Progenitor species hold untapped diversity for potential climate-responsive traits for use in wheat breeding and crop improvement

Wheat root systems as a breeding target for climate resilience

(2021) Eric S. Ober et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Dynamics of photosynthetic induction and relaxation within the canopy of rice and two wild relatives

(2021) Liana G. Acevedo‐Siaca et al.   Food and Energy Security

Ploidy influences wheat mesophyll cell geometry, packing and leaf function

(2021) Matthew J. Wilson et al.   Plant Direct

Population genomic analysis of Aegilops tauschii identifies targets for bread wheat improvement

(2021) Kumar Gaurav et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Durum wheat in the Mediterranean Rim: historical evolution and genetic resources

(2020) Fernando Martínez-Moreno et al.   GENETIC RESOURCES AND CROP EVOLUTION

Phenology and related traits for wheat adaptation

(2020) Jessica Hyles et al.   HEREDITY

A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in crops with large genomes: Lessons from polyploid wheat

(2020) Nikolai M Adamski et al.   eLife

Variation in key leaf photosynthetic traits across wheat wild relatives is accession‐dependent not species‐dependent

(2020) Lorna McAusland et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Effects of breeding history and crop management on the root architecture of wheat

(2020) N. Fradgley et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Quantitative trait loci analysis for root traits in synthetic hexaploid wheat under drought stress conditions

(2020) Rui-xuan LIU et al.   Journal of Integrative Agriculture

Wild Sorghum as a Promising Resource for Crop Improvement

(2020) Galaihalage K. S. Ananda et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Identification of Quantitative Trait Loci Relating to Flowering Time, Flag Leaf and Awn Characteristics in a Novel Triticum dicoccum Mapping Population

(2020) Tally I.C. Wright et al.   Plants-Basel

Harnessing wild relatives of pearl millet ( Pennisetum glaucum L. R. Br) for germplasm enhancement: challenges and opportunities

(2020) Shivali Sharma et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Spike photosynthesis measured at high throughput indicates genetic variation independent of flag leaf photosynthesis

(2020) Gemma Molero et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding

(2020) Sean Walkowiak et al.   NATURE

Synthetic glycolate metabolism pathways stimulate crop growth and productivity in the field

(2019) Paul F. South et al.   SCIENCE

Development of Stable Homozygous Wheat/Amblyopyrum muticum (Aegilops mutica) Introgression Lines and Their Cytogenetic and Molecular Characterization

(2019) Julie King et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Developing a High-Throughput SNP-Based Marker System to Facilitate the Introgression of Traits From Aegilops Species Into Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum)

(2019) Alexandra M. Przewieslik-Allen et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

A large-scale pedigree resource of wheat reveals evidence for adaptation and selection by breeders

(2019) Nick Fradgley et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Resistance gene cloning from a wild crop relative by sequence capture and association genetics

(2019) Sanu Arora et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

VERNALIZATION1 controls developmental responses of winter wheat under high ambient temperatures

(2019) Laura E. Dixon et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Durum wheat genome highlights past domestication signatures and future improvement targets

(2019) Marco Maccaferri et al.   NATURE GENETICS

An Update of Recent Use of Aegilops Species in Wheat Breeding

(2019) Masahiro Kishii   Frontiers in Plant Science

Copy number variation of Ppd-B1 is the major determinant of heading time in durum wheat

(2019) Tobias Würschum et al.   BMC GENETICS

Barley yield formation under abiotic stress depends on the interplay between flowering time genes and environmental cues

(2019) Mathias Wiegmann et al.   Scientific Reports

Cellular perspectives for improving mesophyll conductance

(2019) Marjorie R. Lundgren et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

The physiological and genetic basis of combined drought and heat tolerance in wheat

(2018) Penny J Tricker et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

High throughput SNP discovery and genotyping in hexaploid wheat

(2018) Hélène Rimbert et al.   PLoS One

The early flowering trait of an emmer wheat accession (Triticum turgidum L. ssp. dicoccum) is associated with the cis-element of the Vrn-A3 locus

