Genome-wide association study (GWAS) has become a widely accepted strategy for
decoding genotype-phenotype associations in many species thanks to advances in next …

Plants have served as sources providing humans with metabolites for food and nutrition,
biomaterials for living, and treatment for pain and disease. Plants produce a huge array of …

Omics technologies, namely genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and
phenomics, are becoming an integral part of virtually every commercial cereal crop breeding …

Multiparental genetic mapping populations such as nested‐association mapping (NAM)
have great potential for investigating quantitative traits and associated genomic regions …

Background Brassica napus is an important vegetable oil source worldwide. Seed coat
content is a complex quantitative trait that negatively correlates with the seed oil content in B …

In wheat breeding, improved quality traits, including grain quality and dough rheological
properties, have long been a critical goal. To understand the genetic basis of key quality …

Background Maize ears and tassels are two separate types of inflorescence which are
initiated by similar developmental processes but gradually develop distinct architectures …

Abstract Using Wheat 90 K SNP assay, kernel-related traits of Chinese bread wheat were
used to perform association mapping in 14 environments by GWAS. Results indicated that …

Maize (Zea mays) tassels underwent profound morphological changes during maize
domestication and improvement. Although a number of genes affecting maize inflorescence …

Stalk lodging resistance, which is mainly measured by stem diameter (SD), stalk bending
strength (SBS), and rind penetrometer resistance (RPR) in maize, seriously affects the yield …