The goal of many plant scientists' research is to explain natural phenotypic variation in terms
of simple changes in DNA sequence. Traditionally, linkage map** has been the most …

The completion of reference genome sequences for many important crops and the ability to
perform high-throughput resequencing are providing opportunities for improving our …

Accelerating crop improvement in sorghum, a staple food for people in semiarid regions
across the develo** world, is key to ensuring global food security in the context of climate …

Flowering time is a complex trait that controls adaptation of plants to their local environment
in the outcrossing species Zea mays (maize). We dissected variation for flowering time with …

Height is one of the most heritable and easily measured traits in maize (Zea mays L.). Given
a pedigree or estimates of the genomic identity-by-state among related plants, height is also …

The development of ubiquitous polymorphic genetic markers that span the genome have
made it possible for quantitative and molecular geneticists to investigate what MD Edwards …

Flowering time is a fundamental trait of maize adaptation to different agricultural
environments. Although a large body of information is available on the map position of …

This article presents a method to combine QTL results from different independent analyses.
This method provides a modified Akaike criterion that can be used to decide how many QTL …

Optimal flowering time is critical to the success of modern agriculture. Sorghum is a short-
day tropical species that exhibits substantial photoperiod sensitivity and delayed flowering in …

We have briefly reviewed the methods currently available for QTL analysis in segregating
populations and summarized some of the conclusions arising from such analyses in plant …