William Nelson

TL;DR: An accurate soybean genome sequence will facilitate the identification of the genetic basis of many soybean traits, and accelerate the creation of improved soybean varieties.

TL;DR: This work reports the ∼738-Mb draft whole genome shotgun sequence of CDC Frontier, a kabuli chickpea variety, which contains an estimated 28,269 genes, and identifies targets of both breeding-associated genetic sweeps and breeding- associated balancing selection.

TL;DR: Reconstructing the paleoethnobotany of the maize genome indicates that the progenitors of modern maize contained ten chromosomes, and a sequence-ready fingerprinted contig-based physical map is constructed to better understand maize genome organization and to build a framework for genome sequencing.

TL;DR: SyMAP (Synteny Mapping and Analysis Program) was originally developed to compute synteny blocks between a sequenced genome and a FPC map, and has been extended to support pairs of sequenced genomes, illustrating their application to the study of genome duplication, differential gene loss and transitive homology between sorghum, maize and rice.

TL;DR: A system to align an FPC-based physical map to a genomic sequence based on BAC end sequences and sequence-tagged hybridization markers and to align two FPC maps to one another based on shared markers and fingerprints is developed.