Maize (Zea mays L.) yields have risen continually wherever hybrid maize has been adopted,
starting in the US corn belt in the early 1930s. Plant breeding and improved management …

A number of different marker-assisted selection (MAS) approaches do exist for the
improvement of polygenic traits. Results of a marker-assisted backcross (MABC) selection …

Research in the past decade has demonstrated that a single reference genome is not
representative of a species' diversity. MaizeGDB introduces a pan-genomic approach to …

Abstract The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt, http://www. uniprot. org) consortium is an
initiative of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), the European Bioinformatics …

Since its 2015 update, MaizeGDB, the Maize Genetics and Genomics database, has
expanded to support the sequenced genomes of many maize inbred lines in addition to the …

Domestication and plant breeding are ongoing 10,000-year-old evolutionary experiments
that have radically altered wild species to meet human needs. Maize has undergone a …

Comprehensive and systematic transcriptome profiling provides valuable insight into
biological and developmental processes that occur throughout the life cycle of a plant. We …

Summary The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), the European Bioinformatics Institute
(EBI), and the Protein Information Resource (PIR) form the Universal Protein Resource …

Maize is an important model species and a major constituent of human and animal diets. It
has also emerged as a potential feedstock and model system for bioenergy research due to …

Utilizing the whole genomic variation of complex traits to predict the yet-to-be observed
phenotypes or unobserved genetic values via whole genome prediction (WGP) and to infer …