Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

Grain yield in rice is a complex trait multiplicatively determined by its three component traits:
number of panicles, number of grains per panicle, and grain weight; all of which are typical …

Sorghum bicolor is a drought tolerant C4 grass used for the production of grain, forage,
sugar, and lignocellulosic biomass and a genetic model for C4 grasses due to its relatively …

Background Next generation sequencing is transforming our understanding of
transcriptomes. It can determine the expression level of transcripts with a dynamic range of …

As one of the most important crops in the world, rice (Oryza sativa) is a model plant for
metabolome research. Although many studies have focused on the analysis of specific …

Rice yield and heading date are two distinct traits controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTLs).
The dissection of molecular mechanisms underlying rice yield traits is important for …

Maize is an important model species and a major constituent of human and animal diets. It
has also emerged as a potential feedstock and model system for bioenergy research due to …

Rice is one of the most important staple food and model species in plant biology, yet its
quantitative proteomes are largely uncharacterized. Here we quantify the relative protein …

Maize (Zea mays) is an excellent cereal model for research on seed development because
of its relatively large size for both embryo and endosperm. Despite the importance of seed in …

A wide range of resources on gene expression profiling enhance various strategies in plant
molecular biology particularly in characterization of gene function. We have updated our …