John P. Hamilton

TL;DR: A revised, error-corrected, and validated assembly of the Nipponbare cultivar of rice was generated using optical map data, re-sequencing data, and manual curation that will facilitate on-going and future research in rice.

TL;DR: Alternative splicing is widespread in both rice and Arabidopsis and these species share many common features, indicating that many isoforms will presumably have negative consequences for protein structure and function, suggesting that their biological role involves post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression.

TL;DR: Access to the P. ultimum genome has revealed not only core pathogenic mechanisms within the oomycetes but also lineage-specific genes associated with the alternative virulence and lifestyles found within the pythiaceous lineages compared to the Peronosporaceae.

TL;DR: An array for tomato with 8,784 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) mainly discovered based on NGS-derived transcriptome sequences revealed that genomic regions with high recombination rates were consistent with the known distribution of euchromatin across the 12 chromosomes, while very low recombination Rates observed in the heterochromatic regions.

TL;DR: A historic role of wild Solanum species in the diversification of long-day–adapted tetraploid potatoes is uncovered, showing that extant natural populations represent an essential source of untapped adaptive potential.