MaizeGDB: Editorial Board Recommended Reading List (2007)

EDITORIAL BOARD RECOMMENDED READINGS

The MaizeGDB Editorial Board is charged with the task of recommending noteworthy maize primary literature on a monthly basis. This list highlights research of interest to maize researchers and is appropriate for use in by journal clubs. The inaugural board was convened in January 2005 by Virginia Walbot. The current year's membership includes: Marja Timmermans, Chief; Guri Johal; Damon Lisch; Gael Pressoir; and Moira Sheehan. Below is the Editorial Board's current recommended reading list.

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Recommending Member	Citation	Full Text Link
December 2007
Moira Sheehan	Lamb et al. (2007) Chromosome Res 15:33-49 Distinct chromosomal distributions of highly repetitive sequences in maize	Yes
Guri Johal	Baker and Braun (2007) Plant Phys 144:867-78 tie-dyed1 functions non-cell autonomously to control carbohydrate accumulation in maize leaves	Yes
Gael Pressoir	Esch et al. (2007) Genetics 177:1851-1858 Using crossover breakpoints in recombinant inbred lines to identify quantitative trait loci controlling the global recombination frequency	Yes
Gael Pressoir	Dole and Weber (2007) Genetics 177:2309-2319 Detection of QTL influencing recombination using recombinant inbred lines	Yes
Damon Lisch	Hale et al. (2007) PLoS Biol 5:2156-2165 A novel Snf2 protein maintains trans-generational regulatory states established by paramutation in maize	Yes
November 2007
Marja Timmermans	Liu et al. (2007) Plant Cell 19:2705-2718 Oryza sativa Dicer-like4 reveals a key role for small interfering RNA silencing in plant development	Yes
Marja Timmermans	Nagasaki et al. (2007) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104(37):14867-71 The small interfering RNA production pathway is required for shoot meristem initiation in rice	Yes
Marja Timmermans	Noguiera et al. (2007) Genes Dev 21(7):750-5 Two small regulatory RNAs establish opposing fates of a developmental axis	Yes
Moira Sheehan	Amarillo and Bass (2007) Genetics 177:1509-1526 A transgenomic cytogenetic sorghum (Sorghum propinquum) BAC FISH map of maize (Zea mays L.) pachytene chromosome 9, evidence for regions of genome hyperexpansion	Yes
Guri Johal	Kamper et al. (2006) Nature 444:97-101 Insights from the genome of the biotrophic fungal plant pathogen Ustilago maydis	No
Gael Pressoir	Weber et al. (2007) Genetics 177:2349-2359 Major regulatory genes in maize contribute to standing variation in teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis)	Yes
Damon Lisch	Haring et al. (2007) Plant Methods 3:11 Chromatin immunoprecipitation: optimization, quantitative analysis and data normalization	Yes
October 2007
Marja Timmermans	Franco-Zorrilla et al. (2007) Nat Genetics 39:1033-1037 Target mimicry provides a new mechanism for regulation of microRNA activity	Yes
Moira Sheehan	Lamb et al. (2007) Chromosoma 116:237-247 A hemicentric inversion in the maize line knobless Tama flint created two sites of centromeric elements and moved the kinetochore-forming region	Yes
Damon Lisch	Ohtsu et al. (2007) Plant J 52:391-404 Global gene expression analysis of the shoot apical meristem of maize (Zea mays L.)	Yes
Guri Johal	Gael et al. (2007) Mol Plant Microbe Interact 20:922-933 Disruption of a maize 9-lipoxygenase results in increased resistance to fungal pathogens and reduced levels of contamination with mycotoxin fumonisin	No
Gael Pressoir	The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (2007) Nature 447:661-678 Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls	Yes
September 2007
Damon Lisch	Parkinson et al. (2007) Dev Biol 308:462-473 Maize sex determination and abaxial leaf fates are canalized by a factor that maintains repressed epigenetic states	Yes
Moira Sheehan	Du and Dawe (2007) Chromosome Res 15:0967-3849 Maize NDC80 is a constitutive feature of the central kinetochore	Yes
Guri Johal	Zhang et al. (2003) Plant Mol Biol 52:1-15 A maize QTL for silk maysin levels contains duplicated Myb-homologous genes which jointly regulate flavone biosynthesis	Yes
Marja Timmermans	Nonomura et al. (2007) Plant Cell 19:2583-2594 A germ cell specific gene of the ARGONAUTE family is essential for the progression of premeiotic mitosis and meiosis during sporogenesis in rice	Yes
August 2007
Moira Sheehan	Koumbaris and Bass (2003) Plant J 35:647-659 A new single-locus cytogenetic mapping system for maize (Zea mays L.): overcoming FISH detection limits with marker-selected sorghum (S. propinquum L.) BAC clones.	Yes
Damon Lisch	Li et al. (2007) Genetics 176:1469-1482 Functional analysis of maize RAD51 in meiosis and double-strand break repair	Yes
Gael Pressoir	Salvi et al. (2007) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:11376-11381 Conserved noncoding genomic sequences associated with a flowering-time quantitative trait locus in maize	Yes
Guri Johal	Bluhm and Woloshuk (2005) Mol Plant Microbe Interact 18:1333-1339 Amylopectin induces fumonisin B1 production by Fusarium verticillioides during colonization of maize kernels	Yes
July 2007
Moira Sheehan	Zhang et al. (2005) Plant Cell 17:572-583 Phosphoserines on maize CENTROMERIC HISTONE H3 and Histone H3 demarcate the centromere and pericentromere during chromosome segregation	Yes
Damon Lisch & Marja Timmermans	Zhang et al. (2007) PLoS Genetics 3:e101 Laser microdissection of narrow sheath mutant maize uncovers novel gene expression in the shoot apical meristem	Yes
Gael Pressoir	Bernardo and Yu (2007) Crop Sci 47:1082-1090 Prospects for genomewide selection for quantitative traits in maize	Yes
