Maize is one of the most widely grown cereals in the world. However, to address the
challenges in maize breeding arising from climatic anomalies, there is a need for developing …

Regulatory SNPs (rSNPs) are a special class of SNPs which have a high potential to affect
the phenotype due to their impact on DNA-binding of transcription factors (TFs). Thus, the …

Modern improvement of complex traits in agricultural species relies on successful
associations of heritable molecular variation with observable phenotypes. Historically, this …

Pleiotropy—when a single gene controls two or more seemingly unrelated traits—has been
shown to impact genes with effects on flowering time, leaf architecture, and inflorescence …

Heterosis, which has greatly increased maize yields, is associated with gene expression
patterns during key developmental stages that enhance hybrid phenotypes relative to …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have emerged as a powerful tool for unraveling
intricate genotype–phenotype association across various species. Maize (Zea mays L.) …

Maize (Zea mays) has multiple uses in human food, animal fodder, starch and sweetener
production and as a biofuel, and is accordingly the most extensively cultivated cereal …

Maize inflorescence is a complex phenotype that involves the physical and developmental
interplay of multiple traits. Given the evidence that genes could pleiotropically contribute to …

High-throughput phenotyping (HTP) has expanded the dimensionality of data in plant
research; however, HTP has resulted in few novel biological discoveries to date. Field …

Comprehensively identifying the loci shaping trait variation has been challenging, in part
because standard approaches often miss many types of genetic variants. Structural variants …