Macromutations (alleles with major phenotypic effects) have greatly simpli fied the lives of
geneticists. Wingless flies, hairless mice, and dwarf plants can all be conditioned by …

Publisher Summary On a worldwide basis, plant breeding has been one of the most
successful technologies developed in modern agriculture: its methods are opportunistic and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Inbred lines have been a rich resource for fundamental and applied investigations in maize.
They constitute a sampling of the genetic diversity in Zea mays L. that has been captured …

Key message Bandwagons come in waves. A plant breeder, just like a surfer, needs to
carefully choose which waves to be on. Abstract A bandwagon is an idea, activity, or cause …

Recent advances in plant genomics and molecular biology have revolutionized our
understanding of plant genetics, providing new opportunities for more efficient and …

Correspondence among QTLs affecting height and/or flowering was investigated across the
five races of sorghum, an interspecific sorghum F2 population, and 32 previously published …

To detect QTLs controlling traits of agronomic importance in rice, two elite homozygous lines
9024 and LH422, which represent the indica and japonica subspecies of rice (Oryza sativa) …