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Open AccessRNASeq analysis of drought-stressed guayule reveals the role of gene transcription for modulating rubber, resin, and carbohydrate synthesis
The drought-adapted shrub guayule (Parthenium argentatum) produces rubber, a natural product of major commercial importance, and two co-products with potential industrial use: terpene resin and the carbohydrate f...
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Genoty**-by-sequencing to determine the genetic structure of a Tibetan medicinal plant Swertia mussotii Franch.
Swertia mussotii Franch. has been widely used in Tibetan folk medicine as an important drug ingredient for the treatment of hepatitis and hepatobiliary disease and for homeopathic purposes. But the lacking natura...
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Characterization of Pm68, a new powdery mildew resistance gene on chromosome 2BS of Greek durum wheat TRI 1796
New powdery mildew resistance gene Pm68 was found in the terminal region of chromosome 2BS of Greek durum wheat TRI 1796. The co-segregated molecular markers could be used for MAS.
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Open AccessA rare gain of function mutation in a wheat tandem kinase confers resistance to powdery mildew
Powdery mildew, caused by Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt), is one of the most destructive diseases that pose a great threat to wheat production. Wheat landraces represent a rich source of powdery mildew re...
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Open AccessExploiting the reference genome sequence of hexaploid wheat: a proteomic study of flour proteins from the cultivar Chinese Spring
Although the economic value of wheat flour is determined by the complement of gluten proteins, these proteins have been challenging to study because of the complexity of the major protein groups and the tremen...
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Open AccessRapid evolution of α-gliadin gene family revealed by analyzing Gli-2 locus regions of wild emmer wheat
α-Gliadins are a major group of gluten proteins in wheat flour that contribute to the end-use properties for food processing and contain major immunogenic epitopes that can cause serious health-related issues ...
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Open AccessTowards reducing the immunogenic potential of wheat flour: omega gliadins encoded by the D genome of hexaploid wheat may also harbor epitopes for the serious food allergy WDEIA
Omega-5 gliadins are a group of highly repetitive gluten proteins in wheat flour encoded on the 1B chromosome of hexaploid wheat. These proteins are the major sensitizing allergens in a severe form of food all...
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Open AccessModular assembly of transposable element arrays by microsatellite targeting in the guayule and rice genomes
Guayule (Parthenium argentatum A. Gray) is a rubber-producing desert shrub native to Mexico and the United States. Guayule represents an alternative to Hevea brasiliensis as a source for commercial natural rubber...
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Open AccessDynamic Evolution of α-Gliadin Prolamin Gene Family in Homeologous Genomes of Hexaploid Wheat
Wheat Gli-2 loci encode complex groups of α-gliadin prolamins that are important for breadmaking, but also major triggers of celiac disease (CD). Elucidation of α-gliadin evolution provides knowledge to produce w...
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Open AccessGenome sequence of the progenitor of the wheat D genome Aegilops tauschii
A combination of advanced sequencing and map** techniques is used to produce a reference genome of Aegilops tauschii, progenitor of the wheat D genome, providing a valuable resource for comparative genetic stud...
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Open AccessDeep sequencing and transcriptome analyses to identify genes involved in secoiridoid biosynthesis in the Tibetan medicinal plant Swertia mussotii
Swertia mussotii Franch. is an important traditional Tibetan medicinal plant with pharmacological properties effective in the treatment of various ailments including hepatitis. Secoiridoids are the major bioactiv...
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Open AccessDevelopment of a D genome specific marker resource for diploid and hexaploid wheat
Map** and map-based cloning of genes that control agriculturally and economically important traits remain great challenges for plants with complex highly repetitive genomes such as those within the grass tri...
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Dynamic evolution of resistance gene analogs in the orthologous genomic regions of powdery mildew resistance gene MlIW170 in Triticum dicoccoides and Aegilops tauschii
Rapid evolution of powdery mildew resistance gene MlIW170 orthologous genomic regions in wheat subgenomes.
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Open AccessAccelerated evolution of the mitochondrial genome in an alloplasmic line of durum wheat
Wheat is an excellent plant species for nuclear mitochondrial interaction studies due to availability of large collection of alloplasmic lines. These lines exhibit different vegetative and physiological proper...
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The gene space in wheat: the complete γ-gliadin gene family from the wheat cultivar Chinese Spring
The complete set of unique γ-gliadin genes is described for the wheat cultivar Chinese Spring using a combination of expressed sequence tag (EST) and Roche 454 DNA sequences. Assemblies of Chinese Spring ESTs ...
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Exploring the diploid wheat ancestral A genome through sequence comparison at the high-molecular-weight glutenin locus region
The polyploid nature of hexaploid wheat (T. aestivum, AABBDD) often represents a great challenge in various aspects of research including genetic map**, map-based cloning of important genes, and sequencing and ...
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Open AccessAnalysis of the bread wheat genome using whole-genome shotgun sequencing
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a globally important crop, accounting for 20 per cent of the calories consumed by humans. Major efforts are underway worldwide to increase wheat production by extending genetic ...
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Comparison of a high-density genetic linkage map to genome features in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon
The small annual grass Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium) is rapidly emerging as a powerful model system to study questions unique to the grasses. Many Brachypodium resources have been developed including a w...
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Open AccessAnnotation-based genome-wide SNP discovery in the large and complex Aegilops tauschii genome using next-generation sequencing without a reference genome sequence
Many plants have large and complex genomes with an abundance of repeated sequences. Many plants are also polyploid. Both of these attributes typify the genome architecture in the tribe Triticeae, whose members...
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Open AccessNucleotide diversity maps reveal variation in diversity among wheat genomes and chromosomes
A genome-wide assessment of nucleotide diversity in a polyploid species must minimize the inclusion of homoeologous sequences into diversity estimates and reliably allocate individual haplotypes into their res...
