Jer Ming Chia

TL;DR: The sequence of the maize genome reveals it to be the most complex genome known to date and the correlation of methylation-poor regions with Mu transposon insertions and recombination and how uneven gene losses between duplicated regions were involved in returning an ancient allotetraploid to a genetically diploid state is reported.

TL;DR: A high-quality genome sequence of domesticated tomato is presented, a draft sequence of its closest wild relative, Solanum pimpinellifolium, is compared, and the two tomato genomes are compared to each other and to the potato genome.

TL;DR: A comprehensive assessment of the evolution of modern maize based on the genome-wide resequencing of 75 wild, landrace and improved maize lines finds evidence of recovery of diversity after domestication, likely introgression from wild relatives, and evidence for stronger selection during domestication than improvement.

TL;DR: A survey of genetic diversity in maize found hundreds of selective sweeps and highly differentiated regions that probably contain loci that are key to geographic adaptation and provide a foundation for uniting breeding efforts across the world and for dissecting complex traits through genome-wide association studies.

TL;DR: Author(s): Arkin, Adam P; Cottingham, Robert W; Henry, Christopher S; Harris, Nomi L; Stevens, Rick L; Maslov, Sergei; Dehal, Paramvir; Ware, Doreen; Perez, Fernando; Canon, Shane; Sneddon, Michael W; Henderson, Matthew L; Riehl, William J; Murphy-Olson, Dan; Chan, Stephen Y; Kamimura, Roy T.