Regular monitoring is worthwhile to maintain a healthy crop. Historically, the manual observation was used monitor crops, which time-consuming and often costly. The recent boom in development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has established quick easy way crops. UAVs can cover wide area few minutes obtain useful crop information with different sensors such as RGB, multispectral, hyperspectral...

Alternative splicing plays a crucial role in plant development as well as stress responses. Although alternative splicing has been studied during development and in response to stress, the interplay between these two factors remains an open question. To assess the effects of drought stress on developmentally regulated splicing in maize (Zea mays), 94 RNA-seq libraries from ear, tassel, and leaf...

The architecture of maize inflorescences, the male tassel and the female ear, is defined by a series of reiterative branching events. The inflorescence meristem initiates spikelet pair meristems. These in turn initiate spikelet meristems which finally produce the floret meristems. After initiating one meristem, the spikelet pair and spikelet meristem convert into spikelet and floret meristems, ...

Narrow-leafed lupin (Lupinus angustifolius L.) is the predominant grain legume crop in southern Australia, contributing half of the total grain legume production of Australia. Its yield in Australia is hampered by a range of subsoil constraints. The adaptation of lupin genotypes to subsoil constraints may be improved by selecting for optimal root traits from new and exotic germplasm sources. We...

The influence of drought stress on internal water status and the final grain yield of three Egyptian corn (Zea mays L.) genotypes; GIZA2, TWC310 and TWC320 at different developmental stages was investigated. Plants grown in pots were subjected to four levels of water stress at vegetative and tassel emergence stages. Exposure of plants to drought led to noticeable decreases in leaf water potenti...

Maize MuDR/Mu elements are one of the most active Class II transposons and are widely used for transposon tagging for gene cloning. The autonomous MuDR encodes a transposase, while diverse non-autonomous elements share similarity to MuDR only within their ~215 bp terminal inverted repeats (TIRs). Four independent Mu-induced mutable alleles of the anthocyanin pigment pathway Bronze2 (Bz2) locus ...

Summary: We present CloudSTRUCTURE, an application for running parallel analyses with the population genetics program STRUCTURE. The HPC ready application, powered by iPlant cyberinfrastructure, provides a fast (by parallelization) and convenient (through a user friendly GUI) way to calculate likelihood values across multiple values of K (number of genetic groups) and numbers of iterations. The...