Guri Johal	Pechan et al. (2002) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99:13399-13323 Insect feeding mobilizes a unique plant defense protease that disrupts the peritrophic matrix of caterpillars	Yes
June 2007
Moira Sheehan	Yu et al. (2007) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:8924-8929 Construction and behavior of engineered minichromosomes in maize	Yes
Marja Timmermans	Song et al. (2007) Nat Genet 39:623-630 A QTL for rice grain width and weight encodes a previously unknown RING-type E3 ubiquitin ligase	Yes
Gael Pressoir	Excoffier and Heckel (2006) Nat Rev Genet 7:745-758 Computer programs for population genetics data analysis: a survival guide	Yes
Gael Pressoir	Marjoram and Tavaré (2006) Nat Rev Genet 7:759-770 Modern computational approaches for analysing molecular genetic variation data	Yes
Gael Pressoir	Weir et al. (2006) Nat Rev Genet 7:771-780 Genetic relatedness analysis: modern data and new challenges	Yes
Gael Pressoir	Balding (2006) Nat Rev Genet 7:781-791 A tutorial on statistical methods for population association studies	Yes
Guri Johal	Zhao et al. (2005) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:15383-15388 A maize resistance gene functions against bacterial streak disease in rice	Yes
May 2007
Moira Sheehan	Han et al. (2007) Plant Cell 19:524-533 Centromere function and nondisjunction are independent components of the maize B chromosome accumulation mechanism	Yes
Damon Lisch	Hermon et al. (2007) Plant Mol Biol 64:387-95 Activation of the imprinted Polycomb Group Fie1 gene in maize endosperm requires demethylation of the maternal allele	Yes
Marja Timmermans	McSteen et al. (2007) Plant Physiol 144:1000-1011 barren inflorescence2 encodes a co-ortholog of the PINOID serine/threonine kinase and is required for organogenesis during inflorescence and vegetative development in maize	Yes
Guri Johal	Multani et al. (1998) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95:1686-1691 Plant-pathogen microevolution: Molecular basis for the origin of a fungal disease in maize	Yes
Gael Pressoir	Holland (2007) Curr Opin Plant Biol 10:156-161 Genetic architecture of complex traits in plants	Yes
April 2007
Moira Sheehan	Yu et al. (2007) Genetics 175:31-39 Cytological visualization of DNA transposons and their transposition pattern in somatic cells of maize	Yes
Gael Pressoir	Melchinger et al. (1998) Genetics 149:383-403 Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping using different testers and independent population samples in maize reveals low power of QTL detection and large bias in estimates of QTL effects	Yes
Damon Lisch & Marja Timmermans	Chuck et al. (2007) Nature Genetics 39:544-549 The heterochronic maize mutant Corngrass1 results from overexpression of a tandem microRNA	Yes
Guri Johal	Wen et al. (2005) Plant Physiology 138:1637-1643 The roothairless1 gene of maize encodes a homolog of sec3, which is involved in polar exocytosis	Yes
March 2007
Damon Lisch	Zilberman et al. (2007) Nature Genetics 39:61-69 Genome-wide analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana DNA methylation uncovers an interdependence between methylation and transcription	Yes
Gael Pressoir	Bernardo (2001) Crop Science 41:1-4 What if we knew all the genes for a quantitative trait in hybrid crops?	Yes
Moira Sheehan	Lamb et al. (2007) Genetics 175:1047-1058 Single loci detection and karyotyping using small target fluorescence in situ hybridization on maize somatic chromosomes	Yes
Guri Johal	Harfouche et al. (2006) Mol Plant Microbe Interact 19:189-199 Ethylene signaling mediates a maize defense response to insect herbivory	Yes
Marja Timmermans	Evans (2007) Plant Cell 19:46-62 The indeterminate gametophyte1 gene of maize encodes a LOB domain protein required for embryo sac and leaf development	Yes
February 2007
Gael Pressoir	Kroymann and Mitchell-Olds (2005) Nature 435:95-98 Epistasis and balanced polymorphism influencing complex trait variation	Yes
Guri Johal	Ding et al. (2006) Mol Plant Microbe Interact 19:1229-1239 Characterization of a Brome mosaic virus strain and its use as a vector for gene silencing in monocotyledonous hosts	Yes
Damon Lisch	Manning et al. (2006) Nature Genetics 38:948-952 A naturally occurring epigenetic mutation in a gene encoding an SBP-box transcription factor inhibits tomato fruit ripening	Yes
Moira Sheehan	Kato et al. (2004) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:13554-13559 Chromosome painting using repetitive DNA sequences as probes for somatic chromosome identification in maize	Yes
Marja Timmermans	Doebley et al. (2006) Cell 127:1309-1321 The molecular genetics of crop domestication	Yes
January 2007
Marja Timmermans	Braun et al. (2006) Plant Physiology 142:1511-1522 tie-dyed1 regulates carbohydrate accumulation in maize leaves	Yes
Moira Sheehan	Creighton and McClintock (1931) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 17:492-497 A correlation of cytological and genetical crossing-over in Zea mays	Yes
Damon Lisch	Topp et al. (2004) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:15986-15991 Centromere-encoded RNAs are integral components of the maize kinetochore	Yes
Gael Pressoir	Mackay (2004) Curr Opin Genet Dev 14:253-257 The genetic architecture of quantitative traits: lessons from Drosophila	Yes
Guri Johal	Barker et al. (2001) Ann Missouri Bot Gardens 139:1576-1585 Phylogeny and subfamilial classification of the grasses (Poaceae)	Yes

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