(2018) Kazusa Nishimura et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Root System Architecture and Its Association with Yield under Different Water Regimes in Durum Wheat

(2018) K. El Hassouni et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

(2018) et al.   SCIENCE

Hotspots in the genomic architecture of field drought responses in wheat as breeding targets

(2018) Sergio Gálvez et al.   FUNCTIONAL & INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS

TILL-D: An Aegilops tauschii TILLING Resource for Wheat Improvement

(2018) Nidhi Rawat et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Detection of T. urartu Introgressions in Wheat and Development of a Panel of Interspecific Introgression Lines

(2018) Surbhi Grewal et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Genetic Contribution of Emmer Wheat (Triticum dicoccon Schrank) to Heat Tolerance of Bread Wheat

(2018) Smi Ullah et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Natural variation in photoperiodic flowering pathway and identification of photoperiod-insensitive accessions in wild wheat, Aegilops tauschii

(2017) Kayo Koyama et al.   EUPHYTICA

High-throughput SNP genotyping of modern and wild emmer wheat for yield and root morphology using a combined association and linkage analysis

(2017) Stuart J. Lucas et al.   FUNCTIONAL & INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS

Genetic mapping reveals a dominant awn-inhibiting gene related to differentiation of the variety anathera in the wild diploid wheat Aegilops tauschii

(2017) Ryo Nishijima et al.   GENETICA

Wheat Landrace Genome Diversity

(2017) Luzie U. Wingen et al.   GENETICS

Phenotyping of field-grown wheat in the UK highlights contribution of light response of photosynthesis and flag leaf longevity to grain yield

(2017) Elizabete Carmo-Silva et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Development of a maize 55 K SNP array with improved genome coverage for molecular breeding

(2017) Cheng Xu et al.   MOLECULAR BREEDING

Exploiting the ZIP4 homologue within the wheat Ph1 locus has identified two lines exhibiting homoeologous crossover in wheat-wild relative hybrids

(2017) María-Dolores Rey et al.   MOLECULAR BREEDING

Genome sequence of the progenitor of the wheat D genome Aegilops tauschii

(2017) Ming-Cheng Luo et al.   NATURE

Slow induction of photosynthesis on shade to sun transitions in wheat may cost at least 21% of productivity

(2017) Samuel H. Taylor et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High-density genotyping of the A.E. Watkins Collection of hexaploid landraces identifies a large molecular diversity compared to elite bread wheat

(2017) Mark O. Winfield et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

The pangenome of hexaploid bread wheat

(2017) Juan D. Montenegro et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Reducing Stomatal Density in Barley Improves Drought Tolerance without Impacting on Yield

(2017) Jon Hughes et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Uncovering hidden variation in polyploid wheat

(2017) Ksenia V. Krasileva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wild emmer genome architecture and diversity elucidate wheat evolution and domestication

(2017) Raz Avni et al.   SCIENCE

Development and Evaluation of a Barley 50k iSelect SNP Array

(2017) Micha M. Bayer et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Wheat Landrace Genome Diversity

(2017) Luzie U. Wingen et al.   GENETICS

Mapping QTL for Root and Shoot Morphological Traits in a Durum Wheat × T. dicoccum Segregating Population at Seedling Stage

(2017) Anna Iannucci et al.   International Journal of Genomics

The Costs of Photorespiration to Food Production Now and in the Future

(2016) Berkley J. Walker et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Strategies for improving C 4 photosynthesis

(2016) Susanne von Caemmerer et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Leaf photosynthesis and associations with grain yield, biomass and nitrogen-use efficiency in landraces, synthetic-derived lines and cultivars in wheat

(2016) Oorbessy Gaju et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Rubisco catalytic properties of wild and domesticated relatives provide scope for improving wheat photosynthesis

(2016) Anneke Prins et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Photosynthetic response of tetraploid and hexaploid wheat to water stress

(2016) Y. P. Li et al.   PHOTOSYNTHETICA

A step change in the transfer of interspecific variation into wheat fromAmblyopyrum muticum

