Janet A. Condie

TL;DR: This annotated reference sequence of wheat is a resource that can now drive disruptive innovation in wheat improvement, as this community resource establishes the foundation for accelerating wheat research and application through improved understanding of wheat biology and genomics-assisted breeding.

TL;DR: This work reports the ∼738-Mb draft whole genome shotgun sequence of CDC Frontier, a kabuli chickpea variety, which contains an estimated 28,269 genes, and identifies targets of both breeding-associated genetic sweeps and breeding- associated balancing selection.

TL;DR: The synchronized diversification of Brassicaceae species suggests that polyploid events may have conferred higher adaptability and increased tolerance toward the drastically changing global environment, thus facilitating species radiation.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the B. napus gene isolated here originated in B. campestris, and was re-introduced into plants, using Agrobacterium vectors, producing a herbicide-resistant phenotype which is characteristic of the predicted gene product.

TL;DR: The development of a genome-wide transcriptome-based pea single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker platform establishes a foundation for future molecular breeding efforts by enabling both the identification and tracking of introgression of genomic regions harbouring QTLs related to agronomic and seed quality traits.