Ten thousand years ago human societies around the globe began to transition from hunting
and gathering to agriculture. By 4000 years ago, ancient peoples had completed the …

Genome doubling (polyploidy) has been and continues to be a pervasive force in plant
evolution. Modern plant genomes harbor evidence of multiple rounds of past …

Conifers have dominated forests for more than 200 million years and are of huge ecological
and economic importance. Here we present the draft assembly of the 20-gigabase genome …

We report the annotation and analysis of the draft genome sequence of Brassica rapa
accession Chiifu-401-42, a Chinese cabbage. We modeled 41,174 protein coding genes in …

Microglial cells represent the immune system of the mammalian brain and therefore are
critically involved in various injuries and diseases. Little is known about their role in the …

Association mapping, a high-resolution method for mapping quantitative trait loci based on
linkage disequilibrium, holds great promise for the dissection of complex genetic traits. The …

Human cancer cell lines are an integral part of drug discovery practices. However, modeling
the complexity of cancer utilizing these cell lines on standard plastic substrata, does not …

Rice, one of the world's most important food plants, has important syntenic relationships with
the other cereal species and is a model plant for the grasses. Here we present a map-based …

We have resequenced a group of six elite maize inbred lines, including the parents of the
most productive commercial hybrid in China. This effort uncovered more than 1,000,000 …

Domestication promotes rapid phenotypic evolution through artificial selection. We
investigated the genetic history by which the wild grass teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis) …