Publications
202 publications from 2009 onwards. Earlier work is listed under 2008 and earlier.
2019
Transposable elements contribute to dynamic genome content in maize.
bioRxiv
Dynamic patterns of transcript abundance of transposable element families in maize.
bioRxiv
Detecting adaptive differentiation in structured populations with genomic data and common gardens.
Genetics 212 (3): 5643-5652.
The temporal dynamics of background selection in non-equilibrium populations.
bioRxiv
Hybrid decay: a transgenerational epigenetic decline in vigor and viability triggered in backcross populations of teosinte with maize.
Genetics 212(3)
The genetic architecture of teosinte catalyzed and constrained maize domestication.
PNAS 116 (12): 5643-5652. doi: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820997116.
Metabolome-scale genome-wide association studies reveal chemical diversity and genetic control of maize specialized metabolites.
The Plant Cell 31(5): 937-955 doi: doi.org/10.1105/tpc.18.00772
2018
Maize Genomes to Fields: 2014 and 2015 field season genotype, phenotype, environment, and inbred ear image datasets.
BMC Research Notes 11:452
Genome-wide association and genomic prediction models of tocochromanols in fresh sweet corn kernels.
The Plant Genome 12:180038.
Quantitative trait loci mapping of western corn rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) host plant resistance in two populations of doubled haploid lines in maize (Zea mays l.)
Journal of Economic Entomology 111(1):435
Ecogeography of teosinte
PLoS One
Tripsacum de novo transcriptome assemblies reveal parallel gene evolution with maize after ancient polyploidy
bioRxiv
ZmCCT9 enhances maize adaptation to higher latitudes
PNAS 115(2):E334
Diverse chromosomal locations of quantitative trait loci for tolerance to maize chlorotic mottle virus in five maize populations.
Phytopathology 108 (6): 748 - 758 doi: doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-09-17-0321-R.
Dysregulation of expression correlates with rare-allele burden and fitness loss in maize
Nature 555:520
Coregulation of ribosomal RNA with hundreds of genes contributes to phenotypic variation.
Genome Research 28:1555-1565
Increased experimental conditions and marker densities identified more genetic loci associated with southern and northern leaf blight resistance in maize.
Scientific Reports 8:68-48.
Breaking the curse of dimensionality to identify causal variants in Breeding 4.
Theoretical and Applied Genetics 132(3):559-567
The maize W22 genome provides a foundation for functional genomics and transposon biology.
Nature Genetics 50:1282-1288 doi: doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0158-0.
Genetic architecture and selective sweeps after polygenic adaptation to distant trait optima
PLoS Genetics 14(11)
The genomic ecosystem of transposable elements in maize
bioRxiv
Maize domestication and gene interaction.
New Phytologist (2)220:395-408
Exceptional intraspecific gene order and gene structural variations between Mo17 and other maize genomes.
Nature Genetics 50: 1289-1295
Quantitative Genetic Analysis of the Maize Leaf Microbiome
Phytobiomes Journal 2(4):2471-2906
On the road to breeding 4.0: unraveling the good, the bad, and the boring of crop quantitative genomics.
Annual Review of Genetics 52:421-444.
Large-scale replicated field study of maize rhizosphere identifies heritable microbes.
PNAS 115 (28): 7368-7373. doi: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800918115.
Comparative transcriptional landscape of maize and sorghum obtained by single-molecule sequencing.
Genome Research 28: 921-932
Genome-wide Analysis of Transcriptional Variability in a Large Maize-Teosinte Population
Molecular Plant 11(3):443
Evolutionarily informed deep learning methods for predicting relative transcript abundance from DNA sequence.
PNAS 116(12):5542-5549.
Defining the Role of the MADS-Box Gene, Zea Agamous-like1, a Target of Selection During Maize Domestication
Journal of Heredity 109(3):333
Ethylene signaling regulates natural variation in the abundance of antifungal acetylated diferuloylsucroses and Fusarium graminearum resistance in maize seedling roots.
