Jianping Guan

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 high-throughput genome-based method for genotyping recombinant populations utilizing whole-genome resequencing data generated by the Illumina Genome Analyzer is developed and located a quantitative trait locus of large effect on plant height in a 100-kb region containing the rice "green revolution" gene.

TL;DR: Comparative genome analysis between cultivated rice subspecies shows that there is an overall syntenic relationship between the chromosomes and divergence at the level of single-nucleotide polymorphisms and insertions and deletions, and by contrast, there is little conservation in gene order between rice and Arabidopsis.

TL;DR: This map is the first example of a rapid and reliable physical mapping on the basis of the integration of the data from two taxonomically related subspecies and showed that the short arm and the pericentromeric region of the long arm are rich in heterochromatin, indicating that this chromosome is likely very difficult to sequence.

TL;DR: Analysis of FL-cDNA sequences show that bamboo diverged from its close relatives such as rice, wheat, and barley through an adaptive radiation.