Publications

2024

Grewal, S., Yang, C.Y., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Ghosh, S., Swarbreck, D., Collins, J., Yao, E., Sen, T.Z., Wilson, M. and Yant, L., King, I.P., and King, J. (2024). Chromosome-scale genome assembly of bread wheat’s wild relative Triticum timopheevii. Scientific Data, 11(1), p.420. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03260-w

Guwela, V.F., Broadley, M.R., Hawkesford, M.J., Maliro, M.F., Bokosi, J., Banda, M., Grewal, S., Wilson, L. and King, J., 2024. Unravelling the impact of soil types on zinc, iron, and selenium concentrations in grains and straw of wheat/Amblyopyrum muticum and wheat/Triticum urartu doubled haploid lines. Frontiers in Agronomy, 6, p.1305034. https://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2024.1305034

2023

Cavalet-Giorsa, E., González-Muñoz, A., Athiyannan, N., Holden, S., Salhi, A., Gardener, C., Jesús Quiroz-Chávez, Samira M. Rustamova, Ahmed F. Elkot, Mehran Patpour, Awais Rasheed, Long Mao, Evans S. Lagudah, Sambasivam K. Periyannan, Amir Sharon, Axel Himmelbach, Jochen C. Reif, Manuela Knauft, Martin Mascher, Nils Stein, ... , Surbhi Grewal, Curtis Pozniak, Harmeet Singh Chawla, Jennifer Ens, Luke T. Dunning, James A. Kolmer, Gerard R. Lazo, Steven Xu, Yongqiang Gu, Xianyang Xu, Cristobal Uauy, Michael Abrouk, Salim Bougouffa, Gurcharn S. Brar, Brande B. H. Wulff & Krattinger, S. G. (2024). Origin and evolution of the bread wheat D genome. bioRxiv, 2023 11.29.568958; https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.29.568958

Mahmood, Y. A., DeSilva, J., King, I. P., King, J., Foulkes, M. J. (2023). Leaf photosynthesis traits and associations with biomass and drought tolerance in amphidiploid and ancestral wheat genotypes. European Journal of Agronomy, 147:126846 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2023.126846

Coombes. B., Fellers, J.P., Grewal, S., Rusholme-Pilcher, R., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Yang, C.Y., Joynson, R., King, I.P., King, J., Hall, A. (2022). Whole genome sequencing uncovers the structural and transcriptomic landscape of hexaploid wheat/Ambylopyrum muticum introgression lines. Plant Biotechnol J. 21:482-496. http://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.13859

2022

King, J., Grewal, S., Fellers, J. P., & King, I. P. (2022). Exploring Untapped Wheat Genetic Resources to Boost Food Security. In Wheat Improvement: Food Security in a Changing Climate (pp. 319-340). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90673-3_18

Nehe, A., King, J., King, I. P., Murchie, E. H., Foulkes, M. J. (2022). Identifying variation for N-use efficiency and associated traits in amphidiploids derived from hybrids of bread wheat and the genera Aegilops, Secale, Thinopyrum and Triticum. Plos one, 17 Issue 4 Pages e0266924 https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0266924

Othmeni, M., Grewal, S., Walker, J., Yang, C-y., King, I.P., King, J. (2022). Assessing the Potential of Using the Langdon 5D(5B) Substitution Line for the Introgression of Aegilops tauschii Into Durum Wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science 13:927728 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.927728

Steed, A., King, J., Grewal, S., Yang, C-y., Clarke, M., Devi, U., King, I.P., Nicholson, P. (2022) Identification of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Triticum timopheevii Accessions and Characterization of Wheat-T. timopheevii Introgression Lines for Enhanced Resistance. Frontiers in Plant Science 13:943211 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.943211

King, J., Grewal, S., Othmeni, M., Coombes, B., Yang, C-y., Walter, N., Ashling, S., Scholefield, D., Walker, J., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Hall, A., King, I.P. (2022). Introgression of the Triticum timopheevii Genome Into Wheat Detected by Chromosome-Specific Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR Markers. Frontiers in Plant Science 13:919519 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.919519

Grewal, S., Coombes, B., Joynson, R., Hall, A., Fellers, J., Yang, C. Y., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Isaac, P., King, I. P., & King, J. (2022). Chromosome-specific KASP markers for detecting Amblyopyrum muticum segments in wheat introgression lines. The Plant Genome, e20193. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20193

2021

Agarwal, D., MacNaughtan, W., King, J., Foster, T.J. (2021) Compositional, thermal and water sorption properties of wheat flour: comparing wild-relatives v/s elite wheat varieties used in current plant breeding. Food & Function 12 (2), 781-790. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0FO02223C

