Alireza Pour-AboughadarehSeed and Plant Improvement Institute · Cereal Research
Alireza Pour-Aboughadareh
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November 2013 - present
January 2013 - November 2017
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The new barley cultivar Negin was derived from cross between Violeta/Mja and Manal/Alanda-01 lines as female and male parents, respectively. Initial cross between parents of this cultivar and selection in segregating populations was performed till pure line stage, in Seed and Plant Improvement Institute. Observational evaluation and preliminary and...
Genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) analysis play a key role in any breeding program involving the development of new varieties for cultivation across various environments or in a specific region. The additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) method and the GGE biplot are the two main statistical tools that have emerged to a...
Aegilops species possessing the U genome are the most widely distributed species in the world. Considering the limitation in the genetic diversity in cultivated wheat, the use of wild relatives and other species of Aegilops can be provided a rich and diverse gene pool of new and ideal alleles for breeders. Therefore, the main goals of the present s...
Salinity stress is one of the most destructive environmental stresses that considerably reduces wheat growth, development, and productivity. In wheat, like other crop plants, wild relatives have an important role in enriching the genetic background of modern cultivars. Aegilops species possessing the D genome harbor the ideal gene pool for discover...
Introduction: Multi-environmental trials (METs) and analysis of genotype-by-environment (GE) interaction
have a critical role in breeding programs related to the release of high-yielding cultivars with high yield satbility
for cultivation across different environments. Different statistical and graphical methods have been proposed to
evaluate the G...
In the present study, multi-environmental trials were performed on 19 newly developed barley genotypes at five
test regions across the warm climate in Iran for two consecutive years. The results of additive main effects and
multiplicative interaction (AMMI), GGE biplot (GGE) model, and several BLUP-based stability parameters and
integrated models (...
Drought stress is one of the major environmental stresses that dramatically reduces agricultural production around the world. Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) plays an important role in both food and feed security. The objective of this study was to identify the superior drought-tolerant genotypes using grain yield and several yield-based indices of tol...
Background
Barley (H. vulgare L.) is an important cereal crop cultivated across various climates globally. Barley and its ancestor (H. vulgare subsp. spontaneum) are an economically valuable model for genetic research and improvement. Drought, among various abiotic stresses, is a substantial threat to agriculture due to its unpredictable nature and...
Quercus brantii var. persica and Quercus infectoria are two economically and ecologically important oak species widespread in the Zagros forest, located in the northwestern and southwestern parts of Iran. An effective study of the genetic diversity and population structure of these genetic resources is still unexplored. In the present study, 48 acc...
Introduction
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) has been known as one of the most adapted cereal crops to various environmental conditions. In addition, this cereal crop ranks fourth in the world in terms of economic importance after wheat, rice, and corn. Identification of high-yielding genotypes with highly desirable growth traits is one of the most imp...
The Artemisia genus belongs to the Asteraceae family and is used in the treatment of many different diseases such as hepatitis and cancer. So far, around 500 species of Artemisia have been found in different regions of the world. Artemisinin is one of the medicinal compounds found in Artemisia species. Hence, this medical feature encourages researc...
Introduction: Drought stress or water deficit has been known as one of the most important abiotic stresses so it considerably is decreased crop production. Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is the fourth most important cereal crop after wheat, rice, and corn. Among cereals, barley is the most tolerant crop against abiotic stresses and due to this capabil...
The Artemisia genus is a group of valuable medicinal plants that are found in the temperate regions of the world. These plants have many pharmacological benefits. Iran is known to be one of the main centers of distribution for various Artemisia species, however, there is limited information available about their genetic diversity and population str...
Drought stress is one of the major environmental stresses that dramatically reduces agricultural production around the world. Barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) plays an important role in both food and feed security. The objective of this study was to identify the superior drought-tolerant genotypes using grain yield and several yield-based indices of to...
Abstract
Objective
So far, around 500 species of Artemisia have been found in different regions of the world, and among them 34 species are endemic to Iran. It has been evidenced that Artemisinin is one of the medicinal compounds found in Artemisia that has various medical properties, especially antimalarial. The main objective of the present study...
One of the most important effects of climatic changes is increasing temperatures and expanding water deficit stress in tropical and subtropical regions. As the fourth most important cereal crop, barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is crucial for food and feed security, as well as for a sustainable agricultural system. The present study investigates 56 prom...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of certain mammalian sex hormones (MSH) as an alternative to synthetic hormones in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) tissue culture using mathematical models. In this research four different types of explants, including embryo, hypocotyl, plumule and radicle, were treated with four different concent...
