Publications

2007

Nagy ED, Lee TC, Ramakrishna W, Xu Z, Klein PE, SanMiguel P, Cheng CP, Li J, Devos KM, Schertz K, Dunkle L, Bennetzen JL. (2007) Fine mapping of the Pc locus of Sorghum bicolor, a gene controlling the reaction to a fungal pathogen and its host-selective toxin. Theor Appl Genet. 114(6):961-70. Pub Med Link
Bennetzen JL. (2007) Patterns in grass genome evolution. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 10(2):176-81. Pub Med Link
Ma J, Wing RA, Bennetzen JL, Jackson SA. (2007) Plant centromere organization: a dynamic structure with conserved functions. Trends Genet. 23(3):134-9. Pub Med Link
Gorantla M, Babu PR, Lachagari VB, Reddy AM, Wusirika R, Bennetzen JL, Reddy AR. (2007) Identification of stress-responsive genes in an indica rice (Oryza sativa L.) using ESTs generated from drought-stressed seedlings. J. Exp. Bot. 58(2):253-65 Pub Med Link
Dida MM, Srinivasachary, Ramakrishnan S, Bennetzen JL, Gale MD, Devos KM. (2007) The genetic map of finger millet, Eleusine coracana. Theor Appl Genet. Pub Med Link
Corby-Harris V, Pontaroli AC, Shimkets LJ, Bennetzen JL, Habel KE, Promislow DE. (2007) The geographical distribution and diversity of bacteria associated with natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Appl Environ Microbiol. [epub ahead of print] Pub Med Link
Liu R, Vitte C, Ma J, Mahama AA, Dhliwayo T, Lee M, Bennetzen JL. (2007) A GeneTrek analysis of the maize genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104: 11844-11849 Pub Med Link

2006

Ma J., Bennetzen J.L. (2006) Recombination, rearrangement, reshuffling, and divergence in a centromeric region of rice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103(2):383-8. Pub Med Link
Chan AP, Pertea G, Cheung F, Lee D, Zheng L, Whitelaw C, Pontaroli AC, SanMiguel P, Yuan Y, Bennetzen J, Barbazuk WB, Quackenbush J, Rabinowicz PD (2006) The TIGR Maize Database. Nucleic Acids Res. 34(Database issue):D771-6. Pub Med Link
Rabinowicz PD, Bennetzen JL (2006) The maize genome as a model for efficient sequence analysis of large plant genomes. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 9(2):149-56. Pub Med Link
Chu Z, Fu B, Yang H, Xu C, Li Z, Sanchez A, Park YJ, Bennetzen JL, Zhang Q, Wang S (2006) Targeting xa13, a recessive gene for bacterial blight resistance in rice. Theor Appl Genet. 112(3):455-61. Pub Med Link
Bruggmann R, Bharti AK, Gundlach H, Lai J, Young S, Pontaroli AC, Wei F, Haberer G, Fuks G, Du C, Raymond C, Estep MC, Liu R, Bennetzen JL, Chan AP, Rabinowicz PD, Quackenbush J, Barbazuk WB, Wing RA, Birren B, Nusbaum C, Rounsley S, Mayer KF, Messing J. (2006) Uneven chromosome contraction and expansion in the maize genome. Genome Research. 16(10):1241-51. Pub Med Link
Chu Z, Yuan M, Yao J, Ge X, Yuan B, Xu C, Li X, Fu B, Li Z, Bennetzen JL, Zhang Q, Wang S. (2006) Promoter mutations of an essential gene for pollen development result in disease resistance in rice. Genes and Dev. 20(10):1250-5 Pub Med Link
Vitte C, Bennetzen JL. (2006) Analysis of retrotransposon structural diversity uncovers properties and propensities in angiosperm genome evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103(47):17638-4. Pub Med Link

2005

Bennetzen, J.L., J. Ma and K. M. Devos (2005) Mechanisms of recent genome size variation in flowering plants. Ann. Bot. 95(1):127-32. Pub Med link
Swigonova, Z., J.L. Bennetzen, J. Messing (2005) Structure and evolution of the r/b chromosomal regions in rice, maize, and sorghum. Genetics 169(2):891-906. Pub Med link
Devos KM, Ma J, Pontaroli AC, Pratt LH, Bennetzen JL (2005) Analysis and mapping of randomly chosen bacterial artificial chromosome clones from hexaploid bread wheat. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102(52):19243-8. Pub Med link
Bennetzen JL (2005) Transposable elements, gene creation and genome rearrangement in flowering plants. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 15(6):621-7. Pub Med link
Emberton J, Ma J, Yuan Y, SanMiguel P, Bennetzen JL (2005) Gene enrichment in maize with hypomethylated partial restriction (HMPR) libraries. Genome Res. 15(10):1441-6. Pub Med link
Ma J, SanMiguel P, Lai J, Messing J, Bennetzen JL (2005) DNA rearrangement in orthologous orp regions of the maize, rice and sorghum genomes. Genetics. 170(3):1209-20. Pub Med Link