New Phytologist 221(4): 2096-2111
2017
Enhancing genomic prediction with genome-wide association studies in multiparental maize populations.
Heredity
Construction of the third generation Zea mays haplotype map
GigaScience
Novel Loci Underlie Natural Variation in Vitamin E Levels in Maize Grain
The Plant Cell
The effect of artificial selection on phenotypic plasticity in maize
Nature Communications doi: 10.1038
Assessment of natural variability of maize lipid transfer protein using a validated sandwich ELISA.
J. Agric. Food Chem. 65:1740–1749.
k-mer grammar uncovers maize regulatory architecture
bioRxiv doi: 10.1101
Improved maize reference genome with single molecules technologies
Nature
Evaluation of highly multiplexed PCR combined with semi-conductor-based sequencing for targeted resequencing in maize
PLoS One
High-Throughput Resequencing of Maize Landraces at Genomic Regions Associated with Flowering Time
PLoS ONE 12(1):e0168910.
The complex sequence landscape of maize revealed by single molecule technologies.
bioRxiv doi:/10.1101/079004
Diverse chromosomal loctions of quantitative trait loci for tolerance to maize chlorotic mottle virus in five maize populations
Phytopathology
Genetic analysis of teosinte alleles for kernel composition traits in maize.
G3 7(4):1157
Development of rigorous fatty acid near-infrared spectroscopy quantitation methods in support of soybean oil improvement.
J Am Oil Chem Soc 94: 69.
Genetic Analysis of Lodging in Diverse Maize Hybrids
bioRxiv
Identification of teosinte alleles for resistance to douther blight near isogenic maize lines
Crop Science 57:1973
The potential role of genetic assimilation during maize domestication
PLoS One
A study of allelic diversity underlying flowering-time adaptation in maize landraces
Nature Genetics 49:476
Selection for water-soluble carbohydrate accumulation and investigation of genetic x environment interactions in an elite wheat breeding population
Theoretical and Applied Genetics
Genome-Wide Assocation for Water-Soluble Carbohydrate and Relative Maturity in Wheat Using SNP and DArT Marker Arrays
G3 7(8):2821
Population extremes for assessing trait value and correlated response of genetically complex traits.
Field Crops Research 201:122-132.
Gene fractionation and function in the ancient subgenome of maize
Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(8)
How to make a domesticate
Current Biology 27(17)
Maize YABBY Genes drooping leaf1 and drooping leaft2 Regulate Plant Architechture
The Plant Cell
Selection During Maize Domestication Targeted a Gene Network Controlling Plant an Inflorescence Architecture
Genetics 2017(2), 755
Genomic estimation of complex traits reveals ancient maize adaptationto temperate North America
Science 357(6350):512
The interplay of demography and selection during maze domestication and diffusion
Genome Biology 18:215
Incomplete dominance of deleterious alleles contributes substantially to trait variation and heterosis in maize.
PLoS Genetics
Rapid Cycling Genomic Selection in a Multi-parental Tropical Maize Population
G3 7:2315
2016
Modifications to a LATE MERISTEM IDENTITY-1 gene are responsible for the major leaf shapes of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(1):E57-E66.
Recent demography drives changes in linked selection across the maize genome.
Nature Plants 2:16084
A proposal regarding best practices for validating the identity of genetic stocks and the effects of genetic variants.
The Plant Cell 28(3):606-609
Fine mapping of a QTL associated with kernel row number on chromosome 1 of maize.
PLoS ONE [doi:/10.1371/journal.pone.0150276](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150276)
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ANGSD-wrapper: utilities for analysing next generation sequencing data.
Molecular Ecology Resources 16(6):1449-1454.
Biosynthesis of 8-O-methylated benzoxazinoid defense compounds in maize.
The Plant Cell 28(7):1682.
Draft assembly of elite inbred line PH207 provides insights into genomic and transcriptome diversity in maize.
The Plant Cell 28(11):2700-2714
Responses to recurrent index selection for reduced Fusarium ear rot and lodging and for increased yield in maize.
