Recent Publications:

• Wei, F., Coe, E., Nelson, W., Bharti, A.K., Engler, F., Butler, E., Kim, H., Goicoechea, J.L., Chen, M., Lee, S., Fuks, G., Sanchez-Villeda, H., Schroeder, S., Fang, Z., McMullen, M., Davis, G., Bowers, J.E., Paterson, A.H., Schaeffer, M., Gardiner, J., Cone, K., Messing, J., Soderlund, C., and Wing, R.A. (2007) Physical and Genetic Structure of the Maize Genome Reflects its Complex Evolutionary History. PLoS Genetics, 3: 3123.
• Rotter, D., Bharti, A.K., Li, H.M., Luo, C., Bonos, S.A., Bughrara, S., Jung, G., Messing, J., Meyer, W.A., Rudd, S., Warnke, S.E., and Belanger, F.C. (2007) Analysis of EST sequences suggests recent origin of allotetraploid colonial and creeping bentgrasses. Mol. Genet. & Genomics 278: 197-209.
• Settles, A.M., Holding, D.R., Tan, B.C., Latshaw, S.P., Liu, J., Suzuki, M., Li, L., O'Brien, B.A., Fajardo, D.S., Wroclawska, E., Tseung, C.W., Lai, J., Hunter, C.T. 3rd, Avigne, W.T., Baier, J., Messing, J., Hannah, L.C., Koch, K.E., Becraft, P.W., Larkins, B.A., McCarty, D.R.<(2007) Sequence-indexed mutations in maize using the UniformMu transposon-tagging population. BMC Genomics 8: e116.
• Rice Annotation Project (2007) Curated genome annotation of Oryza sativa ssp. japonica and comparative genome analysis with Arabidopsis thaliana. Genome Res. 17: 175-183.
• Xu, J.H., and Messing, J. (2006) Maize haplotype with a helitron-amplified cytidine deaminase gene copy. BMC Genet. 7: 52.
• Nelson, W.M., Dvorak, J., Luo, M-C., Messing, J., Wing, R.A., Soderlund, C. (2007) Efficacy of clone fingerprinting methodologies. Genomics 89: 60-165.
• Du, C., Swigoňová, Z., and Messing, J. (2006) Retrotranspositions in orthologous regions of closely related grass species. BMC Evol Biol 6: 62.
• Messing, J. and Dooner, H.K. (2006) Organization and Variability of the Maize Genome. Current Opinion Plant Biology 9: 157-163.
• Bruggmann, R. Bharti, A.K., Gundlach, H. Lai, J., Young, S., Pontaroli, A.C., Wei, F., Haberer, G., Fuks, G., Du, C., Raymond, C., Estep, M.C., Liu, R., Bennetzen, J.L., Chan, A., Rabinowicz, P.D., Quackenbush, J., Barbazuk, W.B., Wing, R.A., Birren, B., Nusbaum, C., Rounsley, S., Mayer, K.F.X, and Messing, J. (2006) Uneven Chromosome Contraction and Expansion in the Maize Genome. Genome Research 16: 1241-1251. (*Equal First Authors) Cover Page Article
• Haberer, G., Young, S., Bharti, A.K., Gundlach, H., Raymond, C., Fuks, G., Butler, E., Wing, R.A., Rounsley, S., Birren, B., Nusbaum, C., Mayer, K.F.X, and Messing, J. (2005) Structure and Architecture of the Maize Genome. Plant Phys. 139: 1612-1624. (*Equal First Authors)
• Rice-Chromosomes-11-and-12-Sequencing-Consortia (2005) The sequence of rice chromosome 11 and 12, rich in disease resistance genes and recent gene duplications. BMC Biol. 3: e20.
• McCarty, D.R., Settles, A., Suzuki, M., Tan, B-C., Latshaw, S., Porch, T., Robin, K., Baier, J., Avigne, W., Lai, J., Messing, J., Koch, K., and Hannah, L.C. (2005). Steady-state transposon mutagenesis in inbred maize. Plant J. 44: 52-61.
• *Nelson, W.M., *Bharti, A.K., Butler, E., Wei, F., Fuks, G., Kim, H., Wing, R.A., Messing, J. and Soderlund, C. (2005) Whole-genome validation of high-information-content fingerprinting. Plant Physiol 139: 27-38. (*Equal First Authors)
• International Rice Genome Sequencing Project (2005) The map-based sequence of the rice genome. Nature 436: 793-800.
• Lai, J., Li, Y., Messing, J., and Dooner, H. (2005) Gene movement by Helitrons contributes to the haplotype variability of maize. Proc Natl Acad Sci. USA. 102: 968-973.
• Ma, J., SanMiguel, P., Lai, J., Messing, J., and Bennetzen, J.L. (2005)DNA Rearrangement in Orthologous Orp Regions of the Maize, Rice and Sorghum Genomes. Genetics 170: 1209-1220.
• Swigoňová Z, Bennetzen J.L., and Messing J. (2005) Structure and evolution of the r/b chromosomal regions in rice, maize, and sorghum. Genetics 169: 891-906.