W. Harwood

Population Transcriptome and Phenotype Reveal that Rht-D1b Contributes a Larger Seedling Root to Modern Bread Wheat

The paper investigates the impact of GR alleles on wheat root systems, finding that Rht-D1b increases seedling root size by enhancing cell length and meristem size, while Rht-B1b has no significant effect on root traits.

In-planta Gene Targeting in Barley using Cas9, with and without Geminiviral Replicons

This study demonstrates successful heritable gene targeting in barley using Cas9 without a replicon, but fails to achieve heritable events with a replicon despite high repair template copy numbers.

Evolution of the bread wheat D-subgenome and enriching it with diversity from Aegilops tauschii

The paper sequences 242 Ae. tauschii accessions to study genetic diversity in the bread wheat D-subgenome, identifies disease resistance genes, and demonstrates their functional transfer into wheat.

CRISPR-Cas9-mediated editing of myb28 impairs glucoraphanin accumulation of Brassica oleracea in the field

This study uses CRISPR-Cas9 to edit myb28 in B. oleracea, showing reduced glucoraphanin accumulation in field-grown plants without affecting other sulphur metabolites.

TRA1: a locus responsible for controlling Agrobacterium-mediated transformability in barley.

The paper identifies a locus, TRA1, responsible for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation efficiency in barley by analyzing a mutant with unique transformability traits.

Speed breeding in growth chambers and glasshouses for crop breeding and model plant research

This paper presents speed breeding protocols for various crops and model plants, detailing conditions and methods to accelerate generation advancement in growth chambers and glasshouses.

Magnesium increases homoeologous crossover frequency in ZIP4 (Ph1) mutant wheat-wild relative hybrids

This study identifies magnesium as a factor that increases homoeologous crossover frequency in ZIP4 mutant wheat-rye hybrids.

Speed breeding: a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding

This paper introduces speed breeding, a method that accelerates crop research and breeding by shortening generation times and enabling more generations per year.