Integrating molecular and physiological approaches to quantify genetic controls for wheat development and improve phenotyping
Hamish Brown, John McCallum, Paul Johnston, Meeghan Pither-Joyce, Richard Macknight, Neil Huth, Derrick Moot, Bangyou Zheng, Zhigan Zhao, James Hunt, Enli Wang, Mary Byrne · 2026
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Description
Hamish Brown and co-authors join gene and growth measures to pin down what sets wheat flowering time, in a study from two thousand twenty-six. Six wheat types with wide sensitivity were grown under mixed heat and day length. Tip growth, final leaf count, and three flowering gene levels were tracked over time.
Shifts in leaf count were neatly explained by shifts in tip change timing and gene swings. A wheat timing model took in the joined data for direct checks against real gene curves. Gaps between model and leaf gene reads stress that leaf and tip signals differ. A leaf-count test plan closes the work. Readers who breed wheat get cleaner traits tied to genes.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hamish Brown, John McCallum, Paul Johnston, Meeghan Pither-Joyce, Richard Macknight, Neil Huth, Derrick Moot, Bangyou Zheng, Zhigan Zhao, James Hunt, Enli Wang, Mary Byrne |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 63 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |