Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops

A route to de novo domestication of wild allotetraploid rice

(2021) Hong Yu et al.   CELL

OryzaGenome2.1: Database of Diverse Genotypes in Wild Oryza Species

(2021) Hiromi Kajiya-Kanegae et al.   Rice

Addressing Research Bottlenecks to Crop Productivity

(2021) Matthew Reynolds et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Recurrent genomic selection for wheat grain fructans

(2020) Lynn D. Veenstra et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Optimized breeding strategies to harness genetic resources with different performance levels

(2020) Antoine Allier et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Screening of 19,460 genotypes of wheat species for resistance to powdery mildew and identification of potential candidate using FIGS approach

(2020) V. K. Vikas et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Combining focused identification of germplasm and core collection strategies to identify genebank accessions for central European soybean breeding

(2020) Max Haupt et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Origin Specific Genomic Selection: A Simple Process To Optimize the Favorable Contribution of Parents to Progeny

(2020) Chin Jian Yang et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

The draft genome sequence of an upland wild rice species, Oryza granulata

(2020) Cong Shi et al.   Scientific Data

Pan-Genome of Wild and Cultivated Soybeans

(2020) Yucheng Liu et al.   CELL

A chromosome-level genome assembly of the wild rice Oryza rufipogon facilitates tracing the origins of Asian cultivated rice

(2020) Xianrong Xie et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

New Food Crop Domestication in the Age of Gene Editing: Genetic, Agronomic and Cultural Change Remain Co-evolutionarily Entangled

(2020) David L. Van Tassel et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

A global resource for exploring and exploiting genetic variation in sorghum crop wild relatives

(2020) Emma S. Mace et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Applications of CRISPR–Cas in agriculture and plant biotechnology

(2020) Haocheng Zhu et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Diversity analysis of 80,000 wheat accessions reveals consequences and opportunities of selection footprints

(2020) Carolina Sansaloni et al.   Nature Communications

Document or Lose It—On the Importance of Information Management for Genetic Resources Conservation in Genebanks

(2020) Stephan Weise et al.   Plants-Basel

The Potential of Payment for Ecosystem Services for Crop Wild Relative Conservation

(2020) Nicholas Tyack et al.   Plants-Basel

Crop Science special issue: Adapting agriculture to climate change: A walk on the wild side

(2020) Benjamin Kilian et al.   CROP SCIENCE

The barley pan-genome reveals the hidden legacy of mutation breeding

(2020) Murukarthick Jayakodi et al.   NATURE

Genome of Solanum pimpinellifolium provides insights into structural variants during tomato breeding

(2020) Xin Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS): polishing a rough diamond

(2020) Johan A Stenberg et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Multiple Near-Isogenic Lines Targeting a QTL Hotspot of Drought Tolerance Showed Contrasting Performance Under Post-anthesis Water Stress

(2019) Md Sultan Mia et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

A reference-grade wild soybean genome

(2019) Min Xie et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2019) Sanu Arora et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Multi-Parental Advances Generation Inter-Cross Population, to Develop Organic Tomato Genotypes by Participatory Plant Breeding

(2019) Gabriele Campanelli et al.   Agronomy-Basel

De Novo Domestication: An Alternative Route toward New Crops for the Future

(2019) Alisdair R. Fernie et al.   Molecular Plant

Resequencing of 429 chickpea accessions from 45 countries provides insights into genome diversity, domestication and agronomic traits

(2019) Rajeev K. Varshney et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The tomato pan-genome uncovers new genes and a rare allele regulating fruit flavor

(2019) Lei Gao et al.   NATURE GENETICS

A New Rice Breeding Method: CRISPR /Cas9 System Editing of the Xa13 Promoter to Cultivate Transgene‐free Bacterial Blight‐resistant Rice

(2019) Changyan Li et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

The draft genome of a wild barley genotype reveals its enrichment in genes related to biotic and abiotic stresses compared to cultivated barley

