CD Lorenzo, K Debray, D Herwegh, W Develtere… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ensuring food security for an ever-growing global population while adapting to climate change is the main challenge for agriculture in the 21st century. Although new technologies …
W Wang, W Guo, L Le, J Yu, Y Wu, D Li, Y Wang… - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
Plant height (PH) is an essential trait in maize (Zea mays) that is tightly associated with planting density, biomass, lodging resistance, and grain yield in the field. Dissecting the …
X Zhang, C Huang, D Wu, F Qiao, W Li, L Duan… - Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
With increasing demand for novel traits in crop breeding, the plant research community faces the challenge of quantitatively analyzing the structure and function of large numbers of …
Y Yu, W Li, Y Liu, Y Liu, Q Zhang, Y Ouyang, W Ding… - Cell, 2025 - cell.com
Kernel dehydration rate (KDR) is a crucial production trait that affects mechanized harvesting and kernel quality in maize; however, the underlying mechanisms remain …
G Chen, B Zhang, J Ding, H Wang, C Deng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Broad-spectrum resistance has great values for crop breeding. However, its mechanisms are largely unknown. Here, we report the cloning of a maize NLR gene, RppK, for resistance …
Y Luo, M Zhang, Y Liu, J Liu, W Li, G Chen… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ear length (EL), which is controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTLs), is an important component of grain yield and as such is a key target trait in maize breeding. However, very …