Crop Science 56:85-94.
Identification of alleles conferring resistance to gray leaf spot in maize derived from its wild progenitor species teosinte (Zea mays spp. parviglumis).
Crop Science 56:209-218.
Analysis of recombination QTLs, segregation distortion, and epistasis for fitness in maize multiple populations using ultra-high-density markers.
Theoretical and Applied Genetics 123(9):1775.
Numerous genetic loci identified for drought tolerance in the maize nested association mapping populations.
BCM Genomics 17:894.
Identification of genetic variants associated with maize flowering time using an extremely large multi-genetic background population.
The Plant Journal 86(5):391-402
Iterative usage of fixed and random effect models for powerful and efficient genome-wide association studies.
PLoS Genetics 12:e1005767.
Expanding maize genetic resources with pre-domestication alleles: maize-teosinte introgression populations.
Plant Genome
Genetic analysis of kernel traits in maize-teosinte introgression populations.
G3 6:2523-2530.
Fast-flowering mini-maize: seed to seed in 60 days.
Genetics 204:35-42
Genetic characterization of the North Carolina State University maize lines.
Crop Science 56:259-275.
The genetics of leaf flecking in maize and its relationship to plant defense and disease resistance.
Plant Physiology 172:1787-1803
Maize diversity associated with social origin and environmental variation in southern Mexico.
Heredity 116:477-484.
Development of a high density linkage map and tagging leaf spot resistance in pearl millet using GBS markers.
Plant Genome
Genome sequence of a 5,310-year-old maize cob provides insights into the early stages of maize domestication.
Current Biology 26:3195-3201
Characterization of biosynthetic pathways for the production of the volatile homoterpenes DMNT and TMTT in Zea mays.
The Plant Cell 28(10):2651
Open chromatin reveals the functional maize genome.
PNAS 113(22):E3177-E3184
GAPIT Version 2: Enhanced integrated tool for genomic association and prediction.
Plant Genome
Correlation-based network analysis of metabolite and enzyme profiles reveals a role of citrate biosynthesis in modulating N and C metabolism in Zea mays
Frontiers in Plant Science
Metabolomic assessment of key maize resources: GC-MS and NMR profiling of grain from B73 hybrids of the nested association mapping (NAM) founders and of geographically diverse landraces.
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 64:2162–2172.
Genome-wide association for plant height and flowering time across 15 tropical maize populations under managed drought stress and well-watered conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Crop Science 56:2365.
Unveiling the complexity of the maize transcriptome by single-molecule long-read sequencing.
Nature Communications 7:11708.
Joint-linkage mapping and GWAS reveal extensive genetic loci that regulate male inflorescence size in maize.
Plant Biotechnology Journal
Genetic architecture of domestication-related traits in maize.
Genetics 204(1):99.
A gene for genetic background in Zea mays: fine-mapping enhancer of teosinte branched1.2 (etb1.2) to a YABBY class transcription factor.
Genetics 204(4):1573.
Mapping prolificacy QTL in maize and teosinte
Journal of Heredity 107(7):674.
2015
New insight into a complex plant–fungal pathogen interaction.
Nature Genetics 47:101-103.
Construction of the third generation Zea mays haplotype map.
BioRxiv ([doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/026963](http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/026963)).
The origin and evolution of maize in the American Southwest.
Nature Plants 1:14003.
The genomic impacts of drift and selection for hybrid performance in maize.
Genetics 3:1201-1211.
Plant biology: genetic, evolutionary and plant breeding insights from the domestication of maize.
eLife 4:e05861.
Construction of high-quality recombination maps with low-coverage genomic sequencing for joint linkage analysis in maize.
BMC Biology 13:78.
Genetic control of the leaf angle and leaf orientation value as revealed by ultra-high density maps in three connected maize populations.
PLoS ONE 10: e0121624.
High-resolution genetic mapping of maize pan-genome sequence anchors.
Nature Communications 6:6914.
Transposable elements contribute to activation of maize genes in response to abiotic stress.
