Crop breeding chips and genotyping platforms: progress, challenges, and perspectives

A Rasheed, Y Hao, X Xia, A Khan, Y Xu, RK Varshney… - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
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 …

Exploring and exploiting pan-genomics for crop improvement

Y Tao, X Zhao, E Mace, R Henry, D Jordan - Molecular plant, 2019 - cell.com
Genetic variation ranging from single-nucleotide polymorphisms to large structural variants
(SVs) can cause variation of gene content among individuals within the same species. There …

Copy number variation in domestication

ZN Lye, MD Purugganan - Trends in Plant Science, 2019 - cell.com
Domesticated plants have long served as excellent models for studying evolution. Many
genes and mutations underlying important domestication traits have been identified, and …

A modern Green Revolution gene for reduced height in wheat

T Würschum, SM Langer, CFH Longin… - The Plant …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Increases in the yield of wheat during the Green Revolution of the late 20th century were
achieved through the introduction of Reduced height (Rht) dwarfing genes. The Rht‐B1 and …

Phenotypic and genetic analysis of spike and kernel characteristics in wheat reveals long-term genetic trends of grain yield components

T Würschum, WL Leiser, SM Langer, MR Tucker… - Theoretical and applied …, 2018 - Springer
Key message Phenotypic and genetic analysis of six spike and kernel characteristics in
wheat revealed geographic patterns as well as long-term trends arising from breeding …

How the pan-genome is changing crop genomics and improvement

R Della Coletta, Y Qiu, S Ou, MB Hufford, CN Hirsch - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Crop genomics has seen dramatic advances in recent years due to improvements in
sequencing technology, assembly methods, and computational resources. These advances …

Multi-omics revolution to promote plant breeding efficiency

U Mahmood, X Li, Y Fan, W Chang, Y Niu, J Li… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Crop production is the primary goal of agricultural activities, which is always taken into
consideration. However, global agricultural systems are coming under increasing pressure …

Structural variants in 3000 rice genomes

RR Fuentes, D Chebotarov, J Duitama, S Smith… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
Investigation of large structural variants (SVs) is a challenging yet important task in
understanding trait differences in highly repetitive genomes. Combining different …

Omics for the improvement of abiotic, biotic, and agronomic traits in major cereal crops: Applications, challenges, and prospects

B Kaur, KS Sandhu, R Kamal, K Kaur, J Singh… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Omics technologies, namely genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and
phenomics, are becoming an integral part of virtually every commercial cereal crop breeding …

Giant Starship Elements Mobilize Accessory Genes in Fungal Genomes

E Gluck-Thaler, T Ralston, Z Konkel… - Molecular biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Accessory genes are variably present among members of a species and are a reservoir of
adaptive functions. In bacteria, differences in gene distributions among individuals largely …