Joint Estimation of Paternity, Sibships and Pollen Dispersal in a Snapdragon Hybrid Zone.

Inferring genealogical relationships of wild populations is useful because it gives direct estimates of mating patterns and variance in reproductive success. Inference can be improved by including information about parentage shared between siblings, or by modelling phenotypes or population data related to mating. However, we currently lack a framework to infer parent-offspring relationships, sibships and population parameters in a single analysis.

LED Illumination for High-Quality High-Yield Crop Growth in Protected Cropping Environments.

Vegetables and herbs play a central role in the human diet due to their low fat and calory content and essential antioxidant, phytochemicals, and fiber. It is well known that the manipulation of light wavelengths illuminating the crops can enhance their growth rate and nutrient contents. To date, it has not been easy to generalize the effects of LED illumination because of the differences in the plant species investigated, the measured traits, the way wavelengths have been manipulated, and the plants' growing environments.

Efficient inference of paternity and sibship inference given known maternity via hierarchical clustering.

Pedigree and sibship reconstruction are important methods in quantifying relationships and fitness of individuals in natural populations. Current methods employ a Markov chain-based algorithm to explore plausible possible pedigrees iteratively. This provides accurate results, but is time-consuming.