41st Annual Maize Genetics Conference Program

GENERAL INFORMATION

Concerning Meals

All meals will be served buffet style

Breakfast will be served in the Ballroom from 7:00-8:30 AM

Lunch will be served in the Ballroom from 12:30-1:30 PM

Dinner will be served in the Ballroom from 6:00-7:00 PM

Coffee, tea and soft drinks are available at no charge during beverage breaks

Informal Meeting Place: IMPORTANT NOTICE
Rooms 6102/6104 will be available for informal socializing each evening until 4AM. These are "private party rooms" and beer may be brought in as such. However, you will have to stay in these rooms if you are carrying drinks and dispose of your trash and bottles in the party room, NOT elsewhere in the hotel. These are reasonable policies from the hotel, and your compliance with them is extremely important.

Talks and Posters

Talks and Workshops will be presented in Forum A

Posters will be presented in Forum BC, adjacent to the talks

Posters may be hung up on Thursday evening, and must be removed by NOON Sunday

Steering Committee

Please share your suggestions or comments about the meeting with the Steering Committee

Julie Vogel, co-chair Al Kriz

Cliff Weil, co-chair Jane Langdale

Becky Boston Mike McMullen

Ben Bowen Neelima Sinha

Kelly Dawe Karen Cone, treasurer, ex officio

Marty Sachs, Local Organizer

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the members of the Community for participating in this year’s experiment with electronic abstract submission. Your efforts are highly appreciated. It has been an outstanding success a full year ahead of schedule thanks largely to the work of Mary Polacco and her colleagues at the University of Missouri. Please address any comments or suggestions about electronic submission either to Cliff Weil or to Mary Polacco.

NEXT MAIZE MEETING: 19-22 March 2000, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

Local Organizer: CliffWeil, [email protected]

41^st Annual Maize Genetics Conference

March 1999

THURSDAY, 11 March
6:00-7:00 PM DINNER

7:15-7:30 PM ANNOUNCEMENTS

7:30-9:00 PM PLENARY TALKS Chair: Cliff Weil

7:30 Sue Wessler, Univ. of Georgia

MITEs: Transposable elements that create allelic diversity and serve to anchor a novel class of "smart" molecular markers

8:15 Philip Benfey, New York Univ.

Radial patterning in root and shoot development

FRIDAY, 12 March
7:00-8:30 AM BREAKFAST

8:30-10:00AM SESSION #1 Chair: Jane Langdale

DEVELOPMENT 1

8:30 Mike Scanlon, Univ. of Georgia

semaphore1: a recessive mutation disrupting knox gene expression in shoots

8:45 Paula McSteen, Plant Gene Expression Center

barren inflorescence2 is required for axillary meristem initiation/maintenance

9:00 Anne Sylvester, Univ. of Idaho

Balanced cell growth during maize leaf morphogenesis: Analysis of cell pattern mutations

RNA AND PATHOGEN RESPONSES

9:15 Shailesh Lal, Univ. of Florida

In vivo analysis of pre-mRNA splicing mutants at the Brittle-2 and Shrunken-2 loci in maize

9:30 Don Baldwin, Pioneer Hi-Bred

RNA transcript profiling for detecting early maize responses to a fungal pathogen and its toxin

9:45 Georgia Davis, USDA-ARS CHPRRU, Mississippi

QTL for Aflatoxin Reduction in Maize

10:00-10:30AM BREAK WITH BEVERAGES

10:30-12:00PM SESSION #2 Chair: Mike McMullen

COMPARISONS OF MAIZE LINES

10:30 Bob Bird, NC State Univ.

Sampling the Zea Universe: A Test Array

10:45 Mary Alleman, Duquesne Univ.

The origin of structural complexity at the maize r1 locus

11:00 Dave Weber, Illinois St. Univ.

Comparative recombination distances among varieties of Zea mays L.

RECOMBINATION

11:15 Steve Stack, Colorado St. Univ.

Synaptonemal complex karyotype for maize

11:30 Dave Selinger, Univ. of Arizona

The b locus has an unusually high frequency of nucleotide substitutions in the upstream region and contains a recombinational hotspot with distinct borders.

11:45 Bill Eggleston, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.

