One of the most remarkable biological insights in the past 30 years has been that many
genetic programs for complex traits, such as flower or limb development, are shared across …

Metabolomics approaches enable the parallel assessment of the levels of a broad range of
metabolites and have been documented to have great value in both phenotyping and …

Dominant markers such as amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) provide an
economical way of surveying variation at many loci. However, the uncertainty about the …

Flowering time is a key life-history trait in the plant life cycle. Most studies to unravel the
genetics of flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana have been performed under greenhouse …

Background The knowledge of the extent and pattern of diversity in the crop species is a
prerequisite for any crop improvement as it helps breeders in deciding suitable breeding …

Genetic incompatibilities resulting from interactions between two loci represent a potential
source of postzygotic barriers and may be an important factor in evolution when they impair …

Root architecture is a highly plastic and environmentally responsive trait that enables plants
to counteract nutrient scarcities with different foraging strategies. In potassium (K) deficiency …

Conifers are characterized by a large genome size and a rapid decay of linkage
disequilibrium, most often within gene limits. Genome scans based on noncoding markers …

Association analysis studies can be used to test for associations between molecular markers
and quantitative trait loci (QTL). In this study, a genome-wide scan was performed using 150 …

The model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana is successful at colonizing land that has
recently undergone human-mediated disturbance. To investigate the prehistoric spread of A …