Vast germplasm collections are accessible but their use for crop improvement is limited—
efficiently accessing genetic diversity is still a challenge. Molecular markers have clarified …

Maize domestication is one of the greatest feats of artificial selection and evolution, wherein
a weedy plant in Central Mexico was converted through human-mediated selection into the …

Landraces (traditional varieties) of domesticated species preserve useful genetic variation,
yet they remain untapped due to the genetic linkage between the few useful alleles and …

The domestication of cereals has involved common changes in morphological features,
such as seed size, seed retention and modification of vegetative and inflorescence …

Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers have become a genetic technology of
choice because of their automation and high precision of allele calls. In this study, our goal …

The strengths of association mapping lie in its resolution and allelic richness, but spurious
associations arising from historical relationships and selection patterns need to be …

Variation in maize for response to photoperiod is related to geographical adaptation in the
species. Maize possesses homologs of many genes identified as regulators of flowering …

Common beans are an important food legume faced with a series of abiotic stresses the
most severe of which is drought. The crop is interesting as a model for the analysis of gene …

Our perceptions and conceptions regarding the roles and importance of maize to ancient
economies is largely a product of scientific research on the plant itself, developed for the …

Background The abscisic acid (ABA) pathway plays an important role in the plants' reaction
to drought stress and ABA-stress response (Asr) genes are important in controlling this …