Creating crops with resistance to drought, soil salinity and insect damage, that
simultaneously have higher nutritional quality, is challenging to conventional breeding due …

Crop domestication has fundamentally altered the course of human history, causing a shift
from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies and stimulating the rise of modern civilization …

Appropriate root system architecture (RSA) can improve maize yields in densely planted
fields, but little is known about its genetic basis in maize. Here we performed root …

While often deleterious, hybridization can also be a key source of genetic variation and pre-
adapted haplotypes, enabling rapid evolution and niche expansion. Here we evaluate these …

Cereals are a group of grasses cultivated by humans for their grain. It is from these cereal
grains that the majority of all calories consumed by humans are derived. The production of …

Large-scale genomic variations are fundamental resources for crop genetics and breeding.
Here we sequenced 1,904 genomes of broomcorn millet to an average of 40× sequencing …

Maize (Zea mays L.) has undergone profound changes in root anatomy for environmental
adaptation during domestication. However, the genetic mechanism of plasticity of maize root …

Advances in molecular technologies over the past few decades, such as high-throughput
DNA marker genotyping, have provided more powerful plant breeding approaches …

Efforts to understand the phenotypic transition that gave rise to maize from teosinte have
mainly focused on the analysis of aerial organs, with little insights into possible …

Genomic selection (GS) is one of the most powerful tools available for maize breeding. Its
use of genome-wide marker data to estimate breeding values translates to increased …