Background The ability of grass species to adapt to various habitats is attributed to the
dynamic nature of their genomes, which have been shaped by multiple rounds of ancient …

Comprehensive reverse genetic resources, which have been key to understanding gene
function in diploid model organisms, are missing in many polyploid crops. Young polyploid …

Background Bread wheat is an allopolyploid species with a large, highly repetitive genome.
To investigate the impact of selection on variants distributed among homoeologous wheat …

Induced mutations have been used to generate novel variation for breeding purposes since
the early 1900s. However, the combination of this old technology with the new capabilities of …

Cycles of whole-genome duplication (WGD) and diploidization are hallmarks of eukaryotic
genome evolution and speciation. Polyploid wheat (Triticum aestivum) has had a massive …

Background Interaction between parental genomes is accompanied by global changes in
gene expression which, eventually, contributes to growth vigor and the broader phenotypic …

Advances in genome sequencing and assembly technologies are generating many high-
quality genome sequences, but assemblies of large, repeat-rich polyploid genomes, such as …

Improving traits in wheat has historically been challenging due to its large and polyploid
genome, limited genetic diversity and in‐field phenotyping constraints. However, within …

Allopolyploidy greatly expands the range of possible regulatory interactions among
functionally redundant homoeologous genes. However, connection between the emerging …

Targeted Induced Local Lesions in Genomes (TILLING) is a reverse genetics approach to
identify novel sequence variation in genomes, with the aims of investigating gene function …