Wheat research and breeding in the new era of a high-quality reference genome

Abstract

The publications of the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) released in August 2018 are reviewed and placed into the context of developments arising from the availability of the high-quality wheat genome assembly.

Keywords

assembly technology / molecular markers / polyploidy / transcript networks / wheat genome

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Acknowledgements

The author is grateful to colleagues in the wheat community for their stimulating insights into the wheat genome.

Compliance with ethics guidelines

Rudi Appels declares that there is no conflict of interest or financial conflict to disclose.

This article is a review and does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by the author.

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