Rate and pattern of homologous recombination at the maize R1 locus

12:30-1:30PM LUNCH

1:30-3:00PM POSTER SESSION I Contributors will be at ODD-NUMBERED posters

3:00-3:30PM BREAK WITH BEVERAGES

3:30-5:00PM POSTER SESSION II Contributors will be at EVEN-NUMBERED posters

6:00-7:00PM DINNER

7:30PM WORKSHOP: GENOMIC APPROACHES IN MAIZE

Speakers (listed alphabetically):

Jeff Bennetzen Comparative genomics, targeted on maize

Zac Cande An integrated map of cytological, genetic & physical information of maize

Ed Coe Our roots in the past, our flowering in the future

John Doebley Evolutionary genomics of maize

Hugo Dooner Use of the transposon Ac as a gene searching engine in the maizegenome

Keith Edwards Maize genomics at IACR Long Ashton Research Station

Rob Martienssen Target-selected Mutagenesis in Maize using Robertson's Mutator transposons.

Howard Rines Maize chromosome addition lines of oat and derived radiation hybrids as maize

genomics tools

Torbert Rocheford Genomic analysis of seed quality traits in maize

Virginia Walbot Maize gene discovery, DNA sequencing and phenotypic analysis

SATURDAY, 13 March
7:00-8:30 AM BREAKFAST

8:30-10:00AM SESSION #3 Chair: Becky Boston

TRANSPOSONS

8:30 Ryuji Ishikawa, Hirosaki Univ.

Structual Difference of RiceMutator and maize Mutator elements and the activity of RiceMutator

8:45 Cliff Weil, Univ. of Idaho

Ac/Ds transposition in yeast cells

9:00 Tom Brutnell, Oxford Univ.

Shotgun mutagenesis: A mapped-based approach to gene tagging in maize

POLLEN, EMBRYO, SEEDLING

9:15 Chris Chase, Univ. of Florida

Nuclear restorers-of-fertility disrupt essential mitochondrial gene expression in S male-sterile maize

9:30 Wolfgang Werr, Univ. of Köln

Embryo-specific mutants blocked in the radial organization of the proembryo fail in the establishment of meristems during maize embryogenesis

9:45 Lynne Jesaitis, UC Berkeley

Novel morphological mutants of the coleoptile

10:00-10:30AM BREAK WITH BEVERAGES

10:30-12:00PM SESSION #4 Chair: Neelima Sinha

CYTOGENETICS

10:30 Kelly Dawe, Univ. of Georgia

Structural (CPC) and regulatory (MAD2) components of the maize kinetochore

10:45 Gerd Weber, Univ. Hohenheim

Physical localization of molecular markers on maize chromosomes and their correlation to the genetic map

11:00 Zac Cande, UC Berkeley

Meiotic prophase chromosome behavior in maize and rye

EPIGENETICS

11:15 Elsbeth Walker, Univ. of Massachusetts

The role of the Doppia transposable element in r1 paramutation

11:30 Lyudmila Sidorenko, Iowa St. Univ.

Fragments of the P-RR promoter induce a paramutant-like state of the endogenous P-RR allele

11:45 Charles Papa, Univ. of Wisconsin

Sequence and function of a maize DNA methyltransferase

12:30-1:30PM LUNCH

1:30-3:00PM POSTER SESSION III Contributors will be at EVEN-NUMBERED posters

3:00-3:30PM BREAK WITH BEVERAGES

3:30-5:00PM POSTER SESSION IV Contributors will be at ODD-NUMBERED posters

4:30-6:00PM WORKSHOP: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND LICENSING

Speakers: Al Kriz Technology Transfer and Licensing Workshop

Bryan Renk Technology Transfer as it pertains to academic research

Nicholas Seay Basics of Patent Law for Plant Breeders

6:00-7:00PM DINNER

7:30-9:00 PM PLENARY TALKS Chair: Julie Vogel

7:30 Rich Jorgensen, Univ. of Arizona

Homology-based control and epigenetic inheritance of gene expression patterns in transgenic plants

8:15 Pat Schnable, Iowa St. Univ.

Molecular basis of fertility restoration in cmsT maize

SUNDAY, 14 March
7:00-8:30 AM BREAKFAST

8:30-10:00AM SESSION #5 Chair: Ben Bowen

TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS

8:30 Erich Grotewold, Ohio St. Univ.

The maize R2R3 Myb gene family

8:45 Wes Bruce, Pioneer Hi-Bred

mRNA profiling of the flavanoid genes controlled by inducible transcriptional factors, CRC and P

9:00 Don McCarty, Univ. of Florida

Structure and evolution of the B3 protein superfamily in plants

DEVELOPMENT 2

9:15 Yutaka Sato, Nagoya Univ.

