LEVERAGING KNOWLEDGE OF TRADITIONAL ITALIAN MAIZE LANDRACE DIVERSITY TO IDENTIFY SIGNALS OF LOCAL ADAPTATION
This project aims to characterize Italian maize landraces both morphologically and genotypically to assess their genetic diversity and identify climate-adaptive alleles for future pre-breeding initiatives. To achieve this, we sequenced 140 individuals from 28 representative Italian maize landraces from northern and central Italy using the Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) approach