Guwela, V. F., Maliro, M. F. A., Joy, E. J. M., Tang, K., Bokosi, J., Hawkesford, M. J., Broadley, M. R., Broadley, M. R., King, J. (2021) Wheat value chains in Malawi: trends, gaps, challenges and opportunities. CAB Reviews 16(046). https://doi.org/10.1079/PAVSNNR202116046

Grewal, S., Guwela, V., Newell, C., Yang, C-y., Ashling, S., Scholefield, D., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Burridge, A., Stride, A., King, I.P., King, J. (2021) Generation of Doubled Haploid Wheat - Triticum urartu Introgression Lines and Their Characterisation Using Chromosome-Specific KASP Markers. Front. Plant Sci. 12:643636. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.643636

Przewieslik-Allen, A.M., Wilkinson, P.A., Burridge, A.J., Winfield, M.O., Dai, X., Beaumont, M., King, J., Yanm C-y., Griffiths, S., Wingen, L.U., Horsnell, R., Bentley, A.R., Shewry, P., Barker, G.L.A., Edwards, K.J. (2021) The role of gene flow and chromosomal instability in shaping the bread wheat genome. Nat. Plants 7:172-183. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-00845-2

2020

McAusland, L., Vialet-Chabrand, S., Jauregui, I., Burridge, A., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Fryer, M.J., King, I.P., King, J., Pyke, K., Edwards, K.J., Carmo-Silva, E., Lawson, T., Murchie, E.H. (2020) Variation in key leaf photosynthetic traits across wheat wild relatives is accession-dependent not species-dependent. New Phytologist 228(6):1767-1780 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16832

Grewal, S., Othmeni, M., Walker, J., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Yang, C-y., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Isaac, P., King, I.P., King, J. (2020) Development of Wheat-Aegilops caudata introgression lines and their characterization using genome-specific KASP markers. Front. Plant Sci. 11:606. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00606

Baker, L., Grewal, S., Yang, C-y., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Burridge, A.J., Przewieslik-Allen, A.M., Wilkinson, P.A., King, I.P., King, J. (2020) Exploiting the genome of Thinopyrum elongatum to expand the gene pool of hexaploid wheat. Theor. Appl. Genet. 133:2213-2226. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-020-03591-3

Adamski, N.M., Borrill, P., Brinton, J., Harrington, S.A., Marchal, C., Bentley, A.R., Bovill, W.D., Cattivelli, L., Cockram, J., Contreras-Moreira, B., Ford, B., Ghosh, S., Harwood, W., Hassani-Pak, K., Hayta, S., Hickey, L.T., Kanyuka, K., King, J., Maccaferri, M., Naamati, G., Pozniak, C.J., Ramirez-Gonzalez, R.H., Sansaloni, C., Trevaskis, B., Wingen, L.U., Wulff, B.B.H., Uauy, C. (2020) A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in crops with large genomes: Lessons from polyploid wheat. eLife 2020;9:e55646. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55646

Grewal, S., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Yang, C-y., Devi, U., Baker, L., Heath, J., Ashling, S., Scholefield, D., Howells, C., Yarde, J., Isaac, P., King, I.P., King, J. (2020) Rapid identification of homozygosity and site of wild relative introgressions in wheat through chromosome-specific KASP genotyping assays.Plant Biotechnol. J. V18(3):743-755. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.13241

Fellers, J.P., Matthews, A., Fritz, A.K., Rouse, M.N., Grewal, S., Hubbart-Edwards, S., King, I.P., King, J. (2020) Resistance to wheat rusts identified in wheat/Amblyopyrum muticum chromosome introgressions. Crop Science 60(4):1957-64. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20120

2019

Othmeni, M., Grewal, S., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Yang, C., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Yahyaoui, A., Gustafson, P., Singh, P.K., King, I.P., King, J. (2019) The use of pentaploid crosses for the introgression of Amblyopyrum muticum and D-genome chromosome segments into Durum wheat. Front. Plant Sci. 10:1110. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01110

Devi, U., Grewal, S., Yang, C-y., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Burridge, A., King, I.P., King, J. (2019) Development and characterisation of interspecific hybrid lines with genome-wide introgressions from Triticum timopheevii in a hexaploid wheat background. BMC Plant Biology 19:183. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-1785-z

Cseh, A., Megyeri, M., Yang, C-y., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S.S., King, I.P., King, J., Grewal, S. (2019) Development of a new A^m-genome-specific SNP marker set for the molecular characterization of wheat-Triticum monococcum introgression lines. Plant Genome 12(3):1-7. https://doi.org/10.3835/plantgenome2018.12.0098

