Sharon E. Mitchell

TL;DR: A procedure for constructing GBS libraries based on reducing genome complexity with restriction enzymes (REs) is reported, which is simple, quick, extremely specific, highly reproducible, and may reach important regions of the genome that are inaccessible to sequence capture approaches.

TL;DR: A simple additive model accurately predicts flowering time for maize, in contrast to the genetic architecture observed in the selfing plant species rice and Arabidopsis.

TL;DR: Maize genetic diversity has been used to understand the molecular basis of phenotypic variation and to improve agricultural efficiency and sustainability and it is suggested that selection in inbred lines has been less efficient in these regions because of reduced recombination frequency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the population structure of the 302 lines, and investigate the relationship between population structure and various measures of phenotypic and breeding value, finding that on average, their estimates of population structure account for 9.3% of phenotype variation, roughly equivalent to a major quantitative trait locus (QTL).

TL;DR: A new low-cost, high-throughput sequencing technology was used to genotype 2,815 maize inbred accessions, preserved mostly at the National Plant Germplasm System in the USA, finding trait associations at SNPs very close to known candidate genes for kernel color, sweet corn, and flowering time.