Members of the MADS-box transcription factor family play essential roles in almost every
developmental process in plants. Many MADS-box genes have conserved functions across …

Shifting the seasonal timing of reproduction is a major goal of plant breeding efforts to
produce novel varieties that are better adapted to local environments and changing climatic …

Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is the second most important oilseed crop in the world but the
genetic diversity underlying its massive phenotypic variations remains largely unexplored …

There is an increasing awareness that as a result of structural variation, a reference
sequence representing a genome of a single individual is unable to capture all of the gene …

Cultivated beets (Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris) are unable to form reproductive shoots during
the first year of their life cycle. Flowering only occurs if plants get vernalized, that is, pass …

▪ Abstract Currently, genetic variation is probably the most important basic resource for plant
biology. In addition to the variation artificially generated by mutants in model plants, naturally …

Flowering time adaptation is a major breeding goal in the allopolyploid species Brassica
napus. To investigate the genetic architecture of flowering time, a genome-wide association …

Understanding how populations adapt to abrupt environmental change is necessary to
predict responses to future challenges, but identifying specific adaptive variants, quantifying …

Functional genetic redundancy is widespread in plants and could have an important impact
on phenotypic diversity if the multiple gene copies act in an additive or dosage-dependent …

Although multiple environmental cues regulate the transition to flowering in Arabidopsis
thaliana, previous studies have suggested that wild A. thaliana accessions fall primarily into …