Ilka Braumann

TL;DR: The importance of the barley reference sequence for breeding is demonstrated by inspecting the genomic partitioning of sequence variation in modern elite germplasm, highlighting regions vulnerable to genetic erosion.

TL;DR: TRITEX, an open-source computational workflow that combines paired-end, mate-pair, 10X Genomics linked-read with chromosome conformation capture sequencing data to construct sequence scaffolds with megabase-scale contiguity ordered into chromosomal pseudomolecules is presented.

TL;DR: Alleles of Mat-a have important and demonstrated breeding value in barley but probably also in many other day-length-sensitive crop plants, where they may tune adaptation to different geographic regions and climatic conditions, a critical issue in times of global warming.

TL;DR: Morex as discussed by the authors was constructed by the International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium (IBSC) using hierarchical shotgun sequencing, and the experimental and computational procedures to sequence and assemble more than 80,000 bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones along the minimum tiling path of a genome-wide physical map, find and validate overlaps between adjacent BACs, and order and orient these BAC clusters along the seven barley chromosomes using positional information provided by dense genetic maps.

TL;DR: P phenotypic traits, including sturdy culm, specific for deficiencies in brassinosteroid biosynthesis and signaling in semidwarf mutants of barley are identified, and potential genetic building blocks for breeding strategies with sturdy and climate-tolerant barley cultivars are identified.