Maize productivity is threatened by global climate change. Climate change scenarios
suggest that north‐western (NW) Europe will get warmer and drier during the main crop …

Generating genomics-driven knowledge opens a way to accelerate the resistance breeding
process by family or population mapping and genomic selection. Important prerequisites are …

Cercospora zeae-maydis (CERCZM) is a destructive fungus that is strengthened by hot
tropical weather and high humidity such as in the Philippines, resulting to recurrent adverse …

Numerous studies have shown that plants selectively recruit microbes from the soil to
establish a complex, yet stable and quite predictable microbial community on their roots …

Bacterial leaf streak (BLS) of maize is an emerging foliar disease of maize in the Americas. It
is caused by the gram-negative nonvascular bacterium Xanthomonas vasicola pv …

Quantification of the simultaneous contributions of loci to multiple traits, a phenomenon
called pleiotropy, is facilitated by the increased availability of high-throughput genotypic and …

Abstract Maize (Zea mays L.), an important cereal for human and animal nutrition, is usually
affected by multiple co-occurring pathogens that reduce production. Argentina is the fourth …

Foliar diseases of maize are among the most important diseases of maize worldwide. This
study focused on 4 major foliar diseases of maize: Goss's wilt, gray leaf spot, northern corn …

Maize white spot (MWS) is one of the most important foliar diseases in Brazil causing
significant yield losses. Breeding genotypes with MWS resistance is the most sustainable …

The basic tenet of crop improvement is the novel genetic variability that is achieved through
selection, hybridization, mutation and recombination. The new technological innovations of …