Biology & Life Sciences

2009 Maize Genome Collection

Published June 8, 2016 Curated Collections

The authors of the research presented in this special collection used the first description of the B73 maize genome to probe some of the most intriguing questions in genetics and plant biology. Read about maize centromeres, new insights into transposon types and distribution, the abundance of very short FLcDNAs encoding predicted peptides, and many other "genetic jewels" contained herein.

Image Credit: Seneca Mini Indian variety (Jordan Seeds). Photo by David Cavagnaro with assistance from Lois Girton and Marianne Smith as part of NSF project DBI-0321711 to P. Schnable, D. Ashlock, and B. Buckner.

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Editorial
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Editorial

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David Cavagnaro

PLOS Genetics 10 Reasons to be Tantalized by the B73 Maize Genome
November 20, 2009 Virginia Walbot

Research Articles

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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000743

PLOS Genetics Maize Centromere Structure and Evolution: Sequence Analysis of Centromeres 2 and 5 Reveals Dynamic Loci Shaped Primarily by Retrotransposons
November 20, 2009 Thomas K. Wolfgruber, Anupma Sharma, Kevin L. Schneider, Patrice S. Albert, Dal-Hoe Koo, Jinghua Shi, Zhi Gao, Fangpu Han, Hyeran Lee, Ronghui Xu, Jamie Allison, James A. Birchler, Jiming Jiang, R. Kelly Dawe, Gernot G. Presting
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000732

PLOS Genetics Exceptional Diversity, Non-Random Distribution, and Rapid Evolution of Retroelements in the B73 Maize Genome
November 20, 2009 Regina S. Baucom, James C. Estill, Cristian Chaparro, Naadira Upshaw, Ansuya Jogi, Jean-Marc Deragon, Richard P. Westerman, Phillip J. SanMiguel, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000733

PLOS Genetics Mu Transposon Insertion Sites and Meiotic Recombination Events Co-Localize with Epigenetic Marks for Open Chromatin across the Maize Genome
November 20, 2009 Sanzhen Liu, Cheng-Ting Yeh, Tieming Ji, Kai Ying, Haiyan Wu, Ho Man Tang, Yan Fu, Dan Nettleton, Patrick S. Schnable
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000737

PLOS Genetics Loss of RNA–Dependent RNA Polymerase 2 (RDR2) Function Causes Widespread and Unexpected Changes in the Expression of Transposons, Genes, and 24-nt Small RNAs
November 20, 2009 Yi Jia, Damon R. Lisch, Kazuhiro Ohtsu, Michael J. Scanlon, Dan Nettleton, Patrick S. Schnable
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000740

PLOS Genetics Sequencing, Mapping, and Analysis of 27,455 Maize Full-Length cDNAs
November 20, 2009 Carol Soderlund, Anne Descour, Dave Kudrna, Matthew Bomhoff, Lomax Boyd, Jennifer Currie, Angelina Angelova, Kristi Collura, Marina Wissotski, Elizabeth Ashley, Darren Morrow, John Fernandes, Virginia Walbot, Yeisoo Yu
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000734

PLOS Genetics Maize Inbreds Exhibit High Levels of Copy Number Variation (CNV) and Presence/Absence Variation (PAV) in Genome Content
November 20, 2009 Nathan M. Springer, Kai Ying, Yan Fu, Tieming Ji, Cheng-Ting Yeh, Yi Jia, Wei Wu, Todd Richmond, Jacob Kitzman, Heidi Rosenbaum, A. Leonardo Iniguez, W. Brad Barbazuk, Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh, Dan Nettleton, Patrick S. Schnable
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000711

PLOS Genetics A Single Molecule Scaffold for the Maize Genome
November 20, 2009 Shiguo Zhou, Fusheng Wei, John Nguyen, Mike Bechner, Konstantinos Potamousis, Steve Goldstein, Louise Pape, Michael R. Mehan, Chris Churas, Shiran Pasternak, Dan K. Forrest, Roger Wise, Doreen Ware, Rod A. Wing, Michael S. Waterman, Miron Livny, David C. Schwartz
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000728

PLOS Genetics Detailed Analysis of a Contiguous 22-Mb Region of the Maize Genome
November 20, 2009 Fusheng Wei, Joshua C. Stein, Chengzhi Liang, Jianwei Zhang, Robert S. Fulton, Regina S. Baucom, Emanuele De Paoli, Shiguo Zhou, Lixing Yang, Yujun Han, Shiran Pasternak, Apurva Narechania, Lifang Zhang, Cheng-Ting Yeh, Kai Ying, Dawn H. Nagel, Kristi Collura, David Kudrna, Jennifer Currie, Jinke Lin, HyeRan Kim, Angelina Angelova, Gabriel Scara, Marina Wissotski, Wolfgang Golser, Laura Courtney, Scott Kruchowski, Tina A. Graves, Susan M. Rock, Stephanie Adams, Lucinda A. Fulton, Catrina Fronick, William Courtney, Melissa Kramer, Lori Spiegel, Lydia Nascimento, Ananth Kalyanaraman, Cristian Chaparro, Jean-Marc Deragon, Phillip San Miguel, Ning Jiang, Susan R. Wessler, Pamela J. Green, Yeisoo Yu, David C. Schwartz, Blake C. Meyers, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Robert A. Martienssen, W. Richard McCombie, Srinivas Aluru, Sandra W. Clifton, Patrick S. Schnable, Doreen Ware, Richard K. Wilson, Rod A. Wing
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000716

PLOS Genetics A Genome-Wide Characterization of MicroRNA Genes in Maize
November 20, 2009 Lifang Zhang, Jer-Ming Chia, Sunita Kumari, Joshua C. Stein, Zhijie Liu, Apurva Narechania, Christopher A. Maher, Katherine Guill, Michael D. McMullen, Doreen Ware
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000715

PLOS Genetics The Physical and Genetic Framework of the Maize B73 Genome
November 20, 2009 Fusheng Wei, Jianwei Zhang, Shiguo Zhou, Ruifeng He, Mary Schaeffer, Kristi Collura, David Kudrna, Ben P. Faga, Marina Wissotski, Wolfgang Golser, Susan M. Rock, Tina A. Graves, Robert S. Fulton, Ed Coe, Patrick S. Schnable, David C. Schwartz, Doreen Ware, Sandra W. Clifton, Richard K. Wilson, Rod A. Wing

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Collection Editors

Gregory S. Barsh (Stanford University School of Medicine), Gregory P. Copenhaver (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Joseph R. Ecker (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Harmit S. Malik (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)