Dominant cis-regulatory variation to improve quantitative traits in polyploid wheat

Project Information

dcPolyWheat

Grant agreement ID: 866328

DOI

10.3030/866328

Project closed

EC signature date 6 March 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 994,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 994,00

Coordinated by

JOHN INNES CENTRE
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Delayed development of basal spikelets in wheat explains their increased floret abortion and rudimentary nature

Author(s): Anna Elisabeth Backhaus, Cara Griffiths, Angel Vergara-Cruces, James Simmonds, Rebecca Lee, Richard J Morris, Cristobal Uauy
Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, Issue 74, 2023, Page(s) 5088-5103, ISSN 0022-0957
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad233

High expression of the MADS-box gene <i>VRT2</i> increases the number of rudimentary basal spikelets in wheat

Author(s): Anna E Backhaus; Ashleigh Lister; Melissa Tomkins; Nikolai M Adamski; James Simmonds; Iain Macaulay; Richard J Morris; Wilfried Haerty; Cristobal Uauy
Published in: Plant Physiology, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0032-0889
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiac156

Ectopic expression of Triticum polonicum VRT-A2 underlies elongated glumes and grains in hexaploid wheat in a dosage-dependent manner.

Author(s): Nikolai M. Adamski; James Simmonds; Jemima Brinton; Anna E. Backhaus; Yi Chen; Mark A. Smedley; Sadiye Hayta; Tobin Florio; Pamela Crane; Peter Scott; Alice Pieri; Olyvia Hall; J. Elaine Barclay; Myles Clayton; John H. Doonan; Candida Nibau; Cristobal Uauy
Published in: Plant Cell, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1040-4651
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koab119

Einkorn genomics sheds light on history of the oldest domesticated wheat

Author(s): Hanin Ibrahim Ahmed, Matthias Heuberger, Adam Schoen, Dal-Hoe Koo, Jesus Quiroz-Chavez, Laxman Adhikari, John Raupp, Stéphane Cauet, Nathalie Rodde, Charlotte Cravero, Caroline Callot, Gerard R. Lazo, Nagarajan Kathiresan, Parva K. Sharma, Ian Moot, Inderjit Singh Yadav, Lovepreet Singh, Gautam Saripalli, Nidhi Rawat, Raju Datla, Naveenkumar Athiyannan, Ricardo H. Ramirez-Gonzalez, Cristobal Uauy
Published in: Nature, Issue 620, 2023, Page(s) 830-838, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06389-7

The Triticum ispahanicum elongated glume locus P2 maps to chromosome 6A and is associated with the ectopic expression of SVP-A1

Author(s): Yi Chen, Yinqi Liu, Junli Zhang, Adam Torrance, Nobuyoshi Watanabe, Nikolai M. Adamski, Cristobal Uauy
Published in: Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0040-5752
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-022-04114-y

Identification of a novel SNP in the miR172 binding site of <i>Q</i> homoeolog <i>AP2L-D5</i> is associated with spike compactness and agronomic traits in wheat ( <i>Triticum aestivum</i> L.)

Author(s): Victoria Zeng, Cristobal Uauy, Yi Chen
Published in: TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik, 2026, ISSN 0040-5752
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.10.561767

Spatial transcriptomics reveals expression gradients in developing wheat inflorescences at cellular resolution

Author(s): Katie A Long, Ashleigh Lister, Maximillian R W Jones, Nikolai M Adamski, Rob E Ellis, Carole Chedid, Sophie J Carpenter, Xuemei Liu, Anna E Backhaus, Andrew Goldson, Vanda Knitlhoffer, Yuanrong Pei, Martin Vickers, Burkhard Steuernagel, Gemy G Kaithakottil, Jun Xiao, Wilfried Haerty, Iain C Macaulay, Cristóbal Uauy
Published in: The Plant Cell, Issue 38, 2026, ISSN 1040-4651
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf282

MicroRNA-resistant alleles of HOMEOBOX DOMAIN-2 modify inflorescence branching and increase grain protein content of wheat

Author(s): Laura E Dixon, Marianna Pasquariello, Roshani Badgami, Kara A Levin, Gernot Poschet, Pei Qin Ng, Simon Orford, Noam Chayut, Nikolai M Adamski, Jemima Brinton, James Simmonds, Burkhard Steuernagel, Iain R Searle, Cristobal Uauy, Scott A Boden
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn5907

