Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris) is an important crop of temperate climates which
provides nearly 30% of the world’s annual sugar production and is a source for bioethanol and …

Genetic markers such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are essential tools for
positional cloning, association, or quantitative trait locus mapping and the determination of …

We develop a method to predict and validate gene models using PacBio single-molecule,
real-time (SMRT) cDNA reads. Ninety-eight percent of full-insert SMRT reads span complete …

Wild Vitis species are dioecious plants, while the cultivated counterpart, Vitis vinifera
subspec. vinifera, generally shows hermaphroditic flowers. In Vitis the genetic determinants of …

Background The R2R3-MYB genes comprise one of the largest transcription factor gene
families in plants, playing regulatory roles in plant-specific developmental processes, …

Short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs) are non-long terminal repeat retrotransposons
that are highly abundant, heterogeneous, and mostly not annotated in eukaryotic genomes. …

The major goal of this project was the establishment of a tool for rapid mapping of new
mutations and genotyping in Arabidopsis consisting of at least 100 evenly spaced framework …

Arabidopsis thaliana is the most important model organism for fundamental plant biology.
The genome diversity of different accessions of this species has been intensively studied, for …

Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) is an important crop plant that accounts for 30% of the world’s
sugar production annually. The genus Beta is a distant relative of currently sequenced taxa …

Molecular markers are a highly valuable tool for creating genetic maps. Like in many other
crops, sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) breeding is increasingly supported by the application of …