Both insufficient and excessive male inflorescence size leads to a reduction in maize yield.
Knowledge of the genetic architecture of male inflorescence is essential to achieve the …

Inflorescence capacity plays a crucial role in reproductive fitness in plants, and in production
of hybrid crops. Maize is a monoecious species bearing separate male and female flowers …

We compared the genetic architecture of thirteen maize morphological traits in a large
population of recombinant inbred lines. Four traits from the male inflorescence (tassel) and …

Background The functional genome of agronomically important plant species remains
largely unexplored, yet presents a virtually untapped resource for targeted crop …

Maize tassel is the male reproductive organ which is located at the plant's apex; both its
morphological structure and fertility have a profound impact on maize grain yield. More than …

Maize tassel inflorescence architecture is relevant to efficient production of F 1 seed and
yield performance of F 1 hybrids. The objectives of this study were to identify genetic …

The domestication and improvement of maize resulted in radical changes in shoot
architecture relative to its wild progenitor teosinte. In particular, critical modifications involved …

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 …

Anther development is a programmed biological process crucial to plant male reproduction.
Genome-wide analyses on the functions of transcriptional factor (TF) genes and their …

A reduction in number and an increase in size of inflorescences is a common aspect of plant
domestication. When maize was domesticated from teosinte, the number and arrangement …