Alina Akhunova

TL;DR: The developed array and cluster identification algorithms provide an opportunity to infer detailed haplotype structure in polyploid wheat and will serve as an invaluable resource for diversity studies and investigating the genetic basis of trait variation in wheat.

TL;DR: It is shown that selection likely acts on distinct targets or multiple functionally equivalent alleles in different portions of the geographic range of wheat, suggesting either weak selection pressure or temporal variation in the targets of directional selection during breeding probably associated with changing agricultural practices or environmental conditions.

TL;DR: The authors combined high-throughput global sequencing targeted to genes and custom-designed bioinformatics tools to catalog and characterize chemically induced mutations in rice and wheat to provide a method for developing large-scale induced mutation resources with relatively small investments that is applicable to resource-poor organisms.

TL;DR: The results suggest that duplicated homoeologous genes are under purifying selection, and it is hypothesized that allopolyploidy may have increased the likelihood of beneficial allele recovery by broadening the set of possible selection targets.

TL;DR: Single-nucleotide polymorphism was used in the construction of an expressed sequence tag map of Aegilops tauschii, the diploid source of the wheat D genome, suggesting that the dependence of synteny erosion on gene location along the centromere–telomere axis either evolved recently in the Triticeae phylogenetic lineage or its evolution was recently accelerated.