Harnessing genetic resources and progress in plant genomics for fonio (Digitaria spp.) improvement

High selfing rate inferred for white fonio [Digitaria exilis (Kippist.) Stapf] reproductive system opens up opportunities for breeding programs

(2017) Adeline Barnaud et al.   GENETIC RESOURCES AND CROP EVOLUTION

Genetic and Genomic Resources of Small Millets

(2016) Dipnarayan Saha et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES

A large set of 26 new reference transcriptomes dedicated to comparative population genomics in crops and wild relatives

(2016) Gautier Sarah et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Pigeonpea breeding in eastern and southern Africa: challenges and opportunities

(2016) Seleman R. Kaoneka et al.   PLANT BREEDING

Crop Diversity: An Unexploited Treasure Trove for Food Security

(2016) Festo Massawe et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Are We on the Right Track: Can Our Understanding of Abscission in Model Systems Promote or Derail Making Improvements in Less Studied Crops?

(2016) Sara E. Patterson et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Somaclonal variations and their applications in horticultural crops improvement

(2016) Hare Krishna et al.   3 Biotech

Somaclonal variations and their applications in horticultural crops improvement

(2016) Hare Krishna et al.   3 Biotech

TaGS5-3A,a grain size gene selected during wheat improvement for larger kernel and yield

(2015) Lin Ma et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Indigenous Knowledge on Landraces and Fonio-Based Food in Benin

(2014) Vénérande Y. Ballogou et al.   ECOLOGY OF FOOD AND NUTRITION

Transcript suppression of TaGW2 increased grain width and weight in bread wheat

(2014) Yantao Hong et al.   FUNCTIONAL & INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS

Cost-effective enrichment hybridization capture of chloroplast genomes at deep multiplexing levels for population genetics and phylogeography studies

(2014) Cédric Mariac et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

New Approach to Increasing Rice Lodging Resistance and Biomass Yield Through the Use of High Gibberellin Producing Varieties

(2014) Ayako Okuno et al.   PLoS One

Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies

(2014) G. Larson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS), an ultimate marker-assisted selection (MAS) tool to accelerate plant breeding

(2014) Jiangfeng He et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Agrobiodiversity for food security, health and income

(2013) Rémi Kahane et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

MutMap+: Genetic Mapping and Mutant Identification without Crossing in Rice

(2013) Rym Fekih et al.   PLoS One

Development of nuclear microsatellite markers for the fonio, Digitaria exilis (Poaceae), an understudied West African cereal

(2012) Adeline Barnaud et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Applications of next-generation sequencing in plant biology

(2012) Ashley N. Egan et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Fonio (Digitaria exilis) landraces in Mali: Nutrient and phytate content, genetic diversity and effect of processing

(2012) Yara Koreissi-Dembélé et al.   JOURNAL OF FOOD COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS

Parallel domestication of the Shattering1 genes in cereals

(2012) Zhongwei Lin et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Competitive underutilized crops will depend on the state funding of breeding programmes: an opinion on the example of Europe

(2012) Peter Stamp et al.   PLANT BREEDING

Vernacular names for African millets and other minor cereals and their significance for agricultural history

(2012) Roger M. Blench   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Plant Genetics, Sustainable Agriculture and Global Food Security

(2011) Pamela Ronald   GENETICS

Developments on the cereal grains Digitaria exilis (acha) and Digitaria iburua (iburu)

(2011) I. A. Jideani et al.   JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-MYSORE

Natural variation in GS5 plays an important role in regulating grain size and yield in rice

(2011) Yibo Li et al.   NATURE GENETICS

A Robust, Simple Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) Approach for High Diversity Species

(2011) Robert J. Elshire et al.   PLoS One

A Set of 100 Chloroplast DNA Primer Pairs to Study Population Genetics and Phylogeny in Monocotyledons

(2011) Nora Scarcelli et al.   PLoS One

Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

(2011) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Relationship, evolutionary fate and function of two maize co-orthologs of rice GW2 associated with kernel size and weight

(2010) Qing Li et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Accessing genetic diversity for crop improvement

(2010) JC Glaszmann et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Diversity, conservation and related wild species of Fonio millet (Digitaria spp.) in the northwest of Benin

(2010) A. Dansi et al.   GENETIC RESOURCES AND CROP EVOLUTION

iTILLING: A Personalized Approach to the Identification of Induced Mutations in Arabidopsis

(2010) Susan M. Bush et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Plant regeneration from stem segment-derived friable callus of “Fonio” (Digitaria exilis (L.) Stapf.)

(2010) Valentine O. Ntui et al.   SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE

Identification and development of a functional marker of TaGW2 associated with grain weight in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

(2010) Zhenqi Su et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Reproductive System and Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships of Fonio Millets (Digitaria spp., Poaceae) with Some Polyploid Wild Relatives

(2010) Hubert Adoukonou-Sagbadja et al.   Tropical Plant Biology

FONIO MILLET ( DIGITARIA EXILIS) RESPONSE TO N, P AND K FERTILIZERS UNDER VARYING CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN WEST AFRICA

(2009) J. GIGOU et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AGRICULTURE

Next-generation sequencing technologies and their implications for crop genetics and breeding

(2009) Rajeev K. Varshney et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Isolation and characterization of dominant dwarf mutants, Slr1-d, in rice

(2008) Kenji Asano et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

The impact of next-generation sequencing technology on genetics

(2008) Elaine R. Mardis   TRENDS IN GENETICS