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 …

Nearly 100 genes and functional polymorphisms underlying natural variation in plant
development and physiology have been identified. In crop plants, these include genes …

Plants have evolved annual and perennial life forms as alternative strategies to adapt
reproduction and survival to environmental constraints. In isolated situations, such as …

To exploit the diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana, eight founder accessions were crossed to
produce six recombinant inbred line (RIL) subpopulations, together called an Arabidopsis …

The onset of flowering is an important adaptive trait in plants. The small ephemeral species
Arabidopsis thaliana grows under a wide range of temperature and day-length conditions …

Responses to environmental cues synchronize reproduction of higher plants to the changing
seasons. The genetic basis of these responses has been intensively studied in the …

Quantitative approaches conducted in a single mapping population are limited by the extent
of genetic variation distinguishing the parental genotypes. To overcome this limitation and …

Many facets of plant form and function are reflected in general cross‐taxa scaling
relationships. Metabolic scaling theory (MST) and the leaf economics spectrum (LES) have …

Plant species have evolved different requirements for environmental/endogenous cues to
induce flowering. Originally, these varying requirements were thought to reflect the action of …