(2016) Julie King et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Characterization of a Wheat Breeders’ Array suitable for high-throughput SNP genotyping of global accessions of hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum)

(2016) Alexandra M. Allen et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Ancestral QTL alleles from wild emmer wheat improve grain yield, biomass and photosynthesis across enviroinments in modern wheat

(2016) Lianne Merchuk-Ovnat et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Improving photosynthesis and crop productivity by accelerating recovery from photoprotection

(2016) Johannes Kromdijk et al.   SCIENCE

Current warming will reduce yields unless maize breeding and seed systems adapt immediately

(2016) A. J. Challinor et al.   Nature Climate Change

Ancestral QTL Alleles from Wild Emmer Wheat Improve Drought Resistance and Productivity in Modern Wheat Cultivars

(2016) Lianne Merchuk-Ovnat et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Breeding Value of Primary Synthetic Wheat Genotypes for Grain Yield

(2016) Jafar Jafarzadeh et al.   PLoS One

Intraspecific lineage divergence and its association with reproductive trait change during species range expansion in central Eurasian wild wheat Aegilops tauschii Coss. (Poaceae)

(2015) Yoshihiro Matsuoka et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Root traits contributing to drought tolerance of synthetic hexaploid wheat in a greenhouse study

(2015) Steven R. Becker et al.   EUPHYTICA

Exploiting genetic diversity from landraces in wheat breeding for adaptation to climate change

(2015) Marta S. Lopes et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Genomics as the key to unlocking the polyploid potential of wheat

(2015) Philippa Borrill et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

High-density SNP genotyping array for hexaploid wheat and its secondary and tertiary gene pool

(2015) Mark O. Winfield et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Metabolic and transcriptomic signatures of rice floral organs reveal sugar starvation as a factor in reproductive failure under heat and drought stress

(2015) Xia Li et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

High-throughput phenotyping of seminal root traits in wheat

(2015) Cecile Richard et al.   Plant Methods

The vulnerability of US apple (Malus) genetic resources

(2014) Gayle M. Volk et al.   GENETIC RESOURCES AND CROP EVOLUTION

Natural variation in photosynthetic capacity, growth, and yield in 64 field-grown wheat genotypes

(2014) S. M. Driever et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Stomatal Size, Speed, and Responsiveness Impact on Photosynthesis and Water Use Efficiency

(2014) T. Lawson et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Dryland Wheat Domestication Changed the Development of Aboveground Architecture for a Well-Structured Canopy

(2014) Pu-Fang Li et al.   PLoS One

Establishing the A. E. Watkins landrace cultivar collection as a resource for systematic gene discovery in bread wheat

(2014) Luzie U. Wingen et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Synthetic hexaploid wheat enhances variation and adaptive evolution of bread wheat in breeding processes

(2014) Jun LI et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Flooding tolerance in interspecific introgression lines containing chromosome segments from teosinte (Zea nicaraguensis) in maize (Zea mays subsp. mays)

(2013) Y. Mano et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Draft genome of the wheat A-genome progenitor Triticum urartu

(2013) Hong-Qing Ling et al.   NATURE

A 4-gigabase physical map unlocks the structure and evolution of the complex genome of Aegilops tauschii, the wheat D-genome progenitor

(2013) M.-C. Luo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

QTL for root angle and number in a population developed from bread wheats (Triticum aestivum) with contrasting adaptation to water-limited environments

(2013) Jack Christopher et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Use of Wild Relatives and Closely Related Species to Adapt Common Bean to Climate Change

(2013) Timothy Porch et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Integrating C4 photosynthesis into C3 crops to increase yield potential

(2012) Sarah Covshoff et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Genome Evolution Due to Allopolyploidization in Wheat

(2012) M. Feldman et al.   GENETICS

Physiological basis of genetic variation in leaf photosynthesis among rice (Oryza sativa L.) introgression lines under drought and well-watered conditions

(2012) Junfei Gu et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Rubisco activity is associated with photosynthetic thermotolerance in a wild rice (Oryza meridionalis)

(2012) Andrew P. Scafaro et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Targeted re-sequencing of the allohexaploid wheat exome

(2012) Mark O. Winfield et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO2: An unappreciated central player in photosynthesis

(2012) Jaume Flexas et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Evolution and dispersal of emmer wheat (Triticum sp.) from novel haplotypes of Ppd-1 (photoperiod response) genes and their surrounding DNA sequences

(2012) Shotaro Takenaka et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Identification of a large deletion in the first intron of the Vrn-D1 locus, associated with loss of vernalization requirement in wild wheat progenitor Aegilops tauschii Coss.