PLoS Genetics 11: e1004915.
Joint-multiple family linkage analysis predicts within-family variation better than single-family analysis of the maize nested association mapping population.
Heredity 114: 552-563.
Recombination in diverse maize is stable, predictable, and associated with genetic load.
PNAS 112: 3823-3828.
Genome-wide association study reveals a set of genes associated with resistance to the Mediterranean corn borer (Sesamia nonagrioides L.) in a maize diversity panel.
BMC Plant Biology 15:35.
Seed filling in domesticated maize and rice depends on SWEET-mediated hexose transport.
Nature Genetics 47:1489-1493.
Independent molecular basis of convergent highland adaptation in maize.
Genetics 200:1297-1312.
Hallauer’s Tusón: a decade of selection for tropical-to-temperate phenological adaptation in maize.
Heredity 114: 229-240.
Compositional assessments of key maize populations: B73 hybrids of the Nested Association Mapping founder lines and diverse landrace inbred lines.
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 63: 5282–5295.
Evidence that the origin of naked kernels during maize domestication was caused by a single amino acid substitution in tga1.
Genetics 200: 965–974.
2014
Genetic dissection of a genomic region with pleiotropic effects on domestication traits in maize reveals multiple linked QTL.
Genetics 198: 345–353.
Limits on the reproducibility of marker associations with southern leaf blight resistance in the maize nested association mapping population.
BMC Genomics 15:1056.
TASSEL-GBS: A high capacity genotyping by sequencing analysis pipeline.
PLoS ONE 9: e90346.
Insights into the effects of long-term artificial selection on seed size in maize.
Genetics 198: 409-421.
Defining the role of prolamin-box binding factor1 gene during maize domestication.
Journal of Heredity 105: 576-582.
The role of cis regulatory evolution in maize domestication.
PLoS Genetics 10: e1004745.
Enrichment of statistical power for genome-wide association studies.
BMC Biology 12: 73.
The pattern and distribution of deleterious mutations in maize.
G3 4: 163-171.
A genome-wide association study of the maize hypersensitive defense response identifies genes that cluster in related pathways.
PLoS Genetics 10: e1004562.
A foundation for provitamin A biofortification of maize: genome-wide association and genomic prediction models of carotenoid levels.
Genetics 198: 1699-1716.
The genetic architecture of maize height.
Genetics 196: 1337-1356.
Yield effects of two Southern leaf blight resistance QTL in near-isogenic maize hybrids.
Crop Science 54:882-894.
Mining natural variation for maize improvement: Selection on phenotypes and genes.
pg. 615-649 in Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources. Volume 1. Managing, sequencing and mining genetic resources, edited by R. Tuberosa, A. Graner, and E. Frison. Springer, New York.
Novel methods to optimize genotypic imputation for low-coverage, next-generation sequence data in crop plants.
Plant Genome 7(3).
Advances and limits of using population genetics to understand local adaptation.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29:673-680.
Association mapping across numerous traits reveals patterns of functional variation in maize.
PLoS Genetics 10: e1004845.
Entering the second century of maize quantitative genetics.
Heredity 112: 30-38.
A SUPER powerful method for genome wide association study.
PLoS ONE 9: e107684.
Genome-wide association study of Fusarium ear rot disease in the USA maize inbred line collection.
BMC Biology 14: 372.
2013
Genetic analysis of visually scored orange kernel color in maize.
Crop Science 53: 189-200.
Genetics and consequences of crop domestication.
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 61: 8267-8276.
Lessons from Dwarf8 on the strengths and weaknesses of structured association mapping.
PLoS Genetics 9: e1003246.
Genome-wide association study and pathway-level analysis of tocochromanol levels in maize grain.
G3 3: 1287-1299.
Switchgrass genomic diversity, ploidy, and evolution: novel insights from a network-based SNP discovery protocol.
PLoS Genetics 9: e1003215.
Natural variation in maize aphid resistance is associated with 2,4-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-1,4-benzoxazin-3-one glucoside methyltransferase activity.
