Kerrie Forrest

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 utilization of a MAGIC population for the first time for linkage map construction is reported and a linkage map with 1162 DArT, single nucleotide polymorphism and simple sequence repeat markers distributed across all 21 chromosomes is constructed.

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: Targeted re-sequencing of 890 diverse accessions of hexaploid and tetraploid wheat identifies regions showing the signals of wild emmer introgression, thus suggesting that historic wild-relative gene flow shaped modern bread wheat's adaptive diversity.