Nature Communications (Nov 2017)
Contributions of Zea mays subspecies mexicana haplotypes to modern maize
- Ning Yang,
- Xi-Wen Xu,
- Rui-Ru Wang,
- Wen-Lei Peng,
- Lichun Cai,
- Jia-Ming Song,
- Wenqiang Li,
- Xin Luo,
- Luyao Niu,
- Yuebin Wang,
- Min Jin,
- Lu Chen,
- Jingyun Luo,
- Min Deng,
- Long Wang,
- Qingchun Pan,
- Feng Liu,
- David Jackson,
- Xiaohong Yang,
- Ling-Ling Chen,
- Jianbing Yan
Affiliations
- Ning Yang
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Xi-Wen Xu
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Rui-Ru Wang
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Wen-Lei Peng
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Lichun Cai
- National Maize Improvement Center of China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University
- Jia-Ming Song
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Wenqiang Li
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Xin Luo
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Luyao Niu
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Yuebin Wang
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Min Jin
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Lu Chen
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Jingyun Luo
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Min Deng
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Long Wang
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Qingchun Pan
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Feng Liu
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- David Jackson
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Xiaohong Yang
- National Maize Improvement Center of China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University
- Ling-Ling Chen
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Jianbing Yan
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02063-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Maize was domesticated from wild lowland progenitors that co-existed with upland subspecies in Southwestern Mexico. Here Yang et al. use a meta-assembly approach to assemble an upland mexicana genome and find evidence of introgression suggesting it contributed to modern maize adaptation
