Global climate change exacerbates the effects of environmental stressors, such as drought,
flooding, extreme temperatures, salinity, and alkalinity, on crop growth and grain yield …

Key message Intensive public sector breeding efforts and public-private partnerships have
led to the increase in genetic gains, and deployment of elite climate-resilient maize cultivars …

Genome-wide association study (GWAS) has become a widely accepted strategy for
decoding genotype-phenotype associations in many species thanks to advances in next …

Photosynthesis is the major process leading to primary production in the Biosphere. There is
a total of 7000bn tons of CO2 in the atmosphere and photosynthesis fixes more than 100bn …

Abstract Background Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the main agricultural crops with the
largest yield and acreage in the world. However, maize germplasm is very sensitive to low …

Almost three decades ago Alec Jeffreys published his seminal Nature papers on the use of
minisatellite probes for DNA fingerprinting of humans (Jeffreys and colleagues Nature 1985 …

Maize (Zea mays L.) is an annual grass that originated in tropical and subtropical regions of
the New World. Maize is highly sensitive to cold stress during seed gemination and the …

Abstract Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is a C4 species sensitive to the cold spring
conditions that occur at northern latitudes, especially when coupled with excessive light, and …

In recent years developments in plant phenomic approaches and facilities have gradually
caught up with genomic approaches. An opportunity lies ahead to dissect complex …

In order to understand cold adaptability and explore additional genetic resources for the cold
tolerance improvement of rice, we investigated the genetic variation of 529 rice accessions …