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Durum wheat genome highlights past domestication signatures and future improvement targets

The domestication of wild emmer wheat led to the selection of modern durum wheat, grown mainly for pasta production. We describe the 10.45 gigabase (Gb) assembly of the genome of durum wheat cultivar Svevo. Th...

Marco Maccaferri, Neil S. Harris, Sven O. Twardziok, Raj K. Pasam… in Nature Genetics (2019)