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Wheat variety mixtures enhance yield stability and result in pronounced overyielding for certain line combinations. Eur. J. Agron. 172 (2026) 127886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2025.127886

Aiyesa L V, Malysheva-Otto L, Meyer-Luepken T, Lohwasser U, Ruckwied B, Himmelbach A, Schulthess A W, Reif J C, Otto L-G:

Dissection of genomic regions associated with plant height and flowering time in a diverse panel of common snap bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) using GWAS. Euphytica 221 (2025) 160. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10681-025-03610-8

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Recurrent reciprocal genomic selection in wheat. (Master Thesis) Halle/S., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (2025)

Cho W, Feng J, Knauft M, Albrecht S, Himmelbach A, Otto L-G, Mascher M:

An annotated haplotype-resolved genome sequence assembly of diploid German chamomile, Matricaria chamomilla. Sci. Data 12 (2025) 358. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04688-4

Gogna A, Arend D, Beier S, Rezaei E E, Würschum T, Zhao Y, Chu J, Reif J C:

Order from entropy: big data from FAIR data cohorts in the digital age of plant breeding. Theor. Appl. Genet. 138 (2025) 257. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00122-025-05040-5

Gundala R R, Avenhaus U, Doernte J, Eckhoff W M, Foerster J, Gils M, Koch M, Kirchhoff M, Kollers S, Pfeiffer N, Rapp M, Spiller M, Wimmer V, Wolf M, Zhao Y, Reif J C:

Harnessing big data for enhanced genome-wide prediction in winter wheat breeding. Theor. Appl. Genet. 138 (2025) 224. https://dx.doi.org//10.1007/s00122-025-05007-6

Klösgen V J:

Expanding the breeder’s toolbox with artificial intelligence enabled workflow for genomic predictions. (Master Thesis) Halle/S., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (2025) 45 pp.

Lell M, Gogna A, Kloesgen V, Avenhaus U, Dörnte J, Eckhoff W M, Eschholz T, Gils M, Kirchhoff M, Koch M, Kollers S, Pfeiffer N, Rapp M, Wimmer V, Wolf M, Reif J, Zhao Y:

Breaking down data silos across companies to train genome-wide predictions: A feasibility study in wheat. Plant Biotechnol. J. 23 (2025) 2704-2719. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70095

Meyenberg C, Thorwarth P, Spiller M, Kollers S, Reif J C, Longin C F H:

Insights into a genomics-based pre-breeding program in wheat. Crop Sci. 65 (2025) e70125. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.70125

Niels L, Reif J C, Otto L-G, Mirdita V, Oppermann M, Lohwasser U, Kotter M, Weise S, El Hanafi S:

Harnessing historical genebank data to accelerate pea breeding. Theor. Appl. Genet. 138 (2025) 243. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00122-025-05032-5

Pitz M, Baldauf J A, Piepho H-P, Yu P, Schoof H, Mason A S, Li G, Hochholdinger F:

Regulation of heterosis-associated gene expression complementation in maize hybrids. Genome Biol. 26 (2025) 291. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03768-3

Pommier C, Alic I, Cabrera-Bosquet L, Draye X, Neveu P, Reif J C, Robbins K R, Krajewski P, Tardieu F:

Reassessing data management in increasingly complex phenotypic datasets. Trends Plant Sci. (2025) in press. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.09.001

Rahmani M-S, Naghavi M-R, Shahnejat-Bushehri A-A, Otto L-G, Caliskan S, Balekoglu S:

Provenance-based responses of beneh (Pistacia atlantica subsp. kurdica) seedlings to drought stress: insights into morpho-physiological and molecular climate adaptation strategies. Trees 39 (2025) 63. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00468-025-02641-x

Schmidt C, Hinterberger V, Philipp N, Reif J C, Schnurbusch T:

Hybrid grain production in wheat benefits from synchronized flowering and high female flower receptivity. J. Exp. Bot. 76 (2025) 445-460. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae430

Schneider J, Frels K, Sakhale S, Baenziger P S, Longin C Friedrich H, Reif Jochen C, Schulthess Albert W:

