A major challenge in evolutionary biology and plant breeding is to identify the genetic basis
of complex quantitative traits, including those that contribute to adaptive variation. Here we …

The genomic revolution is having a tremendous impact on the study of natural variation. It is
making it possible finally to discover the molecular basis of complex traits, a fundamental …

Studying the genetic regulation of expression variation is a key method to dissect complex
phenotypic traits. To examine the genetic architecture of regulatory variation in Arabidopsis …

Background The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) shows a wide range of
genetic and trait variation among wild accessions. Because of its unparalleled biological …

The environment imposes critical selective forces on all living organisms, and the sessile
nature of plants makes them particularly useful for investigating the relationship between …

Arabidopsis thaliana is an important model organism for understanding the genetics and
molecular biology of plants. Its highly selfing nature, small size, short generation time, small …

Sessile organisms such as plants have to develop adaptive responses to face
environmental change. In Arabidopsis thaliana populations, natural variation for stress …

Genomic studies of natural variation in model organisms provide a bridge between
molecular analyses of gene function and evolutionary investigations of adaptation and …

A potentially serious disadvantage of association mapping is the fact that marker-trait
associations may arise from confounding population structure as well as from linkage to …

Understanding the evolutionary forces that shape genetic variation within species has long
been a goal of evolutionary biology. Integrating data for the genetic architecture of traits from …