(2019) Miao Liu et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Balanced Options for Access and Benefit-Sharing: Stakeholder Insights on Provider Country Legislation

(2019) Aysegul Sirakaya   Frontiers in Plant Science

Evaluation of a global spring wheat panel for stripe rust: Resistance loci validation and novel resources identification

(2019) Ibrahim S. Elbasyoni et al.   PLoS One

Super-Pangenome by Integrating the Wild Side of a Species for Accelerated Crop Improvement

(2019) Aamir W. Khan et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The de Novo Reference Genome and Transcriptome Assemblies of the Wild Tomato Species Solanum chilense Highlights Birth and Death of NLR Genes Between Tomato Species

(2019) Remco Stam et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Genotyping-by-sequencing and multilocation evaluation of two interspecific backcross populations identify QTLs for yield-related traits in pigeonpea

(2019) Rachit K. Saxena et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Genomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives highlight genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza

(2018) Joshua C. Stein et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Pan-genome analysis highlights the extent of genomic variation in cultivated and wild rice

(2018) Qiang Zhao et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genetic imprints of domestication for disease resistance, oil quality, and yield component traits in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)

(2018) Pawan Khera et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

De novo domestication of wild tomato using genome editing

(2018) Agustin Zsögön et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Development and use of chromosome segment substitution lines as a genetic resource for crop improvement

(2018) Divya Balakrishnan et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Accelerating crop genetic gains with genomic selection

(2018) Kai Peter Voss-Fels et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

The Genome Sequence of the Wild Tomato Solanum pimpinellifolium Provides Insights Into Salinity Tolerance

(2018) Rozaimi Razali et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

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

(2017) Ming-Cheng Luo et al.   NATURE

Whole-genome resequencing of 292 pigeonpea accessions identifies genomic regions associated with domestication and agronomic traits

(2017) Rajeev K Varshney et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Sequencing of Australian wild rice genomes reveals ancestral relationships with domesticated rice

(2017) Marta Brozynska et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

De Novo Assembly of a NewSolanum pennelliiAccession Using Nanopore Sequencing

(2017) Maximilian H.-W. Schmidt et al.   PLANT CELL

The pangenome of hexaploid bread wheat

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

Genome editing as a tool to achieve the crop ideotype and de novo domestication of wild relatives: Case study in tomato

(2017) Agustin Zsögön et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Unleashing meiotic crossovers in hybrid plants

(2017) Joiselle Blanche Fernandes 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

QTL analysis of cotton fiber length in advanced backcross populations derived from a cross between Gossypium hirsutum and G. mustelinum

(2017) Baohua Wang et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Emerging Avenues for Utilization of Exotic Germplasm

(2017) Cuiling Wang et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Genomic Selection in Plant Breeding: Methods, Models, and Perspectives

(2017) José Crossa et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Amplifying recombination genome-wide and reshaping crossover landscapes in Brassicas

(2017) Alexandre Pelé et al.   PLoS Genetics

Initiating maize pre-breeding programs using genomic selection to harness polygenic variation from landrace populations

(2016) Gregor Gorjanc et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A Pipeline Strategy for Grain Crop Domestication

(2016) Lee R. DeHaan et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Development and Genetic Characterization of an Advanced Backcross-Nested Association Mapping (AB-NAM) Population of Wild x Cultivated Barley

(2016) L. M. Nice et al.   GENETICS

Rapid cloning of disease-resistance genes in plants using mutagenesis and sequence capture

(2016) Burkhard Steuernagel et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Accelerated cloning of a potato late blight–resistance gene using RenSeq and SMRT sequencing

(2016) Kamil Witek et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

EURISCO: The European search catalogue for plant genetic resources

(2016) Stephan Weise et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in hybrid breeding in field crops

