Mapping quantitative trait loci for yield, yield components and morphological traits in an advanced backcross population between Oryza rufipogon and the Oryza …

MJ Thomson, TH Tai, AM McClung, XH Lai… - Theoretical and applied …, 2003 - Springer
An advanced backcross population between an accession of Oryza rufipogon (IRGC
105491) and the US cultivar Jefferson (Oryza sativa ssp. japonica) was developed to identify …

Structure and evolution of cereal genomes

AH Paterson, JE Bowers, DG Peterson, JC Estill… - Current Opinion in …, 2003 - Elsevier
The cereal species, of central importance to our diet, began to diverge 50–70 million years
ago. For the past few thousand years, these species have undergone largely parallel …

Domestication quantitative trait loci in Triticum dicoccoides, the progenitor of wheat

J Peng, Y Ronin, T Fahima, MS Röder… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides, is the progenitor of modern tetraploid and
hexaploid cultivated wheats. Our objective was to map domestication-related quantitative …

Identification of quantitative trait loci for yield and yield components in an advanced backcross population derived from the Oryza sativa variety IR64 and the wild …

EM Septiningsih, J Prasetiyono, E Lubis, TH Tai… - Theoretical and applied …, 2003 - Springer
Abstract A BC 2 F 2 population developed from an interspecific cross between Oryza sativa
(cv IR64) and O. rufipogon (IRGC 105491) was used in an advanced backcross QTL …

Convergent evolution of perenniality in rice and sorghum

FY Hu, DY Tao, E Sacks, BY Fu, P Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Annual and perennial habit are two major strategies by which grasses adapt to seasonal
environmental change, and these distinguish cultivated cereals from their wild relatives …

A Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Contig Spanning the Major Domestication Locus Q in Wheat and Identification of a Candidate Gene

JD Faris, JP Fellers, SA Brooks, BS Gill - Genetics, 2003 - academic.oup.com
The Q locus played a major role in the domestication of wheat because it confers the free-
threshing character and influences many other agronomically important traits. We …

A High-Density Genetic Recombination Map of Sequence-Tagged Sites for Sorghum, as a Framework for Comparative Structural and Evolutionary Genomics of …

JE Bowers, C Abbey, S Anderson, C Chang, X Draye… - Genetics, 2003 - academic.oup.com
We report a genetic recombination map for Sorghum of 2512 loci spaced at average 0.4 cM
(∼ 300 kb) intervals based on 2050 RFLP probes, including 865 heterologous probes that …

Comparative genetics of crop plant domestication and evolution

A Frary, S Doğanlar - Turkish Journal of Agriculture and …, 2003 - journals.tubitak.gov.tr
Domesticated species differ from their wild ancestors and relatives for a set of traits that is
known as the domestication syndrome. The most important syndrome traits include growth …

Prediction of hybrid performance in grain sorghum using RFLP markers

D Jordan, Y Tao, I Godwin, R Henzell… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2003 - Springer
Heterosis is an important component of hybrid yield performance. Identifying high yielding
hybrids is expensive and involves testing large numbers of hybrid combinations in multi …

Comparative analyses of genomic locations and race specificities of loci for quantitative resistance to Pyricularia grisea in rice and barley

H Chen, S Wang, Y Xing, C Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Comparative genomic analyses have revealed extensive colinearity in gene orders in
distantly related taxa in mammals and grasses, which opened new horizons for evolutionary …