Salt stress limits the productivity of crops grown under saline conditions, leading to
substantial losses of yield in saline soils and under brackish and saline irrigation. Salt …

Future advances in plant genomics will make it possible to scan a genome for
polymorphisms associated with qualitative and quantitative traits. Before this potential can …

Teosinte, the wild ancestor of maize (Zea mays subsp. mays), has three times the seed
protein content of most modern inbreds and hybrids, but the mechanisms that are …

Accelerating crop improvement in sorghum, a staple food for people in semiarid regions
across the developing world, is key to ensuring global food security in the context of climate …

We report the genome sequence of melon, an important horticultural crop worldwide. We
assembled 375 Mb of the double-haploid line DHL92, representing 83.3% of the estimated …

Background Genotyping by sequencing, a new low-cost, high-throughput sequencing
technology was used to genotype 2,815 maize inbred accessions, preserved mostly at the …

The goal of many plant scientists' research is to explain natural phenotypic variation in terms
of simple changes in DNA sequence. Traditionally, linkage mapping has been the most …

Maize (Zea mays L.) yields have risen continually wherever hybrid maize has been adopted,
starting in the US corn belt in the early 1930s. Plant breeding and improved management …

More than half of the world's population uses rice as a source of carbon intake every day.
Improving grain quality is thus essential to rice consumers. The three main properties that …

▪ Abstract About 20 years ago, DNA sequences were separately described from the quagga
(a type of zebra) and an ancient Egyptian individual. What made these DNA sequences …