Forrest Li

The paper quantifies anthropogenic effects on maize genetic diversity in the Americas using genotyping, human genomic data, and linguistic maps, finding weak genome-wide effects but localized language-associated loci.

The paper uses a MAGIC population to study genetic architecture of clinal traits in Mexican maize, finding one major QTL for tassel branching and multiple QTL for flowering time with complex environmental associations.

This study evaluates the use of environmental and genomic data to identify climate-adaptive maize varieties, finding that genomic data better predict yield traits than environmental data alone.