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Identifying genetic components controlling fertility in the outcrossing grass species perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) by quantitative trait loci analysis and comparative genetics (2008)
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Armstead, I. P., Turner, L. B., Marshall, A. H., Humphreys, M. O., King, I. P., & Thorogood, D. (2008). Identifying genetic components controlling fertility in the outcrossing grass species perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) by quantitative trait loci analysis and comparative genetics. New Phytologist, 178(3), 559-571. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02413.x

Mutational load and resource allocation factors and their effects on limiting seed set were investigated in ryegrass by comparative mapping genomics and quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis in two perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) mapping familie... Read More about Identifying genetic components controlling fertility in the outcrossing grass species perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) by quantitative trait loci analysis and comparative genetics.

Rice pseudomolecule-anchored cross-species DNA sequence alignments indicate regional genomic variation in expressed sequence conservation (2007)
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Armstead, I., Huang, L., King, J., Ougham, H., Thomas, H., & King, I. (2007). Rice pseudomolecule-anchored cross-species DNA sequence alignments indicate regional genomic variation in expressed sequence conservation. BMC Genomics, 8(1), Article 283. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-8-283

Background Various methods have been developed to explore inter-genomic relationships among plant species. Here, we present a sequence similarity analysis based upon comparison of transcript-assembly and methylation-filtered databases from five plan... Read More about Rice pseudomolecule-anchored cross-species DNA sequence alignments indicate regional genomic variation in expressed sequence conservation.

Comparative Analyses Between Lolium/Festuca Introgression Lines and Rice Reveal the Major Fraction of Functionally Annotated Gene Models Is Located in Recombination-Poor/Very Recombination-Poor Regions of the Genome (2007)
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King, J., Armstead, I., Donnison, S., Roberts, L., Harper, J., Skot, K., …King, I. (2007). Comparative Analyses Between Lolium/Festuca Introgression Lines and Rice Reveal the Major Fraction of Functionally Annotated Gene Models Is Located in Recombination-Poor/Very Recombination-Poor Regions of the Genome. Genetics, 177(1), 597-606. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.107.075515

Publication of the rice genome sequence has allowed an in-depth analysis of genome organization in a model monocot plant species. This has provided a powerful tool for genome analysis in large-genome unsequenced agriculturally important monocot speci... Read More about Comparative Analyses Between Lolium/Festuca Introgression Lines and Rice Reveal the Major Fraction of Functionally Annotated Gene Models Is Located in Recombination-Poor/Very Recombination-Poor Regions of the Genome.

From phenotype to genotype: whole tissue profiling for plant breeding (2007)
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Goodacre, R., Roberts, L., Ellis, D. I., Thorogood, D., Reader, S. M., Ougham, H., & King, I. (2007). From phenotype to genotype: whole tissue profiling for plant breeding. Metabolomics, 3(4), 489-501. doi:10.1007/s11306-007-0062-6

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) was used to obtain ‘holistic’ metabolic fingerprints from a wide range of plants to differentiate species, population, single plant genotype, and chromosomal constitution differences. Sample preparation... Read More about From phenotype to genotype: whole tissue profiling for plant breeding.

Introgression mapping in the grasses (2007)
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King, J., Armstead, I. P., Donnison, I. S., Harper, J. A., Roberts, L. A., Thomas, H., …King, I. P. (2007). Introgression mapping in the grasses. Chromosome Research, 15(1), 105-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10577-006-1103-0

The unique properties of Lolium/Festuca hybrids and their derivatives provide an ideal system for intergeneric introgression. At IGER a focus on the Lolium perenne/Festuca pratensis system is being exploited to elucidate genome organization in the gr... Read More about Introgression mapping in the grasses.

Cross-Species Identification of Mendel's I Locus (2007)
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Armstead, I., Donnison, I., Aubry, S., Harper, J., Hortensteiner, S., James, C., …King, I. (2007). Cross-Species Identification of Mendel's I Locus. Science, 315(5808), 73-73. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1132912

A key gene involved in plant senescence, mutations of which partially disable chlorophyll catabolism and confer stay-green leaf and cotyledon phenotypes, has been identified in Pisum sativum, Arabidopsis thaliana, and Festuca pratensis by using class... Read More about Cross-Species Identification of Mendel's I Locus.

Alignment of the Genomes of Brachypodium distachyon and Temperate Cereals and Grasses Using Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Landing With Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization (2006)
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Hasterok, R., Marasek, A., Donnison, I. S., Armstead, I., Thomas, A., King, I. P., …Jenkins, G. (2006). Alignment of the Genomes of Brachypodium distachyon and Temperate Cereals and Grasses Using Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Landing With Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization. Genetics, 173(1), 349-362. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.105.049726

As part of an initiative to develop Brachypodium distachyon as a genomic “bridge” species between rice and the temperate cereals and grasses, a BAC library has been constructed for the two diploid (2n = 2x = 10) genotypes, ABR1 and ABR5. The library... Read More about Alignment of the Genomes of Brachypodium distachyon and Temperate Cereals and Grasses Using Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Landing With Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization.

