Publications by authors named "Jose Francisco Vazquez"
In the context of a general genetics course, mathematical descriptions of Mendelian inheritance and population genetics are sometimes discouraging and students often have serious misconceptions. Innovative strategies in expositive classes can clearly encourage student's motivation and participation, but laboratories and practical classes are generally the students' favourite academic activities. The design of lab practices focused on learning abstract concepts such as genetic interaction, genetic linkage, genetic recombination, gene mapping, or molecular markers is a complex task that requires suitable segregant materials.
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- - The goal of modern plant breeding is to develop crops that can sustain yields in challenging environments, leveraging the genetic diversity found in traditional wheat landraces maintained by the Spanish Institute for Agriculture Research.
- - A study used high-throughput genotyping to analyze 380 Spanish landraces and 52 reference varieties of wheat, resulting in the identification of significant genetic diversity and population structure among the accessions, particularly influenced by subspecies and geographic origin.
- - Findings indicated that the landraces possess greater genetic diversity than commercial varieties, with durum wheat showing more divergence than bread wheat, highlighting the potential of these landraces as valuable resources for future breeding efforts.