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Open AccessMeasurement of leaf lamina moisture with a low-cost electrical humidity sensor: case study on a wheat water-mutant
The presence and persistence of water on the leaf can affect crop performance and thus might be a relevant trait to select for or against in breeding programmes. Low-cost, rapid and relatively simple methods a...
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Open AccessDurum 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...
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Transcriptome profiling of short-term response to chilling stress in tolerant and sensitive Oryza sativa ssp. Japonica seedlings
Low temperature is a major factor limiting rice growth and yield, and seedling is one of the developmental stages at which sensitivity to chilling stress is higher. Tolerance to chilling is a complex quantitat...
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Open AccessThe carotenoid biosynthetic and catabolic genes in wheat and their association with yellow pigments
In plants carotenoids play an important role in the photosynthetic process and photo-oxidative protection, and are the substrate for the synthesis of abscisic acid and strigolactones. In addition to their prot...
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Copy number variation at the HvCBF4–HvCBF2 genomic segment is a major component of frost resistance in barley
A family of CBF transcription factors plays a major role in reconfiguring the plant transcriptome in response to low-freezing temperature in temperate cereals. In barley, more than 13 HvCBF genes map coincident w...
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Brachypodium as a Model for Grass and Cereal Diseases
Brachypodium is now a well-established model species for the grass family Poaceae, and a number of groups have developed Brachypodium pathosystems, focusing on diseases of cereal and turf and bioenergy grass s...
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The barley Frost resistance-H2 locus
Frost resistance-H2 (Fr-H2) is a major QTL affecting freezing tolerance in barley, yet its molecular basis is still not clearly understood. To gain a better insight into the structural ch...
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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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The CEREALAB Database: Ongoing Research and Future Challenges
The objective of the CEREALAB database is to help the breeders in choosing molecular markers associated to the most important traits. Phenotypic and genotypic data obtained from the integration of open source ...
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CBF gene copy number variation at Frost Resistance-2 is associated with levels of freezing tolerance in temperate-climate cereals
Frost Resistance-1 (FR-1) and FR-2 are two loci affecting freezing tolerance and winter hardiness of the temperate-climate cereals. FR-1 is hypothesized to be due to the pleiotropic effects of VRN-1. FR-2 spans a...
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Molecular and Structural Characterization of Barley Vernalization Genes
Vernalization, the requirement of a period of low temperature to induce transition from the vegetative to reproductive state, is an evolutionarily and economically important trait in the Triticeae. The genetic ba...
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Chromosome regions and stress-related sequences involved in resistance to abiotic stress in Triticeae
Drought, low temperature and salinity are the most important abiotic stress factors limiting crop productivity. A genomic map of major loci and QTLs affecting stress tolerance in Triticeae identified the crucial ...
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Phyletic relationships within the genus Hordeum using PCR-based markers
Fifteen Hordeum species and subspeciesbelonging to groups with different genomes were studied usingPCR-based markers to establish phylogenetic relationshipswithin the genus. Two hundred and seventeen RAPD and STS...
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High expression level of a gene coding for a chloroplastic amino acid selective channel protein is correlated to cold acclimation in cereals
A cold-regulated gene (cor tmc-ap3) coding for a putative chloroplastic amino acid selective channel protein was isolated from cold-treated barley leaves combining the differential display and the 5′-RACE tech...
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Cucurbita pepo L. can be transformed by Agrobacterium rhizogenes
Two-week-old in vitro grown Cucurbita pepo L. intact plants and cotyledons (detached and undetached from the mother-plant) were transformed by Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain NCPPB 1855, grown for 48 h at 25 °...
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Characterization of ornamental Datura plants transformed by Agrobacterium rhizogenes
Datura arborea and D. sanguinea hairy roots were produced by cocultivation of leaf fragments with Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain NCPP 1855. Adventitious buds emerged spontaneously, without exoge...
