Publications: 2008 and earlier
99 publications up to 2008. For later work see Publications from 2009 onwards.
2008
Diversity analyses of elite maize inbred lines adapted to West and Central Africa using SSR markers.
Maydica 53: 143-149.
Panzea: an update on new content and features.
Nucleic Acids Res 36: D1041-D1043.
Applications of linkage disequilibrium and association mapping in crop plants.
pp. 97-120 in Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement. Vol 1: Genomics Approaches and Platforms, edited by R.K. Varshney and R. Tuberosa. Springer, New York, NY.
Perspective - Selection on major components of angiosperm genomes.
Science 320: 484-486.
Natural genetic variation in lycopene epsilon cyclase tapped for maize biofortification.
Science 319: 330-333.
Molecular characterization of maize inbreds with expired US plant variety protection.
Crop Sci 48: 1673-1685.
Profile: Edward Buckler - Romping through maize diversity.
Science 322: 40-41.
Multiple domestications do not appear monophyletic.
PNAS 105: E105.
DNAAlignEditor: DNA alignment editor tool.
BMC Bioinformatics 9: 154.
Comparison of mixed-model approaches for association mapping.
Genetics 178: 1745-1754.
A weak effect of background selection on trinucleotide microsatellites in maize.
J Hered 99: 45-55.
Population structure and genetic diversity of new world maize races assessed by DNA microsatellites.
Am J Bot 95: 1240-1253.
The genetic architecture of complex traits in teosinte (Zea mays ssp parviglumis): new evidence from association mapping.
Genetics 180: 1221-1232.
Genetic design and statistical power of nested association mapping in maize.
Genetics 178: 539-551.
The role of regulatory genes during maize domestication: Evidence from nucleotide polymorphism and gene expression.
Genetics 178: 2133-2143.
Status and prospects of association mapping in plants.
Plant Genome 1: 5-20.
2007
TASSEL: software for association mapping of complex traits in diverse samples.
Bioinformatics 23: 2633-2635.
Linkage mapping of domestication loci in a large maize-teosinte backcross resource.
Genetics 177: 1915-1928.
Using crossover breakpoints in recombinant inbred lines to identify quantitative trait loci controlling the global recombination frequency.
Genetics 177: 1851-1858.
Opinion - Recombination: an underappreciated factor in the evolution of plant genomes.
Nat Rev Genet 8: 77-84.
Evaluation of target preparation methods for single-feature polymorphism detection in large complex plant genomes.
Plant Genome 47: S135-S148.
Empirical comparison of simple sequence repeats and single nucleotide polymorphisms in assessment of maize diversity and relatedness.
PLoS ONE 2: e1367.
Genetic architecture of complex traits in plants.
Curr Opin Plant Biol 10: 156-161.
Patterns of selection and tissue-specific expression among maize domestication and crop improvement loci.
Plant Physiol 144: 1642-1653.
Plant domestication, a unique opportunity to identify the genetic basis of adaptation.
PNAS 104: 8641-8648.
Power to detect higher-order epistatic interactions in a metabolic pathway using a new mapping strategy.
Genetics 176: 563-570.
Major regulatory genes in maize contribute to standing variation in teosinte (Zea mays ssp parviglumis).
Genetics 177: 2349-2359.
Genomic screening for artificial selection during domestication and improvement in maize.
Ann Bot 100: 967-973.
Technical note: Use of marker-based relationships with multiple-trait derivative-free restricted maximal likelihood.
J Anim Sci 85: 881-885.
2006
Uneven distribution of expressed sequence tag loci on maize pachytene chromosomes.
Genome Res 16: 115-122.
Molecular and functional diversity of maize.
Curr Opin Plant Biol 9: 172-176.
Phylogeography of the wild subspecies of Zea mays.
Maydica 51: 123-134.
Maize domestication. In Darwin's Harvest: New Approaces to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops
edited by T. Motley, N. Zerega and H. Cross. Columbia University Press, New York, NY.
