Plant diseases are responsible for substantial crop losses each year and pose a threat to
global food security and agricultural sustainability. Improving crop resistance to pathogens …

A thorough understanding of quantitative disease resistance (QDR) would contribute to the
design and deployment of durably resistant crop cultivars. However, the molecular …

Head smut is a systemic disease in maize caused by the soil-borne fungus Sporisorium
reilianum that poses a grave threat to maize production worldwide. A major head smut …

Alleles that confer multiple disease resistance (MDR) are valuable in crop improvement,
although the molecular mechanisms underlying their functions remain largely unknown. A …

Nested association mapping (NAM) offers power to resolve complex, quantitative traits to
their causal loci. The maize NAM population, consisting of 5,000 recombinant inbred lines …

Plant breeding and improved management options have made remarkable progress in
increasing crop yields during the past century. However, climate change projections suggest …

Quantitative resistance to plant pathogens, controlled by multiple loci of small effect, is
important for food production, food security, and food safety but is poorly understood. To …

Emerging diseases are impacting animals under high‐density culture, yet few studies
assess their importance to wild populations. Microparasites selected for enhanced virulence …

Concerns about the genetic erosion of crop genetic resources (CGR) were first articulated by
scientists in the mid‐20th century and have since become an important part of national …

Genetic architecture refers to the numbers and genome locations of genes that affect a trait,
the magnitude of their effects, and the relative contributions of additive, dominant, and …