Reciprocal evaluation of hybrid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crosses between German and US ‘Great Plains’ genotypes across their contrasting target environments. Plant Breed. 144 (2025) 22-34. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pbr.13220

Schüler D, Lange M, Altmann T, Cuacos M, Arend D, D’Auria J C, Fiebig A, Kumlehn J, Neumann K, Melzer M, Rey-Mazón E, Rolletschek H, Scholz U, Willner E, Reif J C:

Data management in balance – a decade of balancing pragmatism, sustainability and innovation at plant research center IPK Gatersleben. J. Integr. Bioinform. 22 (2025) 20250012. https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jib-2025-0012

Stepanenko A, Braglia L, Fuchs J, Schubert V, Hoang P T N, Lee Y, Chen G, Giani S, Morello L, Schubert I:

Genome diversity and evolution of the duckweed section Alatae comprising diploids, polyploids, and interspecific hybrids. Plant J. 122 (2025) e70158. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70158

Washburn J D, Varela J I, Xavier A, Chen Q, Ertl D, Gage J L, Holland J B, Lima D C, Romay M C, Lopez-Cruz M, de Los Campos G, Barber W, Zimmer C, Trucillo Silva I, Rocha F, Rincent R, Ali B, Hu H, Runcie D E, Gusev K, Slabodkin A, Bax P, Aubert J, Gangloff H, Mary-Huard T, Vanrenterghem T, Quesada-Traver C, Yates S, Ariza-Suarez D, Ulrich A, Wyler M, Kick D R, Bellis E S, Causey J L, Soriano Chavez E, Wang Y, Piyush V, Fernando G D, Hu R K, Kumar R, Timon A J, Venkatesh R, Segura Aba K, Chen H, Ranaweera T, Shiu S-H, Wang P, Gordon M J, Amos B K, Busato S, Perondi D, Gogna A, Psaroudakis D, Chen C P J, Al-Mamun H A, Danilevicz M F, Upadhyaya S R, Edwards D, de Leon N:

Global genotype by environment prediction competition reveals that diverse modeling strategies can deliver satisfactory maize yield estimates. Genetics 229 (2025) iyae195. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae195

Yuan Z, Rembe M, Mascher M, Stein N, Himmelbach A, Jayakodi M, Börner A, Oldach K, Jahoor A, Jensen J D, Rudloff J, Dohrendorf V-E, Kuhfus L P, Dyrszka E, Conte M, Hinz F, Trouchaud S, Reif J C, El Hanafi S:

High-quality phenotypic and genotypic dataset of barley genebank core collection to unlock untapped genetic diversity. GigaScience 14 (2025) giae121. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giae121

Zapata S L, Mirdita V, Schneider J, Boeven P H G, Varenne P, Spiller M, Jacobi A, Moittié T, Gils M, Reif J C:

Genetic analysis of seed set in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) hybrids generated with cytoplasmic male sterility versus chemical hybridization agents. Plant Breed. (2025) Epub ahead of print. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pbr.70006

Zapata S L, Schulthess A W, El Hanafi S, Schmidt R H, Hinterberger V, Li G, Boeven P H G, Chu J, Gils M, Jiang Y, Philipp N, Varenne P, Spiller M, Reif J C:

Disentangling the genetic architecture of key traits for wheat hybrid seed production. J. Exp. Bot. (2025) accepted. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf280

Zhang J, Gu R, Miao X, Schmidt R H, Xu Z, Lu J, Ma Y, Yang T, Wang P, Liu Y, Wang X, Du X, Zheng N, Zhen S, Liang C, Xie Y, Wu Y, Li L, Reif J C, Jiang Y, Wang J, Fu J, Zhang H:

GWAS-based population genetic analysis identifies bZIP29 as a heterotic gene in maize. Plant Commun. 6 (2025) 101289. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2025.101289

Berkner M O, Jiang Y, Reif J C, Schulthess A W:

Trait-customized sampling of core collections from a winter wheat genebank collection supports association studies. Front. Plant Sci. 15 (2024) 1451749. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1451749

Berkner M O, Weise S, Reif J C, Schulthess A W:

