Crop wild relatives represent valuable sources of alleles for crop improvement, including
adaptation to climate change and emerging diseases. However, introgressions from wild …

Genetic variation is of crucial importance for crop improvement. Landraces are valuable
sources of diversity, but for quantitative traits efficient strategies for their targeted utilization are …

Studies of plants have been instrumental for revealing how new species originate. For
several decades, botanical research has complemented and, in some cases, challenged …

Populations are locally adapted when they exhibit higher fitness than foreign populations in
their native habitat. Maize landrace adaptations to highland and lowland conditions are of …

Generations of farmer selection in the central Mexican highlands have produced unique
maize varieties adapted to the challenges of the local environment. In addition to possessing …

Background The spread of maize cultivation to the highlands of central Mexico was accompanied
by substantial introgression from the endemic wild teosinte Zea mays ssp. mexicana, …

Background Gene regulatory variation has been proposed to play an important role in the
adaptation of plants to environmental stress. In the central highlands of Mexico, farmer …

Crop wild relatives represent valuable sources of alleles for crop improvement, including
adaptation to climate change and emerging diseases. However, introgressions from wild …

High-throughput genotyping of large numbers of lines remains a key challenge in plant
genetics, requiring geneticists and breeders to find a balance between data quality and the …

Genetic variation is of crucial importance for selection and genetic improvement of crops.
Landraces are valuable sources of diversity for germplasm improvement, but for quantitative …