The assessment of 1000-kernel weight holds significant importance in determining maize grain yield, and elucidating its underlying genetic mechanisms is imperative for enhancing its overall performance. The material for the study consisted of 26 doubled-haploid (DH) maize lines obtained from crossing two cultivars with flint kernels. Lines were pla...
Intensive agriculture uses continuous chemical fertilizers to increase crop yields, but excessive use of fertilizers leads to environmental pollution, permanent changes in physicochemical conditions in soil ecology, deterioration of soil biological health, leaching of nutrients, surface and groundwater pollution and eutrophication. Plant growth-pro...
Numerous factors can impact the efficiency of callus formation and in vitro regeneration in wheat cultures through the introduction of exogenous polyamines (PAs). The present study aimed to investigate in vitro plant regeneration and DNA methylation patterns utilizing the inter-primer binding site (iPBS) retrotransposon and coupled restriction enzy...
Phytohormones are chemical compounds found naturally in plants that have a significant effect on their growth and development. The increase in research on the occurrence of mammalian sex hormones (MSHs) in plants has prompted the need to investigate the functions performed by these hormones in plant biology. In the present study, we investigated th...
Wild common wheat species represent a significant pool of resistance genes to various environmental stresses. In this study, we examined several physiological traits and the activity of three antioxidant enzymes—namely, catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), and ascorbate peroxidase (APX)—as well as the expression patterns of their encoding ge...
The interaction between genotypes and environments plays an important role in selecting superior genotypes for target locations. The main objectives of the present study were to analyze the effect of the genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) and identify superior, newly developed, and promising barley genotypes for cold regions in Iran. For the...
Nanotechnology is a rapidly growing field of science and technology that deals with the development of new solutions by understanding and controlling matter at the nanoscale. Since the last decade, magnesium oxide nanoparticles (MgO-NPs) have gained tremendous attention because of their unique characteristics and diverse applications in materials s...
Extended Abstract
Introduction and Objective: Multi-environment trials and study genotype-by-environment interaction have a fundamental role in the selection of high-yielding and stable genotypes across different environments before their commercial release.
Material and Methods: In the present study, 19 barley genotypes were evaluated across four...
J.B.) † These authors contributed equally to this work. Abstract: Wheat genotypes should be improved through available germplasm genetic diversity to ensure food security. This study investigated the molecular diversity and population structure of a set of Türkiye bread wheat genotypes using 120 microsatellite markers. Based on the results, 651 pol...
Citation: Demirel, F.; Eren, B.; Yilmaz, A.; Türkoglu, A.; Haliloglu, K.; Niedbała, G.; Bujak, H.; Jamshidi, B.; Pour-Aboughadareh, A.; Bocianowski, J.; et al. Prediction of Grain Yield in Wheat by CHAID and MARS Algorithms Analyses. Abstract: Genetic information obtained from ancestral species of wheat and other registered wheat has brought about...
Background
Maintaining genetic diversity is of the most essential principle for a long-term conservation of plant genetic resources and could play a crucial role in their management. The genus Aegilops is one important member of wheat germplasm, and there are evidences that novel genes of this genus’ species can be studied/utilized as ideal sources...
The main objective of the study was to evaluate and select the superior barley genotypes based on grain yield and some pheno-morphological traits using a new proposed selection index (SIIG). For this purpose, one-hundred-eight pure and four local cultivars (Norouz, Auxin, Nobahar, and WB-97-11) were evaluated as reference genotypes in four warm reg...
Background and objectives: Multivariate data are common in biological experiments and using the information on multiple traits is crucial to make better decisions for superior genotypes selection. However, identifying genotypes that combine high performance across many traits has been a challenging task. Classical linear multi-trait selection index...
Salvia yangii B.T. Drew and Salvia abrotanoides Kar are two important fragrant and medicinal plants that belong to the subgenus Perovskia. These plants have therapeutic benefits due to their high rosmarinic acid (RA) content. However, the molecular mechanisms behind RA generation in two species of Salvia plants are still poorly understood. As a fir...
Dissection of genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) effects has a key role in identifying stable high-yielding genotypes across various environments before commercial release. This study sought to assess the GEI effect and to identify superior barley genotypes using 32 parametric and nonparametric stability statistics. Eighteen new promising ge...
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is one of the first domesticated crops in the old world agriculture that has created from its wild relative, H. spontaneum (C. Koch.) Thell. due to consecutive selection processes by farmers in different parts of the world. It has been reported that barley received the second and fourth ranks after wheat, rice, and corn...
