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Variation in the interaction between alleles of HvAPETALA2 and microRNA172 determines the density of grains on the barley inflorescence by Houston, Kelly, McKim, Sarah M., Comadran, Jordi, Bonar, Nicola, Druka, Ilze, Uzrek, Nicola, Cirillo, Elisa, Guzy-Wrobelska, Justyna, Collins, Nicholas C., Halpin, Claire, Hansson, Mats, Dockter, Christoph, Druka, Arnis, Waugh, Robbie

“…Within the cereal grasses, variation in inflorescence architecture results in a conspicuous morphological diversity that in crop species influences the yield…”
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Boron-Toxicity Tolerance in Barley Arising from Efflux Transporter Amplification by Sutton, Tim, Baumann, Ute, Hayes, Julie, Collins, Nicholas C., Shi, Bu-Jun, Schnurbusch, Thorsten, Hay, Alison, Mayo, Gwenda, Pallotta, Margaret, Tester, Mark, Langridge, Peter

“…Both limiting and toxic soil concentrations of the essential micronutrient boron represent major limitations to crop production worldwide. We identified Bot1,…”
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The WtmsDW Locus on Wheat Chromosome 2B Controls Major Natural Variation for Floret Sterility Responses to Heat Stress at Booting Stage by Erena, Million F, Lohraseb, Iman, Munoz-Santa, Isabel, Taylor, Julian D, Emebiri, Livinus C, Collins, Nicholas C

“…Heat stress at booting stage causes significant losses to floret fertility (grain set) and hence yield in wheat ( L.); however, there is a lack of…”
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The CC-NB-LRR-type Rdg2a resistance gene confers immunity to the seed-borne barley leaf stripe pathogen in the absence of hypersensitive cell death by Bulgarelli, Davide, Biselli, Chiara, Collins, Nicholas C, Consonni, Gabriella, Stanca, Antonio M, Schulze-Lefert, Paul, Valè, Giampiero

“…Leaf stripe disease on barley (Hordeum vulgare) is caused by the seed-transmitted hemi-biotrophic fungus Pyrenophora graminea. Race-specific resistance to leaf…”
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HvNax3—a locus controlling shoot sodium exclusion derived from wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum) by Shavrukov, Yuri, Gupta, Narendra K, Miyazaki, Junji, Baho, Manahil N, Chalmers, Kenneth J, Tester, Mark, Langridge, Peter, Collins, Nicholas C

“…Previous work identified the wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum) accession CPI-71284-48 as being capable of limiting sodium (Na⁺) accumulation in the…”
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HVP10 encoding V-PPase is a prime candidate for the barley HvNax3 sodium exclusion gene: evidence from fine mapping and expression analysis by Shavrukov, Yuri, Bovill, Jessica, Afzal, Irfan, Hayes, Julie E., Roy, Stuart J., Tester, Mark, Collins, Nicholas C.

“…In cereals, a common salinity tolerance mechanism is to limit accumulation of Na⁺ in the shoot. In a cross between the barley variety Barque-73 (Hordeum…”
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The Barley MLO Modulator of Defense and Cell Death Is Responsive to Biotic and Abiotic Stress Stimuli by Pietro Piffanelli, Zhou, Fasong, Casais, Catarina, James Orme, Birgit Jarosch, Ulrich Schaffrath, Collins, Nicholas C., Panstruga, Ralph, Schulze-Lefert, Paul

“…Lack of the barley (Hordeum vulgare) seven-transmembrane domain MLO protein confers resistance against the fungal pathogen Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei…”
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Quantitative Trait Loci and Crop Performance under Abiotic Stress: Where Do We Stand? by Collins, Nicholas C., Tardieu, François, Tuberosa, Roberto

“…The improvement of crop yield has been possible through the indirect manipulation of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that control heritable variability of the…”
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Flt-2L, a locus in barley controlling flowering time, spike density, and plant height by Chen, Andrew, Baumann, Ute, Fincher, Geoffrey B, Collins, Nicholas C

“…Flowering time represents an important adaptive trait for temperate cereal crops and may also impact on frost damage in cereal reproductive tissues by enabling…”
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Fine mapping and targeted SNP survey using rice-wheat gene colinearity in the region of the Bo1 boron toxicity tolerance locus of bread wheat by Schnurbusch, Thorsten, Collins, Nicholas C, Eastwood, Russell F, Sutton, Tim, Jefferies, Steven P, Langridge, Peter

“…Toxicity due to high levels of soil boron (B) represents a significant limitation to cereal production in some regions, and the Bo1 gene provides a major…”
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Modelling and genetic dissection of staygreen under heat stress by Pinto, R. Suzuky, Lopes, Marta S., Collins, Nicholas C., Reynolds, Matthew P.

