An experiment was conducted at Al- Hamidhia Research Fields, Faculty of Agriculture / Anbar University in North Ramadi city to study the levels salicylic acid 0, 200 and 400 mg. L-1 fifteen genotypes (5 inbred lines + 10 hybrids) maize. A randomized complete block design used a slit table arrangement; thus, main treatments are for spray, secondary tables (inbred hybrids). Three replications wer...

Most current statistical methods developed for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) based on inbred line designs apply to crosses from two inbred lines. Analysis of QTL in these crosses is restricted by the parental genetic differences between lines. Crosses from multiple inbred lines or multiple families are common in plant and animal breeding programmes, and can be used to increase the effic...

High-throughput sequencing is enabling remarkably deep surveys of genomic variation. It is now possible to completely sequence multiple individuals from a single species, yet the identification of variation among them remains an evolving computational challenge. This challenge is compounded for experimental organisms when strains are studied instead of individuals. In response, we present the J...

Two hundred and sixty maize inbred lines, representative of the genetic diversity among essentially all public lines of importance to temperate breeding and many important tropical and subtropical lines, were assayed for polymorphism at 94 microsatellite loci. The 2039 alleles identified served as raw data for estimating genetic structure and diversity. A model-based clustering analysis placed ...