Plant breeding has traditionally relied on combining the genetic diversity present within a
species to develop combinations of alleles that provide desired traits. Epigenetic diversity …

It has been just over a decade since the release of the maize (Zea mays) Nested Association
Mapping (NAM) population. The NAM population has been and continues to be an …

Networks are powerful tools to uncover functional roles of genes in phenotypic variation at a
system-wide scale. Here, we constructed a maize network map that contains the genomic …

Abstract Background Maize (Zea mays L.) is at the vanguard facing the upcoming breeding
challenges. However, both a super pan-genome for the Zea genus and a comprehensive …

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 …

New races of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), the causal pathogen of wheat stripe rust,
show high virulence to previously deployed resistance genes and are responsible for large …

Height is one of the most heritable and easily measured traits in maize (Zea mays L.). Given
a pedigree or estimates of the genomic identity-by-state among related plants, height is also …

Background Barley, globally the fourth most important cereal, provides food and beverages
for humans and feed for animal husbandry. Maximizing grain yield under varying climate …

Leaf architecture directly influences canopy structure, consequentially affecting yield. We
discovered a maize (Zea mays) mutant with aberrant leaf architecture, which we named …

Maize is the world's most produced crop, providing food, feed, and biofuel. Maize production
is constantly threatened by the presence of devastating pathogens worldwide …