Syngenta Participations Ag

Paul Altendorf

Venkata Krishna Kishore

Daolong Wang

Vance Cary Kramer

Thomas Joseph Prest

David Jay Foster

Robert Lynn Miller

Todd Lee Warner

Dale Wayne Skalla

Sonali Dilip Gandhi

Molly Dunn

Nicolas Federico Martin

Chris Zinselmeier

William Briggs

Libardo Andres Gutierrez Rojas

Gayle Dace

Kari Denise Kust

Jon Aaron Tucker Reinders

Meijuan Li

John Arbuckle

Christine Chaulk-Grace

Allen Sessions

Joseph Dallas Clarke, V

Joseph Dallas Clarke

Xi Chen

Michael G Muszynski

Librardo Andres Gutierrez-Rojas

Sarah Alissa Forrester

Mary Lynn Senior

Libardo Andres Gutierrez-Rojas

Martin Nicolas

Sonali Gandhi

Jon Aaron Reinders

The presently disclosed subject matter relates to methods and compositions for identifying, selecting, and/or producing drought tolerant maize plants or germplasm. Maize plants or germplasm that have been identified, selected, and/or produced by any of the methods of the presently disclosed subject matter are also provided.

Genetic markers associated with drought tolerance in maize

Methods for introgressing an allele of interest of a locus associated with a yield trait intogermplasm are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include providing aplant that contains an allele of interest of a locus associated with a yield trait, wherein the locus associated with the yield trait is identifiable by PCR amplification of anucleic acid with a pair of oligonucleotides primers as disclosed herein, and introgressing the allele of interest intogermplasm that lacks the allele. Also provided are methods for identifyingplants that contain at least one allele associated with improved yield, improved maize plants, eliteplants, biomass produced from improvedplants, isolated and purified genetic markers, and compositions that include an amplification primer pair capable of amplifying anucleic acid to generate amarker amplicon.

Yield traits for maize

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