▪ Abstract Currently, genetic variation is probably the most important basic resource for plant
biology. In addition to the variation artificially generated by mutants in model plants, naturally …

▪ Abstract The timing of the transition from vegetative to reproductive development is of great
fundamental and applied interest but is still poorly understood. Recently, molecular-genetic …

Vernalization, the acceleration of flowering by a long period of cold temperature, ensures
that many plants overwinter vegetatively and flower in spring. In Arabidopsis, allelic variation …

Gregor Mendel was either clever or lucky enough to study traits of simple inheritance in his
pea plants; however, many plant characters of interest to modern geneticists are decidedly …

Natural genetic variation in Arabidopsis is considerable, but has not yet been used
extensively as a source of variants to identify new genes of interest. From the cross between …

A novel fine structure mapping method for quantitative traits is presented. It is based on
Bayesian modeling and inference, treating the number of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) as an …

We have analyzed the flowering behavior of two Arabidopsis ecotypes: the laboratory strain
Landsberg erecta (Ler) and an ecotype from the tropical Cape Verde Islands (Cvi). They …

The pathways responsible for flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana comprise one of the
best characterized genetic networks in plants. We harness this extensive molecular genetic …

Genetic architecture may profoundly influence the ability of adaptive traits to spread between
species via introgressive hybridization. Here, we examine the genomic location of …

Arabidopsis natural variation was used to analyze the genetics of plant growth rate.
Screening of 22 accessions revealed a large variation for seed weight, plant dry weight and …