Analysis of the functions of class1 type kn1-like homeobox genes

9:30 Mike Freeling, UC Berkeley

Negative Regulation of homeobox genes lg3 and rs1

9:45 Peter Rogowsky, ENS-Lyon

Genes involved in early maize embryogenesis

10:00-10:30AM BREAK WITH BEVERAGES

10:30-12:00PM SESSION #6 Chair: Kelly Dawe

SEX and RECOVERY

10:30 Helene Laparra, Yale Univ.

Cell death and cell protection genes in the maize sex determination pathway

10:45 Thomas Dresselhaus, Univ. of Hamburg

Gene regulation in male and female gametophytes before and after fertilization

11:00 Manish Raizada, Stanford Univ.

Mutator in Transgenic Maize: RescueMu and 35S-mudrA, New Biology and Biotecnology

BIOCHEMICAL GENETICS

11:15 Pascale Williams, Oregon St. Univ.

Analysis of the Coproporphyrinogen III Oxidase Genes and Their Expression in Maize

11:30 Jinsheng Lai, Rutgers Univ.

Eliminating Genetic Variability of the High Methionine Phenotype in Maize

11:45 Heping Cao, Iowa St. Univ.

Identification and biochemical characterization of starch synthase activity coded for by dull1

POSTERS

I. CYTOGENETICS

	Presenter	Title
1	Peter Carlton	Localization and morphology of centromeres in meiotic prophase
2	Amie Franklin	Maize desynaptic 2, a chromosome-pairing meiotic mutant, has aberrant Rad51 filaments when chromosomes pair
3	Evelyn Hiatt	Characterizing Ab10-mediated meiotic drive in maize
4	Bryan Kindiger	Apomixis and seed fertility in maize x Tripsacum wide hybridizations
5	Dan Maillet	Nucleolar fusion in Zea mays L.
6	Gerd Weber	Physical localization of molecular markers on maize chromosomes and their correlation to the genetic map
7	Hong-Guo Yu	The maize homolog of the cell cycle checkpoint protein Mad2 reveals kinetochore substructure and contrasting mitotic and meiotic localization patterns
		II. DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS
8	Bruce Abedon	Cell wall composition in juvenile and adult leaves of B73 and De811
9	Yvonne Asuncion-Crabb	CRINKLY 4-like Receptors in Zea mays and Arabidopsis thaliana
10	R. Frank Baker	Efforts to clone the glossy early flowering gene
11	Philip W. Becraft	Signaling epidermal differentiation.
12	Wolfgang Werr	Embryo-specific mutants blocked in the radial organization of the proembryo fail in the establishment of meristems during maize embryogenesis.
13	David Braun	Structure/function analysis of LIGULELESS1
14	John Anderson	The structural analysis of ms22, a male-sterile mutant of maize
15	Erica Unger	DAM-mediated male-sterility is influenced by the position of the anther-specific promoter relative to the selectable marker gene.
16	Joe Colasanti	What is id1 doing in the maize leaf?
17	Xiangqin Cui	The physiological role of Rf2 independent of its role as a cms-T restorer
18	Matthew Evans	Mutations with maternal gametophyte effects on kernel development
19	Chris Giedt	LAG1-O developmental control of Ac/Ds transposition
21	Rachelle Goldman	Response of maize root tips versus axes to hypoxia and anoxia
22	Tao Guo	Maize dek1 gene is a candidate member of the crinkly4 signal transduction pathway
23	Sabine Hantke	Isolation and expression analysis of cim1, a nucellus-specific gene in maize
24	F. Hochholdinger	Genetic analysis of root initiation in maize
25	Jay B. Hollick	The rmr6 locus affects pl paramutation and plant development
26	Erin Irish	Rejuvenation by meristem culture restores hypomethylation at Pl-blotched
27	Nick Kaplinsky	Analysis of rgo1 and rgo2 - a progress report
28	Akio Kato	Single fertilization in maize
29	Sharon Kessler	Analysis of Xcl, a mutation affecting planes of cell division
30	Debbie Laudencia-Chingcuanco	Indeterminate floral apex 1 is required for meristem determinacy and meristem identity
31	Jun Lim	Zmscarecrow reveals that positional information plays a pivotal role in radial patterning during quiescent center regeneration
32	Mark Lubkowitz	A modified yeast screen to identify downstream targets of roughsheath1 and liguleless3
33	Sheila McCormick	Odd-man-out, dyad pollen and raring-to-go: cool names for cool pollen mutants in Arabidopsis
34	Mike Scanlon	The narrow sheath duplicate-factor mutations prevent recruitment of a subset of leaf founder cells.
35	Paula McSteen	barren inflorescence2 : Genetic analysis
36	Miso Mitkovski	Balancing cell division and expansion: Further characterizaton of tan-py
37	Michael Muszynski	The use of apical dominance mutants to identify signals coordinating ear formation and growth
38	Jennifer Nelson	Leaf epidermal patterning mutants: abaxial/adaxial switching in the dorsiventral polarity mutant Rolled and abnormal stomatal complexes in Intarsia*.
39	Woong June Park	Two new maize mutants with defects in lateral root elongation
40	Leonore Reiser	Identification of extragenic enhancers of the knotted1 loss of function phenotype.
41	Carol Rivin	Maternal effect and zygotic genes modify a shootless embryo phenotype
42	George Theodoris	DNA binding studies on the Rough Sheath2 protein
43	Jeff Thornsberry	Recovery of photosynthetic function coincident with an increase in normal mitochondrial nad4 genes during maturation of defective leaf sectors of NCS2 heteroplasmic plants.
44	Miltos Tsiantis	The rough sheath2 gene controls knox expression and leaf cell fate in maize
45	Randall Tyers	Insertional mutations in knotted1-like homeobox genes
46	P. Leszek D. Vincent	Improving the effective use of the maize genome database for plant breeders, developmental biologists and other users

