Outputs (42)

Genomic changes and stabilization following homoploid hybrid speciation of the Oxford ragwort Senecio squalidus. (2024)
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Nevado, B., Chapman, M. A., Brennan, A. C., Clark, J. W., Wong, E. L. Y., Batstone, T., McCarthy, S. A., Tracey, A., Torrance, J., Sims, Y., Abbott, R. J., Filatov, D., & Hiscock, S. J. (2024). Genomic changes and stabilization following homoploid hybrid speciation of the Oxford ragwort Senecio squalidus. Current Biology, 34(19), 4412-4423.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.08.009

Oxford ragwort (Senecio squalidus) is one of only two homoploid hybrid species known to have originated very recently, so it is a unique model for determining genomic changes and stabilization following homoploid hybrid speciation. Here, we provide a... Read More about Genomic changes and stabilization following homoploid hybrid speciation of the Oxford ragwort Senecio squalidus..

Optimising Gamma Irradiation Seed Treatment of Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Varieties for Potential Future Application in Mutation Breeding (2024)
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Jhar, A., Sabbagh, S., Elkhattab, E., Abrak, S., Hatipoğlu, H., & Brennan, A. (2024). Optimising Gamma Irradiation Seed Treatment of Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Varieties for Potential Future Application in Mutation Breeding. Crop Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, 6(3), Article e240004. https://doi.org/10.20900/cbgg20240004

Background: Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is a nutritious and healthy seed oil crop with perspective for further improvement through plant breeding. Mutagenesis breeding generates new genetic variation with potentially favorable genetic changes for sel... Read More about Optimising Gamma Irradiation Seed Treatment of Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Varieties for Potential Future Application in Mutation Breeding.

Reflections on the life and work of Richard Abbott (1945–2024) (2024)
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Chapman, M. A., Hiscock, S. J., Antonovics, J., Barrett, S. C. H., Brennan, A. C., & Liu, J. (2024). Reflections on the life and work of Richard Abbott (1945–2024). Molecular Ecology, 33(14), Article e17439. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17439

Inheritance of Resistance to Chickpea Fusarium Wilt Disease ( Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris Race 2) in a Wide-Cross Cicer arietinum × Cicer reticulatum Mapping Family (2024)
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Lakmes, A., Jhar, A., Sadanandom, A., Brennan, A. C., & Kahriman, A. (2024). Inheritance of Resistance to Chickpea Fusarium Wilt Disease ( Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris Race 2) in a Wide-Cross Cicer arietinum × Cicer reticulatum Mapping Family. Genes, 15(6), Article 819. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes15060819

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is a major food legume providing high quality nutrition, especially in developing regions. Chickpea wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris) causes significant annual losses. Integrated disease management of Fusarium wilt i... Read More about Inheritance of Resistance to Chickpea Fusarium Wilt Disease ( Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris Race 2) in a Wide-Cross Cicer arietinum × Cicer reticulatum Mapping Family.

Local climate and vernalization sensitivity predict the latitudinal patterns of flowering onset in the crop wild relative Linum bienne Mill. (2024)
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Landoni, B., Suárez-Montes, P., Habeahan, R. H. F., Brennan, A. C., & Pérez-Barrales, R. (2024). Local climate and vernalization sensitivity predict the latitudinal patterns of flowering onset in the crop wild relative Linum bienne Mill. Annals of Botany, 134(1), 117–130. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae040

Background and aims: The timing of flowering onset often correlates with latitude, indicative of climatic gradients. Flowering onset in temperate species commonly requires exposure to cold temperatures, known as vernalization. Hence, population diffe... Read More about Local climate and vernalization sensitivity predict the latitudinal patterns of flowering onset in the crop wild relative Linum bienne Mill..

A chromosome-level genome assembly for the smoky rubyspot damselfly (Hetaerina titia) (2023)
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Patterson, C. W., Bonillas-Monge, E., Brennan, A., Grether, G. F., Mendoza-Cuenca, L., Tucker, R., …Drury, J. (2024). A chromosome-level genome assembly for the smoky rubyspot damselfly (Hetaerina titia). Journal of Heredity, 115(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad070

Smoky rubyspot damselflies (Hetaerina titia Drury, 1773) are one of the most commonly encountered odonates along streams and rivers on both slopes of Central America and the Atlantic drainages in the US and southern Canada. Owing to their highly vari... Read More about A chromosome-level genome assembly for the smoky rubyspot damselfly (Hetaerina titia).

Trait evolution during a rapid global weed invasion despite little genetic differentiation (2023)
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Irimia, R. E., Montesinos, D., Chaturvedi, A., Sanders, I., Hierro, J. L., Sotes, G., Cavieres, L. A., Eren, Ö., Lortie, C. J., French, K., & Brennan, A. C. (2023). Trait evolution during a rapid global weed invasion despite little genetic differentiation. Evolutionary Applications, 16(5), 997-1011. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13548

Invasive species often possess a great capacity to adapt to novel environments in the form of spatial trait variation, as a result of varying selection regimes, genetic drift, or plasticity. We explored the geographic differentiation in several pheno... Read More about Trait evolution during a rapid global weed invasion despite little genetic differentiation.

Inheritance of early and late Ascochyta blight resistance in wide crosses of chickpea (2023)
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Lakmes, A., Jhar, A., Brennan, A. C., & Kahriman, A. (2023). Inheritance of early and late Ascochyta blight resistance in wide crosses of chickpea. Genes, 14(2), Article 316. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14020316

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is a globally important food legume but its yield is negatively impacted by the fungal pathogen Ascochyta blight (Ascochyta rabiei) causing necrotic lesions leading to plant death. Past studies have found that Ascochyta res... Read More about Inheritance of early and late Ascochyta blight resistance in wide crosses of chickpea.

Sources of variation in reciprocal herkogamy in the distyly floral syndrome of Linum tenue (Linaceae) (2023)
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Foroozani, A., Desmond, E. L., Gough, C. A., Pérez-Barrales, R., & Brennan, A. C. (2023). Sources of variation in reciprocal herkogamy in the distyly floral syndrome of Linum tenue (Linaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences, 184(2), 142-155. https://doi.org/10.1086/723564

Premise of research. Distyly is a floral polymorphism involving reciprocal herkogamy shaped by selection for pollen transfer efficiency. The variation of the floral organs involved in pollen transfer can be individually affected by environmental and... Read More about Sources of variation in reciprocal herkogamy in the distyly floral syndrome of Linum tenue (Linaceae).

Inheritance of seed weight and growth habit in 10 intercross chickpea (Cicer arietinum) nested association mapping populations (2022)
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Lakmes, A., Jhar, A., Penmetsa, R. V., Wei, W., Brennan, A. C., & Kahriman, A. (2023). Inheritance of seed weight and growth habit in 10 intercross chickpea (Cicer arietinum) nested association mapping populations. Plant Breeding, 142(1), 86-96. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbr.13065

Objective of investigation Chickpea is a major global food legume for which seed weight and plant growth habit are important yield and harvestability components for plant breeding. This study tested seed weight and plant growth habit inheritance and... Read More about Inheritance of seed weight and growth habit in 10 intercross chickpea (Cicer arietinum) nested association mapping populations.