@article{buckler_holland_bradbury_acharya_brown_browne_ersoz_flint-garcia_garcia_glaubitz_et al._2009, title={The Genetic Architecture of Maize Flowering Time}, volume={325}, ISSN={["1095-9203"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-68449083317&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1126/science.1174276}, abstractNote={Codifying Maize Modifications
          
            Maize, one of our most important crop species, has been the target of genetic investigation and experimentation for more than 100 years. Crossing two inbred lines tends to result in “better” offspring, in a process known as heterosis. Attempts to map the genetic loci that control traits important for farming have been made, but few have been successful (see the Perspective by
            
              Mackay
            
            ).
            
              Buckler
              et al.
            
            (p.
            714
            ) and
            
              McMullen
              et al.
            
            (p.
            737
            ) produced a genomic map of maize that relates recombination to genome structure. Even tremendous adaptations in very diverse species were produced by numerous, small additive steps. Differences in flowering time in maize among inbred lines were not caused by a few genes with large effects, but by the cumulative effects of numerous quantitative trait loci—each of which has only a small impact on the trait.
          }, number={5941}, journal={SCIENCE}, author={Buckler, Edward S. and Holland, James B. and Bradbury, Peter J. and Acharya, Charlotte B. and Brown, Patrick J. and Browne, Chris and Ersoz, Elhan and Flint-Garcia, Sherry and Garcia, Arturo and Glaubitz, Jeffrey C. and et al.}, year={2009}, month={Aug}, pages={714–718} }