Candidate Gene Suggestions

As a part of the Maize Diversity project, we will be conducting association studies with a large number of candidate genes for agronomic and developmental traits. We are pleased to accept suggestions from the biological research community for the genes we will be examining during the association studies portion of our project.

We will be genotyping diverse samples of maize and teosinte (using SNPs discovered within candidate genes) and phenotyping these same plants for traits of interest to the members of this project. We will use these data in association studies to find links between the candidate genes and the traits of interest. If you would like to see a list of the traits of interest to various people working on this project, as well as contact information for each of these people, please click here. If you are interested in collaborating with our project on your suggested gene, please contact the appropriate person from this list.

We welcome your suggestion of a gene (or several genes) that would be good candidate genes for association studies.

Please fill in the form below to submit your gene(s).
(Please note: all fields are required.)

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