Towards new Brassica crops: genetic improvement of Brassica hexaploids

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Annaliese Mason
• Subject Area: Plant Breeding and Plant Pathology
• Term: from 2017 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 339340200

• Final Report Year: 2022

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• (2018) A high-density genetic map of an allohexaploid Brassica doubled haploid population reveals quantitative trait loci for pollen viability and fertility. Frontiers in Plant Science 9: 1161
  Yang S., Chen S., Zhang K., Li L., Yin Y., Gill R.A., Yan G., Meng J., Cowling W.A. and Zhou W.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01161)
• (2018) Allohexaploids in the genus Brassica. Critical Reviews in Plant Science 37 (5): 422-437
  Gaebelein, R. and Mason, A.S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/07352689.2018.1517143)
• Interspecific hybridization for Brassica crop improvement. Crop Breed Genet Genom 2019; 1:e190007
  Katche E., Quezada-Martinez D., Ihien Katche E., Vasquez-Teuber P., Mason A.S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.20900/cbgg20190007)
• (2020) Fertile allohexaploid Brassica hybrids obtained from crosses between B. oleracea and B. juncea via ovule rescue and colchicine treatment of cuttings Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 140 (2): 301-313
  Mwathi M.W., Gupta M., Quezada-Martinez D., Pradhan A., Batley J., Mason A.S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-019-01728-x)
• (2020) Homoeologous exchanges, segmental allopolyploidy and polyploid genome evolution. Frontiers in Genetics 11:1014
  Mason A.S., Wendel J.F.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.01014)
• (2021) Challenges and prospects for a potential allohexaploid Brassica crop. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 134: 2711–2726
  Zhang K., Mason A.S., Farooq M.A., Islam F., Quezada-Martinez D., Hu D., Yang S., Zou J. and Zhou W.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-021-03845-8)
• (2021) Using wild relatives and related species to build climate resilience in Brassica crops. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 134: 1711–1728
  Quezada Martinez D., Addo Nyarko C., Schiessl S.V. and Mason A.S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-021-03793-3)
• Allele segregation analysis of F1 hybrids between independent Brassica allohexaploid lineages
  Quezada-Martinez D., Zou J., Zhang W., Meng J., Batley, J., Mason A.S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.18.469170)