W. Brad Barbazuk

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: A high-quality genome sequence of domesticated tomato is presented, a draft sequence of its closest wild relative, Solanum pimpinellifolium, is compared, and the two tomato genomes are compared to each other and to the potato genome.

TL;DR: This comparison reveals genomic changes concomitant with the evolutionary movement to land, including a general increase in gene family complexity; loss of genes associated with aquatic environments; acquisition of genes for tolerating terrestrial stresses; and the development of the auxin and abscisic acid signaling pathways for coordinating multicellular growth and dehydration response.

TL;DR: A level of structural diversity between the inbred lines B73 and Mo17 that is unprecedented among higher eukaryotes is revealed, and hundreds of single-copy, expressed genes may contribute to heterosis and to the extraordinary phenotypic diversity of this important crop.

TL;DR: This integrated high-resolution physical map of the rice genome will greatly facilitate whole-genome sequencing by helping to identify a minimum tiling path of clones to sequence and will aid map-based cloning of agronomically important genes and will provide an important tool for the comparative analysis of grass genomes.