[Response of grain filling characteristics of maize to sowing date.].

To study the effect of different sowing dates on the process of grain filling characteristics, Jingke 528 (JK528) and Zhengdan 958 (ZD958) were used in the field experiment with two sowing dates (10th April and 14th May). The results showed that the 100-grain dry mass and yield of JK528 and ZD958 with the early spring sowing were significantly higher than that with the spring sowing date, which increased by 6.8% and 10.

[Linkage disequilibrium in plant genomes].

Linkage disequilibrium (LD) is one of the most recently focused interests in the field of plant genomics. LD mapping is an effective approach to discovering novel genes and a bridge for connecting structural genomics to phenomics. LD mapping was first applied in plants in 2001.