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Overview

James B. Holland is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant work in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields of their research encompass:

  • Plant Science
  • Genetics
  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Cell Biology
  • Molecular Biology

James B. Holland's work covers various topics, notably:

  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Crop Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • New Phytologist

Notable recent papers by James B. Holland are:

  • Heterosis of leaf and rhizosphere microbiomes in field-grown maize, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Genetic modification can improve crop yields - but stop overselling it, 2023, Nature
  • The importance of dominance and genotype-by-environment interactions on grain yield variation in a large-scale public cooperative maize experiment, 2021, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Utility of Climatic Information via Combining Ability Models to Improve Genomic Prediction for Yield Within the Genomes to Fields Maize Project, 2021, Frontiers in Genetics
  • Maize genomes to fields (G2F): 2014-2017 field seasons: genotype, phenotype, climatic, soil, and inbred ear image datasets, 2020, BMC Research Notes

James B. Holland has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Edward S. Buckler
  • M. Cinta Romay
  • Natalia de León
  • Sherry Flint-Garcia
  • Seth C. Murray

Best Publications

  • A unified mixed-model method for association mapping that accounts for multiple levels of relatedness

    Jianming Yu;Gael Pressoir;William H Briggs;Irie Vroh Bi

  • The Genetic Architecture of Maize Flowering Time

    Edward S. Buckler;Edward S. Buckler;James B. Holland;James B. Holland;Peter J. Bradbury;Peter J. Bradbury;Charlotte B. Acharya

  • Genetic Design and Statistical Power of Nested Association Mapping in Maize

    Jianming Yu;James B. Holland;Michael D. McMullen;Edward S. Buckler

  • Genetic properties of the maize nested association mapping population.

    Michael D. McMullen;Michael D. McMullen;Stephen Kresovich;Hector Sanchez Villeda;Peter Bradbury;Peter Bradbury

  • Estimating and Interpreting Heritability for Plant Breeding: An Update

    James B. Holland;Wyman E. Nyquist;Cuauhtemoc T. Cervantes‐Martínez

  • Genome-wide association study of leaf architecture in the maize nested association mapping population

    Feng Tian;Peter J Bradbury;Patrick J Brown;Patrick J Brown;Hsiaoyi Hung

  • Maize HapMap2 identifies extant variation from a genome in flux

    Jer Ming Chia;Chi Song;Peter J. Bradbury;Peter J. Bradbury;Denise Costich;Denise Costich

  • Genome-wide association study of quantitative resistance to southern leaf blight in the maize nested association mapping population

    Kristen L Kump;Peter J Bradbury;Peter J Bradbury;Randall J Wisser;Edward S Buckler;Edward S Buckler

  • Comprehensive genotyping of the USA national maize inbred seed bank

    Maria C Romay;Mark J Millard;Mark J Millard;Jeffrey C Glaubitz;Jason A Peiffer

  • Increased food and ecosystem security via perennial grains

    J.D. Glover;J.P. Reganold;L.W. Bell;J. Borevitz

  • Genetic architecture of complex traits in plants

    James B Holland

  • The Genetic Architecture of Maize Height

    Jason A. Peiffer;Maria C. Romay;Michael A. Gore;Sherry A. Flint-Garcia;Sherry A. Flint-Garcia

  • Genetic Architecture of Maize Kernel Composition in the Nested Association Mapping and Inbred Association Panels

    Jason P. Cook;Michael D. McMullen;Michael D. McMullen;James B. Holland;James B. Holland;Feng Tian

  • ZmCCT and the genetic basis of day-length adaptation underlying the postdomestication spread of maize

    Hsiao Yi Hung;Laura M. Shannon;Feng Tian;Feng Tian;Peter J. Bradbury;Peter J. Bradbury

  • A heritability-adjusted GGE biplot for test environment evaluation

    Weikai Yan;James B. Holland

  • Distinct Genetic Architectures for Male and Female Inflorescence Traits of Maize

    Patrick J. Brown;Patrick J. Brown;Narasimham Upadyayula;Gregory S. Mahone;Feng Tian

  • Genetic Data Analysis for Plant and Animal Breeding

    Christian Maltecca;James Holland;Fikret Isik

  • Breeding Perennial Grain Crops

    T. S. Cox;M. Bender;C. Picone;D. L. Van Tassel

  • Multivariate analysis of maize disease resistances suggests a pleiotropic genetic basis and implicates a GST gene

    Randall J. Wisser;Judith M. Kolkman;Megan E. Patzoldt;James B. Holland

  • Genetic Architecture of Maize Kernel Composition in the Nested Association Mapping and Inbred

    Jason P. Cook;Michael D. McMullen;James B. Holland;Feng Tian

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward S. Buckler
Edward S. Buckler Cornell University
Sherry Flint-Garcia
Sherry Flint-Garcia United States Department of Agriculture
Peter J. Balint-Kurti
Peter J. Balint-Kurti North Carolina State University
Peter J. Bradbury
Peter J. Bradbury United States Department of Agriculture
Torbert R. Rocheford
Torbert R. Rocheford Purdue University West Lafayette
Major M. Goodman
Major M. Goodman North Carolina State University
Natalia de Leon
Natalia de Leon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Seth C. Murray
Seth C. Murray Texas A&M University
Rebecca J. Nelson
Rebecca J. Nelson Cornell University
Doreen Ware
Doreen Ware Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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