Breeding wheat for drought tolerance: Progress and technologies

L Mwadzingeni, H Shimelis, E Dube, MD Laing… - Journal of Integrative …, 2016 - Elsevier
Recurrent drought associated with climate change is among the principal constraints to
global productivity of wheat (Triticum aestivum (L.) and T. turgidum (L.)). Numerous efforts to …

Image-based phenotyping of plant disease symptoms

AM Mutka, RS Bart - Frontiers in plant science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Plant diseases cause significant reductions in agricultural productivity worldwide. Disease
symptoms have deleterious effects on the growth and development of crop plants, limiting …

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 …

Utilization of a Wheat660K SNP array-derived high-density genetic map for high-resolution mapping of a major QTL for kernel number

F Cui, N Zhang, X Fan, W Zhang, C Zhao, L Yang… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
In crop plants, a high-density genetic linkage map is essential for both genetic and genomic
researches. The complexity and the large size of wheat genome have hampered the …

Applications of next‐generation sequencing in plant biology

AN Egan, J Schlueter… - American journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The last several years have seen revolutionary advances in DNA sequencing technologies
with the advent of next‐generation sequencing (NGS) techniques. NGS methods now allow …

Structural variations in plant genomes

RK Saxena, D Edwards… - Briefings in functional …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Differences between plant genomes range from single nucleotide polymorphisms to large-
scale duplications, deletions and rearrangements. The large polymorphisms are termed …

Accessing complex crop genomes with next-generation sequencing

D Edwards, J Batley, RJ Snowdon - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2013 - Springer
Many important crop species have genomes originating from ancestral or recent
polyploidisation events. Multiple homoeologous gene copies, chromosomal rearrangements …

Genome-wide association analysis of agronomic traits in wheat under drought-stressed and non-stressed conditions

L Mwadzingeni, H Shimelis, DJG Rees, TJ Tsilo - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
This study determined the population structure and genome-wide marker-trait association of
agronomic traits of wheat for drought-tolerance breeding. Ninety-three diverse bread wheat …

Potential of wild relatives of wheat: ideal genetic resources for future breeding programs

A Pour-Aboughadareh, F Kianersi, P Poczai… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Among cereal crops, wheat has been identified as a major source for human food
consumption. Wheat breeders require access to new genetic diversity resources to satisfy …

Potential for genetic improvement of sugarcane as a source of biomass for biofuels

NV Hoang, A Furtado, FC Botha… - … in bioengineering and …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) has great potential as a major feedstock for biofuel
production worldwide. It is considered among the best options for producing biofuels today …