		III. MOLECULAR GENETICS
47	Donald L. Auger	Nuclear gene dosage affects the expression of mitochondrially encoded cytochrome oxidase genes in maize
48	Richard Thompson	Components of the maize GCN5/ADA2 coactivator complex
49	Robert McK. Bird	A cpSSR survey of Zea: confirmation and surprises in a test array
50	Erich Grotewold	The maize R2R3 Myb gene family
51	Wes Bruce	mRNA profiling of the flavanoid genes controlled by inducible transcription factors, CRC and P
52	Charles C Carey	Regulation of the anthocyanin pathway by a3
53	Ching-Chun Chang	Nucleus-encoded T7-like RNA polymerases in mitochondria and chloroplasts
54	Todd Christensen	Identification and characterization of Rop GTPases in Zea mays
55	Pietro Ciceri	The activity of the maize Opaque-2 transcriptional activator is regulated diurnally
56	Suzy Cocciolone	Analysis of transgenic plants reveals new information about old genes
57	Craig Coleman	Transgenic expression of zein proteins in tobacco seed
58	Jennifer L. Conner	Adapt or fry: physiological and genetic analysis of responses to ultraviolet radiation
59	C Dietrich	Genetic characterizations of cuticular wax accumulation
60	Jane E. Dorweiler	Mutations that prevent paramutation and correlations with chromatin structure
61	Snezana Drinic Mladenovic	Embryo salt soluble proteins as markers for genetic diversity among maize inbred lines
62	Xiaowu Gai	EST assembly and annotation tools and a maize EST database
63	Wolfgang Goettel	P1-rr is paramutable when heterozygous with the paramutagenic P1-pr allele
64	Gregorio Hueros	Isolation of a putative transcriptional activator, mzMRP-1, specifically expressed at the transfer cells of the maize endosperm
65	Baozhu Guo	Preliminary identification and sequences of a gene in the sh2-a1 region that affects silk maysin concentration in maize silks
66	Jose F. Gutierrez-Marcos	Screening for imprinted genes in maize endosperm
67	Linda Harris	Genes induced during Fusarium graminearum infection of maize
68	Tim Helentjaris	Some insights into how modern genomics technologies are changing the practice of genetics
69	Reinhard Kunze	Characterization of mus1 and mus2, two mutS homologous genes from Zea mays
70	John Fowler	Novel C-terminal sequences are required for efficient targeting of a maize Rho family GTPase to the plasma membrane
71	Michael McMullen	The identification of a second salmon silk gene
72	Shailesh Lal	In vivo analysis of pre-mRNA splicing mutants at the Brittle-2 and Shrunken-2 loci in maize
73	Luciana L. B. Lanza	RFLP as an invaluable tool for revealing tropical maize heterotic subgroups and predicting single cross hybrids yield performance
74	Carolyn Lawrence	Molecular analysis of Zmkin1 and other maize kinesin-like proteins
75	Yong Li	Phylogenetic relationships within Tripsacum as detected by RAPD variation
76	Feng Liu	Maize aldehyde dehydrogenase gene family
77	Zhengrong Ma	Molecular analysis of dek(defective kernel) mutant in maize
78	Barbara Basso	An integrated map of a portion of chromosome 3L, in proximity of the ys3 locus
79	Beiquan Mou	Inheritance of Su1 transgenes in maize plants
80	Rebecca Mroczek	Analysis of the organization of the abnormal-10 chromosome of maize
81	Pierre-Jean Ripoll	A maize BAC library from the european flint inbred line F2
82	Paula Olhoft	The maize maintenance methylase gene Zmet1 and changes in 5-methylcytosine levels throughout development
83	Tadas Panavas	Structural features associated with paramutagenicity and paramutability of the r1 locus
84	Charles M. Papa	Sequence and function of a maize DNA methyltransferase
85	Gregorio Hueros	A maize homologue of the prokaryotic CMP-KDO synthethase gene complements a bacterial cell wall synthesis mutant
86	Yutaka Sato	Analysis of the functions of class1 type kn1-like homeobox genes
87	Gregorio Segal	Four novel basic leucine zipper cDNAs from maize endosperm
88	David Selinger	The B-Bolivia allele has multiple, epigenetically heritable states that have distinct aleurone expression phenotypes, but do not differ in plant expression
89	Natalya Sharopova	Abundance and variation of imperfect simple sequence repeats in maize ESTs
90	Lyudmila Sidorenko	Fragments of the P-RR promoter induce a paramutant-like state of the endogenous P-RR allele
91	Russ Spangler	Sorghum generic limits and species delimitation using ndhf and morphology
92	Maike Stam	Identification of sequences at the b locus that are required for paramutation
93	David Stevenson	A hybridisation based screen for identifying gene knock-outs in maize
