A fundamental problem in plant population biology and evolutionary ecology is determining
the extent to which natural selection changes the gene pool of populations in the wild. While …

The advent of complete genetic linkage maps consisting of codominant DNA markers
[typically restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs)] has stimulated interest in the …

Localizing genes for quantitative traits by conventional recombination mapping is a
formidable challenge because environmental variation, minor genes, and genetic markers …

A genetic linkage map of lentil comprising 333 centimorgans (cM) was constructed from 20
restriction fragment length, 8 isozyme, and 6 morphological markers segregating in a single …

A corpus of empirical data, extending back more than a half century, documents the related
phenomena of heterosis and inbreeding depression (Wright, 1977; Frankel, 1983). Because …

A maximum likelihood approach is developed for estimating the recombination fraction in a
segregating population (F 2), between a marker gene and a locus affecting a quantitative …

We studied electrophoretic variation and inheritance of triosephosphate isomerase (TPI)
isozymes in maize (Zea mays L.). In contrast to most diploid plants, in maize, TPI exists as …

The relationships between polyploidy and physiological stress and polyploidy and the gigas
syndrome were re-examined by considering data from western wildland shrubs. In general …

Selection based on genotypes at marker loci may increase the efficiency of plant
improvement. Two interspecific crosses of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr✕ G. soja Sieb. & …

Many plant characteristics (eg, grain and forage yield, time of flowering, stress tolerance)
show continuous variation. This usually implies that the inheritance of such traits is complex …