Despite the dramatic increase in food production thanks to the Green Revolution, hunger is
increasing among human populations around the world, affecting one in nine people. The …

Definition of clear criteria for evaluation of the quality of core collections is a prerequisite for
selecting high-quality cores. However, a critical examination of the different methods used in …

Deployment of fast-evolving disease-resistance genes is one of the most successful
strategies used by plants to fend off pathogens 1, 2. In gene-for-gene relationships, most …

Background The economic importance of grapevine has driven significant efforts in
genomics to accelerate the exploitation of Vitis resources for development of new cultivars …

A collection of 1005 grapevine accessions was genotyped at 34 microsatellite loci (SSR)
with the aim of analysing genetic diversity and exploring parentages. The comparison of …

Molecular markers (SSR, SNP and DArT) and agronomical traits have been used in the
world's largest olive (Olea europaea L.) germplasm collection (IFAPA, Centre Alameda del …

Motivation: Core sets are necessary to ensure that access to useful alleles or characteristics
retained in genebanks is guaranteed. We have successfully developed a computational tool …

Our understanding of the interaction of carbon (C) metabolism with nitrogen (N) metabolism
and growth is based mainly on studies of responses to environmental treatments, and …

Background Conservation of genetic diversity is an essential prerequisite for developing
new cultivars with desirable agronomic traits. Although a large number of germplasm …

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum), one of the world's major crops, is genetically very diverse.
In order to select a representative sample of the worldwide wheat diversity, 3,942 …