Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

In recent years, an increasing number of papers has been published on the genetic diversity
trends in crop cultivars released in the last century using a variety of molecular techniques …

Wheat (Triticum spp.) is a universally lucrative agricultural crop. An increase in wheat
production has been shown through selection by the farmers which can increase the grain …

Genetic diversity in representative sets of high yielding varieties of rice released in India
between 1970 and 2010 was studied at molecular level employing hypervariable …

Chinese wheat landrace Dahongtou was resistant to 35 of 38 tested Chinese isolates of
Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici at the seedling stage. Genetic analysis of the F2 populations …

There is a long-standing concern that modern plant breeding reduces crop genetic diversity,
which may have consequences for the vulnerability of crops to changes in pests, diseases …

The high molecular weight (HMW) glutenin subunit composition of 111 common landraces
of bread wheat collected from Hubei province, China has been determined by sodium …

Genetic differentiation between 40 lentil genotypes was tested using molecular markers. The
genotypes were produced from a Greek landrace of commercial interest via the honeycomb …

Assessment of genetic diversity among wheat cultivars is important to ensure that a
continuous pool of cultivars with varying desirable traits is maintained. In view of this, a …

Genetic diversity, population structure, and linkage disequilibrium (LD) were investigated
among elite Chinese wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars originating from northern …