… Tester and P. Longridge ("Breeding technologies to increase crop production in a changing
world," Reviews, 12 February 2010, p. 818) has emphasized the role of breeding in crop …

Tolerance to drought is a quantitative trait, with a complex phenotype, often confounded by
plant phenology. Breeding for drought tolerance is further complicated since several types of …

Elite cultivated crop gene pools of the Triticeae tribe (wheat, barley and rye) exhibit limited
genetic diversity, raising concerns about our ability to increase or simply sustain crop yield …

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is among the world's earliest domesticated and most important
crop plants. It is diploid with a large haploid genome of 5.1 gigabases (Gb). Here we present …

… Numbers inside the rectangles indicate −log 10 -transformed P values. … A P value threshold
of 10 −9 was used during the pairwise assembly, 10 −10 for extension and refinement steps …

Advances in genomics have expedited the improvement of several agriculturally important
crops but similar efforts in wheat (Triticum spp.) have been more challenging. This is largely …

Genetic diversity is key to crop improvement. Owing to pervasive genomic structural variation,
a single reference genome assembly cannot capture the full complement of sequence …

We must mine the biodiversity in seed banks to help to overcome food shortages, urge
Susan McCouch and colleagues.

There is a need for a standardized approach to international and regional comparisons of the
prevalence and severity of asthma, and for the monitoring of asthma morbidity over time. In …

During the last decade microsatellites or SSRs (simple sequence repeats) have been proven
to be the markers of choice in plant genetics research and for breeding purposes because …