Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Light Acquisition

Light Acquisition

In order to produce glucose, plants need to capture sufficient light energy. Many modern plants have evolved leaves specialized for light acquisition. Leaves can be only millimeters in width or tens of meters wide, depending on the environment. Due to competition for sunlight, evolution has driven the evolution of increasingly larger leaves and taller plants, to avoid shading by their neighbors with contaminant elaboration of root architecture and mechanisms to transport water and nutrients.

Trihybrid Crosses

Trihybrid Crosses

Trihybrid Crosses
Some of Mendel’s crosses examined three pairs of contrasting characteristics. Such a cross is called a trihybrid cross. A trihybrid cross is a combination of three individual monohybrid crosses. For example, plant height (tall vs. short), seed shape (round vs. wrinkled), and seed color (yellow vs. green).
The F1 generation plants of a trihybrid cross are heterozygous for all three traits and produce eight gametes. Upon self-fertilization, these gametes have an equal...

Plant Breeding and Biotechnology

Plant Breeding and Biotechnology

Crop cultivation has a long history in human civilization, with records showing the cultivation of cereal plants beginning at around 8000 BC. This early plant breeding was developed primarily to provide a steady supply of food.

Evolutionary Relationships through Genome Comparisons

Evolutionary Relationships through Genome Comparisons

Genome comparison is one of the excellent ways to interpret the evolutionary relationships between organisms. The basic principle of genome comparison is that if two species share a common feature, it is likely encoded by the DNA sequence conserved between both species. The advent of genome sequencing technologies in the late 20th century enabled scientists to understand the concept of conservation of domains between species and helped them to deduce evolutionary relationships across diverse...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Synergistic promotion between modified carbon cloth electrode and supramolecular gel polymer electrolyte enables flexible energy storage.

RSC advances·2026

Same author

<i>De Novo</i> Biosynthesis of Polyphyllin V in <i>Nicotiana benthamiana</i> through Pathway Reconstruction and UDP-Sugar Engineering.

ACS synthetic biology·2026

Same author

Single-cell transcriptomics reveals MAFB-driven macrophage reprogramming and immune divergence in recurrent glioblastoma.

BMC cancer·2026

Same author

Body mass index and waist-hip ratio - Risk factors for aortic valve disease: The atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study.

American journal of preventive cardiology·2026

Same author

Endoscopic retrograde appendiceal irrigation for children with recurrent abdominal pain and appendiceal fecaliths: a retrospective cohort study.

World journal of pediatric surgery·2026

Same author

Dynapenic Abdominal Obesity and the Risk of Non-Neoplastic Digestive System Diseases in Postmenopausal Women: A Prospective Cohort Study.

International journal of women's health·2026

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Jun 17, 2025

Cereal Crop Ear Counting in Field Conditions Using Zenithal RGB Images

Cereal Crop Ear Counting in Field Conditions Using Zenithal RGB Images

Published on: February 2, 2019

PidTools: Algorithm and web tools for crop pedigree identification analysis.

Yunlong Zhang¹, Yikun Zhao¹, Shipeng Ma¹

¹Maize Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences (BAAFS), Key Laboratory of Crop DNA Fingerprinting Innovation and Utilization (Co-construction by Ministry and Province), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shuguang Garden Middle Road No. 9, Beijing 100097, China.

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

|August 7, 2024

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

PidTools accurately identifies crop pedigrees using genomic data, aiding breeders in genetic improvement. This tool reconstructs and visualizes plant lineage, crucial for understanding crop evolution and maximizing heterosis.

Keywords:

Crop pedigrees Germplasm resource evaluation Molecular breeding Pedigree identification algorithm

More Related Videos

Tomato Analyzer: A Useful Software Application to Collect Accurate and Detailed Morphological and Colorimetric Data from Two-dimensional Objects

Tomato Analyzer: A Useful Software Application to Collect Accurate and Detailed Morphological and Colorimetric Data from Two-dimensional Objects

Published on: March 16, 2010

Imaging and Analysis for Quantifying Maize (Zea mays) Abiotic Stress Phenotypes

Imaging and Analysis for Quantifying Maize (Zea mays) Abiotic Stress Phenotypes

Published on: March 28, 2025

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Jun 17, 2025

Cereal Crop Ear Counting in Field Conditions Using Zenithal RGB Images

Cereal Crop Ear Counting in Field Conditions Using Zenithal RGB Images

Published on: February 2, 2019

Tomato Analyzer: A Useful Software Application to Collect Accurate and Detailed Morphological and Colorimetric Data from Two-dimensional Objects

Tomato Analyzer: A Useful Software Application to Collect Accurate and Detailed Morphological and Colorimetric Data from Two-dimensional Objects

Published on: March 16, 2010

Imaging and Analysis for Quantifying Maize (Zea mays) Abiotic Stress Phenotypes

Imaging and Analysis for Quantifying Maize (Zea mays) Abiotic Stress Phenotypes

Published on: March 28, 2025

Area of Science:

Plant genetics and breeding
Bioinformatics
Genomic analysis

Background:

Accurate crop pedigrees are essential for genetic improvement and heterosis exploitation.
Missing genealogical information hinders effective germplasm selection and breeding strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an algorithm (PidTools) for accurate pedigree identification and reconstruction in crops.
To validate the PidTools algorithm using maize genomic data.
To provide user-friendly tools for analyzing and visualizing plant breeding material pedigrees.

Main Methods:

Development of PidTools, a suite of five algorithms across three core modules.
Construction of a genotype database from 5791 maize inbred lines using Maize6H-60K array data.
Validation of PidTools for identifying pedigrees of individual lines (Jing72464, Zheng58) and groups (doubled-haploid, Dan340 derived lines).

Main Results:

Successfully identified the genome-wide pedigree for maize inbred lines without prior parental information.
Determined parents of a doubled-haploid group using genotyping data.
Visualized the pedigree of 21 Dan340 derived lines.

Conclusions:

PidTools provides accurate pedigree identification and reconstruction for all crops.
The developed online platform (PidTools-WS) and toolkit (PidTools-CLI) offer valuable resources for maize breeding.
This technology facilitates better understanding of crop kinship and evolutionary history for enhanced breeding programs.