Caterina Marè

TL;DR: Breeders are asked to blend together all knowledge on the traits sustaining yield under drought and to accumulate the most effective QTLs and/or transgenes into elite genotypes without detrimental effects on yield potential, which will lead to new cultivars with high yield potential and high yield stability, that will result in superior performance in dry environments.

TL;DR: The assembly of the genome of durum wheat cultivar Svevo enables genome-wide genetic diversity analyses highlighting modifications imposed by thousands of years of empirical selection and breeding.

TL;DR: In this paper, a barley gene coding for a WRKY protein, whose expression is involved in cold and drought stress response, was described, and the results indicate that Hv-WRKY38 transcription factor may play a regulatory role in abiotic stress response.

TL;DR: This work provides clear evidences that the genetic system based on Cappelli and Ofanto represents an ideal tool for the genetic dissection of the molecular response to drought and other abiotic stresses.

TL;DR: This study provides insight on the effect of pigment content in the molecular response to drought in wheat by characterized a pale-green durum wheat mutant and found that the greater oxidative stress and corresponding molecular changes in the pale- green mutant were associated to a yield reduction.