Plant Cell 25: 2341-2355.
Population genomic and genome-wide association studies of agroclimatic traits in sorghum.
PNAS 110: 453-458.
Genetic architecture of maize stalk strength.
PLoS ONE 8: e67066.
Diversity and heritability of the maize rhizosphere microbiome under field conditions.
PNAS 110: 6548-6553.
Comprehensive genotyping of the USA national maize inbred seed bank.
Genome Biology 14: R55.
From many, one: genetic control of prolificacy during maize domestication.
PLoS Genetics 9: e1003604.
A genome-wide association study reveals genes associated with fusarium ear rot resistance in a maize core diversity panel.
G3 3: 2095-2104.
2012
PICARA, an analytical pipeline providing probabilistic inference about a priori candidate genes underlying genome-wide association QTL in plants.
PLoS ONE 7: e46596.
Maize HapMap2 identifies extant variation from a genome in flux.
Nature Genetics 44: 803-807.
Genetic architecture of maize kernel composition in the nested association mapping and inbred association panels.
Plant Physiology 158: 824-834.
Megabase-scale inversion polymorphism in the wild ancestor of maize.
Genetics 191: 883-894.
Comparative population genomics of maize domestication and improvement.
Nature Genetics 44: 808-811.
The relationship between parental genetic or phenotypic divergence and progeny variation in the maize nested association mapping population.
Heredity 108: 490-499.
ZmCCT and the genetic basis of daylength adaptation underlying the post-domestication spread of maize.
PNAS 109: E1913-E1921.
Genic and nongenic contributions to natural variation of quantitative traits in maize.
Genome Research 22: 2436-2444.
Parallel domestication of the Shattering1 genes in cereals.
Nature Genetics 44: 720-724.
GAPIT: genome association and prediction integrated tool.
Bioinformatics 28: 2397-2399.
Crop genomics: advances and applications.
Nature Reviews Genetics 13: 85-96.
The role of teosinte glume architecture (tga1) in coordinated regulation and evolution of grass glumes and inflorescence axes.
New Phytologist 193: 204-215.
Evidence for a natural allelic series at the maize domestication locus teosinte branched1.
Genetics 191: 951-958.
Can genomics boost productivity of orphan crops?
Nature Biotechnology 30: 1172-1176.
2011
Distinct genetic architectures for male and female inflorescence traits of maize.
PLoS Genetics 7: e1002383.
Allelic effect variation at key photoperiod response quantitative trait loci in maize.
Crop Science 51: 1036-1049.
A robust, simple genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) approach for high diversity species.
PLoS ONE 6: e19379
A large maize (Zea mays L.) SNP genotyping array: development and germplasm genotyping, and genetic mapping to compare with the B73 reference genome.
PLoS ONE 6: e28334.
Genome-wide association study of quantitative resistance to southern leaf blight in the maize nested association mapping population.
Nature Genetics 43: 163-168.
Joint QTL linkage mapping for multiple-cross mating design sharing one commmon parent.
PLoS ONE 6: e17573.
Genome-wide nested association mapping of quantitative resistance to northern leaf blight in maize.
PNAS 108: 6893-6898.
Genetic association mapping identifies single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes that affect abscisic acid levels in maize floral tissues during drought.
Journal of Experimental Botany 62: 701-716.
Identification of a functional transposon insertion in the maize domestication gene tb1.
Nature Genetics 43: 1160-1163.
Do large effect QTLs fractionate? A case study at the maize domestication QTL teosinte branched1.
Genetics 188: 673-681.
Genome-wide association study of leaf architecture in the maize nested association mapping population.
Nature Genetics 43: 159-162.
Genetic signals of origin, spread, and introgression in a large sample of maize landraces.
PNAS 108: 1088-1092.
grassy tillers1 promotes apical dominance in maize and responds to shade signals in the grasses.
PNAS 108: E506-E512.
Multivariate analysis of maize disease resistances suggests a pleiotropic genetic basis and implicates a GST gene.
PNAS 108: 7339-7344.
