Domesticated crops experience strong human-mediated selection aimed at developing high-yielding
varieties adapted to local conditions. To detect regions of the wheat genome …

High‐density single nucleotide polymorphism ( SNP ) genotyping arrays are a powerful tool
for studying genomic patterns of diversity, inferring ancestral relationships between …

Introgression is a potential source of beneficial genetic diversity. The contribution of
introgression to adaptive evolution and improvement of wheat as it was disseminated worldwide …

Background A genome-wide assessment of nucleotide diversity in a polyploid species must
minimize the inclusion of homoeologous sequences into diversity estimates and reliably …

The CRISPR-Cas9-based multiplexed gene editing (MGE) provides a powerful method to
modify multiple genomic regions simultaneously controlling different agronomic traits in crops. …

Chemical mutagenesis efficiently generates phenotypic variation in otherwise homogeneous
genetic backgrounds, enabling functional analysis of genes. Advances in mutation …

Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) causes wheat stem rust, a devastating fungal disease.
The Sr35 resistance gene confers immunity against this pathogen’s most virulent races, …

Bacterial spot disease of pepper and tomato is caused by four distinct Xanthomonas species
and is a severely limiting factor on fruit yield in these crops. The genetic diversity and the …

Key message CRISPR-Cas9-based genome editing and EMS mutagenesis revealed inter-cultivar
differences and additivity in the contribution of TaGW2 homoeologues to grain size …

Background Interaction between parental genomes is accompanied by global changes in
gene expression which, eventually, contributes to growth vigor and the broader phenotypic …