal gene transfer of Fhb7 from fungus underlies Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat

H Wang, S Sun, W Ge, L Zhao, B Hou, K Wang, Z Lyu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a fungal disease that devastates global
wheat production, with losses of billions of dollars annually. Unlike foliar diseases, FHB …

Gossypium barbadense and Gossypium hirsutum genomes provide insights into the origin and evolution of allotetraploid cotton

Y Hu, J Chen, L Fang, Z Zhang, W Ma, Y Niu, L Ju… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Allotetraploid cotton is an economically important natural-fiber-producing crop worldwide.
After polyploidization, Gossypium hirsutum L. evolved to produce a higher fiber yield and to …

Einkorn genomics sheds light on history of the oldest domesticated wheat

HI Ahmed, M Heuberger, A Schoen, DH Koo… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Einkorn (Triticum monococcum) was the first domesticated wheat species, and was central
to the birth of agriculture and the Neolithic Revolution in the Fertile Crescent around 10,000 …

A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome

M Mascher, H Gundlach, A Himmelbach, S Beier… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Cereal grasses of the Triticeae tribe have been the major food source in temperate regions
since the dawn of agriculture. Their large genomes are characterized by a high content of …

Wild emmer genome architecture and diversity elucidate wheat evolution and domestication

R Avni, M Nave, O Barad, K Baruch, SO Twardziok… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Wheat (Triticum spp.) is one of the founder crops that likely drove the Neolithic transition to
sedentary agrarian societies in the Fertile Crescent more than 10,000 years ago. Identifying …