Drought stress impacts on plants and different approaches to alleviate its adverse effects

MF Seleiman, N Al-Suhaibani, N Ali, M Akmal… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drought stress, being the inevitable factor that exists in various environments without
recognizing borders and no clear warning thereby hampering plant biomass production …

Genome-wide association studies in maize: praise and stargaze

Y Xiao, H Liu, L Wu, M Warburton, J Yan - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
Genome-wide association study (GWAS) has become a widely accepted strategy for
decoding genotype-phenotype associations in many species thanks to advances in next …

De novo assembly, annotation, and comparative analysis of 26 diverse maize genomes

MB Hufford, AS Seetharam, MR Woodhouse… - Science, 2021 - science.org
We report de novo genome assemblies, transcriptomes, annotations, and methylomes for
the 26 inbreds that serve as the founders for the maize nested association mapping …

Enhancing grain-yield-related traits by CRISPR–Cas9 promoter editing of maize CLE genes

L Liu, J Gallagher, ED Arevalo, R Chen, T Skopelitis… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
Several yield-related traits selected during crop domestication and improvement, are
associated with increases in meristem size, which is controlled by CLE peptide signals in the …

Comparative population genomics of maize domestication and improvement

MB Hufford, X Xu, J Van Heerwaarden, T Pyhäjärvi… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Domestication and plant breeding are ongoing 10,000-year-old evolutionary experiments
that have radically altered wild species to meet human needs. Maize has undergone a …

An expanded maize gene expression atlas based on RNA sequencing and its use to explore root development

SC Stelpflug, RS Sekhon, B Vaillancourt… - The plant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive and systematic transcriptome profiling provides valuable insight into
biological and developmental processes that occur throughout the life cycle of a plant. We …

Harvesting the promising fruits of genomics: applying genome sequencing technologies to crop breeding

RK Varshney, R Terauchi, SR McCouch - PLoS biology, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are being used to generate whole genome
sequences for a wide range of crop species. When combined with precise phenotyping …

The genetic architecture of maize height

JA Peiffer, MC Romay, MA Gore, SA Flint-Garcia… - Genetics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Height is one of the most heritable and easily measured traits in maize (Zea mays L.). Given
a pedigree or estimates of the genomic identity-by-state among related plants, height is also …

Crop genomics: advances and applications

PL Morrell, ES Buckler, J Ross-Ibarra - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
The completion of reference genome sequences for many important crops and the ability to
perform high-throughput resequencing are providing opportunities for improving our …

A bountiful harvest: genomic insights into crop domestication phenotypes

KM Olsen, JF Wendel - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Human selection during crop domestication has resulted in remarkable transformations of
plant phenotypes, providing a window into the genetic basis of morphological evolution …