Aegilops and Triticum spp. are two ideal gene pools for the breeding purposes of wheat. In this study, a set of Iranian accessions of Aegilops tauschii Coss. and Triticum aestivum L. species were evaluated in terms of some physiological and biochemical features under control and water-deficit stress conditions. Moreover, several simple sequence rep...
Among cereals, barley is tolerant to high levels of salinity stress; however, its performance and global production are still dramatically affected by salinity. In this study, we evaluated the behavior of a set of advanced genotypes of barley with aim of assessing the physiological and molecular mechanisms involved in salinity tolerance. The experi...
Salt stress is one of the most important environmental stresses that negatively afects the plant growth and productivity
worldwide. To delineate physio-biochemical and molecular diferences among barley genotypes, antioxidant enzyme and
transcriptomic profles along with several physiological traits were compared among a set of elite genotypes of b...
The medicinal herb coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.), with a high linalool (LIN) content,
is widely recognized for its therapeutic benefits. As a novel report, the goals of this study
were to determine how methyl jasmonate (MeJA) affects total phenolic content (TPC), LIN content, flavonoid content (TFC), and changes in gene expression involved in t...
This study was conducted to investigate the yield stability and determine the portion of some morphophonological traits in the GEI effect in barley. For this purpose, 20 barley genotypes were investigated at five tropical research stations of Iran during the 2018-2020 cropping seasons in a RCBD with three replications. Stability analysis was perfor...
In the present study, we estimated genetic diversity and population structure in 186 accessions of Triticum and Aegilops species using 24 simple sequence repeat markers (SSR). Furthermore, an association analysis was performed for antioxidant activities, including guaiacol peroxidase (GPX), ascorbate peroxidase (APX), peroxidase (POX), catalase (CA...
Background and objectives: Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) has the widest geographical range of distribution of all cereals. Hull-less barley research and development is now receiving more emphasis with the potential for feed, food, and industrial uses. Variety selection is and will become more important as the various industries demand specific charac...
Among cereals, barley (Hordeum vulgre L.) is the most salt-tolerant crop‚ and is grown in a wide range of climatic conditions. Identification and expression analysis of genes involved in stress tolerance is considered one of the effective approaches to improving plant tolerance to salinity. In the present study, effects of salinity stress were inve...
Climate change has caused breeders to focus on varieties that are able to grow under unfavorable conditions, such as drought, high and low temperatures, salinity, and other stressors. In recent decades, progress in biotechnology and its related tools has provided opportunities to dissect and decipher the genetic basis of tolerance to various stress...
Stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst)) is one of the most devastating fungal diseases of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var. durum Desf.). Races of Pst with new virulence combinations are emerging more regularly on wheat-growing continents, which challenges wheat breeding for resistance. This study aimed to identify and characte...
Knowledge of the natural patterns of genetic variation and their evolutionary basis is required for sustainable management and conservation of wheat germplasm. In the current study, the genetic diversity and population structure of 100 individuals from four Triticum and Aegilops species (including T. aestivum, Ae. tauschii, Ae. cylindrica, and Ae....
Abstract: Stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst)) is the most devastating fungal disease of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var durum Desf.). Unfortunately, stripe rust races with single and combination gene virulences are emerging more regularly on wheat-growing continents, which challenges wheat breeding for resistance. This stu...
Wheat is the staple food of nearly 40% of the world's population. Due to the growing population and climate changes, increasing crop performance is one of the most important challenges facing plant breeders. Leaf rust is identified as the most important fungal disease that dramatically reduces wheat production. The management of fungal diseases in...
Objective
Salinity stress is considered one of the most important abiotic stresses that significantly decreased crop production in the world. The development of salt-tolerant varieties is one of the most strategies against decreasing crop performance in saline conditions. Hence, assessment of expression patterns of genes responsible for the biosynt...
Drastic changes in the climate and ecosystem due to natural or anthropogenic activities have severely affected crop production globally. This concern has raised the need to develop environmentally friendly and cost-effective strategies, particularly for keeping pace with the demands of the growing population. The use of nanobiofertilizers in agricu...
The medicinal herb, lemon balm (Melissa officinalis L.), which is high in rosmarinic acid (RA), has well-known therapeutic value. The goals of this study were to investigate the effects of methyl jasmonate (MeJA) on RA content, total phenolic content (TPC), and total flavonoid content (TFC), as well as changes in expression of their biosynthesis-re...
Experiments measuring the interaction between genotypes and environments measure the spatial (e.g., locations) and temporal (e.g., years) separation and/or combination of these factors. The genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) is very important in plant breeding programs. Over the past six decades, the propensity to model the GEI led to the de...
