Publications

The following selected publications are related to ZmDB and the Maize Gene Discovery Project.

  1. Fernandes J, Dong Q, Schneider B, Morrow DJ, Nan GL, Brendel V, Walbot V. (2004) Genome-wide mutagenesis of Zea mays L. using RescueMu transposons Genome Biol. 5(10):R82.
  2. Chuck, G., Muszynski, M., Kellogg, E., Hake, S., Schmidt, R. (2002) The Control of Spikelet Meristem Identity by the branched silkless1 Gene in Maize Science 298, 1238-1241.
  3. Dong, Q., Roy, L., Freeling, M., Walbot, V., & Brendel, V. (2002) ZmDB, an integrated database for maize genome research. Nucl. Acids. Res. 31, 244-247 [Full Text]
  4. Lunde, C., Morrow, D., Roy, L. & Walbot, V. (2002) Progress in maize gene discovery: a project update. Functional & Integrative Genomics reviews [Full Text]
  5. Brendel, V., Kurtz, S. & Walbot, V. (2002) Prospects and limits of comparative Arabidopsis - maize genomics. Genome Biology. 3, reviews 1005.1 - 1005.6. [Full Text]
  6. Brendel, V. & Zhu, W. (2002) Computational modeling of gene structure in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Mol. Biol. 48, 49-58. [Full Text]
  7. John Fernandes, Volker Brendel, Xiaowu Gai, Shailesh Lal, Vicki L. Chandler, Rangasamy P. Elumalai, David W. Galbraith, Elizabeth A. Pierson, and Virginia Walbot. (2002) Comparison of RNA Expression Profiles Based on Maize Expressed Sequence Tag Frequency Analysis and Micro-Array Hybridization. Plant Physiol 128, 896-910. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supplemental Material]
  8. Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Vicki L. Chandler, and Patrick Schnable. (2002) National Science Foundation-Sponsored Workshop Report. Maize Genome Sequencing Project. Plant Physiol. 127: 1572-1578. [Full Text]
  9. Xing, L. & Brendel, V. (2001) Multi-query sequence BLAST output examination with MuSeqBox. Bioinformatics 17, 744-745.[Abstract] [PDF]
  10. Cho, Y. & Walbot, V. (2001) Computational methods for gene annotation: the Arabidopsis genome. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 12, 126-130. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
  11. Raizada, M. N., Nan, G.-L. & Walbot, V. (2001) Somatic and germinal mobility of the RescueMu transposon in transgenic maize. Plant Cell 13, 1587-1608.[Abstract] [Full Text]
  12. Walbot, V. & Petrov, D.A. (2001) Gene galaxies in the maize genome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 8163-8164.[Full Text] [PDF]
  13. Usuka, J., & Brendel, V. (2000)Gene structure prediction by spliced alignment of genomic DNA with protein sequences: Increased accuracy by differential splice site scoring. J. Mol. Biol. 297, 1075-1085. [Abstract]
  14. Usuka, J., Zhu, W. & Brendel, V. (2000) Optimal spliced alignment of homologous cDNA to a genomic DNA template. Bioinformatics 16, 203-211.[Abstract] [PDF]
  15. Gai, X., Lal, S., Xing, L., Brendel, V. & Walbot, V. (2000) Gene discovery using the maize genome database ZmDB. Nucl. Acids. Res. 28, 94-96. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]