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• Discovery of 100 million-year-old regions of DNA shows short cut to crop science advances

  Scientists have discovered 100 million-year-old regions in the DNA of several plant species which could hold secrets about how specific genes are turned ‘on’ or ‘off’. The findings, which are hoped will accelerate the pace of research into crop science and food security, are detailed by University o more

• Galápagos tomato provides key to making cultivated tomatoes resistant to whitefly

  The whitefly is a major problem for open field tomato cultivation throughout the world. Scientists of Wageningen UR together with a number of partners have discovered genes for resistance to the whitefly in a wild relative of the common tomato. The scientists hope that resistant varieties can be bro more

• Gene found that controls tomato ripening

  According to an old country song, the only two things money can't buy are true love and homegrown tomatoes. How true - those perfect, red tomatoes from the store just can't match ones plucked from the garden. Now, researchers have identified the gene that controls their ripening, according to a stud more

Publications Plant Breeding

• Sequence‐based SNP genotyping in durum wheat

  Summary Marker development for marker‐assisted selection in plant breeding is increasingly based on next‐generation sequencing (NGS). However, marker development in crops with highly repetitive, complex genomes is still challenging. Here we applied sequence‐based genotyping (SBG), which couples more

• Systemic View on Heading and Overwintering: Are They Always Opposed?

  Abstract The study investigated the cultivars of non‐obligatorily requiring vernalization plant Festulolium braunii and assessed the influence of non‐hardy reproductive and hardy vegetative structures on overwintering effect. The study was conducted taking into account systemic relations between more

• Quantitative models of hydrolysis conversion efficiency and biomass crystallinity index for plant breeding

  Abstract In conjunction with improvements to processing technology, selective breeding can be used to increase bioenergy yield potential either through an increase in total harvestable biomass or by modifying biomass conversion efficiency. In this study, the measurement of biomass composition (l more

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