Two studies illustrate that with the appropriate resources and scale of study, most of the heritability of complex traits in maize is not missing, but can be located within the genome. Given that maize is one of the world's most important crop plants, this has implications for feeding a growing population with minimum carbon footprint as well as for understanding the genetics of complex traits in a range of species.
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Haley, C. A cornucopia of maize genes. Nat Genet 43, 87–88 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0211-87
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