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Open AccessThe genetic basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in wheat
Hybrid wheat varieties give higher yields than conventional lines but are difficult to produce due to a lack of effective control of male fertility in breeding lines. One promising system involves the Rf1 and Rf3
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Genome-Wide Association Scans (GWAS)
Genome-wide association scans (GWAS) provide a mechanism to assess variation that segregates in a gene pool, rather than in a biparental population. Fashioned originally in human genetics, it has become popula...
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Exploiting Barley Genetic Resources for Genome Wide Association Scans (GWAS)
We have been exploring the use of GWAS for trait analysis and gene isolation in cultivated barley. In this chapter we describe the approach we have taken and some of the hurdles that we have faced when attempt...
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Open AccessIdentification of crop cultivars with consistently high lignocellulosic sugar release requires the use of appropriate statistical design and modelling
In this study, a multi-parent population of barley cultivars was grown in the field for two consecutive years and then straw saccharification (sugar release by enzymes) was subsequently analysed in the laborat...
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Open AccessGenome-wide association map** of frost tolerance in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)
Frost tolerance is a key trait with economic and agronomic importance in barley because it is a major component of winter hardiness, and therefore limits the geographical distribution of the crop and the effec...
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Natural variation in a homolog of Antirrhinum CENTRORADIALIS contributed to spring growth habit and environmental adaptation in cultivated barley
Robbie Waugh and colleagues report that the EARLINESS PER SE (EPS2) locus is associated with spring growth habit and environmental adaptation in barley. Resequencing the barley homolog of CENTRORADIALIS, located ...
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Erratum to: Genome-wide association map** of agronomic and morphologic traits in highly structured populations of barley cultivars
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INTERMEDIUM-C, a modifier of lateral spikelet fertility in barley, is an ortholog of the maize domestication gene TEOSINTE BRANCHED 1
Robbie Waugh and colleagues show that INTERMEDIUM-C, a locus that modifies spikelet fertility in barley, is encoded by an orthologue of the maize domestication gene TEOSINTE BRANCHED 1. Differences in spikelet fe...
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Open AccessPatterns of polymorphism and linkage disequilibrium in cultivated barley
We carried out a genome-wide analysis of polymorphism (4,596 SNP loci across 190 elite cultivated accessions) chosen to represent the available genetic variation in current elite North West European and North ...
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Patterns of genetic diversity and linkage disequilibrium in a highly structured Hordeum vulgare association-map** population for the Mediterranean basin
Population structure and genome-wide linkage disequilibrium (LD) were investigated in 192 Hordeum vulgare accessions providing a comprehensive coverage of past and present barley breeding in the Mediterranean bas...