Salinity is one of the major limiting abiotic stresses that significantly decrease crop production worldwide. One of the main strategies to prevent yield loss in saline soils is the use of salt-tolerant cultivars. Among cereals, barley has most tolerance to abiotic stress, especially salinity stress. The main objective of this study was to investig...
In order to study the relationship between agronomic characteristics in barley, 20 genotypes including advanced lines obtained from the barley breeding national program along with Nimrooz and Auxin, as check cultivars, were studied in a randomized complete block design with 3 replications during the 2020-2021 year. Studied traits included the numbe...
In order to assess the genetic diversity existing in some Iranian Aegilops tauschii accessions, 90 samples collected from 13 provinces were evaluated. For this purpose, 21 phenological and agro-morphological traits and five qualitative traits were recorded according to the wheat and Aegilops instruction of Biodiversity International Descriptors. Ba...
Barley breeding programs have important effects on yield increasing per unit area, which finally increases the coefficient of independence on this strategic product. In this study, 20 genotypes including 17 elite barley lines along with three check cultivars, Niamrooz, Auxin, and WB-97-6, were evaluated based on a completely randomized complete blo...
Background: Barley is one of the most important cereal crops with considerable tolerance to various environmental stresses, which can maintain its productivity well in marginal croplands. The selection of stable and high-yielding barley genotypes and ideal discriminative locations is an important strategy for the development of new cultivars in tro...
To identify the barley promising genotypes with high and stable grain yield for warm regions of Iran, 17 promising genotypes along with two check varieties were evaluated in five the Agricultural Research Stations including Ahvaz, Darab, Zabol, Gonbad, and Moghan during two consecutive cropping seasons (2018-2020) based on the randomized completely...
To study the genetic and allelic diversity in the genes encoding glutenin and gliadin proteins in wheat landraces, 98 Triticum accessions belonging to four species: T. aestivum, T. boeoticum, T. durum and T. uartu collected from different provinces of Iran were used. 13 pairs of low molecular weight glutenin primers (LMW-GS), four pairs of high mol...
Wild relatives of common wheat are an extraordinary source of tolerance to various environmental stresses. The dataset herein presents the effect of water-deficit stress on a core collection of landraces and wild relatives of wheat (including 180 samples belonging to four Triticum and eight Aegilops species [T. boeoticum Bioss., T. urartu Gandilyan...
Thyme species are a good source of thymol and carvacrol, which plays a key role in controlling diseases. For the first time, the expression patterns of γ -terpinene synthase (TPS2), CYP71D178, and CYP71D180 genes and phenolics compounds amount were evaluated in T. migricus and T. daenensis after different methyl jasmonate (MeJA) treatments. The hig...
In multi-environment trials (METs), the study of genotype × environment (GE) interaction is important for identifying highyielding and stable or specifically adapted genotypes. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the GE interaction via GGE biplot analysis using some promising barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) lines evaluated in an MET to ide...
Among cereal crops, wheat has been identified as a major source for human food consumption. Wheat breeders require access to new genetic diversity resources to satisfy the demands of a growing human population for more food with a high quality that can be produced in variable environmental conditions. The close relatives of domesticated wheats repr...
Targeted nucleases are powerful genomic tools to precisely change the target genome of living cells, controlling functional genes with high exactness. The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) genome editing system has been identified as one of the most useful biological tools in genetic engine...
Salinity is one of the main factors in reducing crop output due to poor plant growth. According to scientists, salinity affect the growth of crops in two ways: through the osmotic effect, which reduces the plants’ ability to absorb water and retard growth; and through ionic toxicity, which means that salts can enter the perspiration system and dama...
Background: Salinity is one of the major limiting abiotic stresses that decrease crop production worldwide. To recommend genotypes for cultivation under saline stress conditions, a comprehensive understanding of the genetic basis and plant responses to this stress is needed. In the present study, a total of 20 barley genotypes were investigated to...
The salinity tolerance of 17 breeding wheat genotypes along with three local varieties was evaluated under control and salinity stress (160 mM NaCl) conditions. At the seedling stage, several growth and physiological traits were measured. Moreover, the investigated genotypes were assessed in terms of grain yield across four saline regions during th...
The dataset herein indicated the novelty of the article entitled “Dataset on the use of MGIDI in screening drought-tolerant wild wheat accessions at the early growth stage”. Data were gathered during 2018-2019 on a set of wild wheat germplasm under two control and water deficit stress conditions. One hundred and forty-six accessions belonging to Ae...