To the Editors of the Plant Genome:
Our collaborative research project on Genome-wide Association Study of Fall Armyworm resistance in maize, followed by metabolic pathway analysis, has resulted in the manuscript presented here. This is the first work of its kind on this trait in maize, and the second on insects, and we believe it will be useful to plant breeders working on insect resistance, as well as geneticists and physiologists working to decipher complex traits in plant populations. We hope the reviewers and editors of The Plant Genome agree, and we look forward to hearing your suggestions on further improvement of our paper.
Sincerely yours, Marilyn Warburton and co-authors.