Hiroki Yaegashi

TL;DR: The hst1 mutant was used to breed a salt-tolerant variety named ‘Kaijin’, which differs from Hitomebore by only 201 singlenucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and production of this salt-Tolerant mutant line ready for delivery to farmers took only two years using the approach.

TL;DR: A versatile extension of MutMap, that identifies causal mutations by comparing SNP frequencies of bulked DNA of mutant and wild-type progeny of M3 generation derived from selfing of an M2 heterozygous individual, that is potentially useful for gene isolation in crops that are recalcitrant to artificial crosses.

TL;DR: The MutMap-Gap method, which involves delineating a candidate region harboring a mutation of interest using the recently reported MutMap method, followed by de novo assembly, alignment, and identification of the mutation within genome gaps, should prove useful for cloning genes that exhibit significant structural variations.

TL;DR: The genome analyses and sex-linked marker development performed in this study should greatly accelerate marker-assisted breeding of Guinea yam and can be utilized in genetic studies of other outcrossing crops and organisms with highly heterozygous genomes.

TL;DR: Saazer et al. as discussed by the authors provided draft genomes for two hop cultivars [cv.Saazer (SZ) and cv. Shinshu Wase (SW)] and a Japanese wildhop [H. lupulus var. cordifolius; also known as Karahanasou(KR)].