All natural plant species are evolved from ancient polyploids. Polyloidization plays an
important role in plant genome evolution, species divergence and crop domestication. We …

Although heterosis, or hybrid vigor, is widely exploited in agriculture, a complete description
of its molecular underpinnings has remained elusive despite extensive investigation. It …

Coexpression networks and gene regulatory networks (GRNs) are emerging as important
tools for predicting functional roles of individual genes at a system-wide scale. To enable …

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 …

Maize has for many decades been both one of the most important crops worldwide and one
of the primary genetic model organisms. More recently, maize breeding has been impacted …

The maize root system comprises structurally and functionally different root types. Mutant
analyses have revealed that root-type-specific genetic regulators intrinsically determine the …

MaizeGDB is a highly curated, community-oriented database and informatics service to
researchers focused on the crop plant and model organism Zea mays ssp. mays. Although …

RNA sequencing can simultaneously identify exonic polymorphisms and quantitate gene
expression. Here we report RNA sequencing of developing maize kernels from 368 inbred …

Polyploidy is now recognized as a characteristic feature of all angiosperm genomes (Jiao et
al., 2011), and remains an important speciation process today (Wendel, 2000; Comai, 2005; …

Phenotypic variation in natural populations results from a combination of genetic effects,
environmental effects, and gene-by-environment interactions. Despite the vast amount of …