Ten thousand years ago human societies around the globe began to transition from hunting
and gathering to agriculture. By 4000 years ago, ancient peoples had completed the …

▪ Abstract Maize and its closest wild relatives, the teosintes, differ strikingly in the morphology
of their female inflorescences or ears. Despite their divergent morphologies, several …

… 152-160] affords evaluation of the correspondence between seed mass OTLs (J. Taylor,
personal communication), as described (13). A match was declared when QTL likelihood …

As population structure can result in spurious associations, it has constrained the use of
association studies in human and plant genetics. Association mapping, however, holds great …

… In fitch, the J option was used to randomize the input order of samples. To determine the
degree of statistical support for different branch points in the phylogenies, we evaluated 1,000 …

Historically, association tests have been used extensively in medical genetics 1, 2, but have
had virtually no application in plant genetics. One obstacle to their application is the …

Association studies based on linkage disequilibrium (LD) can provide high resolution for
identifying genes that may contribute to phenotypic variation. We report patterns of local and …

… of plants homozygous for alleles: J b 1 --//ajze, M--; Tb7 -- teosinte, T-; fb-ref, tb; tb 1-mum 1,
Mu. … Doeblcy, J. & Stec, A. Inheritance of the morphological differences between maize and …

Crop improvement and the dissection of complex genetic traits require germplasm diversity.
Although this necessary phenotypic variability exists in diverse maize, most research is …

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 …