Maize is recognized as the queen of cereals, with an ability to adapt to diverse
agroecologies (from 58oN to 55oS latitude) and the highest genetic yield potential among …

The increasing demand for lignocellulosic biomass for the production of biofuels provides
value to vegetative plant tissue and leads to a paradigm shift for optimizing plant architecture …

The efficiency of marker-assisted selection (MAS) depends on the power of quantitative trait
locus (QTL) detection and unbiased estimation of QTL effects. Two independent samples …

Genetic architecture of flowering time in maize was addressed by synthesizing a total of 313
quantitative trait loci (QTL) available for this trait. These were analyzed first with an overview …

Cross validation (CV) was used to analyze the effects of different environments and different
genotypic samples on estimates of the proportion of genotypic variance explained by QTL …

A pearl millet map** population from a cross between ICMB841 and 863B was studied for
DNA polymorphism to construct a genetic linkage map, and to map genomic regions …

Background In rice, the GW2 gene, found on chromosome 2, controls grain width and
weight. Two homologs of this gene, ZmGW2-CHR4 and ZmGW2-CHR5, have been found in …

Abstract Huangzaosi, Qi319, and Ye478 are foundation inbred lines widely used in maize
breeding in China. To elucidate genetic base of yield components and kernel-related traits …

The biomass demand to fuel a growing global bio-based economy is expected to
tremendously increase over the next decades, and projections indicate that dedicated …

We have constructed a 1736-locus maize genome map containing1156 loci probed by
cDNAs, 545 probed by random genomic clones, 16 by simple sequence repeats (SSRs), 14 …