Edward S. Buckler IV is an American plant geneticist with the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service who also holds an adjunct appointment at Cornell University, working on quantitative and statistical genetics in maize and other crops such as cassava. He originated the concept of nested association mapping and created the first population designed for this type of quantitative genetic analysis, a tool that has become widely used for connecting genetic variation to crop traits. Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, he received the National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences in 2017 for using natural genetic diversity to develop maize varieties containing fifteen times more vitamin A than existing varieties.
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Defining ContributionDevised Nested Association Mapping for crop quantitative genetics 1 Connections
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Research section, Nested Association Mapping
Nested Association Mapping (NAM) was devised as an approach to combine the advantages of linkage mapping with structured populations and association mapping with natural populations while limiting their respective drawback.
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Edward S. Buckler is a plant geneticist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service and holds an adjunct appointment at Cornell University.
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