Fusheng Wei

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: Reconstructing the paleoethnobotany of the maize genome indicates that the progenitors of modern maize contained ten chromosomes, and a sequence-ready fingerprinted contig-based physical map is constructed to better understand maize genome organization and to build a framework for genome sequencing.

TL;DR: Three distinct NBS-LRR resistance-gene homologue (RGH) families were revealed via computational analysis of low-pass and BAC-end sequence data derived from Mla-spanning clones, revealing tightly linked genetic markers used to identify and develop a physical contig of YAC and Bac clones spanning the Mla cluster.

TL;DR: The ends of large insert clones are sequenced, yielding a cumulative length of one-eighth of the genome with a DNA sequence read every 6.2 kb, thereby describing a large percentage of the genes and transposable elements of maize in an unbiased approach.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determined the complete sequence of a 261-kb BAC contig from barley cv Morex that spans the powdery mildew resistance locus.