Multi-parent populations in crops: a toolbox integrating genomics and genetic mapping with breeding

MF Scott, O Ladejobi, S Amer, AR Bentley, J Biernaskie… - Heredity, 2020 - nature.com
Crop populations derived from experimental crosses enable the genetic dissection of
complex traits and support modern plant breeding. Among these, multi-parent populations …

Fine mapping and gene cloning in the post-NGS era: advances and prospects

D Jaganathan, A Bohra, M Thudi… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2020 - Springer
Improvement in traits of agronomic importance is the top breeding priority of crop
improvement programs. Majority of these agronomic traits show complex quantitative …

[HTML][HTML] Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference

IA Baste, RT Watson - Global Environmental Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Today's increasingly unequal and resource intensive development model degrades and
surpasses Earth's finite capacity to sustain human well-being. Society must restore this …

Ten years of the maize nested association mapping population: impact, limitations, and future directions

JL Gage, B Monier, A Giri, ES Buckler - The Plant Cell, 2020 - academic.oup.com
It has been just over a decade since the release of the maize (Zea mays) Nested Association
Mapping (NAM) population. The NAM population has been and continues to be an …

Genotyping-by-sequencing derived high-density linkage map and its application to QTL mapping of flag leaf traits in bread wheat

W Hussain, PS Baenziger, V Belamkar, MJ Guttieri… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Winter wheat parents 'Harry'(drought tolerant) and 'Wesley'(drought susceptible) were used
to develop a recombinant inbred population with future goals of identifying genomic regions …

Genetic architecture of soybean yield and agronomic traits

BW Diers, J Specht, KM Rainey… - G3: Genes …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Soybean is the world's leading source of vegetable protein and demand for its seed
continues to grow. Breeders have successfully increased soybean yield, but the genetic …

The genetic architecture of genome‐wide recombination rate variation in allopolyploid wheat revealed by nested association mapping

KW Jordan, S Wang, F He, S Chao, Y Lun… - The Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Recombination affects the fate of alleles in populations by imposing constraints on the
reshuffling of genetic information. Understanding the genetic basis of these constraints is …

New strategies and tools in quantitative genetics: how to go from the phenotype to the genotype

C Bazakos, M Hanemian, C Trontin… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Quantitative genetics has a long history in plants: It has been used to study specific
biological processes, identify the factors important for trait evolution, and breed new crop …

Genome-wide association study of tan spot resistance in a hexaploid wheat collection from Kazakhstan

A Kokhmetova, D Sehgal, S Ali, M Atishova… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tan spot, caused by Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, is a serious foliar disease of wheat in
Kazakhstan with reported yield losses as high as 50% during epidemic years. Here, we …

Dynamic regulation of phenylpropanoid pathway metabolites in modulating sorghum defense against fall armyworm

S Grover, S Shinde, H Puri, N Palmer… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Plants undergo dynamic metabolic changes at the cellular level upon insect infestation to
better defend themselves. Phenylpropanoids, a hub of secondary plant metabolites …