Crop genetic diversity for climate adaptations is globally partitioned. We performed
experimental evolution in maize to understand the response to selection and how plant …

Flowering and height related traits are extensively studied in maize for three main reasons:
1) easily obtained phenotypic measurements, 2) highly heritable, and 3) importance of these …

Desiccation tolerance is a remarkable feature of pollen, seeds, and resurrection-type plants.
Exposure to desiccation stress can cause sporophytic defects, resulting in male sterility …

Maize (Zea mays subspecies mays) is an important commercial crop across the world, and
its flowering time is closely related to grain yield, plant cycle and latitude adaptation. FKF1 is …

In tropical maize breeding programs where more than two heterotic groups are crossed,
factors such as population structure (PS) can influence the achievement of reliable estimates …

Breeding of tropical corn (maize, Zea mays L.) as a vegetable assumes many genotypes
and products. In temperate agriculture, the familiar types are sweet and supersweet corns …

Maize (Zea mays L.) breeding in the United States has created as much as 1 billion US $ of
additional value per year. Most of this value has been the result of genetic gain for grain …

Key message Spontaneous haploid genome doubling is not associated with undesirable
linkage drag effects. The presence of spontaneous doubling genes allows maximum …

Variation in kernel composition across maize (Zea mays L.) germplasm is affected by a
combination of the plant's genotype, the environment in which it is grown, and the interaction …

Core Ideas Maize breeding efficiency can be greatly improved by adopting three heterotic
groups in hybrid breeding. Using three heterotic groups improves maize breeding efficiency …