Search Results - "Theoretical and applied genetics"

Enhancing the rate of genetic gain in public-sector plant breeding programs: lessons from the breeder’s equation by Cobb, Joshua N., Juma, Roselyne U., Biswas, Partha S., Arbelaez, Juan D., Rutkoski, Jessica, Atlin, Gary, Hagen, Tom, Quinn, Michael, Ng, Eng Hwa

“…Key message The integration of new technologies into public plant breeding programs can make a powerful step change in agricultural productivity when aligned…”
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Doubled haploid technology for line development in maize: technical advances and prospects by Chaikam, Vijay, Molenaar, Willem, Melchinger, Albrecht E., Boddupalli, Prasanna M.

“…Key Message Increased efficiencies achieved in different steps of DH line production offer greater benefits to maize breeding programs. Doubled haploid (DH)…”
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Accelerating crop genetic gains with genomic selection by Voss-Fels, Kai Peter, Cooper, Mark, Hayes, Ben John

“…Key message Genomic prediction based on additive genetic effects can accelerate genetic gain. There are opportunities for further improvement by including…”
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Development and validation of KASP assays for genes underpinning key economic traits in bread wheat by Rasheed, Awais, Wen, Weie, Gao, Fengmei, Zhai, Shengnan, Jin, Hui, Liu, Jindong, Guo, Qi, Zhang, Yingjun, Dreisigacker, Susanne, Xia, Xianchun, He, Zhonghu

“…Key message We developed and validated a robust marker toolkit for high-throughput and cost-effective screening of a large number of functional genes in wheat…”
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Beat the stress: breeding for climate resilience in maize for the tropical rainfed environments by Prasanna, Boddupalli M., Cairns, Jill E., Zaidi, P. H., Beyene, Yoseph, Makumbi, Dan, Gowda, Manje, Magorokosho, Cosmos, Zaman-Allah, Mainassara, Olsen, Mike, Das, Aparna, Worku, Mosisa, Gethi, James, Vivek, B. S., Nair, Sudha K., Rashid, Zerka, Vinayan, M. T., Issa, AbduRahman Beshir, San Vicente, Felix, Dhliwayo, Thanda, Zhang, Xuecai

“…Key message Intensive public sector breeding efforts and public-private partnerships have led to the increase in genetic gains, and deployment of elite…”
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Wheat root systems as a breeding target for climate resilience by Ober, Eric S., Alahmad, Samir, Cockram, James, Forestan, Cristian, Hickey, Lee T., Kant, Josefine, Maccaferri, Marco, Marr, Emily, Milner, Matthew, Pinto, Francisco, Rambla, Charlotte, Reynolds, Matthew, Salvi, Silvio, Sciara, Giuseppe, Snowdon, Rod J., Thomelin, Pauline, Tuberosa, Roberto, Uauy, Cristobal, Voss-Fels, Kai P., Wallington, Emma, Watt, Michelle

“…In the coming decades, larger genetic gains in yield will be necessary to meet projected demand, and this must be achieved despite the destabilizing impacts of…”
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Advances in understanding salt tolerance in rice by Ganie, Showkat Ahmad, Molla, Kutubuddin Ali, Henry, Robert J., Bhat, K. V., Mondal, Tapan Kumar

“…Key message This review presents a comprehensive overview of the recent research on rice salt tolerance in the areas of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and…”
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Genetic architecture underpinning yield component traits in wheat by Cao, Shuanghe, Xu, Dengan, Hanif, Mamoona, Xia, Xianchun, He, Zhonghu

“…Key message Genetic atlas, reliable QTL and candidate genes of yield component traits in wheat were figured out, laying concrete foundations for map-based gene…”
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Salt tolerance in rice: seedling and reproductive stage QTL mapping come of age by Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Kota, Suneetha, Flowers, Timothy J.

