Characteristics of genome editing mutations in cereal crops

C Zhu, L Bortesi, C Baysal, RM Twyman, R Fischer… - Trends in Plant …, 2017 - cell.com
Designer nucleases allow the creation of new plant genotypes by introducing precisely-
targeted double-strand breaks that are resolved by endogenous repair pathways. The major …

Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium … - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the most widely cultivated crop on Earth,
contributing about a fifth of the total calories consumed by humans. Consequently, wheat …

Cloning of the wheat Yr15 resistance gene sheds light on the plant tandem kinase-pseudokinase family

V Klymiuk, E Yaniv, L Huang, D Raats… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Yellow rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is a devastating fungal disease
threatening much of global wheat production. Race-specific resistance (R)-genes are used …

Evolution and adaptation of wild emmer wheat populations to biotic and abiotic stresses

L Huang, D Raats, H Sela, V Klymiuk… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The genetic bottlenecks associated with plant domestication and subsequent selection in
man-made agroecosystems have limited the genetic diversity of modern crops and …

The hijacking of a receptor kinase–driven pathway by a wheat fungal pathogen leads to disease

G Shi, Z Zhang, TL Friesen, D Raats, T Fahima… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Necrotrophic pathogens live and feed on dying tissue, but their interactions with plants are
not well understood compared to biotrophic pathogens. The wheat Snn1 gene confers …

Deep transcriptome sequencing provides new insights into the structural and functional organization of the wheat genome

L Pingault, F Choulet, A Alberti, N Glover, P Wincker… - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Because of its size, allohexaploid nature, and high repeat content, the bread
wheat genome is a good model to study the impact of the genome structure on gene …

Molecular evidence for adaptive evolution of drought tolerance in wild cereals

Y Wang, G Chen, F Zeng, Z Han, CW Qiu… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The considerable drought tolerance of wild cereal crop progenitors has diminished during
domestication in the pursuit of higher productivity. Regaining this trait in cereal crops is …

Molecular mapping of genes Yr64 and Yr65 for stripe rust resistance in hexaploid derivatives of durum wheat accessions PI 331260 and PI 480016

P Cheng, LS Xu, MN Wang, DR See… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2014 - Springer
Key message This manuscript reports two new genes (Yr64 and Yr65) for effective
resistance to stripe rust and usefulness of their flanking SSR markers for marker-assisted …

Ultra-dense genetic map of durum wheat× wild emmer wheat developed using the 90K iSelect SNP genotyping assay

R Avni, M Nave, T Eilam, H Sela, C Alekperov… - Molecular …, 2014 - Springer
Wild emmer wheat (T. turgidum ssp. dicoccoides, genome BBAA) gene pool is an important
source for wheat research and improvement. To utilize this resource, we hybridized wild …

Physical location of tandem repeats in the wheat genome and application for chromosome identification

T Lang, G Li, H Wang, Z Yu, Q Chen, E Yang, S Fu… - Planta, 2019 - Springer
Main conclusion A general distribution of tandem repeats (TRs) in the wheat genome was
predicted and a new web page combined with fluorescence in situ hybridization …