Wheat was domesticated about 10,000 years ago and has since spread worldwide to
become one of the major crops. Its adaptability to diverse environments and end uses is …

Domestication of plants and animals is the major factor underlying human civilization and is
a gigantic evolutionary experiment of adaptation and speciation, generating incipient …

Controlled pedigrees and the multi-decade timescale of national crop plant breeding
programs offer a unique experimental context for examining how selection affects plant …

High‐density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping arrays are a powerful tool
for studying genomic patterns of diversity, inferring ancestral relationships between …

Introgression is a potential source of beneficial genetic diversity. The contribution of
introgression to adaptive evolution and improvement of wheat as it was disseminated …

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a globally important crop, accounting for 20 per cent of
the calories consumed by humans. Major efforts are underway worldwide to increase wheat …

Targeted selection and inbreeding have resulted in a lack of genetic diversity in elite
hexaploid bread wheat accessions. Reduced diversity can be a limiting factor in the …

Consensus linkage maps are important tools in crop genomics. We have assembled a high‐
density tetraploid wheat consensus map by integrating 13 data sets from independent …

Grain morphology in wheat (Triticum aestivum) has been selected and manipulated even in
very early agrarian societies and remains a major breeding target. We undertook a large …

The evolution of the polyploid Triticum wheats is distinctive in that domestication, natural
hybridization and allopolyploid speciation have all had significant impacts on their …