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@article{WOS:001513545300001,

title = {New loci and candidate genes in spring two-rowed barley detected through  meta-analysis of a field trial European network},

author = {Francesc Montardit-Tarda and Ana M. Casas and William T. B. Thomas and Florian Schnaithmann and Rajiv Sharma and Salar Shaaf and Chiara Campoli and Joanne Russell and Luke Ramsay and Micha M. Bayer and Stefano Delbono and Marko Jaaskelainen and Maitry Paul and Frederick L. Stoddard and Andrea Visioni and Andrew J. Flavell and Klaus Pillen and Benjamin Kilian and Andreas Graner and Laura Rossini and Robbie Waugh and Luigi Cattivelli and Alan H. Schulman and Alessandro Tondelli and Ernesto Igartua},

doi = {10.1007/s00122-025-04934-8},

issn = {0040-5752},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-07-01},

urldate = {2025-07-01},

journal = {THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS},

volume = {138},

number = {7},

abstract = {Key messageA dense genome-wide meta-analysis provides new QTLs, reveals 

 breeding history trends and identifies new candidate genes for yield, 

 plant height, grain weight, and heading time of spring 

 barley.AbstractThis study contributes new knowledge on quantitative 

 trait loci (QTLs) and candidate genes for adaptive traits and yield in 

 two-rowed spring barley. A meta-analysis of a network of field trials, 

 varying in latitude and sowing date, with 151 cultivars across several 

 European countries, increased QTL detection power compared to 

 single-trial analyses. The traits analysed were heading date (HD), plant 

 height (PH), thousand-grain weight (TGW), and grain yield (GY). Breaking 

 down the analysis by the main genotype-by-environment trends revealed 

 QTLs and candidate genes specific to conditions like sowing date and 

 latitude. A historical look on the evolution of QTL frequencies revealed 

 that early selection focused on PH and TGW, likely due to their high 

 heritability. GY selection occurred later, facilitated by reduced 

 variance in other traits. The study observed that favourable alleles for 

 plant height were often fixed before those for grain yield and TGW. Some 

 regions showed linkage in repulsion, suggesting targets for future 

 breeding. Several candidate genes were identified, including known genes 

 and new candidates based on orthology with rice. Remarkably, the 

 deficiens allele of gene Vrs1 appears associated with higher GY. These 

 findings provide valuable insights for barley breeders aiming to improve 

 yield and other agronomic traits.},

keywords = {Agricultural Genetics, Drought tolerance, Genotype, Plant Breeding, Quantitative trait},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{WOS:001353822800001,

title = {Structural variation in the pangenome of wild and domesticated barley},

author = {Murukarthick Jayakodi and Qiongxian Lu and Helene Pidon and M. Timothy Rabanus-Wallace and Micha Bayer and Thomas Lux and Yu Guo and Benjamin Jaegle and Ana Badea and Wubishet Bekele and Gurcharn S. Brar and Katarzyna Braune and Boyke Bunk and Kenneth J. Chalmers and Brett Chapman and Morten Egevang Jorgensen and Jia-Wu Feng and Manuel Feser and Anne Fiebig and Heidrun Gundlach and Wenbin Guo and Georg Haberer and Mats Hansson and Axel Himmelbach and Iris Hoffie and Robert E. Hoffie and Haifei Hu and Sachiko Isobe and Patrick Koenig and Sandip M. Kale and Nadia Kamal and Gabriel Keeble-Gagnere and Beat Keller and Manuela Knauft and Ravi Koppolu and Simon G. Krattinger and Jochen Kumlehn and Peter Langridge and Chengdao Li and Marina P. Marone and Andreas Maurer and Klaus F. X. Mayer and Michael Melzer and Gary J. Muehlbauer and Emiko Murozuka and Sudharsan Padmarasu and Dragan Perovic and Klaus Pillen and Pierre A. Pin and Curtis J. Pozniak and Luke Ramsay and Pai Rosager Pedas and Twan Rutten and Shun Sakuma and Kazuhiro Sato and Danuta Schueler and Thomas Schmutzer and Uwe Scholz and Miriam Schreiber and Kenta Shirasawa and Craig Simpson and Birgitte Skadhauge and Manuel Spannagl and Brian J. Steffenson and Hanne C. Thomsen and Josquin F. Tibbits and Martin Toft Simmelsgaard Nielsen and Corinna Trautewig and Dominique Vequaud and Cynthia Voss and Penghao Wang and Robbie Waugh and Sharon Westcott and Magnus Wohlfahrt Rasmussen and Runxuan Zhang and Xiao-Qi Zhang and Thomas Wicker and Christoph Dockter and Martin Mascher and Nils Stein},

doi = {10.1038/s41586-024-08187-1},

issn = {0028-0836},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-12-01},

urldate = {2024-12-01},

journal = {NATURE},

volume = {636},

number = {8043},

abstract = {Pangenomes are collections of annotated genome sequences of multiple 

 individuals of a species1. The structural variants uncovered by these 

 datasets are a major asset to genetic analysis in crop plants2. Here we 

 report a pangenome of barley comprising long-read sequence assemblies of 

 76 wild and domesticated genomes and short-read sequence data of 1,315 

 genotypes. An expanded catalogue of sequence variation in the crop 

 includes structurally complex loci that are rich in gene copy number 

 variation. To demonstrate the utility of the pangenome, we focus on four 

 loci involved in disease resistance, plant architecture, nutrient 

 release and trichome development. Novel allelic variation at a powdery 

 mildew resistance locus and population-specific copy number gains in a 

 regulator of vegetative branching were found. Expansion of a family of 

 starch-cleaving enzymes in elite malting barleys was linked to shifts in 

 enzymatic activity in micro-malting trials. Deletion of an enhancer 

 motif is likely to change the developmental trajectory of the hairy 

 appendages on barley grains. Our findings indicate that allelic 

 diversity at structurally complex loci may have helped crop plants to 

 adapt to new selective regimes in agricultural ecosystems.},

keywords = {Agricultural Genetics, Genomics, Plant Breeding, Plant genetics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}