Cseh, A., Yang, C-y., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Burridge, A.J., Wilkinson, P.A., King, I.P., King, J., Grewal, S. (2019) Development and Validation of Thinopyrum intermedium–Exome Based SNP Marker Set for Identification of the St, Jr and Jvs genomes in a wheat background. Theor. Appl. Genet. 132(5):1555-1570. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-019-03300-9

King, J., Newell, C., Grewal, S., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Yang, C-y., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Stride, A., King I.P. (2019) Development of Stable Homozygous Wheat/Amblyopyrum muticum (Aegilops mutica) Introgression Lines and Their Cytogenetic and Molecular Characterization. Front. Plant Sci. 10:34. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00034

Przewieslik-Allen, S., Burridge, A., Wilkinson, P., Winfield, M., Shaw, D., McAusland, L., King, J., King, I., Edwards, K., Barker, G. (2019) Developing a High-Throughput SNP-Based Marker System to Facilitate the Introgression of Traits from Aegilops Species into Bread Wheat (Triticum ;aestivum). Front. Plant Sci. 9:1993. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01993

2018

Grewal, S., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Yang, C-y., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Burridge, A., Wilkinson, P.A., King, I.P., King, J. (2018) Detection of T. urartu Introgressions in Wheat and Development of a Panel of Interspecific Introgression Lines. Front. Plant Sci. 9:1565. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01565

Grewal, S., Yang, C., Edwards, S., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Burridge, A.J., King, I.P., King, J. (2018) Characterisation of Thinopyrum bessarabicum chromosomes through genome-wide introgressions into wheat. Theor. Appl. Genet. 131(2):389-406. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-017-3009-y

King, J., Grewal, S., Yang, C-y., Edwards, S., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Harper, J.A., Allen, A.M., Edwards, K.J., Burridge, A.J., King, I.P. (2018) Introgression of Aegilops speltoides Segments in Triticum aestivum and the Effect of the Gametocidal Genes. Ann. Bot. 121(2):229-240. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx149

2017

Grewal, S., Gardiner, L., Ndreca, B., Knight, W., Moore, G., King, I.P., and King, J. (2017) Comparative Mapping and Targeted-Capture Sequencing of the Gametocidal Loci in Aegilops sharonensis. Plant Genome 10(2). https://doi.org/10.3835/plantgenome2016.09.0090

2016

King, J., Grewal, S., Yang, C-y., Hubbart, S., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Edwards, K.J., Allen, A.M., Burridge, A., Bloor, C., Davassi, A., da Silva, G.J., Chalmers, K., King, I.P. (2016) A step change in the transfer of interspecific variation into wheat from Amblyopyrum muticum. Plant Biotechnol J 15(2):217-226. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.12606

2015

Knight, E., Binnie, A., Draeger, T., Moscou, M., Rey, M., Sucher, J., Mehra, S., King, I., Moore, G. (2015) Mapping the "breaker" element of the gametocidal locus proximal to a block of sub-telomeric heterochromatin on the long arm of chromosome 4S^sh of Aegilops sharonensis. Theor. Appl. Genet. 128(6):1049-1059. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-015-2489-x

Winfield, M., Przewieslik-Allen, S., Barker, G., Edwards, K., Burridge, A., Benbow, H., Wilkinson, P., Coghill, J., Waterfall, C., Davassi, A., Scopes, G., Pirani, A., Webster, T., Brew, F., Bloor, C., King, J., West, C., Griffiths, S., King, I.P., Bentley, A., Edwards, K. (2015) ;High-density SNP genotyping array for hexaploid wheat and its secondary and tertiary gene pool. Plant Biotechnol. J. 14(5):1195-1206. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.12485

Atkinson, J.A., Wingen, L.U., Griffiths, M., Pound, M.P., Gaju, O., Foulkes, M.J., Le Gouis, J., Griffiths, S., Bennett, M.J., King, J., Wells, D.M. (2015) Phenotyping pipeline reveals major seedling root growth QTL in hexaploid wheat. J. Exp. Bot. 66(8):2283-2292. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erv006

Nemeth, C., Yang, C., Kasprzak, P., Hubbart, S., Scholefield, D., Mehra, S., Skipper, E., King, I., King, J (2015) Generation of Amphidiploids from Hybrids of Wheat and Related Species from the Genera Aegilops, Secale, Thinopyrum, and Triticum as a Source of Genetic Variation for Wheat Improvement. Genome 58:71-79. https://doi.org/10.1139/gen-2015-0002

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