Crops feed the world's population and shape human civilization. The improvement of crop
productivity has been ongoing for almost 10,000 years and has evolved from an experience …

Domestication of wild plant species has provided us with crops that serve our human
nutritional needs. Advanced DNA sequencing has propelled the unveiling of underlying …

Several yield-related traits selected during crop domestication and improvement, are
associated with increases in meristem size, which is controlled by CLE peptide signals in the …

Cellular processes mediated through nuclear DNA must contend with chromatin. Chromatin
structural assays can efficiently integrate information across diverse regulatory elements …

The evolutionary significance of hybridization and subsequent introgression has long been
appreciated, but evaluation of the genome-wide effects of these phenomena has only …

The separation of male and female flowers in maize provides the potential for independent
regulation of traits that affect crop productivity. For example, tassel branch number controls …

While often deleterious, hybridization can also be a key source of genetic variation and pre-
adapted haplotypes, enabling rapid evolution and niche expansion. Here we evaluate these …

Many domesticated crop plants have been bred for increased apical dominance, displaying
greatly reduced axillary branching compared to their wild ancestors. In maize, this was …

Kernel row number (KRN) is an important component of yield during the domestication and
improvement of maize and controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTL). Here, we fine-mapped a …

Crop domestication has fundamentally altered the course of human history, causing a shift
from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies and stimulating the rise of modern civilization …