A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in wheat
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Genomics, Plant Science
- Keywords
- wheat, polyploid, genomics, expression, transgenics, TILLING, training, breeding
- Copyright
- © 2018 Adamski et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in wheat. PeerJ Preprints 6:e26877v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26877v1
Abstract
Research in Arabidopsis and other model species has uncovered mechanisms regulating important biological processes in plants. With the advent of high quality functional genomic resources in wheat it is now possible to use this knowledge for crop improvement directly in wheat. In the current review, we describe some of the recent developments in wheat genomics focussing on published and publicly available resources and tools. We lay out a roadmap on how to make use of them and include a case study to exemplify them. We hope this review will be a helpful guide for plant scientists who already work on wheat or who are considering expanding their research into wheat.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.
Our aim is to simplify access to many of the new developments in wheat genetics and genomics. We have tried to provide a roadmap to help wheat and non-wheat researchers navigate these new resources. We apologise for any omissions we may have made and we welcome community feedback to improve this manuscript for future submission.