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Open AccessA new winter wheat genetic resource harbors untapped diversity from synthetic hexaploid wheat
The NIAB_WW_SHW_NAM population, a large nested association map** panel, is a useful resource for map** QTL from synthetic hexaploid wheat that can improve modern elite wheat cultivars.
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Open AccessProgenitor species hold untapped diversity for potential climate-responsive traits for use in wheat breeding and crop improvement
Climate change will have numerous impacts on crop production worldwide necessitating a broadening of the germplasm base required to source and incorporate novel traits. Major variation exists in crop progenito...
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Open AccessOutlook for coeliac disease patients: towards bread wheat with hypoimmunogenic gluten by gene editing of α- and γ-gliadin gene families
Wheat grains contain gluten proteins, which harbour immunogenic epitopes that trigger Coeliac disease in 1–2% of the human population. Wheat varieties or accessions containing only safe gluten have not been id...
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Open AccessWheat in the Mediterranean revisited – tetraploid wheat landraces assessed with elite bread wheat Single Nucleotide Polymorphism markers
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) panels recently developed for the assessment of genetic diversity in wheat are primarily based on elite varieties, mostly those of bread wheat. The usefulness of such SNP p...
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Using diversity of the chloroplast genome to examine evolutionary history of wheat species
Chloroplast microsatellites (SSRs) are conserved within wheat species, yet are sufficiently polymorphic between and within species to be useful for evolutionary studies. This study describes the relationships ...
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Remnant genetic diversity detected in an ancient crop: Triticum dicoccon Schrank landraces from Asturias, Spain
Emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccon Schrank was one of the founder crops of Neolithic agriculture. Though its cultivation was largely replaced by hexaploid wheats 2000 years ago, pockets of small scale cultivation can...
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Open AccessEvolutionary history of barley cultivation in Europe revealed by genetic analysis of extant landraces
Understanding the evolution of cultivated barley is important for two reasons. First, the evolutionary relationships between different landraces might provide information on the spread and subsequent developme...
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Open AccessAssociation map** of partitioning loci in barley
Association map**, initially developed in human disease genetics, is now being applied to plant species. The model species Arabidopsis provided some of the first examples of association map** in plants, ident...
