Because of drought the average yield of maize showed a 50%% decrease in 2007 (3.7 t ha−1) compared to the previous years (Széll and Dévényi 2008).
Maize showed a fold enrichment of 2.358 and 3.320 (P-value < 0.001) respectively.
Since the sequence of SBEs in Brachypodium, wheat, rice and maize showed a high similarity and were classified into the same cluster, respectively (Additional file 5).
Polak and Supraptohardjo (1951) demonstrated that heating peat to between 105 and 128°C produced a flux of ammonia, to which maize showed a marked response.
In most cases Musa, O. sativa and maize showed a higher GC value at the 5' end within the first 150 bp from the predicted start site, which gradually decreased towards the 3' end.
For example, ramosa1 (ra1) of maize shows strong evidence that it was the target of selection during maize domestication, and this gene has been characterized in considerable detail [4].
However, teosinte, the wild progenitor of maize, shows higher levels of branching than maize, whether grown with or without competition, and maize appears to be less sensitive than teosinte to variations in planting density (Lukens and Doebley, 1999).
These results are consistent with those in maize showing that 3' UTRs are a rich source of nucleotide diversity [ 26, 27].
A Kruskal-Wallis test comparing the detachment force for teosinte, hybrids, and maize showed significant heterogeneity with a P value <6.3 x 10-16.
TagSNP was in or within 2 Mb of QTL Functional analysis of heterologously expressed LOX1 from maize showed that it is a non-traditional LOX exhibiting both 9- and 13-LOX activities [ 32].
