Marc Moragues

TL;DR: The genetic basis of grain yield, heading date, and plant height was investigated in a durum wheat population of 249 recombinant inbred lines evaluated in 16 environments characterized by a broad range of water availability and GY.

TL;DR: Five drought tolerance candidate genes, namely dehydration responsive element binding 1A, DREB1A, enhanced response to abscisic acid, and fructan 1‐exohydrolase, are characterized in wheat for nucleotide and haplotype diversity, Tajima's D value, and linkage disequilibrium.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a properly chosen 384 SNP subset gives a good combination of power and economy for germplasm characterization, whereas the rather modest gain from using 1536 SNPs does not justify the increased cost and 96 markers give unacceptably low performance.

TL;DR: The results suggest that gradual changes in yield components occurred during the movement of durum wheat from east towest through the north side of the Mediterranean basin, and the weight of grains and the number of spikes per unit area may be selection criteria to improve adaptation for the northern and the southern parts of the European basin.

TL;DR: Landraces can be particularly useful in breeding programs to improve gluten strength, grain weight and accelerate grain filling rate and the low QI and reduced variability characterizing the landrace group from the north Balkan Peninsula support the hypothesis of a different origin for this group.