Jinsheng Lai

TL;DR: The high-quality genome sequence will help Brachypodium reach its potential as an important model system for developing new energy and food crops and establishes a template for analysis of the large genomes of economically important pooid grasses such as wheat.

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: It is found that structural variations are pervasive in the Z. mays genome and are enriched at loci associated with important traits and the larger Tripsacum genome can be explained by transposable element abundance rather than an allopolyploid origin.

TL;DR: More than 1,000,000 SNPs, 30,000 indel polymorphisms and 101 low-sequence-diversity chromosomal intervals in the maize genome are uncovered, including the parents of the most productive commercial hybrid in China.

TL;DR: The results support a tetraploid origin of maize and indicate contemporaneous divergence of the ancestral sorghum genome and the two maize progenitor genomes about 11.9 million years ago.