Identification and characterization of stable QTLs for vascular bundle number at the panicle neck in rice ( L.).

A large vascular bundle number (VBN) in the panicle neck in rice ( L.) is related to the ability to transport assimilates from stem and leaf to reproductive organs during seed maturation. Several quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for VBN have been identified by using segregating populations derived from a cross between and rice cultivars.

Faster Exact Computation of rSPR Distance via Better Approximation.

Due to hybridization events in evolution, studying two different genes of a set of species may yield two related but different phylogenetic trees for the set of species. In this case, we want to measure the dissimilarity of the two trees. The rooted subtree prune and regraft (rSPR) distance of the two trees has been used for this purpose.