94	Liangjiang Wang	Display of Miniature Inverted repeat Transposable Elements in maize
95	Christine D. Chase	Nuclear restorers-of-fertility disrupt essential mitochondrial gene expression in S male-sterile maize
96	Suk-Hwan Yang	The expression of a synthetic codon adjusted porcine alpha-lactalbumin gene in maize
97	Hong Yao	Characterization of meiotic recombination within the a1-sh2 interval
98	Peifen Zhang	Isolation and characterization of a second P gene in maize: another contributor to maysin synthesis?
		IV. BIOCHEMICAL GENETICS
99	Robert A. Bouchard	Quantification and localization of 18kD HSP mRNA accumulated during metal-ion insult of maize seedling radicles and plumules.
100	Heping Cao	Identification and biochemical characterization of the starch synthase activity coded for by dull1
101	Miguel Cervantes-Cervantes	Isolation of geranylgeranylpyrophosphate synthase (GGPPS) cDNA clones from maize endosperm by color complementation in Escherichia coli.
102	Carla P. Cota	Development of rice transformation for analysis of maize transgenes
103	C.D. Goodman	The next step in the anthocyanin pathway: a novel Z. mays multi-drug resistance associated protein (mrp) regulated by the R & C1 transcription factors
104	J. M. Hernandez	Characterization of a maize gene encoding a conserved WD40 protein
105	Kathleen Newton	The NCS2 mitochondrial mutant has a partial respiratory complex I and enhanced expression of nucleus-encoded mitochondrial stress proteins
106	Jonathan Lightner	Production of a very-high amylose corn starch by inactivation of starch branching enzyme i in an amylose-extender mutant background
107	Paul D. Matthews	On golden pollen
108	Beom-Seok Seo	Interaction of branching enzymes in corn starch synthesis with enzymes in yeast glycogen synthesis
109	Subbaiah Chalivendra	Potential involvement of maize AIP in the anoxia-induced death of the root tip
110	Uta von Rad	Purification of two UDPG::benzoxazinone glucosyltransferases from maize seedlings
111	Pascale Williams	Analysis of the coproporphyrinogen III oxidase genes and their expression in maize
112	Jia Yu	Immunolocalization of carotenoid enzymes in maize
		V. CYTOPLASMIC INHERITANCE
113	J. Clinton Bailey	Novel plasmid-like subgenomes are derived from the "main" mitochondrial DNA of P2 strain of maize
114	Chester L. Dewald	A novel cytoplasm for maize
115	Roger Wise	Positioning the Rf8 fertility restorer in the maize genome
		VI. TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS
116	Scott Bercury	A molecular analysis of the structure and function of the Doppia transposable element
117	Joel Caren	Introns derived from insertions that duplicate host sequences
118	James Carey	Evolutionary analysis of retrotransposon insertion sites adjacent to specific genes within Zea
119	Alexandra Casa	MITEs, a novel class of "smart" molecular marker located preferentially in genic regions.
120	Ryuji Ishikawa	Structual difference of RiceMutator and maize Mutator element and the activity of RiceMutator
121	Shailesh Lal	A putative insertion at the Sh2 locus in maize mutant sh2-7527 lacks terminal repeats, does not make a duplication of host sequence and causes unique splicing of sh2 transcripts
122	Bailin Li	Mutator transposable elements preferentially insert into genes in the maize genome
123	Damon Lisch	Chromatin structure of MuDR elements.
124	Damon Lisch	Homologs of non-autonomous Mu elements
125	Damon Lisch	Sequence analysis of MuDR homologs.
126	Todd Matulnik	Analysis of a protein which binds a specific palindrome motif in the LTR of a class of retrotransposons in maize
127	Akemi Ono	Analysis of MURA and MURB localization
128	Manish Raizada	Mutator in transgenic maize: RescueMu and 35S-mudrA, new biology and biotecnology
129	Guo-Ling Nan	Maize gene discovery: A reverse genetic approach using a retrievable Mu tag (RescueMu)
130	Reinhard Kunze	Correlation of Ac/Ds element transposition with DNA methylation and replication
131	George Rudenko	Transposon diversity: characterization of new classes of MuDR-homologous elements from maize
132	Natascha Techen	Isolation of two new CACTA transposable elements (TE) from anthocyanin genes in maize
133	Nigel Walker	The toxicity of MuDR in E. Coli is mediated by the dnaY gene.
134	Clifford Weil	Ac/Ds transposition in yeast cells
135	Yongli Xiao	Transposon (Ac)-induced homologous recombination at maize P locus and in transgenic Arabidopsis
136	Hugo Dooner	Origination of Ds elements from Ac elements in maize: evidence for rare repair synthesis at the site of Ac excision

