Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are believed to play essential roles in developmental processes and in responses to heat stress. Heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs) are important Hsp regulators, but their functions are poorly understood, especially in wheat. In this study, a comprehensive bioinformatics analysis was conducted in wheat A and D genome donors, Triticum urartu and Aegilops tauschii,...

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is widely used in the physical mapping of genes and chromosome landmarks in plants and animals. Bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) contain large inserts, making them amenable for FISH mapping. In our BAC-FISH experiments, we selected 56 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)-locus-specific BAC clones from the libraries of Triticum monococc...

in this study, 110 samples of bread wheat, aegilops crassa, ae. cylindrica and ae. tauschii were investigated to identify low-molecular-weight glutenin subunits. overall, the four alleles in term of the analysis of sds-page gels were detected. the ʻaʼ allele with 45% has the greatest frequency, and after that, ʻbʼ, ʻcʼ and ʻdʼ alleles were with 38.1%, 11.8% and 9.1% frequencies, respectively; h...

Leaf rust is one of the most devastating wheat diseases worldwide, to which many resistance genes have been successfully introgressed from wild relatives. Though Thinopyrum ponticum-derived leaf gene Lr19 widely effective, and previous studies shown its likely presence in Aegilops tauschii, no thorough investigation has conducted confirm this. The current study examined Ae. tauschii using molec...

Transposable elements (TE) exist in the genomes of nearly all eukaryotes. TE mobilization through 'cut-and-paste' or 'copy-and-paste' mechanisms causes their insertions into other repetitive sequences, gene loci and other DNA. An insertion of a TE commonly creates a unique TE junction in the genome. TE junctions are also randomly distributed along chromosomes and therefore useful for genome-wid...

The genetic relationships of A genomes of Triticum urartu (Au) and Triticum monococcum (Am) in polyploid wheats are explored and quantified by AFLP fingerprinting. Forty-one accessions of A-genome diploid wheats, 3 of AG-genome wheats, 19 of AB-genome wheats, 15 of ABD-genome wheats, and 1 of the D-genome donor Ae. tauschii have been analysed. Based on 7 AFLP primer combinations, 423 bands were...

We investigated the composition and the basis of genome expansion in the core Triticeae genome using Aegilops tauschii, the D-genome donor of bread wheat. We sequenced an unfiltered genomic shotgun (trs) and a methylation-filtration (tmf) library of A. tauschii, and analyzed wheat expressed sequence tags (ESTs) to estimate the expression of genes and transposable elements (TEs). The sampled D-g...