July 2024: Wheat Functional Genes from the Watkins Collection were updated in GrainGenes and in the IWGSC Chinese Spring RefSeq v1 genome browser

Records for functional genes in wheat with reciprocal links to the 2018 IWGSC Chinese Spring RefSeq v1 were updated to accompany the publications of the book "The Wheat Genome" and the Watkins Collection reference "Harnessing Landrace Diversity Empowers Wheat Breeding for Climate Resilience" in preprint.

* 164 genes were curated from TWG-23-9 Rasheed A, Qayyum H, and Appels R (2023) The Wheat Genome. Chapter 9. Genome-Informed Discovery of Genes and Framework of Functional Genes in Wheat.

* 237 genes were curated from Watkins-2024 Cheng S et al. (2024) Harnessing Landrace Diversity Empowers Wheat Breeding for Climate Resilience. Nature 2024, in preprint.