Shuangye Wu

Genotyping Aegilops species, the wild relatives of wheat, has revealed high genetic diversity and unique evolutionary relationships among the Aegilops and with wheat, giving insight into the effective use of these germplasms for bread wheat improvement.

Genotyping of gene bank collections of diploid A-genome relatives of wheat uncovered relatively higher genetic diversity and unique evolutionary relationships which gives insight to the effective use of these germplasm for wheat improvement.

The paper uses next generation sequencing to identify and remove duplicated germplasm accessions in genebanks, revealing over 50% duplication in Aegilops tauschii collections.