(2011) Shigeo Takumi et al.   GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS

Extensive and Heritable Epigenetic Remodeling and Genetic Stability Accompany Allohexaploidization of Wheat

(2011) Na Zhao et al.   GENETICS

A genetic resource for early-morning flowering trait of wild rice Oryza officinalis to mitigate high temperature-induced spikelet sterility at anthesis

(2010) Tsutomu Ishimaru et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency for Greater Yield

(2010) Xin-Guang Zhu et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Molecular characterization of vernalization loci VRN1 in wild and cultivated wheats

(2010) Kseniya A Golovnina et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Variation in root system architecture and drought response in rice (Oryza sativa): Phenotyping of the OryzaSNP panel in rainfed lowland fields

(2010) Amelia Henry et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Genetic and Epigenetic Dynamics of a Retrotransposon After Allopolyploidization of Wheat

(2010) Z. Kraitshtein et al.   GENETICS

Genetic and genomic tools to improve drought tolerance in wheat

(2010) D. Fleury et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Raising yield potential of wheat. II. Increasing photosynthetic capacity and efficiency

(2010) M. A. J. Parry et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Shovelomics: high throughput phenotyping of maize (Zea mays L.) root architecture in the field

(2010) Samuel Trachsel et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Experimental and modelling studies of drought‐adaptive root architectural traits in wheat (Triticum aestivumL.)

(2010) A. M. Manschadi et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Frequency of photoperiod-insensitive Ppd-A1a alleles in tetraploid, hexaploid and synthetic hexaploid wheat germplasm

(2010) A. R. Bentley et al.   PLANT BREEDING

Winter and spring warming result in delayed spring phenology on the Tibetan Plateau

(2010) H. Yu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Variation for stomatal characteristics and water use efficiency among diploid, tetraploid and hexaploid Iranian wheat landraces

(2009) Hamid Khazaei et al.   GENETIC RESOURCES AND CROP EVOLUTION

Resistances along the CO2 diffusion pathway inside leaves

(2009) J. R. Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Raising yield potential in wheat

(2009) Matthew Reynolds et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Genomic dissection of drought resistance in durum wheat × wild emmer wheat recombinant inbreed line population

(2009) ZVI PELEG et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Drought and salt tolerances in wild relatives for wheat and barley improvement

(2009) EVIATAR NEVO et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Mechanisms of Floral Induction in Grasses: Something Borrowed, Something New

(2009) J. Colasanti et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Genomewide SNP variation reveals relationships among landraces and modern varieties of rice

(2009) K. L. McNally et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mining synthetic hexaploids for multiple disease resistance to improve bread wheat

(2008) F. C. Ogbonnaya et al.  

Use of synthetic hexaploid wheat to increase diversity for CIMMYT bread wheat improvement

(2008) S. Dreisigacker et al.  

Quantitative Trait Loci for Grain Yield and Adaptation of Durum Wheat ( Triticum durum Desf.) Across a Wide Range of Water Availability

(2008) Marco Maccaferri et al.   GENETICS

Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change

(2008) Cynthia Rosenzweig et al.   NATURE

Agriculture and the new challenges for photosynthesis research

(2008) E. H. Murchie et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Flowering Time Diversification and Dispersal in Central Eurasian Wild Wheat Aegilops tauschii Coss.: Genealogical and Ecological Framework

(2008) Yoshihiro Matsuoka et al.   PLoS One

Photoperiod insensitive Ppd-A1a mutations in tetraploid wheat (Triticum durum Desf.)

(2008) Edward P. Wilhelm et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS