Natural variation in crops: realized understanding, continuing promise

Y Liang, HJ Liu, J Yan, F Tian - Annual review of plant biology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Harnessing knowledge from maize and rice domestication for new crop breeding

Q Chen, W Li, L Tan, F Tian - Molecular Plant, 2021 - cell.com
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 …

Maize domestication and gene interaction

MC Stitzer, J Ross‐Ibarra - New phytologist, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 395 I. Introduction 395 II. The genetic basis of maize domestication 396
III. The tempo of maize domestication 401 IV. Genetic interactions and selection during …

Roles of YABBY transcription factors in the modulation of morphogenesis, development, and phytohormone and stress responses in plants

T Zhang, C Li, D Li, Y Liu, X Yang - Journal of Plant Research, 2020 - Springer
The YABBY family is a class of plant-specific transcription factors comprising a typical N-
terminal C2C2-type zinc finger domain and a C-terminal helix-loop-helix YABBY domain …

Genomic survey of TCP transcription factors in plants: Phylogenomics, evolution and their biology

H Zhou, D Hwarari, H Ma, H Xu, L Yang, Y Luo - Frontiers in genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The TEOSINTE BRANCHED1 (TBI1), CYCLOIDEA (CYC), and PROLIFERATING CELL
NUCLEAR ANTIGEN FACTORS (PCF1 and PCF2) proteins truncated as TCP transcription …

The genetic architecture of teosinte catalyzed and constrained maize domestication

CJ Yang, LF Samayoa, PJ Bradbury… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The process of evolution under domestication has been studied using phylogenetics,
population genetics–genomics, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, gene expression …

Selection during maize domestication targeted a gene network controlling plant and inflorescence architecture

AJ Studer, H Wang, JF Doebley - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Selection during evolution, whether natural or artificial, is evidenced through the phenotype.
For complex phenotypes like plant and inflorescence..... Selection during evolution, whether …

[HTML][HTML] Multifaceted mechanisms controlling grain disarticulation in the Poaceae

Y Yu, EA Kellogg - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Cereal shattering and threshability, both involving disarticulation of grains from the mother
plant, are important traits for cereal domestication and improvement. Recent studies …

Overexpression of a soybean YABBY gene, GmFILa, causes leaf curling in Arabidopsis thaliana

H Yang, G Shi, X Li, D Hu, Y Cui, J Hou, D Yu… - BMC plant biology, 2019 - Springer
Background YABBY genes play important roles in the growth and polar establishment of
lateral organs such as leaves and floral organs in angiosperms. However, the functions of …

The impact of fasciation on maize inflorescence architecture

DE Kim, J Jeong, YM Kang, YH Park, YJ Lee… - Journal of Plant …, 2022 - Springer
How functional genetics research can be applied to improving crop yields is a timely
challenge. One of the most direct methods is to produce larger inflorescences with higher …