All Outputs (84)

Development of selection indices for improvement of seed yield and lipid composition in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (l.) verdc.) (2021)
Journal Article
Halimi, R. A., Raymond, C. A., Barkla, B. J., Mayes, S., & King, G. J. (2022). Development of selection indices for improvement of seed yield and lipid composition in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (l.) verdc.). Foods, 11(1), Article 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11010086

The underutilised grain legume bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) has the potential to contribute significantly to nutritional security. However, the lack of commercial cultivars has hindered its wider adoption and utilisation as a food source. Th... Read More about Development of selection indices for improvement of seed yield and lipid composition in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (l.) verdc.).

Physiological screening for drought tolerance traits in vegetable amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor) germplasm (2021)
Journal Article
Jamalluddin, N., Massawe, F. J., Mayes, S., Ho, W. K., Singh, A., & Symonds, R. C. (2021). Physiological screening for drought tolerance traits in vegetable amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor) germplasm. Agriculture, 11(10), Article 994. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11100994

Amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor), an underutilized climate smart crop, is highly nutritious and possesses diverse drought tolerance traits, making it an ideal crop to thrive in a rapidly changing climate. Despite considerable studies on the growth and... Read More about Physiological screening for drought tolerance traits in vegetable amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor) germplasm.

Target Gene Identification and sgRNA Design for Waterlogging Tolerance in Foxtail Millet via CRISPR-Based Transcriptional Activation (2021)
Journal Article
Nor Akmar Abdullah, S., Abdullah, A., & Mayes, S. (2021). Target Gene Identification and sgRNA Design for Waterlogging Tolerance in Foxtail Millet via CRISPR-Based Transcriptional Activation. Current Chinese Science, 1(5), 523-533. https://doi.org/10.2174/2210298101666210709104258

Background:
CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) uses non-functional Cas9 endonuclease (dCas9) but retains the genome targeting ability through its single guide RNAs (sgRNAs). CRISPRa is widely utilised as a gene activation system exploiting its ability in r... Read More about Target Gene Identification and sgRNA Design for Waterlogging Tolerance in Foxtail Millet via CRISPR-Based Transcriptional Activation.

Challenges for FAIR-compliant description and comparison of crop phenotype data with standardized controlled vocabularies (2021)
Journal Article
Andrés-Hernández, L., Halimi, R. A., Mauleon, R., Mayes, S., Baten, A., & King, G. J. (2021). Challenges for FAIR-compliant description and comparison of crop phenotype data with standardized controlled vocabularies. Database, 2021, Article baab028. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baab028

Crop phenotypic data underpin many pre-breeding efforts to characterize variation within germplasm collections. Although there has been an increase in the global capacity for accumulating and comparing such data, a lack of consistency in the systemat... Read More about Challenges for FAIR-compliant description and comparison of crop phenotype data with standardized controlled vocabularies.

Comparison of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with yield components in two commercial Dura × Pisifera breeding crosses (2021)
Journal Article
Zolkafli, S. H., Ngoot-Chin, T., Shazana, N., Ithnin, M., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., …Singh, R. (2021). Comparison of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with yield components in two commercial Dura × Pisifera breeding crosses. Euphytica, 217, Article 104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-021-02825-9

The high yielding tenera is the commercial oil palm planting material of choice in Southeast Asia. Notwithstanding this, there is continuous effort to further improve the yield and one way to do this is by addressing the yield components (YCs ). Usin... Read More about Comparison of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with yield components in two commercial Dura × Pisifera breeding crosses.

Genomic and pedigree‐based predictive ability for quality traits in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) (2021)
Journal Article
Lubanga, N., Massawe, F., & Mayes, S. (2021). Genomic and pedigree‐based predictive ability for quality traits in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze). Euphytica, 217(3), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-021-02774-3

© 2021, The Author(s). Genetic improvement of quality traits in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) through conventional breeding methods has been limited, because tea quality is a difficult and expensive trait to measure. Genomic selection (GS) i... Read More about Genomic and pedigree‐based predictive ability for quality traits in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze).

