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Open AccessHigh-resolution map** of Ryd4Hb, a major resistance gene to Barley yellow dwarf virus from Hordeum bulbosum
We mapped Ryd4Hb in a 66.5 kbp interval in barley and dissociated it from a sublethality factor. These results will enable a targeted selection of the resistance in barley breeding.
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Open AccessGenetic control and prospects of predictive breeding for European winter wheat’s Zeleny sedimentation values and Hagberg-Perten falling number
Sedimentation values and falling number in the last decades have helped maintain high baking quality despite rigorous selection for grain yield in wheat. Allelic combinations of major loci sustained the bread-...
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Open AccessFirst genome-scale insights into the virulence of the snow mold causal fungus Microdochium nivale
Pink snow mold, caused by a phytopathogenic and psychrotolerant fungus, Microdochium nivale, is a severe disease of winter cereals and grasses that predominantly occurs under snow cover or shortly after its melt....
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Open AccessLarge-scale genoty** and phenoty** of a worldwide winter wheat genebank for its use in pre-breeding
Plant genetic resources (PGR) stored at genebanks are humanity’s crop diversity savings for the future. Information on PGR contrasted with modern cultivars is key to select PGR parents for pre-breeding. Genoty...
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Genomics-informed prebreeding unlocks the diversity in genebanks for wheat improvement
The great efforts spent in the maintenance of past diversity in genebanks are rationalized by the potential role of plant genetic resources (PGR) in future crop improvement—a concept whose practical implementa...
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Open AccessChromosome-scale genome assembly provides insights into rye biology, evolution and agronomic potential
Rye (Secale cereale L.) is an exceptionally climate-resilient cereal crop, used extensively to produce improved wheat varieties via introgressive hybridization and possessing the entire repertoire of genes necess...
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Open AccessSnow mold of winter cereals: a complex disease and a challenge for resistance breeding
Snow mold resistance is a complex quantitative trait highly affected by environmental conditions during winter that must be addressed by resistance breeding.
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Genomics of Self-Incompatibility and Male-Fertility Restoration in Rye
Allogamous grasses like rye (Secale cereale L.) developed a two-locus gametophytic self-incompatibility (SI) system that forces outcrossing and allows for maintaining a high level of diversity. The strong built-i...
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Economic and Academic Importance of Rye
Rye has been playing an important agronomic, nutritional and social role throughout human civilization. In the last 50 years, rye grain yields have increased but not enough to offset the decrease in crop** a...
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Bridging the Genotype–Phenotype Gap for Precision Breeding in Rye
With release of two high-quality genome assemblies, rye has finally reached the genome era, enabling the integration and advancement of fundamental and applied breeding and research to understand how the genom...
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Correction to: Genetic map** of the labile (lab) gene: a recessive locus causing irregular spikelet fertility in labile-barley (Hordeum vulgare convar. labile)
While continuing our quest towards the identification of the labile (lab) locus in barley, we discovered that the previously assigned map location on the long arm of chromosome 5H was wrong.
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Open AccessProspects of GWAS and predictive breeding for European winter wheat’s grain protein content, grain starch content, and grain hardness
Grain quality traits determine the classification of registered wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) varieties. Although environmental factors and crop management practices exert a considerable influence on wheat quality...
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Association map** of wheat Fusarium head blight resistance-related regions using a candidate-gene approach and their verification in a biparental population
Markers, located in Dicer1 and Ara6 genes, which are likely involved in cross-kingdom RNA trafficking, are associated with FHB resistance in GABI wheat population and were validated in biparental population.
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An experimental approach for estimating the genomic selection advantage for Fusarium head blight and Septoria tritici blotch in winter wheat
The genomic selection advantage for Fusarium head blight is promising but failed for Septoria tritici blotch. Selection of new breeding parents based on predictions must be treated with caution.
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Accuracy of within- and among-family genomic prediction for Fusarium head blight and Septoria tritici blotch in winter wheat
Genomic selection is an approach that uses whole-genome marker data to predict breeding values of genotypes and holds the potential to improve the genetic gain in breeding programs. In this study, two winter w...
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Open AccessAdaptive selection of founder segments and epistatic control of plant height in the MAGIC winter wheat population WM-800
Multi-parent advanced generation intercross (MAGIC) populations are a newly established tool to dissect quantitative traits. We developed the high resolution MAGIC wheat population WM-800, consisting of 910 F4:6 ...
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Open AccessIdentification of QTL hot spots for malting quality in two elite breeding lines with distinct tolerance to abiotic stress
Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is an important crop cultivated across the world. Drought is a major abiotic factor compromising barley yield worldwide, therefore in modern spring barley cultivars superior seed and malt...
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Rht24 reduces height in the winter wheat population ‘Solitär × Bussard’ without adverse effects on Fusarium head blight infection
The dwarfing gene Rht24 on chromosome 6A acts in the wheat population ‘Solitär × Bussard’, considerably reducing plant height without increasing Fusarium head blight severity and delaying heading stage.
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Exploring new alleles for frost tolerance in winter rye
Rye genetic resources provide a valuable source of new alleles for the improvement of frost tolerance in rye breeding programs.
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Fine map** of the restorer gene Rfp3 from an Iranian primitive rye (Secale cereale L.)
A comparative genetics approach allowed to precisely determine the map position of the restorer gene Rfp3 ...