137	Jianbo Zhang	Nested deletions generated by non-linear transposition of Ac/fAc elements in maize
		VII. QUANTITATIVE TRAITS
139	Georgia Davis	QTL for aflatoxin reduction in maize
140	Natalia de Leon	Twenty-four cycles of mass selection for prolificacy in the Golden Glow maize population
141	E. A. Lee	Dissecting maysin QTLs - elucidation of transcriptional regulation of the flavone pathway.
142	Suzanne Mueller	Identification of QTL for seed weight in a Krug Large Seeded inbred X B73 F2 population.
143	David F. Weber	Comparative recombination distances among varieties of Zea mays L.
144	Gad Yousef	Empirical evaluations of marker-assisted selection for improving quantitative traits in sweet corn.

		VIII. GENOME STRUCTURE/SYNTENY
145	Mary Alleman	The origin of structural complexity at the maize r1 locus
146	C.A. Blakey	Tripsacum apomixis: one gene, two genes, three genes, more?
147	Chris Carson	Progress in the effort to map 3400 mutants
148	Ed Coe	Comprehensive genetic, physical, and database resources for maize
149	David Frisch	BAC library resource center for agricultural genomics
150	Susan Gabay-Laughnan	Restorer genes for CMS-S are present in the Zea mays subspecies mays, mexicana and parviglumis from Mexico
151	Toby Kellogg	Phylogeny and a new classification of the grass family (Poaceae)
152	Victor Llaca	Comparative genomics to study genome expansion in maize
153	Blake Meyers	Diversity and abundance of the gypsy-like group of LTR-retrotransposons in the corn genome
154	Mary Polacco	MaizeDB: integrated maize genome resource. Community curation, database interoperability, and comparative map displays
155	Gernot Presting	Development of a framework for sequencing the rice genome: fingerprinting and BAC end sequencing of the CUGI Nipponbare BAC library
156	Pablo Rabinowicz	Genetically filtered shotgun sequencing of complex eukaryotic genomes
157	David Selinger	The b locus has an unusually high frequency of nucleotide substitutions in the upstream region and contains a recombinational hotspot with distinct borders.