Look-Align: an interactive web-based multiple sequence alignment viewer with polymorphism analysis support.
Bioinformatics 22: 885-886.
Unfallen grains: How ancient farmers turned weeds into crops.
Science 312: 1318-1319.
The molecular genetics of crop domestication.
Cell 127: 1309-1321.
Estimating genotypic correlations and their standard errors using multivariate restricted maximum likelihood estimation with SAS Proc MIXED.
Crop Sci 46: 642-654.
Genetic diversity contribution to errors in short oligonucleotide microarray analysis.
Plant Biotechnol J 4: 489-498.
Variation in mutation dynamics across the maize genome as a function of regional and flanking base composition.
Genetics 172: 569-577.
Heritabilities and correlations of fusarium ear rot resistance and fumonisin contamination resistance in two maize populations.
Crop Sci 46: 353-361.
QTL mapping for fusarium ear rot and fumonisin contamination resistance in two maize populations.
Crop Sci 46: 1734-1743.
Recurrent mutation and genome evolution: Example of Sugary 1 and the origin of sweet maize.
Crop Sci 46: S49-S54.
Genetic association mapping and genome organization of maize.
Curr Opin Biotech 17: 155-160.
A unified mixed-model method for association mapping that accounts for multiple levels of relatedness.
Nature Genet 38: 203-208.
Panzea: a database and resource for molecular and functional diversity in the maize genome.
Nucleic Acids Res 34: D752-D757.
2005
Estimating a nucleotide substitution rate for maize from polymorphism at a major domestication locus.
Mol Biol Evol 22: 2304-2312.
Maize association population: a high-resolution platform for quantitative trait locus dissection.
Plant J 44: 1054-1064.
Genetic diversity and population structure of teosinte.
Genetics 169: 2241-2254.
PowerMarker: an integrated analysis environment for genetic marker analysis.
Bioinformatics 21: 2128-2129.
Plant conserved non-coding sequences and paralogue evolution.
Trends Genet 21: 60-65.
Origin matters: Lessons from the search for the wild ancestor of maize.
Breeding Sci 55: 383-390.
Association analysis of candidate genes for maysin and chlorogenic acid accumulation in maize silks.
Theor Appl Genet 110: 1324-1333.
An analysis of genetic diversity across the maize genome using microsatellites.
Genetics 169: 1617-1630.
Architecture of floral branch systems in maize and related grasses.
Nature 436: 1119-1126.
The effects of artificial selection of the maize genome.
Science 308: 1310-1314.
Molecular population genetics and the search for adaptive evolution in plants.
Mol Biol Evol 22: 506-519.
A large-scale screen for artificial selection in maize identifies candidate agronomic loci for domestication and crop improvement.
Plant Cell 17: 2859-2872.
2004
Pattern of diversity in the genomic region near the maize domestication gene tb1.
PNAS 101: 700-707.
The genetics of maize evolution.
Ann Rev Genet 38: 37-59.
The role of barren stalk1 in the architecture of maize.
Nature 432: 630-635.
Developing temperate inbreds using tropical maize germplasm: Rationale, results, conclusions.
Maydica 49: 209-220.
Plant breeding requirements for applied molecular biology.
Crop Sci 44: 1913-1914.
Recovery of exotic alleles in semiexotic maize inbreds derived from crosses between Latin American accessions and a temperate line.
Theor Appl Genet 109: 609-617.
Selection versus demography: A multilocus investigation of the domestication process in maize.
Mol Biol Evol 21: 1214-1225.
Population genetic evidence for rapid changes in intra-specific diversity and allelic cycling of defense genes in Zea.
Genetics 168: 425-434.
Dissection of maize kernel composition and starch production by candidate gene association.
Plant Cell 16: 2719-2733.
2003
Development of a maize molecular evolutionary genomic database.
