Advances in Wheat Genetics: From Genome to Field

Part I. Wheat Genetics: Past, Present, and Future

1. Prof. H. Kihara’s Genome Concept and Advancements in Wheat Cytogenetics in His School
Koichiro Tsunewaki

2. How a Gene from Japan Revolutionized the World of Wheat: CIMMYT’s Quest for Combining Genes to Mitigate Threats to Global Food Security
Thomas A. Lumpkin

Part II. Germplasm and Genetic Diversity

3. Genetic Resources of Triticum

Karl Hammer, Helmut Knüpffer

4. Development of Core Set of Wheat (Triticum spp.) Germplasm Conserved in the National Genebank in India
Manoranjan Dutta, B. S. Phogat, Sandeep Kumar, Naresh Kumar, Jyoti Kumari, Avinash C. Pandey, T. P. Singh, R. K. Tyagi, Sherry R. Jacob, Kalyani Srinivasan, I. S. Bisht, M. Karale, Mamata Yadav, Pankaj Sharma, Geeta Kumari, Tariq Aftab, Y. S. Rathi, Amit K. Singh, Sunil Archak, K. V. Bhat, D. C. Bhandari, Y. P. S. Solanki, Dhiraj Singh, Kailash C. Bansal

5. Transfer to Wheat of Potentially New Stem Rust Resistance Genes from Aegilops speltoides

Ian Dundas, Dawn Verlin, Peng Zhang, Yue Jin, Jacob Manisterski, Rafiqul Islam

6. Genetic Variation and Its Geographical Distribution in Aegilops caudata L.: Morphology, Hybrid Sterility and Gametocidal Genes
Shoji Ohta, Naomi Yasukawa

Part III. Cytogenetics and Allopolyploid Evolution

7. Wheat Chromosome Analysis
Bikram S. Gill

8. New Aneuploids of Common Wheat
Takashi R. Endo

9. Chromosomal Changes over the Course of Polyploid Wheat Evolution and Domestication
Ekaterina D. Badaeva, Olga S. Dedkova, V. A. Pukhalskyi, A. V. Zelenin

Part IV. Toward Whole Genome Sequencing

10. Comprehensive Functional Analyses of Expressed Sequence Tags in Common Wheat
Yasunari Ogihara, Kohei Mishina, Kanako Kawaura, Hiroshi Tarui, Keiichi Mochida, Kentaro Yano, Jun Kawai

11. Development of the BAC Physical Maps of Wheat Chromosome 6B for Its Genomic Sequencing
Fuminori Kobayashi, Satoshi Katagiri, Wataru Karasawa, Yumiko Hanawa, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Yukiyo Ito, Hiroko Fujisawa, Yoshiyuki Mukai, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Satoko Kaneko, Shota Watanabe, Toyotaka Sakaguchi, Shuhei Nasuda, Katsuyuki Hayakawa, Chikako Abe, Ryoko Ohno, Julio C. M. Iehisa, Shigeo Takumi, Jaroslav Doležel, Yasunari Ogihara, Takashi Matsumoto, Yuichi Katayose, Jianzhong Wu, Hirokazu Handa

Part V. Structural and Functional Genomics

12. Sequencing of Wheat Chromosome 6B: Toward Functional Genomics
Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Fuminori Kobayashi, Giri Prasad Joshi, Ritsuko Onuki, Hiroaki Sakai, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Jianzhong Wu, Hana Šimková, Shuhei Nasuda, Takashi R. Endo, Katsuyuki Hayakawa, Jaroslav Doležel, Yasunari Ogihara, Takeshi Itoh, Takashi Matsumoto, Hirokazu Handa

13. Genetic Mechanisms of Vernalization Requirement Duration in Winter Wheat Cultivars
Liuling Yan, Genqiao Li, Ming Yu, Tilin Fang, Shuanghe Cao, Brett F. Carver

14. Building Ultra-Dense Genetic Maps in the Presence of Genotyping Errors and Missing Data
Yefim Ronin, Dina Minkov, David Mester, Eduard Akhunov, Abraham Korol

Part VI. Functional Gene Analysis and Molecular Tools

15. Exploiting Comparative Biology and Genomics to Understand a Trait in Wheat, Ph1

Graham Moore

16. The Specific Features of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Regulation in Wheat
Olesya Y. Shoeva, Elena K. Khlestkina

17. Association of Wheat miRNAs with Hybrid Incompatibility in Interspecific Crosses of Triticum and Aegilops

Shigeo Takumi, Ryusuke Matsuda, Julio C. M. Iehisa

18. High Efficiency Wheat Transformation Mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Yuji Ishida, Yukoh Hiei, Toshihiko Komari

19.
Extra Early-Flowering (exe) Mutants in Einkorn Wheat Generated by Heavy-Ion Beam Irradiation
Aiko Nishiura, Yusuke Kazama, Tomoko Abe, Nobuyuki Mizuno, Shuhei Nasuda, Koji Murai

Part VII. Biotic Stress Response

20. Stem Rust Resistance: Two Approaches
Colin Hiebert, Wolfgang Spielmeyer, Curt McCartney, Mulualem Kassa, Tom Fetch, Frank You, Jim Menzies, Gavin Humphreys, Brent McCallum

21. Germplasm Enhancement for Resistance to Pyrenophora tritici-repentis in Wheat
Manisha Shankar, Diane Mather, Dorthe Jorgensen, Hossein Golzar, Ken Chalmers, Grant Hollaway, Mark McLean, Stephen Neate, Rob Loughman