(2016) Abhishek Bohra et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

The pangenome of an agronomically important crop plant Brassica oleracea

(2016) Agnieszka A. Golicz et al.   Nature Communications

Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [ Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance

(2015) Colin K. Khoury et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Perspectives for Genomic Selection Applications and Research in Plants

(2015) Nicolas Heslot et al.   CROP SCIENCE

The effect of temperature on the male and female recombination landscape of barley

(2015) Dylan Phillips et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Genomics of crop wild relatives: expanding the gene pool for crop improvement

(2015) Marta Brozynska et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Back to the wilds: Tapping evolutionary adaptations for resilient crops through systematic hybridization with crop wild relatives

(2014) Emily Warschefsky et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The Reflective Plant Breeding Paradigm: A Robust System of Germplasm Development to Support Strategic Diversification of Agroecosystems

(2014) Bryan C. Runck et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Predicting resistance to stripe (yellow) rust (Puccinia striiformis) in wheat genetic resources using focused identification of germplasm strategy

(2014) A. BARI et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

De novo assembly of soybean wild relatives for pan-genome analysis of diversity and agronomic traits

(2014) Ying-hui Li et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The genome of the stress-tolerant wild tomato species Solanum pennellii

(2014) Anthony Bolger et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The genome sequence of African rice (Oryza glaberrima) and evidence for independent domestication

(2014) Muhua Wang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Plant domestication versus crop evolution: a conceptual framework for cereals and grain legumes

(2014) Shahal Abbo et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Draft genome of the wheat A-genome progenitor Triticum urartu

(2013) Hong-Qing Ling et al.   NATURE

Arabidopsis meiotic crossover hot spots overlap with H2A.Z nucleosomes at gene promoters

(2013) Kyuha Choi et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Resistance gene enrichment sequencing (RenSeq) enables reannotation of the NB-LRR gene family from sequenced plant genomes and rapid mapping of resistance loci in segregating populations

(2013) Florian Jupe et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Constraints on breeding for disease resistance in commercially competitive wheat cultivars

(2013) R. W. Summers et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

The FIGS (Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy) Approach Identifies Traits Related to Drought Adaptation in Vicia faba Genetic Resources

(2013) Hamid Khazaei et al.   PLoS One

Simultaneous transfer, introgression, and genomic localization of genes for resistance to stem rust race TTKSK (Ug99) from Aegilops tauschii to wheat

(2013) Eric L. Olson et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Whole-genome sequencing of Oryza brachyantha reveals mechanisms underlying Oryza genome evolution

(2013) Jinfeng Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Intraspecific variation of recombination rate in maize

(2013) Eva Bauer et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Sustainable plant breeding

(2012) Wallace A. Cowling   PLANT BREEDING

Crop Wild Relatives—Undervalued, Underutilized and under Threat?

(2011) Brian V. Ford-Lloyd et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Predictive Association between Biotic Stress Traits and Eco-Geographic Data for Wheat and Barley Landraces

(2011) Dag Terje Filip Endresen et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Focused identification of germplasm strategy (FIGS) detects wheat stem rust resistance linked to environmental variables

(2011) Abdallah Bari et al.   GENETIC RESOURCES AND CROP EVOLUTION

Advanced backcross QTL mapping of resistance to Fusarium head blight and plant morphological traits in a Triticum macha × T. aestivum population

(2011) Maria Buerstmayr et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Accessing genetic diversity for crop improvement

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

Sources of resistance in bread wheat to Russian wheat aphid (Diuraphis noxia) in Syria identified using the Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS)

(2010) M. El Bouhssini et al.   PLANT BREEDING

Crossovers Get a Boost in Brassica Allotriploid and Allotetraploid Hybrids

(2010) M. Leflon et al.   PLANT CELL

Breeding Technologies to Increase Crop Production in a Changing World

(2010) M. Tester et al.   SCIENCE

Unlocking wheat genetic resources for the molecular identification of previously undescribed functional alleles at the Pm3 resistance locus

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