Single-gene resolution of locally adaptive genetic variation in Mexican maize

DJ Gates, D Runcie, GM Janzen, AR Navarro… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Threats to crop production due to climate change are one of the greatest challenges facing
plant breeders today. While considerable adaptive variation exists in traditional landraces …

The fate of deleterious variants in a barley genomic prediction population

TJY Kono, C Liu, EE Vonderharr, D Koenig, JC Fay… - Genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Targeted identification and purging of deleterious genetic variants has been proposed as a
novel approach to animal and plant breeding. This strategy is motivated, in part, by the …