Genomic prediction reveals unexplored variation in grain protein and lysine content across a vast winter wheat genebank collection. Front. Plant Sci. 14 (2024) 1270298. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1270298

Cavalet-Giorsa E, González-Muñoz A, Athiyannan N, Holden S, Salhi A, Gardener C, Quiroz-Chávez J, Rustamova S M, Elkot A F, Patpour M, Rasheed A, Mao L, Lagudah E S, Periyannan S K, Sharon A, Himmelbach A, Reif J C, Knauft M, Mascher M, Stein N, Chayut N, Ghosh S, Perovic D, Putra A, Perera A B, Hu C-Y, Yu G, Ahmed H I, Laquai K D, Rivera L F, Chen R, Wang Y, Gao X, Liu S, Raupp W J, Olson E L, Lee J-Y, Chhuneja P, Kaur S, Zhang P, Park R F, Ding Y, Liu D-C, Li W, Nasyrova F Y, Dvorak J, Abbasi M, Li M, Kumar N, Meyer W B, Boshoff W H P, Steffenson B J, Matny O, Sharma P K, Tiwari V K, Grewal S, Pozniak C J, Chawla H S, Ens J, Dunning L T, Kolmer J A, Lazo G R, Xu S S, Gu Y Q, Xu X, Uauy C, Abrouk M, Bougouffa S, Brar G S, Wulff B B H, Krattinger S G:

Origin and evolution of the bread wheat D genome. Nature 633 (2024) 848-855. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07808-z

Chen G, Stepanenko A, Borisjuk N:

Contrasting patterns of 5S rDNA repeats in European and Asian ecotypes of greater duckweed, Spirodela polyrhiza (Lemnaceae). Front. Plant Sci. 15 (2024) 1378683. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1378683

Dong Y, Li G, Zhang X, Feng Z, Li T, Li Z, Xu S, Xu S, Liu W, Xue J:

Genome-wide association study for maize hybrid performance in a typical breeder population. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 25 (2024) 1190. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms25021190

Golan G, Weiner J, Zhao Y, Schnurbusch T:

Agroecological genetics of biomass allocation in wheat uncovers genotype interactions with canopy shade and plant size. New Phytol. 242 (2024) 107-120. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.19576

He X, Wang D, Jiang Y, Li M, Delgado-Baquerizo M, McLaughlin C, Marcon C, Guo L, Baer M, Moya Y A T, von Wirén N, Deichmann M, Schaaf G, Piepho H-P, Yang Z, Yang J, Yim B, Smalla K, Goormachtig S, de Vries F T, Hüging H, Baer M, Sawers R J H, Reif J C, Hochholdinger F, Chen X, Yu P:

Heritable microbiome variation is correlated with source environment in locally adapted maize varieties. Nat. Plants 10 (2024) 598-617. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01654-7

Huang Y, Maurer A, Giehl R F H, Zhao S, Golan G, Thirulogachandar V, Li G, Zhao Y, Trautewig C, Himmelbach A, Börner A, Jayakodi M, Stein N, Mascher M, Pillen K, Schnurbusch T:

Dynamic phytomeric growth contributes to local adaptation in barley. Mol. Biol. Evol. 41 (2024) msae011. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msae011

Lauterberg M, Tschiersch H, Zhao Y, Kuhlmann M, Mücke I, Papa R, Bitocchi E, Neumann K:

Implementation of theoretical non-photochemical quenching (NPQ((T))) to investigate NPQ of chickpea under drought stress with High-throughput Phenotyping. Sci. Rep. 14 (2024) 13970. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-63372-6

Lell M, Zhao Y, Reif J C:

Leveraging the potential of big genomic and phenotypic data for genome-wide association mapping in wheat. Crop J. 12 (2024) 803-813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cj.2024.03.005

Paril J, Reif J, Fournier-Level A, Pourkheirandish M:

Heterosis in crop improvement. Plant J. 117 (2024) 23-32. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16488

Ramzan H:

Nitrogen use efficiency in contrasting elite winter wheat lines (EL) and plant genetic resources (PGR). (Master Thesis) Mailand/Italien, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale (2024)