22. Next Generation Sequencing Enabled Genetics in Hexaploid Wheat
Ricardo H. Ramirez-Gonzalez, Vanesa Segovia, Nicholas Bird, Mario Caccamo, Cristobal Uauy

Part VIII. Abiotic Stress Response

23. Genomics Approaches to Dissect the Genetic Basis of Drought Resistance in Durum Wheat
Roberto Tuberosa, Marco Maccaferri

24. Hybrid Breeding in Wheat
M. Florian Mette, Mario Gils, C. Friedrich H. Longin, Jochen C. Reif

25. Broadening the Genetic Diversity of Common and Durum Wheat for Abiotic Stress Tolerance Breeding
Hisashi Tsujimoto, Quahir Sohail, Yoshihiro Matsuoka

26. Early Maturity in Wheat for Adaptation to High Temperature Stress
Suchismita Mondal, Arun K. Joshi, Julio Huerta-Espino, Ravi P. Singh

27. Gene Expression Profiles Involved in Development of Freezing Tolerance in Common Wheat
Hirokazu Yokota, Julio C. M. Iehisa, Etsuo Shimosaka, Shigeo Takumi

Part IX. Improvement of Grain Quality

28. Coping with Wheat Quality in a Changing Environment: Proteomics Evidence for Stress Caused by Environmental Changes
Gérard Branlard, Véronique S. Lesage, Emmanuelle Bancel, Pierre Martre, Benoit Méleard, Larbi Rhazi

29. Starch Modification: A Model for Wheat MAS Breeding
Toshiki Nakamura, Patricia Vrinten, Tomoya Shimbata, Mika Saito

30. Quality Characteristics of Soft Kernel Durum; A New Cereal Crop
Craig F. Morris, E. Patrick Fuerst

31. Proposal of International Gluten Research Group
Tatsuya M. Ikeda, W. John Rogers, Gerard Branlard, Roberto J. Peña, Silvia E. Lerner, Adriana Arrigoni, Wujun Ma, Rudi Appels, Odean Lukow, William Hurkman, Marie Appelbee, Mike Sissons, Jose M. Carrillo, Zhonghu He

32. Enlargement of the Genetic Diversity for Grain Quality in Bread Wheat Through Alien Introgression
Tatyana A. Pshenichnikova, Alexander V. Simonov, Ludmila V. Shchukina, Evgeniya V. Morozova, Angela K. Chistyakova, Andreas Börner

33. Complex G × E Interactions and QTL Clusters Govern End-Use Quality Traits in Hexaploid Wheat
Ramya Prashant, Elangovan Mani, Richa Rai, R. K. Gupta, Ratan Tiwari, Manoj Oak, Narendra Y. Kadoo, Vidya S. Gupta

34. A Consistent QTL for Flour Yield on Chromosome 3B in the Soft Winter Wheat Variety, Kitahonami
Goro Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ito, Mika Saito, Mikako Sato, Hironobu Jinno, Yasuhiro Yoshimura, Tsutomu Nishimura, Hidekazu Maejima, Yasushi Uehara, Toshiki Nakamura

Part X. Marker-Assisted Breeding

35. Recent Improvements in Japanese Wheat Varieties
Shunsuke Oda

36. Determining the Order of Resistance Genes Qsng-3BS, Fhb1 and Sr2 and Combining Them in Coupling on Wheat Chromosome 3BS
Rima Thapa, Gina Brown-Guedira, Herbert W. Ohm, Kiersten Wise, Stephen B. Goodwin

37. Meta-analysis of Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight in Tetraploid Wheat: Implications for Durum Wheat Breeding
Noémie Prat, Maria Buerstmayr, Barbara Steiner, Hermann Buerstmayr

38. Interest of a Multiparental and Outcrossing Wheat Population for Fine Mapping
Stéphanie Thépot, Gwendal Restoux, Frédéric Hospital, David Gouache, Ian Mackay, Isabelle Goldringer, Jérôme Enjalbert

39. The Effect of Earliness per se (Eps) Genes on Flowering Time in Bread Wheat
Meluleki Zikhali, Simon Griffiths

Part XI. Toward Sustainable Wheat Production

40. Recapitulating the OECD-CRP Session (Sponsored by the OECD’s Co-operative Research Program on Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems)
Masa Iwanaga, Tomohiro Ban

41. Exploring Genetic Resources to Increase Adaptation of Wheat to Climate Change
Matthew Reynolds, Maria Tattaris, C. Mariano Cossani, Marc Ellis, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Carolina Saint Pierre

42. Genomic Approaches Towards Durable Fungal Disease Resistance in Wheat
Beat Keller, Simon Krattinger, Liselotte Selter, Chauhan Harsh, Jyoti Singla, Susanne Brunner, Severine Hurni, Daniel Stirnweis, Margarita Shatalina, Thomas Wicker, Francis Parlange, Joanna Risk, Evans Lagudah

43. Review and New Progress in Wheat Wide Hybridization for Improving the Resistance to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
Zhen-Sheng Li, Bin Li, Qi Zheng, Hongwei Li

44. Global Crop Improvement Networks to Bridge Technology Gaps
Michael Baum, Wuletaw Tadesse, Miloudi Nachit, Osman Abdalla, Sanjaya Rajaram, Ravi Singh, Tomas Payne, Karim Ammar, Alex Morgounov, Hans Braun

45. Genomic Selection in Plants: Empirical Results and Implications for Wheat Breeding
Mark E. Sorrells

46. Dietary Fibre: Wheat Genes for Enhanced Human Health
Rowan A. C. Mitchell, Peter R. Shewry

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