One of the major questions in contemporary plant science involves determining the
functional mechanisms that plants use to shape their microbiome. Plants produce a plethora …

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

We report de novo genome assemblies, transcriptomes, annotations, and methylomes for
the 26 inbreds that serve as the founders for the maize nested association mapping …

Soil microbes that colonize plant roots and are responsive to differences in plant genotype
remain to be ascertained for agronomically important crops. From a very large-scale …

Background Genotyping by sequencing, a new low-cost, high-throughput sequencing
technology was used to genotype 2,815 maize inbred accessions, preserved mostly at the …

Association mapping (AM) is a powerful tool for fine mapping complex trait variation down to
nucleotide sequences by exploiting historical recombination events. A major problem in AM …

US maize yield has increased eight-fold in the past 80 years, with half of the gain attributed
to selection by breeders. During this time, changes in maize leaf angle and size have altered …

Landraces (traditional varieties) of domesticated species preserve useful genetic variation,
yet they remain untapped due to the genetic linkage between the few useful alleles and …

Here we report a multi-tissue gene expression resource that represents the genotypic and
phenotypic diversity of modern inbred maize, and includes transcriptomes in an average of …

As population structure can result in spurious associations, it has constrained the use of
association studies in human and plant genetics. Association mapping, however, holds …