Context-specific regulatory variants in precision medicine and agriculture
Category: Agricultural genetics
Plant pattern recognition receptors: from evolutionary insight to engineering
The plant immune system relies on germline-encoded pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) that sense foreign and plant-derived molecular patterns, an…
Genome-wide local ancestry and the functional consequences of admixture in African and European cattle populations
Bos taurus (taurine) and Bos indicus (indicine) cattle diverged at least 150,000 years ago and, since that time, substantial genomic …
Multi-population GWAS detects robust marker associations in a newly established six-rowed winter barley breeding program
Genome-wide association study (GWAS) is a powerful tool for identifying marker-trait associations that can accelerate breeding progress. Yet, its p…