Malcolm Macaulay

TL;DR: The mapped SSRs provide a framework for rapidly assigning chromosomal designations and polarity in future mapping programs in barley and a convenient alternative to RFLP for aligning information derived from different populations.

TL;DR: RFLPs, AFLPs, RAPDs and SSRs were used to determine the genetic relationships among 18 cultivated barley accessions and the results compared to pedigree relationships where these were available and the choice of appropriate technology for different aspects of germplasm evaluation is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the type and frequency of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in plant genomes were investigated using the expanding quantity of DNA sequence data deposited in public databases, and an approach was proposed and demonstrated for the targeted isolation of single or multiple, physically clustered SSRs linked to any gene that has been mapped using low-copy DNA-based markers.

TL;DR: It is shown that INT-C is an ortholog of the maize domestication gene TEOSINTE BRANCHED 1 (TB1) and 17 coding mutations in barley TB1 correlated with lateral spikelet fertility phenotypes are identified and identified.

TL;DR: The methodology described here is transferable to species with limited genomic resources, providing a paradigm for reducing the threshold of map-based cloning in unsequenced crops.