“…Key message Staygreen traits are associated with heat tolerance in bread wheat. QTL for staygreen and related traits were identified across the genome…”
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RAR1, ROR1, and the actin cytoskeleton contribute to basal resistance to Magnaporthe grisea in barley by Jarosch, B, Collins, N.C, Zellerhoff, N, Schaffrath, U

“…The fungus Magnaporthe grisea, the causal agent of rice blast disease, is a major pathogen of rice and is capable of producing epidemics on other cultivated…”
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Fine mapping of root lesion nematode (Pratylenchus thornei) resistance loci on chromosomes 6D and 2B of wheat by Rahman, Muhammad Shefatur, Linsell, Katherine J., Taylor, Julian D., Hayden, Matthew J., Collins, Nicholas C., Oldach, Klaus H.

“…Key message Resistance QTL to root lesion nematode ( Pratylenchus thornei ) in wheat ( Triticum aestivum ), QRlnt.sk-6D and QRlnt.sk-2B , were mapped to…”
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A QTL on the short arm of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) chromosome 3B affects the stability of grain weight in plants exposed to a brief heat shock early in grain filling by Shirdelmoghanloo, Hamid, Taylor, Julian D, Lohraseb, Iman, Rabie, Huwaida, Brien, Chris, Timmins, Andy, Martin, Peter, Mather, Diane E, Emebiri, Livinus, Collins, Nicholas C

“…Molecular markers and knowledge of traits associated with heat tolerance are likely to provide breeders with a more efficient means of selecting wheat…”
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Effects of Encounters with Fish on Activity of Sedentary Benthic Invertebrates by Duggal, Tarini, Baker, Robert L., Collins, Nicholas C.

“…Most experiments on effects of anti-predator behaviours use small enclosures and study behaviour and development of prey in the constant and immediate presence…”
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SNARE-protein-mediated disease resistance at the plant cell wall by Schulze-Lefert, Paul, Collins, Nicholas C, Thordal-Christensen, Hans, Lipka, Volker, Bau, Stephan, Kombrink, Erich, Qiu, Jin-Long, Hückelhoven, Ralph, Stein, Mónica, Freialdenhoven, Andreas, Somerville, Shauna C

“…Failure of pathogenic fungi to breach the plant cell wall constitutes a major component of immunity of non-host plant species-species outside the pathogen host…”
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Diverging temperature responses of CO2 assimilation and plant development explain the overall effect of temperature on biomass accumulation in wheat leaves and grains by Lohraseb, Iman, Collins, Nicholas C., Parent, Boris

“…Under rising temperature, the rate of any developmental process increased with temperature more rapidly than that of CO2 assimilation. We found that this…”
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Population dynamics of smallmouth bass in response to habitat supply by Chu, Cindy, Collins, Nicholas C., Lester, Nigel P., Shuter, Brian J.

“…We have developed an age-structured, spatially explicit model to estimate smallmouth bass ( Micropterus dolomieu) population dynamics from the readily…”
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Lazy males? Bioenergetic differences in energy acquisition and metabolism help to explain sexual size dimorphism in percids by Rennie, Michael D., Purchase, Craig F., Lester, Nigel, Collins, Nicholas C., Shuter, Brian J., Abrams, Peter A.

“…1. Differences in energy use between genders is a probable mechanism underlying sexual size dimorphism (SSD), but testing this hypothesis in the field has…”
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Fine mapping and chromosome walking towards the Ror1 locus in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) by Acevedo-Garcia, Johanna, Collins, Nicholas C, Ahmadinejad, Nahal, Ma, Lu, Houben, Andreas, Bednarek, Pawel, Benjdia, Mariam, Freialdenhoven, Andreas, Altmüller, Janine, Nürnberg, Peter, Reinhardt, Richard, Schulze-Lefert, Paul, Panstruga, Ralph

“…KEY MESSAGE : The Ror1 gene was fine-mapped to the pericentric region of barley chromosome 1HL. Recessively inherited loss-of-function alleles of the barley…”
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