Geng, La Li, Mengdi Xie, Shanggeng Wu, Dezhi Ye, Lingzhen Zhang, Guoping
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Molecular Breeding
β-glucan is an important trait to be improved in barley breeding programs, as it greatly affects the quality of the end products when barley grains are used as raw material of feed or malt production or consumed as food for human. Although the genes associated with β-glucan synthesis have been identified, genetic regulation of β-glucan accumulation...
Yang, Weilong Zou, Jianing Yu, Yajie Long, Weixiong Li, Shaoqing
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Molecular Breeding
Mitochondria and chloroplast are very important organelles for organism, participating in basic life activity. Their genomes contain many repeats which can lead to a variation of genome structure. Oryza is an important genus for human beings’ nutrition. Several mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes of Oryza have been sequenced, which help us to ins...
Liu, Jin Rana, Kusum McKay, John Xiong, Zhiyong Yu, Fengqun Mei, Jiaqin Qian, Wei
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Molecular Breeding
Brassica juncea is an important economic crop of the world; however, the narrow genetic base of this crop has tremendously decreased its crop productivity. As an ancestral species of B. juncea, B. nigra is of great importance in widening the genetic diversity of B. juncea. In the present study, 42 SSR markers were employed to screen the genetic div...
Zhang, Yunxiao Liu, Hui Yan, Guijun
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Molecular Breeding
Plant height (PH) is closely associated with yield-related traits and environmental adaptation. Seven pairs of near-isogenic lines (NILs) targeting four QTL on 3AL, 4BL, 4AS, and 7AL wheat chromosome arms were assessed for PH and four yield-related traits including yield per plant (Y/P), grain number per spike (G/S), thousand kernel weight (TKW), a...
Hagely, Katherine Konda, Anji Reddy Kim, Jeong-Hwa Cahoon, Edgar B. Bilyeu, Kristin
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Molecular Breeding
The uses of vegetable oils are determined by functional properties arising from their chemical composition. Soybean oil was previously used in margarines and baked foods after partial hydrogenation to achieve heat and oxidative stability. This process, however, generates trans fats that are now excluded from food use because of cardiovascular healt...
Dai, Dawei Ma, Zeyang Song, Rentao
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Molecular Breeding
Maize (Zea mays) is a leading cereal crop in the world. The maize kernel is the storage organ and the harvest portion of this crop and is closely related to its yield and quality. The development of maize kernel is initiated by the double fertilization event, leading to the formation of a diploid embryo and a triploid endosperm. The embryo and endo...
Zhang, Anning Liu, Yi Wang, Feiming Li, Tianfei Chen, Zhihao Kong, Deyan Bi, Junguo Zhang, Fenyun Luo, Xingxing Wang, Jiahong
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Molecular Breeding
Salinity is one of the most important abiotic stress affecting the world rice production. The cultivation of salinity-tolerant cultivars is the most cost-effective and environmentally friendly approach for salinity control. In recent years, CRISPR/Cas9 systems have been widely used for target-site genome editing; however, their application for the ...
Kim, Myung-Shin Jo, Hojin Kim, Ji Hong Bae, Dong Nyuk Pack, In-Soon Kim, Chang-Gi Kwon, Tackmin Nam, Jaesung Chung, Young-Soo Jeong, Soon-Chun
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Molecular Breeding
Elucidation of the genomic organizations of transgene insertion sites is essential for the genetic studies of transgenic plants. Herein, we establish an analysis pipeline that identifies the transgene insertion sites as well as the presence of vector backbones, through de novo genome assembly with high-throughput sequencing data in two transgenic s...
Gong, Rong Huang, Daoqiang Chen, Yibo Li, Hong Wang, Zhidong Zhou, Degui Zhao, Lei Pan, Yangyang Chang, Yuxiao Xiang, Yong
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Molecular Breeding
Good eating quality is a highly desirable trait of rice which determines its commercial value and market share. However, the molecular basis of this trait remains largely unknown. Here, three high-quality conventional rice cultivars, including two superior eating quality cultivars Meixiangzhan-2 (MXZ) and Xiangyaxiangzhan (XYXZ), and one ordinary e...
Liang, Kun Tang, Kaiyuan Fang, Tian Qiu, Fazhan
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Molecular Breeding
Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important crop around the world, but its growth and production can be severely limited by waterlogging. In response to waterlogging stress, elaborate regulatory mechanisms have evolved in maize under both natural and artificial selection. Some research efforts involving genetic, genomic, and molecular strategies have focus...
