Publications by authors named "Steve J Knapp"
The failure of peg penetration into the soil leads to seed abortion in peanut. Knowledge of genes involved in these processes is comparatively deficient. Here, we used RNA-seq to gain insights into transcriptomes of aerial and subterranean pods.
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- The study explores how hybridization between crop and wild sunflowers affects the fitness of specific cultivar alleles, influenced by environmental factors such as herbivory.
- Phenotypic analysis indicates that while larger size traits are generally favored, flowering times are advantageous only under certain herbivory conditions.
- QTL mapping reveals that some cultivar alleles can be beneficial for certain traits, but increased herbivory damage from these alleles shows that their advantages may be diminished in natural environments.