The development and use of molecular markers for the detection and exploitation of DNA
polymorphism is one of the most significant developments in the field of molecular genetics …

In recent years, considerable emphasis has been placed on the development of molecular
markers to be used for a variety of objectives. This review attempts to give an account of …

This 2013 edition of the Catalogue of Gene Symbols for Wheat represents 45 years of
curation of wheat genetic information which began with my appointment as Curator at the …

Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops in the world. The production and productivity
of wheat is adversely affected by several diseases including leaf rust, which can cause yield …

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), with a large genome (16000 Mb) and high proportion (∼ 80%)
of repetitive sequences, has been a difficult crop for genomics research. However, the …

Key message Recent technological advances in wheat genomics provide new opportunities
to uncover genetic variation in traits of breeding interest and enable genome-based …

Wild Aegilops species related to cultivated wheat (Triticum spp.) possess numerous genes
of agronomic interest and can be valuable sources of resistance to diseases, pests and …

In spite of more than 200 years of botanical exploration of the Orient, resulting in many
herbaria and germplasm collections, sequence data, and transferred alleles, our knowledge …

Wild crop relatives have been playing enormously important roles both in the depiction of
plant genomes and the genetic improvement of their cultivated counterparts. They have …

With the advent of molecular markers, a new generation of markers has been introduced
over the last two decades, which has revolutionized the entire scenario of biological …