Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have become the focus of the statistical analysis
of complex traits in humans, successfully shedding light on several aspects of genetic …

Plant secondary metabolites (PSM s) are ubiquitous in plants and play many ecological
roles. Each compound can vary in presence and/or quantity, and the composition of the …

Robustness is characterized by the invariant expression of a phenotype in the face of a
genetic and/or environmental perturbation. Although phenotypic variance is a central …

Lateral roots (LRs) dominate the overall root surface of adult plants and are crucial for soil
exploration and nutrient acquisition. When grown under mild nitrogen (N) deficiency …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is an important dietary source of both essential micronutrients and toxic
trace elements for humans. The genetic basis underlying the variations in the mineral …

Ionomics is a high-throughput elemental profiling approach to study the molecular
mechanistic basis underlying mineral nutrient and trace element composition (also known …

The ability of an organism to change its phenotype in response to different environments,
termed plasticity, is a particularly important characteristic to enable sessile plants to adapt to …

Quantitative genetics has primarily focused on describing genetic effects on trait means and
largely ignored the effect of alternative alleles on trait variability, potentially missing an …

Quantitative genetics traces its roots back through more than a century of theory, largely
formed in the absence of directly observable genotype data, and has remained essentially …

Molybdenum (Mo) is an essential element for almost all living organisms. After being taken
up into the cells as molybdate, it is incorporated into the molybdenum cofactor, which …