Mining natural variation for maize improvement: Selection on phenotypes and genes

Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources: Volume 1. Managing, Sequencing and Mining Genetic Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 615-649

  Sood, Shilpa ^a   Flint Garcia, Sherry ^b,c   Willcox, Martha C ^d   Holland, James B ^a,e  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Allelic effect; Candidate gene; Genome sequencing; Genome wide association analysis; Genomic selection; Haplotype; Linkage drag; Maize; Productivity; SNP; Teosinte; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951209506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7572-5_25     Document Type: Chapter

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