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Unlocking alleles from exotic wheat

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Genomic and phenotypic screening of the A. E. Watkins landrace wheat collection identifies beneficial novel haplotypes demonstrated to improve modern wheat without negative linkage drag or pleiotropy.

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Fig. 1: Beneficial novel alleles from domesticated landraces, absent in modern elite cultivars are discovered using genomics and genetic mapping.

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Murray, S.C. Unlocking alleles from exotic wheat. Nat. Plants (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01764-2

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