Sentence examples for maize it has from inspiring English sources

The severity of the bottleneck (k), defined as the ratio of the population size during the bottleneck (Nb) to the duration of the bottleneck (d), was set at 1.2, since in maize it has been estimated by several groups to range from 2.0 [22] to 4.5 [17].

Although our approach works well for maize, it has two shortcomings that merit discussion.

Although the B chromosome is nonessential to maize, it has had a major role in many of the most important studies of plant centromeres (Birchler and Han 2009).

Although no results are available for genomic prediction of disease resistance in maize, it has been successfully applied to predict resistance to Fusarium head blight (FHB) in barley (Lorenz et al. 2012) and wheat (Rutkoski et al. 2012).

In maize, it has been noted that a higher percentage of primer pairs from enriched genomic libraries failed to give consistent amplification products than from EST-sequence-derived primer pairs in maize [ 41].

In maize it has been estimated that about a third of genes are tandem duplicates due to unequal recombination or transposition events that have involved gene fragments (Emrich et al., 2007).

In maize meiosis, it has been observed that early meiotic centromere pairing depends on a structural maintenance of chromosomes 6 (SMC6) protein homologue (Zhang et al. 2013).

FEAST and Famine has been cautious about over-reacting to the American drought and the maize price rise it has caused.

Regarding endosperm, in maize and rice it has been widely demonstrated the correlation of Psy1 transcript accumulation and endosperm carotenoid content [5], [24], [35].

In maize, for instance, it has been suggested that association mapping should be conducted with SNP markers spaced every 100 200 bp (Tenaillon et al. 2001).

For predicting heterozygeous F1 maize hybrids, however, it has been shown that modeling dominance effects can result in higher prediction accuracies [ 8].