Technological advances in maize breeding: past, present and future

C Andorf, WD Beavis, M Hufford, S Smith… - Theoretical and applied …, 2019 - Springer
Maize has for many decades been both one of the most important crops worldwide and one
of the primary genetic model organisms. More recently, maize breeding has been impacted …

Genetic costs of domestication and improvement

BT Moyers, PL Morrell, JK McKay - Journal of Heredity, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The “cost of domestication” hypothesis posits that the process of domesticating wild species
can result in an increase in the number, frequency, and/or proportion of deleterious genetic …

Adaptive introgression from maize has facilitated the establishment of teosinte as a noxious weed in Europe

V Le Corre, M Siol, Y Vigouroux… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Global trade has considerably accelerated biological invasions. The annual tropical
teosintes, the closest wild relatives of maize, were recently reported as new agricultural …

Stepwise cis-regulatory changes in ZCN8 contribute to maize flowering-time adaptation

L Guo, X Wang, M Zhao, C Huang, C Li, D Li, CJ Yang… - Current biology, 2018 - cell.com
Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) was domesticated in southwestern Mexico∼ 9,000 years ago
from its wild ancestor, teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis)[1]. From its center of origin …

Getting back to nature: feralization in animals and plants

E Gering, D Incorvaia, R Henriksen, J Conner… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2019 - cell.com
Formerly domesticated organisms and artificially selected genes often escape controlled
cultivation, but their subsequent evolution is not well studied. In this review, we examine …

Selection and adaptive introgression guided the complex evolutionary history of the European common bean

E Bellucci, A Benazzo, C Xu, E Bitocchi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Domesticated crops have been disseminated by humans over vast geographic areas.
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) was introduced in Europe after 1492. Here, by …

Apple whole genome sequences: recent advances and new prospects

CP Peace, L Bianco, M Troggio… - Horticulture …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In 2010, a major scientific milestone was achieved for tree fruit crops: publication of the first
draft whole genome sequence (WGS) for apple (Malus domestica). This WGS, v1. 0, was …

A common resequencing‐based genetic marker data set for global maize diversity

MW Grzybowski, RV Mural, G Xu, J Turkus… - The Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) populations exhibit vast ranges of genetic and phenotypic
diversity. As sequencing costs have declined, an increasing number of projects have sought …

Molecular parallelism underlies convergent highland adaptation of maize landraces

L Wang, EB Josephs, KM Lee… - Molecular biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Convergent phenotypic evolution provides some of the strongest evidence for adaptation.
However, the extent to which recurrent phenotypic adaptation has arisen via parallelism at …

Managing genetic diversity in breeding programs of small populations: the case of French local chicken breeds

G Restoux, X Rognon, A Vieaud, D Guemene… - Genetics Selection …, 2022 - Springer
Background On-going climate change will drastically modify agriculture in the future, with a
need for more sustainable systems, in particular regarding animal production. In this context …