Wheat genomic study for genetic improvement of traits in China

J Xiao, B Liu, Y Yao, Z Guo, H Jia, L Kong… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major crop that feeds 40% of the world's population.
Over the past several decades, advances in genomics have led to tremendous …

Crop adaptation to climate change as a consequence of long-term breeding

RJ Snowdon, B Wittkop, TW Chen, A Stahl - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Major global crops in high-yielding, temperate cropping regions are facing increasing
threats from the impact of climate change, particularly from drought and heat at critical …

TaCol-B5 modifies spike architecture and enhances grain yield in wheat

X Zhang, H Jia, T Li, J Wu, R Nagarajan, L Lei… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Spike architecture influences grain yield in wheat. We report the map-based cloning of a
gene determining the number of spikelet nodes per spike in common wheat. The cloned …

Natural variation in crops: realized understanding, continuing promise

Y Liang, HJ Liu, J Yan, F Tian - Annual review of plant biology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Crops feed the world's population and shape human civilization. The improvement of crop
productivity has been ongoing for almost 10,000 years and has evolved from an experience …

Genetic architecture underpinning yield component traits in wheat

S Cao, D Xu, M Hanif, X Xia, Z He - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020 - Springer
Key message Genetic atlas, reliable QTL and candidate genes of yield component traits in
wheat were figured out, laying concrete foundations for map-based gene cloning and …

A 'wiring diagram'for sink strength traits impacting wheat yield potential

GA Slafer, MJ Foulkes, MP Reynolds… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Identifying traits for improving sink strength is a bottleneck to increasing wheat yield. The
interacting processes determining sink strength and yield potential are reviewed and …

Meta-QTLs, ortho-meta-QTLs and candidate genes for grain yield and associated traits in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

DK Saini, P Srivastava, N Pal, PK Gupta - Theoretical and Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Key message In wheat, 2852 major QTLs of 8998 QTLs available for yield and related traits
were used for meta-analysis; 141 meta-QTLs were identified, which included 13 breeder's …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainable agriculture through perennial grains: Wheat, rice, maize, and other species. A review

D Soto-Gómez, P Pérez-Rodríguez - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Grain crops are an important part of the human diet, accounting for a third of the consumed
calories. Throughout human history, annual grain crops with high yields have been obtained …

Identification of a candidate gene for a QTL for spikelet number per spike on wheat chromosome arm 7AL by high-resolution genetic mapping

S Kuzay, Y Xu, J Zhang, A Katz, S Pearce, Z Su… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2019 - Springer
Key message A high-resolution genetic map combined with haplotype analyses identified a
wheat ortholog of rice gene APO1 as the best candidate gene for a 7AL locus affecting …

A high-resolution genotype–phenotype map identifies the TaSPL17 controlling grain number and size in wheat

Y Liu, J Chen, C Yin, Z Wang, H Wu, K Shen, Z Zhang… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Large-scale genotype–phenotype association studies of crop germplasm are
important for identifying alleles associated with favorable traits. The limited number of single …