“…Key message Reproductive stage salinity tolerance is most critical for rice as it determines the yield under stress. Few studies have been undertaken for this…”
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Identification and characterization of a new stripe rust resistance gene Yr83 on rye chromosome 6R in wheat by Li, Jianbo, Dundas, Ian, Dong, Chongmei, Li, Guangrong, Trethowan, Richard, Yang, Zujun, Hoxha, Sami, Zhang, Peng

“…Key message A physical map of Secale cereale chromosome 6R was constructed using deletion mapping, and a new stripe rust resistance gene Yr83 was mapped to the…”
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Crop adaptation to climate change as a consequence of long-term breeding by Snowdon, Rod J., Wittkop, Benjamin, Chen, Tsu-Wei, Stahl, Andreas

“…Major global crops in high-yielding, temperate cropping regions are facing increasing threats from the impact of climate change, particularly from drought and…”
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Large-scale integration of meta-QTL and genome-wide association study discovers the genomic regions and candidate genes for yield and yield-related traits in bread wheat by Yang, Yang, Amo, Aduragbemi, Wei, Di, Chai, Yongmao, Zheng, Jie, Qiao, Pengfang, Cui, Chunge, Lu, Shan, Chen, Liang, Hu, Yin-Gang

“…Key message Based on the large-scale integration of meta-QTL and Genome-Wide  Association Study, 76 high-confidence MQTL regions and 237 candidate genes that…”
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Meta-QTLs, ortho-meta-QTLs and candidate genes for grain yield and associated traits in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by Saini, Dinesh Kumar, Srivastava, Puja, Pal, Neeraj, Gupta, P. K.

“…Key message In wheat, 2852 major QTLs of 8998 QTLs available for yield and related traits were used for meta-analysis; 141 meta-QTLs were identified, which…”
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Germplasms, genetics and genomics for better control of disastrous wheat Fusarium head blight by Ma, Zhengqiang, Xie, Quan, Li, Guoqiang, Jia, Haiyan, Zhou, Jiyang, Kong, Zhongxin, Li, Na, Yuan, Yang

“…Fusarium head blight (FHB), or scab, for its devastating nature to wheat production and food security, has stimulated worldwide attention. Multidisciplinary…”
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Identification of a candidate gene for a QTL for spikelet number per spike on wheat chromosome arm 7AL by high-resolution genetic mapping by Kuzay, Saarah, Xu, Yunfeng, Zhang, Junli, Katz, Andrew, Pearce, Stephen, Su, Zhenqi, Fraser, Max, Anderson, James A., Brown-Guedira, Gina, DeWitt, Noah, Peters Haugrud, Amanda, Faris, Justin D., Akhunov, Eduard, Bai, Guihua, Dubcovsky, Jorge

“…Key message A high-resolution genetic map combined with haplotype analyses identified a wheat ortholog of rice gene APO1 as the best candidate gene for a 7AL…”
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Biofortification and bioavailability of Zn, Fe and Se in wheat: present status and future prospects by Gupta, P. K., Balyan, H. S., Sharma, Shailendra, Kumar, Rahul

“…Key message Knowledge of genetic variation, genetics, physiology/molecular basis and breeding (including biotechnological approaches) for biofortification and…”
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Genetics of yield, abiotic stress tolerance and biofortification in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by Gupta, Pushpendra Kumar, Balyan, Harindra Singh, Sharma, Shailendra, Kumar, Rahul

“…Key message A review of the available literature on genetics of yield and its component traits, tolerance to abiotic stresses and biofortification should prove…”
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Toward the sequence-based breeding in legumes in the post-genome sequencing era by Varshney, Rajeev K., Pandey, Manish K., Bohra, Abhishek, Singh, Vikas K., Thudi, Mahendar, Saxena, Rachit K.

“…Efficiency of breeding programs of legume crops such as chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut has been considerably improved over the past decade through…”
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Genetic architecture of fruit size and shape variation in cucurbits: a comparative perspective by Pan, Yupeng, Wang, Yuhui, McGregor, Cecilia, Liu, Shi, Luan, Feishi, Gao, Meiling, Weng, Yiqun

“…The Cucurbitaceae family hosts many economically important fruit vegetables (cucurbits) such as cucumber, melon, watermelon, pumpkin/squash, and various…”
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Enviromics in breeding: applications and perspectives on envirotypic-assisted selection by Resende, Rafael T., Piepho, Hans-Peter, Rosa, Guilherme J. M., Silva-Junior, Orzenil B., e Silva, Fabyano F., de Resende, Marcos Deon V., Grattapaglia, Dario

“…Key message We propose the application of enviromics to breeding practice, by which the similarity among sites assessed on an “omics” scale of environmental…”
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