Ten years ago, with the advent of comparative mapping, a new tool became available to
plant geneticists. Comparative genome analyses demonstrated that gene orders among …

Comparative genomics, the study of the similarities and differences in structure and function
of hereditary information across taxa, uses molecular tools to investigate many notions that …

This article presents a method to combine QTL results from different independent analyses.
This method provides a modified Akaike criterion that can be used to decide how many QTL …

The development of new barleys tolerant of abiotic and biotic stresses is an essential part of
the continued improvement of the crop. The domestication of barley, as in many crops …

Abstract A backcrossed population (BC4F2) derived from a cross between a japonica rice
variety, Nipponbare, as the recurrent parent and an indica rice variety, Kasalath, as the …

Non-shattering of the seeds and reduced seed dormancy were selected consciously and
unconsciously during the domestication of rice, as in other cereals. Both traits are …

The flowering plants comprise some 250,000 species and are tremendously diverse in
growth habit, environmental adaptation, and nuclear genome structure. Plant genomes tend …

Grasses are the single most important plant family in agriculture. In the past years,
comparative genetic mapping has revealed conserved gene order (colinearity) among many …

The study of evolution has increasingly incorporated considerations of history, scale, and
hierarchy, in terms of both the origin of variation and the sorting of that variation. Although …

Abstract A 2.3-centimorgan (cM) segment of rice chromosome 11 consisting of 340 kb of
DNA sequence around the alcohol dehydrogenase Adh1 and Adh2 loci was completely …