Plant genebanks provide genetic resources for breeding and research programs worldwide.
These programs benefit from having access to high-quality, standardized phenotypic and …

Nitrogen (N) limits crop production, yet more than half of N fertilizer inputs are lost to the
environment. Developing maize hybrids with improved N use efficiency can help minimize N …

Root system architecture (RSA) is becoming recognized as important for water and nutrient
acquisition in plants. This study focuses on finding single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) …

Conservation of crop wild relatives (CWR) has always been predicated on the promise of
new and useful traits, and thus modern genetics and genomics tools must help fulfill the …

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 …

Brassinosteroids (BRs) and Gibberellins (GAs) are two classes of plant hormones affecting
plant height (PHT). Thus, manipulation of BR and GA levels or signaling enables …

Northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) is an economically important disease of maize. While the
genetic architecture of NCLB has been well characterized, the pathogen is known to …

In this study, we established two doubled haploid (DH) libraries with a total of 207 DH lines.
We applied BR and GA inhibitors to all DH lines at seedling stage and measured seedling …

Crop domestication changed the course of human evolution, and domestication of maize
(Zea mays L. subspecies mays), today the world's most important crop, enabled civilizations …

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 …