Kansas State University wheat scientists have completed the first study of a chromosome in a tertiary gene pool and have called it a breakthrough in exploring wild wheat relatives for future crop improvement.
Their study, “Exploring the tertiary gene pool of bread wheat: sequence assembly and analysis of chromosome 5M of Aegilops geniculata,” was published Sept. 27 in The Plant Journal.
“What we did is develop a strategy that can be used as a model to explore genomic resources for gene mining from distant wild relatives of wheat,” said Vijay Tiwari, research associate in the plant pathology department and the study’s lead author.
More information is available at: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/ksu-run100615.php
