Global climate change exacerbates the effects of environmental stressors, such as drought,
flooding, extreme temperatures, salinity, and alkalinity, on crop growth and grain yield …

Plants' tolerance of low temperatures is an economically and ecologically important
limitation on geographic distributions and growing seasons. Tolerance for low temperatures …

Different plant species within the grasses were parallel targets of domestication, giving rise
to crops with distinct evolutionary histories and traits. Key traits that distinguish these species …

Maize (Zea mays L.) is a cold-sensitive species that often faces chilling stress, which
adversely affects growth and reproduction. However, the genetic basis of low-temperature …

Cold stress negatively affects maize (Zea mays L.) growth, development and yield. Metabolic
adjustments contribute to the adaptation of maize under cold stress. We show here that the …

Deep learning methodologies have revolutionized prediction in many fields and show
potential to do the same in molecular biology and genetics. However, applying these …

Sorghum and maize share a close evolutionary history that can be explored through
comparative genomics,. To perform a large-scale comparison of the genomic variation …

DNA methylation is a ubiquitous chromatin feature, present in 25% of cytosines in the maize
genome, but variation and evolution of the methylation landscape during maize …

Transposable elements (TEs) constitute the majority of flowering plant DNA, reflecting their
tremendous success in subverting, avoiding, and surviving the defenses of their host …

Abstract Changes in gene expression are important for responses to abiotic stress.
Transcriptome profiling of heat-or cold-stressed maize genotypes identifies many changes in …