In May 2003, the MaizeDB to MaizeGDB Transition Steering Committee proposed an Editorial Board, charged with the task of recommending noteworthy maize primary literature for rigorous data curation. The inaugural board was convened by Virginia Walbot, and membership for 2005 included: Hugo Dooner, Chief; Lisa Harper; Erich Grotewold; Ed Buckler; and Nathan Springer. Below is the Editorial Board's recommended reading list.
Phelps-Durr et al. (2005) Plant Cell 17:2886-2898 Maize rough sheath2 and its Arabidopsis orthologue ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 interact with HIRA, a predicted histone chaperone, to maintain knox gene silencing and determinacy during organogenesis
Schon et al. (2004) Genetics 167:485-498 Quantitative trait locus mapping based on resampling in a vast maize testcross experiment and its relevance to quantitative genetics for complex traits
Isidore et al. (2005) Genome Res 15:526-536 Ancient haplotypes resulting from extensive molecular rearrangements in the wheat A genome have been maintained in species of three different ploidy levels
Higgins et al. (2005) Genes Dev 18:2557-2570 The Arabidopsis MutS homolog AtMSH4 functions at an early step in recombination: evidence for two classes of recombination in Arabidopsis
DeLong et al. (1993) Cell 74:757-768 Sex determination gene TASSELSEED2 of maize encodes a short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase required for stage-specific floral organ abortion
Fu and Dooner (2000) Genome Res 10:866-873 A gene-enriched BAC library for cloning large allele-specific fragments from maize: Isolation of a 240-kb contig of the bronze region