MADS-box genes of maize: frequent targets of selection during maize domestication.
Genetics Research 93: 65-75.
2010
IView: Introgression library visualization and query tool.
BMC Bioinformatics 11(Suppl 6): S28.
Genetic variation at bx1 controls DIMBOA content in maize.
Theor Appl Genet 120: 721-734.
Genetic control of photoperiod sensitivity in maize revealed by joint multiple population analysis.
Genetics 184: 799-812.
Physiological and genetic characterization of end-of-day far-red light response in maize seedlings.
Plant Physiol 154: 173-186.
Increased food and ecosystem security via perennial grains.
Science 328: 1638-1639.
Dedication: Major M. Goodman, maize geneticist and breeder.
Plant Breeding Reviews 33: 1-29.
Genome-wide association studies of 14 agronomic traits in rice landraces.
Nature Genetics 42: 961-967.
Association and linkage analysis of aluminum tolerance genes in maize.
PLoS ONE 5: e9958.
Fine scale genetic structure in the wild ancestor of maize (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis).
Molecular Ecology 19: 1162-1173.
Genetic diversity in a crop metapopulation.
Heredity 104: 28-39.
Rare genetic variation at Zea mays crtRB1 increases β-carotene in maize grain.
Nature Genetics 42: 322-327.
Fine quantitative trait loci mapping of carbon and nitrogen metabolism enzyme activities and seedling biomass in the maize IBM mapping population.
Plant Physiology 154: 1753-1765.
Genetic analyis of central carbon metabolism unveils an amino acid substitution that alters maize NAD-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase activity.
PLoS ONE 5: e9991.
Mixed linear model approach adapted for genome-wide association studies.
Nature Genetics 42: 355-360.
Mapping resistance quantitative trait loci for three foliar diseases in a maize recombinant inbred line population — evidence for multiple disease resistance?
Phytopathology 100: 72-79.
2009
The genetic architecture of maize flowering time.
Science 325: 714-718.
Wide variability in kernel composition, seed characteristics, and zein profiles among diverse maize inbreds, landraces, and teosinte.
Theor Appl Genet 119: 1129-1142.
Heterosis is prevalent for multiple traits in diverse maize germplasm.
PLoS ONE 4: e7433.
Maize amino acid pathways maintain high levels of genetic diversity.
Maydica 54: 375-386.
A first-generation haplotype map of maize.
Science 326: 1115-1117.
Large-scale discovery of gene-enriched SNPs.
Plant Genome 2: 121-133.
Development of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for use in commmercial maize (Zea mays L.) germplasm.
Mol. Breeding 24: 165-176.
A-maize-ing diversity.
Science 325: 688-689.
Genetics and biochemistry of insect resistance in maize.
pp. 271-289 in Handbook of Maize: Its Biology, edited by J. Bennetzen and S. Hake. Springer, New York, NY.
Genetic properties of the maize Nested Association Mapping population.
Science 325: 737-740.
Association mapping: critical considerations shift from genotyping to experimental design.
Plant Cell 21: 2194-2202.
Natural variation in maize architecture is mediated by allelic differences at the PINOID co-ortholog barren inflorescence2.
Plant J 58: 618-628.
Characterization of a major maize domestication QTL on the short arm of chromosome one.
Maydica 54: 401-408.
Tracking footprints of maize domestication and evidence for a massive selective sweep on chromosome 10.
PNAS 106: 9979-9986.
Using association mapping in teosinte to investigate the function of maize selection-candidate genes.
PLoS ONE 4: e8227.
Genetic characterization and linkage disequilibrium estimation of a global maize collection using SNP markers.
PLoS ONE 4: e8451.
Simulation appraisal of the adequacy of number of background markers for relationship estimation in association mapping.
Plant Genome 2: 63-77.
A genome-wide characterization of microRNA genes in maize.
PLoS Genetics 5: e1000716.
Software engineering the mixed model for genome-wide association studies on large samples.
Briefings in Bioinformatics 10: 664-675.