Comparative and Functional Genomics 4: 246-249.
Structure of linkage disequilibrium in plants.
Annual Review of Plant Biology 54: 357-74.
MaizeMeister: Integrated phenotypic and germplasm tracking software.
Early allelic selection in maize as revealed by ancient DNA.
Science 302: 1206-1208.
Molecular, agronomic, and historical aspects of Corn Belt Dent varietal diversity.
Crop Sci 43: 80-91.
Genetic structure and diversity among maize inbred lines as inferred from DNA microsatellites.
Genetics 165: 2117-2128.
Directional evolution for microsatellite size in maize.
Mol Biol Evol 20: 1480-3.
Using natural allelic diversity to evaluate gene function,
pp. 123-140 in Plant Functional Genomics: Methods and Protocols, edited by E. Grotewald. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 236. Humana Press, Totowa, N.J.
2002
Plant molecular diversity and applications to genomics.
Curr Opin Plant Biol 5: 107-111.
Evaluation of Hbr (MITE) markers for assessment of genetic relationships among maize (Zea mays L.) inbred lines.
Theor Appl Genet 104: 104-110.
Evolutionary dynamics of grass genomes.
New Phytol 154: 15-28.
SSR variation in important U.S. maize inbred lines.
Crop Sci 42: 951-957.
Microsatellites in Zea - variability, patterns of mutations, and use for evolutionary studies.
Theor Appl Genet 104: 436-450.
A single domestication for maize shown by multilocus microsatellite genotyping.
PNAS 99: 6080-6084.
Patterns of diversity and recombination along chromosome 1 of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.).
Genetics 162: 1401-1413.
Molecular evolution of the wound induced serine protease inhibitor wip1 in Zea and related genera.
Mol Biol Evol 18: 2092-2101.
Rate and pattern of mutation at microsatellite loci in maize.
Mol Biol Evol 19: 1251-1260.
Identifying genes of agronomic importance in maize by screening microsatellites for evidence of selection during domestication.
PNAS 99: 9650-9655.
Genetic diversity and selection in the maize starch pathway.
PNAS 99: 12959-12962.
Population genetics of duplicated disease-defense genes, hm1 and hm2, in maize (Z. mays ssp. mays L.) and its wild ancestor (Z. mays ssp. parviglumis).
Genetics 162: 851-860.
2001
TASSEL: Trait Association, Evolution, and Linkage Analysis software package.
Molecular diversity, structure and domestication of grasses.
Genet Res 77: 213-218.
George Beadle's other hypothesis: one-gene, one-trait.
Genetics 158: 487-493.
Patterns of chromosomal duplication in maize and their implications for comparative maps of the grasses.
Genome Res 11: 55-66.
Reality vs. myth: Corn breeding, exotics, and genetic engineering.
Annual Corn Sorghum Research Conference Proceedings 55: 149-172.
Structure of linkage disequilibrium and phenotypic associations in the maize genome.
PNAS 98: 11479-11484.
The state of the use of maize genetic diversity in the USA and sub-Saharan Africa.
pp. 159-180 in Broadening the Genetic Base of Crop Production, edited by H.D. Cooper, C. Spillane and T. Hodgkin. CAB Publishing, Wallingford, UK.
Patterns of DNA sequence polymorphism along chromosome 1 of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays).
PNAS 98: 9161-9166.
Dwarf8 polymorphisms associate with variation in flowering time.
Nature Genet 28: 286-289.
Sequence diversity in the tetraploid Zea perennis and the closely related diploid Z. diploperennis: Insights from four nuclear loci.
Genetics 158: 401-412.
2000
Maize as a model for the evolution of plant nuclear genomes.
PNAS 97: 7008-7015.
Isozymatic diversity in the races of maize of the Americas.
Maydica 45: 185-203.
1999
The molecular evolution of terminal ear1, a regulatory gene in the genus Zea.
Genetics 153: 1455-1462.