Harnessing landrace diversity empowers wheat breeding

Author(s): Shifeng Cheng, Cong Feng, Luzie U. Wingen, Hong Cheng, Andrew B. Riche, Mei Jiang, Michelle Leverington-Waite, Zejian Huang, Sarah Collier, Simon Orford, Xiaoming Wang, Rajani Awal, Gary Barker, Tom O’Hara, Clare Lister, Ajay Siluveru, Jesús Quiroz-Chávez, Ricardo H. Ramírez-González, Ruth Bryant, Simon Berry, Urmil Bansal, Harbans S. Bariana, Malcolm J. Bennett, Breno Bicego, Lorelei Bilham
Published in: Nature, Issue 632, 2024, Page(s) 823-831, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07682-9

Population genomic analysis of Aegilops tauschii identifies targets for bread wheat improvement

Author(s): Kumar Gaurav, Sanu Arora, Paula Silva, Javier Sánchez-Martín, Richard Horsnell, Liangliang Gao, Gurcharn S. Brar, Victoria Widrig, W. John Raupp, Narinder Singh, Shuangye Wu, Sandip M. Kale, Catherine Chinoy, Paul Nicholson, Jesús Quiroz-Chávez, James Simmonds, Sadiye Hayta, Mark A. Smedley, Wendy Harwood, Suzannah Pearce, David Gilbert, Ngonidzashe Kangara, Catherine Gardener, Macarena Forner
Published in: Nature Biotechnology, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 41:422-431, ISSN 1087-0156
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41587-021-01058-4

Origin and evolution of the bread wheat D genome

Author(s): Emile Cavalet-Giorsa, Andrea González-Muñoz, Naveenkumar Athiyannan, Samuel Holden, Adil Salhi, Catherine Gardener, Jesús Quiroz-Chávez, Samira M. Rustamova, Ahmed Fawzy Elkot, Mehran Patpour, Awais Rasheed, Long Mao, Evans S. Lagudah, Sambasivam K. Periyannan, Amir Sharon, Axel Himmelbach, Jochen C. Reif, Manuela Knauft, Martin Mascher, Nils Stein, Noam Chayut, Sreya Ghosh, Dragan Perovic, Al
Published in: Nature, Issue 633, 2024, Page(s) 848-855, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07808-z

A scalable phenotyping approach for female floral organ development and senescence in the absence of pollination in wheat

Author(s): Marina Millan-Blanquez, Matthew Hartley, Nicholas Bird, Yann Manes, Cristobal Uauy, Scott Boden
Published in: Development, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0950-1991
Publisher: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/dev.200889

Population genomics uncover loci for trait improvement in the indigenous African cereal tef ( <i>Eragrostis tef</i> )

Author(s): Maximillian R. W. Jones, Worku Kebede, Abel Teshome, Aiswarya Girija, Adanech Teshome, Dejene Girma, James K. M. Brown, Jesus Quiroz-Chavez, Chris S. Jones, Brande B. H. Wulff, Kebebew Assefa, Zerihun Tadele, Luis A. J. Mur, Solomon Chanyalew, Cristobal Uauy, Oluwaseyi Shorinola
Published in: Communications Biology, 2026, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Communications Biology
DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.30.615331

Stigma longevity is not a major limiting factor in hybrid wheat seed production

Author(s): Marina Millan-Blanquez, James Simmonds, Nicholas Bird, Yann Manes, Cristobal Uauy, Scott A Boden
Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, Issue 76, 2025, Page(s) 4003-4013, ISSN 0022-0957
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraf154

Other (4)

Delayed development of basal spikelets in wheat explains their increased floret abortion and rudimentary nature

Author(s): Anna E. Backhaus, Cara Griffiths, Angel Vergara-Cruces, James Simmonds, Rebecca Lee, Richard J. Morris, Cristobal Uauy
Published in: bioRxiv, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.17.528935

Decoding cellular transcriptional regulatory networks governing wheat inflorescence development

Author(s): Xuemei Liu, Xuelei Lin, Jingmin Kang, Katie A. Long, Jingjing Yue, Chuan Chen, Dongzhi Wang, Ashleigh Lister, Iain C. Macaulay, Xin Liu, Cristobal Uauy, Jun Xiao
Published in: bioRxiv, 2026
Publisher: openRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2025.01.18.633750

Increased grain weight conferred by <i>GW2</i> mutations in wheat does not translate into yield gains in multi-year field trials of near-isogenic lines

Author(s): James Simmonds, Pamela Crane, Sophie Eade, Aura Montemayor-Lara, Matt Kerton, Nicholas Bird, Phil Tailby, Peter Jackson, Duncan Warner, Charlotte Hayes, David Schafer, Cristobal Uauy
Published in: bioRxiv, 2025
Publisher: openRxiv
DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.04.692284

Collation and orthology-based identification of hormone-related genes in bread wheat

Author(s): Maximillian RW Jones; Katie Long; Andy Phillips; Cristobal Uauy
Published in: Zenodo, Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: OpenAIRE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7082849