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The use of genome-wide prediction to increase efficiency in plant breeding programs. (PhD Thesis) Halle/S., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Geowissenschaften und Informatik (2024)

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The potential of wheat variety mixtures to enhance grain yield and yield stability. (Master Thesis) Wien/Österreich, Universität für Bodenkultur (BOKU) (2024)

Schneider J, Hinterberger V, Spiller M, Moittié T, Gils M, Wolf M, Reif J C, Schulthess A W:

First insights into the quantitative genetic composition of the female seed yield for an efficient hybrid seed production in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Plant Breed. 143 (2024) 131-141. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pbr.13160

Sorourmofrad M:

Understanding the contribution of plant genetic resources (PGRs) to disease resistance traits in wheat. (Master Thesis) Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2024)

Svoboda P, Holubec V, Reif J C, Berkner M O:

Curation of historical phenotypic wheat data from the Czech Genebank for research and breeding. Sci. Data 11 (2024) 763. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03598-1

Thomsen L E:

Integrating genomic predictions into an applied wheat breeding program. (Master Thesis) Stuttgart, Universität Hohenheim (2024)

Yuan Z, Rembe M, Mascher M, Stein N, Jayakodi M, Börner A, Oldach K, Jahoor A, Jensen J D, Rudloff J, Dohrendorf V-E, Kuhfus L P, Dyrszka E, Conte M, Hinz F, Trouchaud S, Reif J C, El Hanafi S:

Capitalizing genebank core collections for rare and novel disease resistance loci to enhance barley resilience. J. Exp. Bot. 75 (2024) 5940-5954. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae283

Arumugam R:

Evaluating the breeding value of wheat plant genetic resources for grain yield in a hybrid background. (Master Thesis) Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (2023)

El Hanafi S, Jiang Y, Kehel Z, Schulthess A W, Zhao Y, Mascher M, Haupt M, Himmelbach A, Stein N, Amri A, Reif J C:

Genomic predictions to leverage phenotypic data across genebanks. Front. Plant Sci. 14 (2023) 1227656. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1227656

Fernández-Calleja M, Boutin C, Dyrszka E, Manès Y, Reif J C, Zhao Y, Aparicio N, Ciudad F J, Casas A M, Igartua E:

Identification of adapted breeding lines to improve barley hybrids for Spain. Crop Sci. 63 (2023) 186-203. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20858

Gogna A, Zhang J, Jiang Y, Schulthess A W, Zhao Y, Reif J C:

Filtering for SNPs with high selective constraint augments mid-parent heterosis predictions in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Crop J. 11 (2023) 166-176. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cj.2022.06.009

Hinterberger V, Douchkov D, Lueck S, Reif J C, Schulthess A W:

High-throughput imaging of powdery mildew resistance of the winter wheat collection hosted at the German Federal ex situ Genebank for Agricultural and Horticultural Crops. GigaScience 12 (2023) giad007. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giad007

Khodaeiaminjan M, Knoch D, Ndella Thiaw M R, Marchetti C F, Kořínková N, Techer A, Nguyen T D, Chu J, Bertholomey V, Doridant I, Gantet P, Graner A, Neumann K, Bergougnoux V:

Genome-wide association study in two-row spring barley landraces identifies QTL associated with plantlets root system architecture traits in well-watered and osmotic stress conditions. Front. Plant Sci. 14 (2023) 1125672. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1125672

Kishchenko O, Stepanenko A, Straub T, Zhou Y, Neuhäuser B, Borisjuk N:

Ammonium uptake, mediated by ammonium transporters, mitigates manganese toxicity in Duckweed, Spirodela polyrhiza. Plants 12 (2023) 208. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12010208

Li Y-H, Qin C, Wang L, Jiao C, Hong H, Tian Y, Li Y, Xing G, Wang J, Gu Y, Gao X, Li D, Li H, Liu Z, Jing X, Feng B, Zhao T, Guan R, Guo Y, Liu J, Yan Z, Zhang L, Ge T, Li X, Wang X, Qiu H, Zhang W, Luan X, Han Y, Han D, Chang R, Guo Y, Reif J C, Jackson S A, Liu B, Tian S, Qiu L-J:

Genome-wide signatures of the geographic expansion and breeding of soybean. Sci. China Life Sci. 66 (2023) 350-365. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11427-022-2158-7

Meyer R C, Weigelt-Fischer K, Tschiersch H, Topali G, Altschmied L, Heuermann M C, Knoch D, Kuhlmann M, Zhao Y, Altmann T:

Dynamic growth QTL action in diverse light environments - characterization of light regime-specific and stable QTL in Arabidopsis. J. Exp. Bot. 74 (2023) 5341–5362. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad222

Muqaddasi Q H, Muqaddasi R K, Ebmeyer E, Korzun V, Argillier O, Mirdita V, Reif J C, Ganal M W, Röder M S:

Genetic control and prospects of predictive breeding for European winter wheats Zeleny sedimentation values and Hagberg-Perten falling number. Theor. Appl. Genet. 136 (2023) 229. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00122-023-04450-7

Neumann K, Schulthess A W, Bassi F M, Dhanagond S, Khlestkina E, Börner A, Graner A, Kilian B:

Genomic approaches to using diversity for the adaptation of modern varieties of wheat and barley to climate change. In: Ghamkhar K, Williams W, Brown A H D (Eds.): Plant Genetic Resources for the 21st Century. The OMICS Era. New York: Apple Academic Press (2023) ISBN 9781774910825, 47-78. https://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003302957

Rahmani M-S, Naghavi M-R, Bushehri A-A S, Shabanian N, Otto L-G:

Phenotyping and genotyping of Pistacia atlantica Desf. subsp. kurdica along an environmental gradient in the semi-arid forests of western and southern Iran. Tree Genet. Genomes 19 (2023) 46. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11295-023-01621-x

Słomińska-Durdasiak K M:

Host-induced gene silencing as resistance strategy against pathogens. (PhD Thesis) Halle/S., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Geowissenschaften und Informatik (2023) 135 pp.

Specka X, Martini D, Weiland C, Arend D, Asseng S, Boehm F, Feike T, Fluck J, Gackstetter D, Gonzales-Mellado A, Hartmann T, Haunert J-H, Hoedt F, Hoffmann C, König P, Lange M, Lesch S, Lindstädt B, Lischeid G, Möller M, Rascher U, Reif J C, Schmalzl M, Senft M, Stahl U, Svoboda N, Usadel B, Webber H, Ewert F:

FAIRagro: Ein Konsortium in der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) für Forschungsdaten in der Agrosystemforschung. Informatik Spektrum 46 (2023) 24-35. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00287-022-01520-w

Tian Y, Li D, Wang X, Zhang H, Wang J, Yu L, Guo C, Luan X, Liu X, Li H, Reif J C, Li Y-H, Qiu L-J:

Deciphering the genetic basis of resistance to soybean cyst nematode combining IBD and association mapping. Theor. Appl. Genet. 136 (2023) 50. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00122-023-04268-3

Varshney R K, Stein N, Reif J:

Professor Andreas Graner: driven by the quest to unlock crop plant genomes for conservation and utilization of germplasm for breeding. Plant Biotechnol. J. 21 (2023) 2426-2432. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pbi.14143

Würschum T, Zhu X, Zhao Y, Jiang Y, Reif J C, Maurer H P:

Maximization through optimization? On the relationship between hybrid performance and parental genetic distance. Theor. Appl. Genet. 136 (2023) 186. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00122-023-04436-5

Zhou Y, Stepanenko A, Kishchenko O, Xu J, Borisjuk N:

Duckweeds for phytoremediation of polluted water. Plants 12 (2023) 589. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12030589

Aiyesa L V:

Unravelling the genetics of pod stringiness and agronomic traits of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) using genome-wide association studies and genotyping-by-sequencing. (Master Thesis) Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (2022) 55 pp.

