Weibin Song

Professor, China Agricultural University; co-corresponding author

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Last updated Nov 2, 2026

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Deep sequencing of 3,367 maize genomes links rare variants to agronomic traits

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Co-corresponding author on the study

For two decades, maize geneticists have hunted the DNA variants behind yield, flowering time and plant shape. Most of that hunt has focused on variants common enough to appear in hundreds of plants.

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