Cyril Bauland

TL;DR: In this article, different criteria based on the diversity or on the prediction error variance (PEV) derived from the realized additive relationship matrix (RA-BLUP) were used to select the reference individuals.

TL;DR: The present work provides the most comprehensive study on intraspecific variation of recombination rates and crossover interference strength in eukaryotes and should pave the way for precise identification of genes controlling recombinations rates in maize and other organisms.

TL;DR: This work evaluated testcross performance of 1652 doubled-haploid maize lines that were genotyped with 56,110 single nucleotide polymorphism markers and phenotyped for five agronomic traits in four to six European environments and theoretically and empirically investigated marker linkage phases across multiparental populations.

TL;DR: The approach showed a pattern of QTL effects expressed as functions of environmental variables and scenarios, allowing us to suggest hypotheses for mechanisms and candidate genes underlying each QTL, used for assessing the performance of genotypes and the contribution of genomic regions under current and future stress situations and to accelerate breeding for drought-prone environments.

TL;DR: Two new nested association mapping designs adapted to European conditions were derived from the complementary dent and flint heterotic groups of maize, with favorable allelic effects detected in both groups open perspectives for improving biomass production.