[HTML][HTML] Multi-parent populations in crops: a toolbox integrating genomics and genetic mapping with breeding

MF Scott, O Ladejobi, S Amer, AR Bentley, J Biernaskie… - Heredity, 2020 - nature.com
Crop populations derived from experimental crosses enable the genetic dissection of
complex traits and support modern plant breeding. Among these, multi-parent populations …

Revolutions in agriculture chart a course for targeted breeding of old and new crops

Y Eshed, ZB Lippman - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Among tens of thousands edible plants, several hundred are cultivated
throughout the world, but fewer than a dozen comprise the majority of consumed calories …

[PDF][PDF] Genome-wide association studies in maize: praise and stargaze

Y Xiao, H Liu, L Wu, M Warburton, J Yan - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
Genome-wide association study (GWAS) has become a widely accepted strategy for
decoding genotype-phenotype associations in many species thanks to advances in next …

Natural variation in crops: realized understanding, continuing promise

Y Liang, HJ Liu, J Yan, F Tian - Annual review of plant biology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Crops feed the world's population and shape human civilization. The improvement of crop
productivity has been ongoing for almost 10,000 years and has evolved from an experience …

Recovery of ammonium and phosphate from urine as value-added fertilizer using wood waste biochar loaded with magnesium oxides

K Xu, F Lin, X Dou, M Zheng, W Tan, C Wang - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
Sustainability in waste and wastewater treatment is currently drawing extensive attention.
This study employed magnesium-oxides-modified biochar (Mg-biochar) yielded from wood …

A study of allelic diversity underlying flowering-time adaptation in maize landraces

JA Romero Navarro, M Willcox, J Burgueño, C Romay… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
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 …

On the road to breeding 4.0: unraveling the good, the bad, and the boring of crop quantitative genomics

JG Wallace, E Rodgers-Melnick… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the quantitative genetics of crops has been and will continue to be central to
maintaining and improving global food security. We outline four stages that plant breeding …

A genome-wide association study of resistance to stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) in a worldwide collection of hexaploid spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

M Maccaferri, J Zhang, P Bulli, Z Abate… - G3: Genes …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Ten years of the maize nested association mapping population: impact, limitations, and future directions

JL Gage, B Monier, A Giri, ES Buckler - The Plant Cell, 2020 - academic.oup.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Interpreting population-and family-based genome-wide association studies in the presence of confounding

C Veller, GM Coop - PLoS Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
A central aim of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) is to estimate direct genetic
effects: the causal effects on an individual's phenotype of the alleles that they carry …