Status and prospects of genome‐wide association studies in plants

L Tibbs Cortes, Z Zhang, J Yu - The plant genome, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have developed into a powerful and ubiquitous
tool for the investigation of complex traits. In large part, this was fueled by advances in …

Modern plant biotechnology as a strategy in addressing climate change and attaining food security

TIK Munaweera, NU Jayawardana… - Agriculture & Food …, 2022 - Springer
Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …

GAPIT version 3: boosting power and accuracy for genomic association and prediction

J Wang, Z Zhang - Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association study (GWAS) and genomic prediction/selection (GP/GS) are the
two essential enterprises in genomic research. Due to the great magnitude and complexity …

The barley pan-genome reveals the hidden legacy of mutation breeding

M Jayakodi, S Padmarasu, G Haberer, VS Bonthala… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic diversity is key to crop improvement. Owing to pervasive genomic structural
variation, a single reference genome assembly cannot capture the full complement of …

rMVP: a memory-efficient, visualization-enhanced, and parallel-accelerated tool for genome-wide association study

L Yin, H Zhang, Z Tang, J Xu, D Yin… - Genomics …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Along with the development of high-throughput sequencing technologies, both sample size
and SNP number are increasing rapidly in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and …

[HTML][HTML] GWAS: fast-forwarding gene identification and characterization in temperate cereals: lessons from barley–a review

AM Alqudah, A Sallam, PS Baenziger… - Journal of advanced …, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the genetic complexity of traits is an important objective of small grain
temperate cereals yield and adaptation improvements. Bi-parental quantitative trait loci …

Variation in cis-regulation of a NAC transcription factor contributes to drought tolerance in wheat

H Mao, S Li, B Chen, C Jian, F Mei, Y Zhang, F Li… - Molecular Plant, 2022 - cell.com
Drought is a major environmental factor limiting wheat production worldwide, and
developing drought-tolerant cultivars is a central challenge for wheat breeders globally …

Iterative usage of fixed and random effect models for powerful and efficient genome-wide association studies

X Liu, M Huang, B Fan, ES Buckler, Z Zhang - PLoS genetics, 2016 - journals.plos.org
False positives in a Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) can be effectively controlled
by a fixed effect and random effect Mixed Linear Model (MLM) that incorporates population …

BLINK: a package for the next level of genome-wide association studies with both individuals and markers in the millions

M Huang, X Liu, Y Zhou, RM Summers, Z Zhang - Gigascience, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Big datasets, accumulated from biomedical and agronomic studies, provide the potential to
identify genes that control complex human diseases and agriculturally important traits …

A heritable subset of the core rumen microbiome dictates dairy cow productivity and emissions

RJ Wallace, G Sasson, PC Garnsworthy, I Tapio… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
A 1000-cow study across four European countries was undertaken to understand to what
extent ruminant microbiomes can be controlled by the host animal and to identify …