Wheat
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Markers for Sr25
Contributed by Long-Xi Yu and Mark Sorrells The co-dominant marker, BF145935 derived from a wheat EST (Ayala-Navarrete et al. 2007) and the dominant marker, Gb were used for haplotyping Sr25 (Yu et al., 2010). Liu et al. (2009) validated marker BF145935 using 42 wheat lines and indicated that two DNA fragments amplified in most lines. The upper band of Wheatear was smaller than that of non ...
Markers for Sr22
Contributed by Long-Xi Yu and Mark Sorrells Sr22 was previously mapped on the long arm of chromosome 7A (Khan et al., 2005). Three linked markers, cfa2019, cfa2123 and BARC121 (Miranda et al., 2007), were used for haplotyping this locus in our study (Yu et al. 2010).
Wheat Rusts: An Atlas of Resistance Genes
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative is pleased to offer for download Wheat Rusts: An Atlas of Resistance Genes by Robert McIntosh, Colin Wellings, and Robert Park.
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How to Hand Pollinate Wheat
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Review of wheat breeding in Punjab-Pakistan
Wheat is the food security pillar of Pakistan. Current annual production is 21.8 million tones with average yield 2560 kg ha-1. Wheat breeders had played tremendous role for food security of the country and their work can be summarized in the following three eras: ...
Significant Work Still Needed to Really Crack Wheat’s Genetic Code
31 August 2010 - International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium
The International Wheat Genome Sequence Consortium (IWGSC), an international consortium of wheat growers, public and private breeders and scientists, strongly disagrees with implications that the sequence reads made available by a UK team, led by Professor Neil Hall, represent in any way the sequence of the wheat genome or that this work is comparable to genome sequences for rice, maize, or soybean.
The Price of Wheat
27 August 2010 - New York Times
Agricultural experts say they’re not worried about the recent jump in wheat prices, caused largely by the drought in Russia and the ban on Russian wheat exports. The Department of Agriculture is predicting that world wheat production will reach the same level this year — 645 million metric tons — that helped bring prices down from their astonishing $13.50 a bushel peak in February 2008. At present, prices for December wheat are about $6.95 a bushel, down over 50 cents from a month ago, but up nearly 55 percent since early June...
Genome breakthrough heralds new dawn for agriculture
27 August 2010 - Independent (UK)
In a scientific tour-de-force that has been hailed as the most significant breakthrough in wheat production since the cereal crop was cultivated by the first farmers more than 10,000 years ago, scientists have decoded the genome of the wheat plant...
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