Introgression of crown rust (Puccinia coronata) resistance from meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis) into Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum): genetic mapping and identification of associated molecular markers (2005)
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Armstead, I., Harper, J., Turner, L., Skot, L., King, I., Humphreys, M., …Roderick, H. (2006). Introgression of crown rust (Puccinia coronata) resistance from meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis) into Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum): genetic mapping and identification of associated molecular markers. Plant Pathology, 55(1), 62-67. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3059.2005.01308.x

Identification of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne (L.)) and meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis (Huds.)) candidate orthologous sequences to the rice Hd1(Se1) and barley HvCO1 CONSTANS-like genes through comparative mapping and microsynteny (2005)
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Armstead, I., Skøt, L., Turner, L., Skøt, K., Donnison, I., Humphreys, M., & King, I. (2005). Identification of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne (L.)) and meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis (Huds.)) candidate orthologous sequences to the rice Hd1(Se1) and barley HvCO1 CONSTANS-like genes through comparative mapping and microsynteny. New Phytologist, 167(1), 239-247. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01392.x

Microsynteny with rice and comparative genetic mapping were used to identify candidate orthologous sequences to the rice Hd1(Se1) gene in Lolium perenne and Festuca pratensis. A F. pratensis bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library was screened... Read More about Identification of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne (L.)) and meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis (Huds.)) candidate orthologous sequences to the rice Hd1(Se1) and barley HvCO1 CONSTANS-like genes through comparative mapping and microsynteny.

Construction of a Festuca pratensis BAC library for map-based cloning in Festulolium substitution lines (2005)
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Donnison, I. S., O’Sullivan, D. M., Thomas, A., Canter, P., Moore, B., Armstead, I., …King, I. P. (2005). Construction of a Festuca pratensis BAC library for map-based cloning in Festulolium substitution lines. TAG Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 110(5), 846-851. doi:10.1007/s00122-004-1870-y

Introgression in Festulolium is a potentially powerful tool to isolate genes for a large number of traits which differ between Festuca pratensis Huds. and Lolium perenne L. Not only are hybrids between the two species fertile, but the two genomes can... Read More about Construction of a Festuca pratensis BAC library for map-based cloning in Festulolium substitution lines.

Molecular tagging of a senescence gene by introgression mapping of a stay-green mutation from Festuca pratensis (2004)
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Moore, B. J., Donnison, I. S., Harper, J. A., Armstead, I. P., King, J., Thomas, H., …King, I. P. (2005). Molecular tagging of a senescence gene by introgression mapping of a stay-green mutation from Festuca pratensis. New Phytologist, 165(3), 801-806. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01269.x

Intergeneric hybrids between Lolium multiflorum and Festuca pratensis (Lm/Fp) and their derivatives exhibit a unique combination of genetic and cytogenetic characteristics: chromosomes undergo a high frequency of homoeologous recombination at meiosis... Read More about Molecular tagging of a senescence gene by introgression mapping of a stay-green mutation from Festuca pratensis.

Synteny between a major heading-date QTL in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and the Hd3 heading-date locus in rice (2003)
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Armstead, I., Turner, L., Farrell, M., Skøt, L., Gomez, P., Montoya, T., …Humphreys, M. (2004). Synteny between a major heading-date QTL in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and the Hd3 heading-date locus in rice. TAG Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 108(5), 822-828. doi:10.1007/s00122-003-1495-6

The genetic control of induction to flowering has been studied extensively in both model and crop species because of its fundamental biological and economic significance. An ultimate aim of many of these studies has been the application of the unders... Read More about Synteny between a major heading-date QTL in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and the Hd3 heading-date locus in rice.

Comparison and integration of genetic maps generated from F2 and BC1-type mapping populations in perennial ryegrass (2002)
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Armstead, I., Turner, L., King, I., Cairns, A., & Humphreys, M. (2002). Comparison and integration of genetic maps generated from F2 and BC1-type mapping populations in perennial ryegrass. Plant Breeding, 121(6), 501-507. doi:10.1046/j.1439-0523.2002.00742.x

Linkage maps of perennial ryegrass were constructed from F2 and BC1?type populations using, predominantly, restriction fragment length polymorphism data based on heterologous probes used in mapping other grass species. The maps identified seven linka... Read More about Comparison and integration of genetic maps generated from F2 and BC1-type mapping populations in perennial ryegrass.

A High-Copy-Number CACTA Family Transposon in Temperate Grasses and Cereals (2002)
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Langdon, T., Jenkins, G., Hasterok, R., Jones, R. N., & King, I. P. (2003). A High-Copy-Number CACTA Family Transposon in Temperate Grasses and Cereals. Genetics, 163(3), 1097-1108

A lineage of CACTA family transposons has been identified in temperate grasses and cereals, and a full-length representative of the subfamily from Lolium perenne has been sequenced. Both the size and internal organization of the L. perenne element ar... Read More about A High-Copy-Number CACTA Family Transposon in Temperate Grasses and Cereals.