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From genome to gene: a new epoch for wheat research?
Meng Wang1, Shubin Wang1, Guangmin Xia1
1The Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, P.R. China.
Abstract:
Genetic research for bread wheat (Triticum aestivum), a staple crop around the world, has been impeded by its complex large hexaploid genome that contains a high proportion of repetitive DNA. Recent advances in sequencing technology have now overcome these challenges and led to genome drafts for bread wheat and its progenitors as well as high-resolution transcriptomes. However, the exploitation of these data for identifying agronomically important genes in wheat is lagging behind. We review recent wheat genome sequencing achievements and focus on four aspects of strategies and future hotspots for wheat improvement: positional cloning, 'omics approaches, combining forward and reverse genetics, and epigenetics.
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