Diversifying crops for food and nutrition security: A case of vegetable amaranth, an ancient climate-smart crop (2021)
Book Chapter
Jamalluddin, N., Symonds, R. C., Mayes, S., Ho, W. K., & Massawe, F. (2021). Diversifying crops for food and nutrition security: A case of vegetable amaranth, an ancient climate-smart crop. In C. M. Galanakis (Ed.), . https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820521-1.00006-X

Drought is major abiotic stress that causes severe crop losses worldwide. Climate predictions indicate that the frequency of droughts will increase, impacting on global food supply. Currently, the agricultural sector is dominated by the three major c... Read More about Diversifying crops for food and nutrition security: A case of vegetable amaranth, an ancient climate-smart crop.

Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security and Nutrition (2020)
Journal Article
Tan, X. L., Azam-Ali, S., Goh, E. V., Mustafa, M., Chai, H. H., Ho, W. K., …Massawe, F. (2020). Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security and Nutrition. Frontiers in Nutrition, 7, Article 601496. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2020.601496

© Copyright © 2020 Tan, Azam-Ali, Goh, Mustafa, Chai, Ho, Mayes, Mabhaudhi, Azam-Ali and Massawe. Rapid population growth, climate change, intensive monoculture farming, and resource depletion are among the challenges that threaten the increasingly v... Read More about Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security and Nutrition.

Generation of open-source genomics resources for African orphan tree crops by African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC), a public-private partnership for promoting food and nutritional security in Africa (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hendre, P. S., Muchugi, A., Chang, Y., Fu, Y., Song, Y., Liu, M., Liao, X., Liu, H., Song, B., Xu, X., Cheng, S., Liu, X., Odney, D. A., Kuan Ho, W., Mayes, S., Muthemba, S., Kariba, R., Featherston, J., Hefer, C., Rees, J., …Jamnadass, R. (2018, August). Generation of open-source genomics resources for African orphan tree crops by African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC), a public-private partnership for promoting food and nutritional security in Africa. Presented at XXX International Horticultural Congress IHC2018: V International Symposium on Plant Genetic Resources and International Symposium on Applied Functional Molecular Biology, Istanbul

© 2020 International Society for Horticultural Science. All rights reserved. The growing African population needs a substantial increase in food production along with nutritious food options to address hunger, malnutrition and stunting. The indigenou... Read More about Generation of open-source genomics resources for African orphan tree crops by African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC), a public-private partnership for promoting food and nutritional security in Africa.

An improved oil palm genome assembly as a valuable resource for crop improvement and comparative genomics in the Arecoideae subfamily (2020)
Journal Article
Ong, A. L., Teh, C. K., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., Appleton, D. R., & Kulaveerasingam, H. (2020). An improved oil palm genome assembly as a valuable resource for crop improvement and comparative genomics in the Arecoideae subfamily. Plants, 9(11), Article 1476. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9111476

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is the most traded crop among the economically important palm species. Here, we report an extended version genome of E. guineensis that is 1.2 Gb in length,... Read More about An improved oil palm genome assembly as a valuable resource for crop improvement and comparative genomics in the Arecoideae subfamily.

Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm (2020)
Journal Article
Ting, N. C., Sherbina, K., Khoo, J. S., Kamaruddin, K., Chan, P. L., Chan, K. L., …Singh, R. (2020). Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 16296. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73170-5

© 2020, The Author(s). Evaluation of transcriptome data in combination with QTL information has been applied in many crops to study the expression of genes responsible for specific phenotypes. In oil palm, the mesocarp oil extracted from E. oleifera... Read More about Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm.

Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations (2020)
Journal Article
Gao, X., Bamba, A. S. A., Kundy, A. C., Mateva, K. I., Chai, H. H., Ho, W. K., …Massawe, F. (2020). Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations. Agronomy, 10(10), Article 1451. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101451

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Underutilis... Read More about Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations.

A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system (2020)
Journal Article
Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Li, X., Shen, H., Gao, J., Hou, S., …Wang, X. (2020). A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system. Nature Plants, 6, 1167–1178. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0747-7

Over the past few decades, several plant species, including Arabidopsis thaliana, Brachypodium distachyon and rice (Oryza sativa), have been adopted as model plants for various aspects of research. These species, especially Arabidopsis, have had vita... Read More about A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system.

Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity (2020)
Journal Article
McCouch, S., Navabi, K., Abberton, M., Anglin, N. L., Barbieri, R. L., Baum, M., …Rieseberg, L. H. (2020). Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity. Molecular Plant, 13(10), 1341-1344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2020.08.011

Over the past 70 years, the world has witnessed extraordinary growth in crop productivity, enabled by a suite of technological advances, including higher yielding crop varieties, improved farm management, synthetic agrochemicals, and agricultural mec... Read More about Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity.

Photoperiod control of yield and sink capacity in Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) genotypes (2020)
Journal Article
Kendabie, P., Jørgensen, S., Massawe, F., Fernandez, J., Azam-Ali, S., & Mayes, S. (2020). Photoperiod control of yield and sink capacity in Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) genotypes. Food and Energy Security, 9(4), Article e240. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.240

© 2020 The Authors. Food and Energy Security published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association of Applied Biologists In Bambara groundnut [Vigna subterranea (L) Verdc], long photoperiods can cause a decline in pod and seed number. While n... Read More about Photoperiod control of yield and sink capacity in Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) genotypes.

Candidate genes linked to QTL regions associated with fatty acid composition in oil palm (2020)
Journal Article
Ting, N. C., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., Sambanthamurthi, R., Chan, K. L., Sritharan, K., & Singh, R. (2020). Candidate genes linked to QTL regions associated with fatty acid composition in oil palm. Biologia, 76, 267–279. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-020-00563-2

© 2020, Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences. The present study searched for candidate genes in five linkage groups (LGs) - T2, T3, OT4, OT6 and T9 hosting the QTLs associated with iodine value (IV) and fatty acid composition (F... Read More about Candidate genes linked to QTL regions associated with fatty acid composition in oil palm.

Major qtls for trunk height and correlated agronomic traits provide insights into multiple trait integration in oil palm breeding (2020)
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Teh, C. K., Ong, A. L., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., & Appleton, D. R. (2020). Major qtls for trunk height and correlated agronomic traits provide insights into multiple trait integration in oil palm breeding. Genes, 11(7), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11070826

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Superior oil yield is always the top priority of the oil palm industry. Short trunk height (THT) and compactness traits have become increasingly important to improve harvesting efficiency sinc... Read More about Major qtls for trunk height and correlated agronomic traits provide insights into multiple trait integration in oil palm breeding.

Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of the Rab GTPase family in mango (2020)
Journal Article
Lawson, T., Lycett, G. W., Mayes, S., Ho, W. K., & Chin, C. F. (2020). Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of the Rab GTPase family in mango. Molecular Biology Reports, 47, 4183–4197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05519-y

© 2020, Springer Nature B.V. The Rab GTPase family plays a vital role in several plant physiological processes including fruit ripening. Fruit softening during ripening involves trafficking of cell wall polymers and enzymes between cellular compartme... Read More about Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of the Rab GTPase family in mango.

Root foraging capacity in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) core parental lines depends on the root system architecture during the pre-flowering stage (2020)
Journal Article
Mateva, K. I., Mateva, K., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., & Chai, H. H. (2020). Root foraging capacity in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) core parental lines depends on the root system architecture during the pre-flowering stage. Plants, 9(5), Article 645. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9050645

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Characterizing the morphological variability in root system architecture (RSA) during the sensitive pre-flowering growth stage is important for crop performance. To assess this variation, eigh... Read More about Root foraging capacity in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) core parental lines depends on the root system architecture during the pre-flowering stage.

Understanding the genetic relationships between Indonesian bambara groundnut landraces and investigating their origins (2020)
Journal Article
Redjeki, E. S., Ho, W. K., Shah, N., Molosiwa, O. O., Ardiarini, N. R., Kuswanto, & Mayes, S. (2020). Understanding the genetic relationships between Indonesian bambara groundnut landraces and investigating their origins. Genome, 63(6), 319-327. https://doi.org/10.1139/gen-2019-0137

A total of 170 bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) accessions were evaluated using both simple sequence repeat (SSR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers generated using genotyping-by-sequencing (GbS), of which 56 accessions were collec... Read More about Understanding the genetic relationships between Indonesian bambara groundnut landraces and investigating their origins.