Independent domestication of sorghum, rice, and maize involved convergent selection for
large seeds, reduced disarticulation of the mature inflorescence, and daylength-insensitive …

The original concept behind map-based or positional cloning was to find a DNA marker
linked to a gene of interest, and then to 'walk'to the gene via overlapping clones (eg cosmids …

Methodologies for mapping of genes underlying quantitative traits have advanced
considerably but have not been accompanied by a parallel development of new population …

IN 1952, Turing proposed a hypothetical molecular mechanism, called the reaction–diffusion
system1, which can develop periodic patterns from an initially homogeneous state. Many …

A set of 194 F7 lines derived from a subspecific rice cross showing strong F1 heterosis was
backcrossed to the two parents. The materials (388 BC1F7 lines, 194 F8 lines, two parents …

Correspondence among QTLs affecting height and/or flowering was investigated across the
five races of sorghum, an interspecific sorghum F2 population, and 32 previously published …

SPECIATION is the process whereby populations acquire sufficient genetic differences to
become reproductively isolated1. Since Darwin it has been recognized that the tempo and …

Typical of self-pollinated crops, traditional cultivated tomatoes severely lack genetic
diversity. Consequently, since ca. 1940, breeders have relied increasingly on exotic sources …

We have shown that a major QTL for fruit weight (fw2. 2) maps to the same position on
chromosome 2 in the green-fruited wild tomato species, Lycopersicon pennellii and in the …

QTL mapping is an increasingly useful approach to the study and manipulation of complex
traits important in agriculture, evolution, and medicine. The molecular dissection of …