Achieving yield gains in wheat

M Reynolds, J Foulkes, R Furbank… - Plant, cell & …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Wheat provides 20% of calories and protein consumed by humans. Recent genetic gains
are< 1% per annum (pa), insufficient to meet future demand. The Wheat Yield Consortium …

Next-generation sequencing technologies and their implications for crop genetics and breeding

RK Varshney, SN Nayak, GD May, SA Jackson - Trends in biotechnology, 2009 - cell.com
Using next-generation sequencing technologies it is possible to resequence entire plant
genomes or sample entire transcriptomes more efficiently and economically and in greater …

Optical maps refine the bread wheat Triticum aestivum cv. Chinese Spring genome assembly

T Zhu, L Wang, H Rimbert, JC Rodriguez… - The Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Until recently, achieving a reference‐quality genome sequence for bread wheat was long
thought beyond the limits of genome sequencing and assembly technology, primarily due to …

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 …

A deletion mutation in TaHRC confers Fhb1 resistance to Fusarium head blight in wheat

Z Su, A Bernardo, B Tian, H Chen, S Wang, H Ma… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Fusarium head blight (FHB), which is mainly caused by Fusarium graminearum, is a
destructive wheat disease that threatens global wheat production. Fhb1, a quantitative trait …

A chromosome-based draft sequence of the hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome

International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium … - Science, 2014 - science.org
An ordered draft sequence of the 17-gigabase hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum)
genome has been produced by sequencing isolated chromosome arms. We have annotated …

Development of high-density genetic maps for barley and wheat using a novel two-enzyme genotyping-by-sequencing approach

JA Poland, PJ Brown, ME Sorrells, JL Jannink - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Advancements in next-generation sequencing technology have enabled whole genome re-
sequencing in many species providing unprecedented discovery and characterization of …

A physical, genetic and functional sequence assembly of the barley genome.

KF Mayer, R Waugh, P Langridge, TJ Close, RP Wise… - Nature, 2012 - iris.unito.it
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is among the world's earliest domesticated and most important
crop plants. It is diploid with a large haploid genome of 5.1 gigabases (Gb). Here we present …

Analysis of the bread wheat genome using whole-genome shotgun sequencing

R Brenchley, M Spannagl, M Pfeifer, GLA Barker… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
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 …

Diversity arrays technology: a generic genome profiling technology on open platforms

A Kilian, P Wenzl, E Huttner, J Carling, L Xia… - Data production and …, 2012 - Springer
In the last 20 years, we have observed an exponential growth of the DNA sequence data
and simular increase in the volume of DNA polymorphism data generated by numerous …