Extensive allelic variation in agronomically important genes serves as the basis of rice
breeding. Here, we present a comprehensive map of rice quantitative trait nucleotides …

The scale of activities related to crop germplasm is massive, including basic work
(germplasm collecting, documentation, multiplication, conservation, regeneration …

Abstract Changes in global temperatures profoundly affect the occurrence of plant diseases.
It is well known that rice blast can easily become epidemic in relatively warm weather …

Phytolith remains of rice (Oryza sativa L.) recovered from the Shangshan site in the Lower
Yangtze of China have previously been recognized as the earliest examples of rice …

The evolutionary paths of humans and plants have crossed more than once throughout
millennia. While agriculture contributed to the evolution of societies in prehistory, human …

Initiation of flowering, also called heading, in rice (Oryza sativa) is determined by the
florigens encoded by Heading date 3a (Hd3a) and RICE FLOWERING LOCUS T1 (RFT 1) …

Most methods for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analyses incorporate information
regarding allele frequencies using the assumption of Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) as …

The Mediterranean sesame core collection contains agro-morphologically superior sesame
accessions from geographically diverse regions in four continents. In the present …

Genomes carry millions of noncoding variants, and identifying the tiny fraction with functional
consequences is a major challenge for genomics. We assessed the role of selection on long …

Sesame is an important oil crop widely cultivated in Africa and Asia. Understanding the
genetic diversity of accessions from these continents is critical to designing breeding …