Background To safeguard the food supply for the growing human population, it is important
to understand and exploit the genetic basis of quantitative traits. Next-generation …

Increasing grain yield is the ultimate goal for maize breeding. High resolution quantitative
trait loci (QTL) mapping can help us understand the molecular basis of phenotypic variation …

Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) populations exhibit vast ranges of genetic and phenotypic
diversity. As sequencing costs have declined, an increasing number of projects have sought …

Background Identifying genotype-phenotype links and causative genes from quantitative
trait loci (QTL) is challenging for complex agronomically important traits. To accelerate maize …

Background Exploring genetic differentiation and genomic variation is important for both the
utilization of heterosis and the dissection of the genetic bases of complex traits. Methods We …

Maize (Zea mays L.) is a major staple crop worldwide, and during modern maize breeding,
cultivars with increased tolerance to high‐density planting and higher yield per plant have …

Genotyping platforms are important for genetic research and molecular breeding. In this
study, a low-density genotyping platform containing 5.5 K SNP markers was successfully …

Background Flowering time is an important agronomic trait of crops and significantly affects
plant adaptation and seed production. Flowering time varies greatly among maize (Zea …

Flowering time is one of the major adaptive traits in domestication of maize and an important
selection criterion in breeding. To detect more maize flowering time variants we evaluated …

Innovations in genomics have enabled the development of low‐cost, high‐resolution, single
nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping arrays that accelerate breeding progress and …