The efficiency of marker-assisted prediction of phenotypes has been studied intensively for different types of plant breeding populations. However, one remaining question is how to incorporate and counterbalance information from biparental and multiparental populations into model training for genome-wide prediction. To address this question, we evaluated testcross performance of 1652 doubled-ha...

Early maturity is a highly important factor in the interrelations between yield, grain moisture, and plant density, contributing to cost-efficient maize production. Landraces conserved gene banks present promising basis for enriching diversity of early breeding material. To start speed up mobilization genetic resources maintained ex situ Maize Research Institute Zemun Polje bank collection, whi...

New species and records of Chimarra Stephens (Trichoptera, Philopotamidae) from Central Amazonia, Brazil. Chimarra (Curgia) paucispina sp. nov., of the aurivittata group Flint, 1998 is described and illustrated from specimens collected in Amazonas State. The key to species of Chimarra (Curgia) Walker, 1860 presented by Flint was modified to include the new species. Chimarra (Chimarrita) chela B...

Maize is one of the most important food and feed sources at worldwide level. Due to this importance, all pathogens that can infect crop harm both safety security. Fungi are in cultivated maize, Fusarium spp. families. Reduction yield production dangerous mycotoxins main effects infection. graminearum (part species complex) fungi it causative agent Gibberella ear rot (GER). The characteristics i...

Aims: High maize yields in modern well-managed agroecosystems depend on the use of elite varieties and hybrids. Unfortunately, because repeated selection at high fertilizer rates, some beneficial traits, such as interaction with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi or release organic acid anions for phosphate mobilization attracting microorganisms, might be gradually declining genotypes. However, old f...

Identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) involved in the variation of hybrid value is of key importance for cross-pollinated species such as maize (Zea mays L.). In a companion paper, we illustrated a new QTL mapping population design involving a factorial mating between two multiparental segregating populations. Six biparental line populations were developed from four founder lines in t...

Major nutritional and agronomical issues relating to maize (Zea mays) grains depend on the vitreousness/hardness of its endosperm. To identify the corresponding molecular and cellular mechanisms, most studies have been conducted on opaque/floury mutants, and recently on Quality Protein Maize, a reversion of an opaque2 mutation by modifier genes. These mutant lines are far from conventional maiz...

Decoy receptor 3 (DcR3) is a novel member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, which binds to and blocks the activities of the ligands, FasL and LIGHT (a cellular ligand for herpes virus entry mediator and lymphotoxin receptor), that play an important role in regulating apoptosis in normal physiology. DcR3 was rapidly degraded to a major circulating metabolic fragment, DcR3(1-218)...