Arndt L:

Ein populationsbasierter Selektions- und Rückkreuzungsansatz ermöglicht es, wertvolle Variation für die Offenblütigkeit aus pflanzengenetischen Ressourcen zu erschließen. (Master Thesis) Halle/S., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Geowissenschaften und Informatik (2022)

Berkner M O, Schulthess A W, Zhao Y, Jiang Y, Oppermann M, Reif J C:

Choosing the right tool: Leveraging of plant genetic resources in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) benefits from selection of a suitable genomic prediction model. Theor. Appl. Genet. 135 (2022) 4391-4407. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00122-022-04227-4

Beukert U:

Genetic architecture of leaf rust and stripe rust resistance in European wheat. (PhD Thesis, kumulativ) Halle/S., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Geowissenschaften und Informatik (2022) 81 pp.

Buerstmayr H, Dreccer M F, Miladinović D, Qiu L, Rajcan I, Reif J, Varshney R K, Vollmann J:

Editorial: Plant breeding for increased sustainability: challenges, opportunities and progress. Theor. Appl. Genet. 135 (2022) 3679-3683. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00122-022-04238-1

Fu J, Hao Y, Li H, Reif J C, Chen S, Huang C, Wang G, Li X, Xu Y, Li L:

Integration of genomic selection with doubled-haploid evaluation in hybrid breeding: From GS 1.0 to GS 4.0 and beyond. Mol. Plant 15 (2022) 577-580. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2022.02.005

Gogna A, Schulthess A W, Röder M S, Ganal M W, Reif J C:

Gabi wheat a panel of European elite lines as central stock for wheat genetic research. Sci. Data 9 (2022) 538. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01651-5

Grüneberg W J, de Boeck B, Diaz F, Eyzaguirre R, Low J W, Reif J C, Campos H:

Heterosis and responses to selection in orange fleshed sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.) improved using reciprocal recurrent selection. Front. Plant Sci. 13 (2022) 793904. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.793904

Hinterberger V, Douchkov D, Lück S, Kale S, Mascher M, Stein N, Reif J C, Schulthess A W:

Mining for new sources of resistance to powdery mildew in genetic resources of winter wheat. Front. Plant Sci. 13 (2022) 836723. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.836723

Hussain B, Akpınar B A, Alaux M, Algharib A M, Sehgal D, Ali Z, Aradottir G I, Batley J, Bellec A, Bentley A R, Cagirici H B, Cattivelli L, Choulet F, Cockram J, Desiderio F, Devaux P, Dogramaci M, Dorado G, Dreisigacker S, Edwards D, El-Hassouni K, Eversole K, Fahima T, Figueroa M, Gálvez S, Gill K S, Govta L, Gul A, Hensel G, Hernandez P, Crespo-Herrera L A, Ibrahim A, Kilian B, Korzun V, Krugman T, Li Y, Liu S, Mahmoud A F, Morgounov A, Muslu T, Naseer F, Ordon F, Paux E, Perovic D, Reddy G V P, Reif J C, Reynolds M, Roychowdhury R, Rudd J, Sen T Z, Sukumaran S, Ozdemir B S, Tiwari V K, Ullah N, Unver T, Yazar S, Appels R, Budak H:

Capturing wheat phenotypes at the genome level. Front. Plant Sci. 13 (2022) 851079. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.851079

Kale S M, Schulthess A W, Padmarasu S, Boeven P H G, Schacht J, Himmelbach A, Steuernagel B, Wulff B B H, Reif J C, Stein N, Mascher M:

A catalogue of resistance gene homologs and a chromosome-scale reference sequence support resistance gene mapping in winter wheat. Plant Biotechnol. J. 20 (2022) 1730-1742. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pbi.13843

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Using genome-wide predictions to assess the phenotypic variation of a barley (Hordeum sp.) gene bank collection for important agronomic traits and passport information. Front. Plant Sci. 11 (2021) 604781. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.604781

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Activating ex situ genebank collections of wheat and barley for breading and research. (PhD Thesis) Halle/S., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Geowissenschaften und Informatik (2020)

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Identification of novel genetic factors underlying the host-pathogen interaction between barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei). PLoS One 15 (2020) e0235565. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235565

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Die Eignung von Elitelinien für die Hybridsaatgutproduktion und als Tester in Kreuzungen mit pflanzengenetischen Ressourcen. (Master Thesis) Halle/S., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Geowissenschaften und Informatik (2020) 56 pp.

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