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Hřibová E, Doleželová M, Town CD, Macas J, Doležel J (2007). Isolation and characterization of the highly repeated fraction of the banana genome. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 119(3–4):268–274. (DOI: 10.1159/000112073). Not open access: view abstract

Mace ES, Varshney RK, Mahalakshmi V, Seetha K, Gafoor A, Leeladevi Y and Crouch JH (2007). In silico development of simple sequence repeat markers within the aeschynomenoid/dalbergoid and genistoid clades of the Leguminosae family and their transferability to Arachis hypogaea, groundnut. Plant Science pulished online 6th October 2007. Also printed in 2008. (DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2007.09.014). Not open access: view abstract

Karaba A, Dixit S, Greco R, Aharoni A, Trijatmiko KR, Marsch-Martinez N, Krishnan A, Nataraja KN, Udayakumar M and Pereira A (2007). Improvement of water use efficiency in rice by expression of HARDY, an Arabidopsis drought and salt tolerance gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 104:15270–15275 (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0707294104). 

Freshwater is a limited and dwindling global resource; therefore, efficient water use is required for food crops that have high water demands, such as rice, or for the production of sustainable energy biomass. We show here that expression of the Arabidopsis HARDY (HRD) gene in rice improves water use efficiency, the ratio of biomass produced to the water used, by enhancing photosynthetic assimilation and reducing transpiration. These drought-tolerant, low-water-consuming rice plants exhibit increased shoot biomass under well irrigated conditions and an adaptive increase in root biomass under drought stress.

Li G, Liu Y, Ehlers JD, Zhu Z, Wu X, Wang B and Lu Z (2007). Identification of an AFLP fragment linked to rust resistance in asparagus bean and its conversion to a SCAR marker. Horticultural Science 42(5):1153–1156. Not open access: view abstract

Blair MW, Rodriguez LM, Pedraza F, Morales F, Beebe SE. (2007). Genetic mapping of the bean golden yellow mosaic geminivirus resistance gene bgm-1 and linkage with potyvirus resistance in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Theoretical and Applied Genetics 114(2): 261–271 (DOI: 10.1007/s00122-006-0428-6). Not open access: view abstract

Fang J, Chao CCT, Roberts PA and Ehlers JD (2007). Genetic diversity of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] in four West African and USA breeding programs as determined by AFLP analysis. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 54(6):1197–1209. (DOI: 10.1007/s10722-006-9101-9). Not open access: view abstract

Caniato FF, Guimarães CT, Schaffert RE, Alves VMC, Kochian LV, Borém A, Klein PE and Magalhães JV (2007). Genetic diversity for aluminium tolerance in sorghum. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 114(5):863–876. (DOI: 10.1007/s00122-006-0485-x). Not open access: view abstract

Jansen J and van Hintum T (2007). Genetic distance sampling - a novel sampling method for obtaining core collections using genetic distances with an application to cultivated lettuce. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 114(3):421–428. (DOI: 10.1007/s00122-006-0433-9). Not open access: view abstract

Ismail AM, Heuer S, Thomson MJ and Wissuwa M (2007). Genetic and genomic approaches to develop rice germplasm for problem soils. Plant Molecular Biology 65(4):547–570. (DOI: 10.1007/s11103-007-9215-2). Not open access: view abstract