Oat ranks sixth in world cereal production and has a higher content of health‐promoting
compounds compared with other cereals. However, there is neither a robust oat reference …

Adoption of new breeding technologies is likely to underpin future gains in crop productivity.
The rapid advances in 'omics' technologies provide an opportunity to generate new datasets …

Oilseed crops, especially soybean (Glycine max) and canola/rapeseed (Brassica napus),
produce seeds that are rich in both proteins and oils and that are major sources of energy …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based bulked-segregant analysis (BSA) approaches
have been proven successful for rapidly mapping genes in plant species. However, most …

Background Experiments using whole transcriptome microarrays produce massive amounts
of data. To gain a comprehensive understanding of this gene expression data it needs to be …

Background Genetic markers are pivotal to modern genomics research; however, discovery
and genotyping of molecular markers in oat has been hindered by the size and complexity of …

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is a globally important forage crop. It also serves as a vegetable
and medicinal herb because of its excellent nutritional quality and significant economic …

Genetic and epigenetic changes after polyploidization events could result in variable gene
expression and modified regulatory networks. Here, using large-scale transcriptome data …

Multiple “omics” approaches have emerged as successful technologies for plant systems
over the last few decades. Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have paved a …

Attempts to alter seed oil content in soybean have been hampered by the complicated
genetic architecture as being controlled by multiple genes. In order to investigate the genetic …