Background In the last decade, metabolomics has emerged as a powerful diagnostic and
predictive tool in many branches of science. Researchers in microbes, animal, food, medical …

With increasing demand for novel traits in crop breeding, the plant research community
faces the challenge of quantitatively analyzing the structure and function of large numbers of …

Abstract Background Maize (Zea mays) is a globally produced crop with broad genetic and
phenotypic variation. New tools that improve our understanding of the genetic basis of …

Hitherto, most quantitative trait loci of maize growth and biomass yield have been identified
for a single time point, usually the final harvest stage. Through this approach cumulative …

In recent years, various automated methods for plant phenotyping addressing roots or
shoots have been developed and corresponding platforms have been established to meet …

Background As for many crops, new high-quality grapevine varieties requiring less pesticide
and adapted to climate change are needed. In perennial species, breeding is a long process …

Abstract In Northern Europe, sowing maize one‐month earlier than current agricultural
practices may lead to moderate chilling damage. However, studies of the metabolic …

Abstract Background Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) array and re-sequencing
technologies have different properties (eg calling rate, minor allele frequency profile) and …

Through the local selection of landraces, humans have guided the adaptation of crops to a
vast range of climatic and ecological conditions. This is particularly true of maize, which was …

Key message We propose a criterion to predict genomic selection efficiency for structured
populations. This criterion is useful to define optimal calibration set and to estimate …