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Plant Genetic Resources: characterization & utilization journal

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2008

White, J., Law, J.R., MacKay, I., Chalmers, K.J., Smith, J.S.C., Kilian A. and. Powell W. (2008). The genetic diversity of UK, US and Australian cultivars of Triticum aestivum measured by DArT markers and considered by genome. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Volume 116. Number 3. 439-453.

Cockram, J., White, J., Leigh, F.J., Lea, V.J., Chiapparino, E., Laurie, D.A., Mackay, I., Powell, W., O’Sullivan, D.M. (2008) Association mapping of partitioning loci in barley. BMC Genetics, 19:6. OA publisher pdf here

2007

Cockram, J., Mackay I.J., O’Sullivan D.M. (2007) The role of double-stranded break repair in the creation of phenotypic diversity at cereal VRN1 loci. Genetics 177:1-5. Publisher pdf here.

Cockram J., Chiapparino E., Taylor S.A., Stamati K., Donini P., Laurie D.A. O'Sullivan D.M. (2007) Haplotype analysis of vernalization loci in European barley germplasm reveals novel VRN-H1 alleles and a predominant winter VRN-H1/VRN-H2 multi-locus haplotype. Theoretical and Applied Genetics115: 993-1001
 Article.   Supplementary material.    Genotype Dataset.

Mackay I., Powell W. (2007) Methods for linkage disequilibrium mapping in crops. Trends in Plant Science 12:57-63


Malysheva-Otto L., Ganal M., Law J., Reeves J., Roeder M. (2007) Temporal trends of genetic diversity in European barley cultivars (Hordeum vulgare L.). Molecular Breeding, in press 


Cockram J., Jones H., Leigh F., O’Sullivan D.M., Powell W., Laurie D., Greenland A. (2007) Control of Flowering Time in Temperate Cereals: Genes, Domestication and Sustainable Productivity. Journal of Experimental Botany 58:1231-1244 


Rae S.J., Macaulay M., Ramsay L., Leigh F., Matthews D., O’Sullivan D.M., Donini P., Morris P.C., Powell W., Marshall D.F., Waugh, R. Thomas W.T.B. (2007) Molecular Barley Breeding. Euphytica published online 5 Dec 2006


2006 

Chiapparino E., Donini P., Reeves J.C., Tuberosa R., O'Sullivan D.M. (2006) Distribution of beta-amylase I haplotypes among European cultivated barleys. Molecular Breeding 18:341-354


Doveri S., O'Sullivan D.M., Lee D. (2006) Non-concordance of genetic profiles between olive oil and fruit: a cautionary note to the use of DNA markers in provenance testing. . Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 54:9921-9926


RodriguezM., O’Sullivan D.M., Leigh F., Chiapparino E., Donini P., Papa R., Attene G. (2006) Integration of retrotransposon-based markers in a linkage map of barley. Molecular Breeding, 17: 173-184.


2005

Acquadro A., Portis E., Lee D., Donini P. and Lanteri S. (2005) Development and characterization of microsatellite markers in Cynara cardunculus L. Genome 48: 217-225


Donnison I., O'Sullivan D. M., Thomas A., Canter P., Moore B., Armstead I., Thomas H., Edwards K. J. and King I. P. (2005) Construction of a Festuca pratensis BAC library for map based cloning in Festulolium substitution lines. Theor Appl Genet 110:846-51


Martellossi C., Taylor E. J., Lee D., Graziosi G. and Donini P. (2005) DNA extraction and analysis from processed coffee beans. J Agric Food Chem 53: 8432-8436

Vaseva-Gemisheva I., Lee D. and Karanov E. (2005) Response of Pisum sativum cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase expression and specific activity to drought stress and herbicide treatments. Plant Growth Regulation 46: 199-208

2004

Bardini M., Lee D., Donini P., Mariani A., Giani S., Toschi M., Lowe C. and Breviario D. (2004) Tubulin-based polymorphism (TBP): a new tool, based on functionally relevant sequences, to assess genetic diversity in plant species. Genome 47: 281-291


Chiapparino E., Lee D. and Donini P. (2004) Genotyping single nucleotide polymorphisms in barley by tetra-primer ARMS-PCR. Genome 47: 414-420


D'Ovidio R., Raiola A., Capodicasa C., Devoto A., Pontiggia D., Roberti S., Galletti R., Conti E., O'Sullivan D. M. and De Lorenzo G. (2004) Characterization of the complex locus of bean encoding polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins reveals subfunctionalization for defense against fungi and insects. Plant Physiology 135: 2424-2435


Freeman S., West J., James C., Lea V. and Maye S. (2004) Isolation and characterisation of highly polymorphic microsatellites in tea. Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 324-326


Gutierrez-Marcos J. F., Costa L. M., Biderre-Petit C., Khbaya B., O'Sullivan D. M., Wormald M., Perez P. and Dickinson H. G. (2004) maternally expressed gene1 Is a novel maize endosperm transfer cell-specific gene with a maternal parent-of-origin pattern of expression. Plant Cell 16: 1288-1301


Taylor E. J. A., Konstantinova P., Leigh F., Bates J. A. and Lee D. (2004) Gypsy-like retrotransposons in Pyrenophera species: an abundant and informative class of molecular markers. Genome 47: 519-525


Vaseva-Gemisheva I., Lee D., Alexieva V. and Karanov E. (2004) Cytokinin oxidase/ dehydrogenase in Pisum sativum plants during vegetative development. Influence of UV-B irradiation and high temperature on enzymatic activity. Plant Growth Regulation 42: 1-5


2003

Koebner R. M. D., Donini P., Reeves J. C., Cooke R. J. and Law J. R. (2003) Temporal flux in the morphological and molecular diversity of UK barley. Theor Appl Genet 106: 550-558


Leigh F., Kalendar R., Lea V., Lee D., Donini P. and Schulman A. H. (2003a) Comparison of the utility of barley retrotransposon families for genetic analysis by molecular marker techniques. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 269: 464-474


Leigh F., Lea V., Law J., Wolters P., Powell W. and Donini P. (2003b) Assessment of EST- and genomic microsatellite markers for variety discrimination and genetic diversity studies in wheat. Euphytica 133: 359-366

Maccaferri M., Sanguineti M. C., Donini P. and Tuberosa R. (2003) Microsatellite analysis reveals a progressive widening of the genetic basis in elite durum wheat germplasm. Theor Appl Genet 107: 783-797


Masi P., Spagnoletti Zeuli P. L. and Donini P. (2003) Development and analysis of multiplex microsatellite marker sets in common bean. Molecular Breeding 11: 303-313


Tommasini L., Batley J., Arnold G. M., Cooke R. J., Donini P., Lee D., Law J. R., Lowe C., Moule C., Trick M. and Edwards K. J. (2003) The development of multiplex simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers to complement distinctness, uniformity and stability testing of rape (Brassica napus L.) varieties. Theor Appl Genet 106: 1091-1101


Uzun B., Lee D., Donini P. and Cagirgan M. I. (2003) Identification of a molecular marker linked to the closed capsule mutant trait in sesame using AFLP. Plamt Breed 122: 95-97