Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

Drought poses serious threats to global crop production and its intensity is continuously
soaring due to global warming. Brassica napus L. is an essential oilseed crop with an …

Wild species related to agricultural crops (crop wild relatives, or CWR) can increase the
adaptive capacity of agricultural systems around the world. They represent a large pool of …

High-throughput genotyping arrays continue to be an attractive, cost-effective alternative to
sequencing based approaches. We have developed a new 50k Illumina Infinium iSelect …

There is a rapidly rising trend in the development and application of molecular marker
assays for gene mapping and discovery in field crops and trees. Thus far, more than 50 SNP …

Homoeologous exchanges (HE s) have been shown to generate novel gene combinations
and phenotypes in a range of polyploid species. Gene presence/absence variation (PAV) is …

Background Linking phenotypes and genotypes to identify genetic architectures that
regulate important traits is crucial for plant breeding and the development of plant genomics …

Background The combination of long reads and long-range information to produce genome
assemblies is now accepted as a common standard. This strategy not only allows access to …

Polyploid organisms carry more than two copies of each chromosome, a condition rarely
tolerated in animals but which occurs relatively frequently in the plant kingdom. One of the …

Plant abiotic stresses negative affects growth and development, causing a massive
reduction in global agricultural production. Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is a major oilseed …