Robert J. Elshire

TL;DR: A procedure for constructing GBS libraries based on reducing genome complexity with restriction enzymes (REs) is reported, which is simple, quick, extremely specific, highly reproducible, and may reach important regions of the genome that are inaccessible to sequence capture approaches.

TL;DR: The tassel-gbs pipeline, designed for the efficient processing of raw GBS sequence data into SNP genotypes, is described and benchmark it based upon a large scale, species wide analysis in maize, where the average error rate was reduced to 0.0042.

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: A survey of genetic diversity in maize found hundreds of selective sweeps and highly differentiated regions that probably contain loci that are key to geographic adaptation and provide a foundation for uniting breeding efforts across the world and for dissecting complex traits through genome-wide association studies.

TL;DR: This study developed both an association panel and linkage populations for genome-wide association study (GWAS) and genomic selection (GS) of switchgrass, and revealed the fundamentally diploid nature of tetraploid switchgrass.