Benjamin Burr

TL;DR: A map-based, finished quality sequence that covers 95% of the 389 Mb rice genome, including virtually all of the euchromatin and two complete centromeres, and finds evidence for widespread and recurrent gene transfer from the organelles to the nuclear chromosomes.

TL;DR: A genetic map based largely on isozymes and restriction fragment length polymorphisms has been produced that covers virtually the entire maize genome.

TL;DR: End-sequencing, fingerprinting and marker-aided PCR screening are being used to make sequence-ready contigs to promote the development of rice and cereal genomics in addition to producing genome sequence data.

TL;DR: The results suggest that natural selection may have played a role for duplicated genes in both species, so that duplication was suppressed or favored in a manner that depended on the function of a gene.

TL;DR: Transposon mutagenesis with the transposable element suppressor-mutator (Spm) was carried out, and three mutable o2 alleles were obtained, indicating that the gene is expressed in wild-type endosperm but not in leaf tissues or in endosperms homozygous for a mutant allele of the O2 gene.