Ten years ago next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies appeared on the market.
During the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in terms of speed, read …

Bulk segregation analysis (BSA) utilizes a strategy of pooling individuals with extreme
phenotypes to conduct economical and rapidly linked marker screening or quantitative trait …

To gain a detailed understanding of how plant microbes evolve and adapt to hosts,
pesticides, and other factors, knowledge of the population dynamics and evolutionary history …

The ability to efficiently and accurately determine genotypes is a keystone technology in
modern genetics, crucial to studies ranging from clinical diagnostics, to genotype-phenotype …

Sequencing reduced‐representation libraries of restriction site‐associated DNA (RAD seq)
to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP s) is quickly becoming a standard …

Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)–based methods are widely used to isolate DNA
from plant tissues, but the unique chemical composition of secondary metabolites among …

The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized genomic and
transcriptomic approaches to biology. These new sequencing tools are also valuable for the …

Population genetic data underpin many studies of behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary
processes in wild populations and contribute to effective conservation management …

Growing evidence shows that epigenetic mechanisms contribute to complex traits, with
implications across many fields of biology. In plant ecology, recent studies have attempted to …

Phylogenetic relationships among recently diverged species are often difficult to resolve due
to insufficient phylogenetic signal in available markers and/or conflict among gene trees …