2004

Muthukumar, B. and J.L. Bennetzen (2004) Isolation and characterization of genomic and transcribed retrotransposon sequences from sorghum. Mol. Genet. Genomics 271: 308-316. Pub Med link
Ma, J., K. M. Devos and J.L. Bennetzen (2004) Analyses of LTR-retrotransposon structures reveal recent and rapid genomic DNA loss in rice. Genome Res 14: 860-869. Pub Med link
Yan, L., A. Loukoianov, A. Blechl, G. Tranquilli, W. Ramakishna, P. SanMiguel, J.L. Bennetzen, V. Echenique and J. Dubcovsky (2004) The wheat Vrn2 gene is a flowering repressor downregulated by vernalization. Science 303:1640-1644. Pub Med link
Ma, Jianxin and J.L. Bennetzen (2004) Rapid recent growth and divergence of rice nuclear genomes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:12404-12410. Pub Med link
Kellogg, E. A. and J.L. Bennetzen (2004) The evolution and phylogenetic relevance of nuclear genome structure in plants. Amer. J. Bot. 91:1709-1725.
Swigonova, Z., J. Lai, J. Ma, W. Ramakrishna, V. Llaca, J.L. Bennetzen, J. Messing (2004) Close split of sorghum and maize genome progenitors. Genome Res 14: 1916-1923. Pub Med link
Lai, J., J. Ma, Z. Swigonova, W. Ramakrishna, E. Linton, V. Llaca, B. Tanyolac, Y. Park, O. Jeong, J.L. Bennetzen, and J. Messing (2004) Gene loss and movement in the maize genome. Genome Res. 14:1924-1931. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., C. Coleman, R. Liu, J. Ma, and W. Ramakrishna (2004) Consistent over-estimation of gene number in complex plant genomes. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 7:732-736. Pub Med link
Gill BS, Appels R, Botha-Oberholster AM, Buell CR, Bennetzen JL, Chalhoub B, Chumley F, Dvorak J, Iwanaga M, Keller B, Li W, McCombie WR, Ogihara Y, Quetier F, Sasaki T. (2004). A workshop report on wheat genome sequencing: International Genome Research on Wheat Consortium. Genetics 168(2):1087-96. Pub Med link
Park YJ, Dixit A, Yoo JW, Bennetzen J. (2004). Further evidence of microcolinearity between barley and rice genomes at two orthologous regions. Mol Cells. 17(3):492-502. Pub Med link

2003

Yuan, Y., P. J. SanMiguel and J.L. Bennetzen (2003) High Cot sequence analysis of the maize genome. Plant J ., 34:249-255. Pub Med link
Sanz-Alferez , S., P. SanMiguel , Y.-K. Jin, P. S. Springer and J.L. Bennetzen (2003) Structure and evolution of the Cinful retrotransposon family of maize. Genome 46: 745-752. Pub Med link
Ilic , K., P. J. SanMiguel and J.L. Bennetzen (2003) A complex history of rearrangement in an orthologous region of the maize, sorghum and rice genomes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci . USA 100:12265-12270. Pub Med link
Whitelaw,C.A.; Barbazuk,W.B.; Pertea,G.; Chan,A.P.; Cheung,F.; Lee,Y.; Zheng,L.; van Heeringen,S.; Karamycheva,S.; Bennetzen, J.L.; SanMiguel,P.; Lakey,N.; Bedell,J.; Yuan,Y.; Budiman,M.A.; Resnick,A.; Van Aken,S.; Utterback,T.; Riedmuller,S.; Williams,M.; Feldblyum,T.; Schubert,K.; Beachy,R.; Fraser,C.M.; Quackenbush,J. (2003) Enrichment of gene-coding sequences in maize by genome filtration. Science 302: 2118-2120. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (2003) Higher throughput comparative genomics of wheat and related cereals. Proceedings of the Tenth International Wheat Genetics Symposium 1:215-220.
Bennetzen, J.L., and J. Ma (2003) The genetic colinearity of rice and other cereals based on genomic sequence analysis. Curr . Opin . Plant Biol. 6:128-133. Pub Med link
Ramakrishna, W. and J.L. Bennetzen (2003) Genomic colinearity as a tool for plant gene isolation . Methods Mol. Biol. 236:109-122. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (2003) Modes, rates and mechanisms of local genomic change in flowering plants. In XXXX, in press.
Bennetzen, J.L. (2003) Higher throughput comparative genomics of wheat and related cereals. In XXXX, in press.

2002

Reddy, A. R., W. Ramakrishna, A. C. Sekhar , N. Ithal , P. R. Babu , M. F. Bonaldo , M. B. Soares , and J. L. Bennetzen (2002) Novel genes are enriched in normalized cDNA libraries from drought stressed seedlings of indica rice ( Oryza sativa L. cv . Nagina 22). Genome 45:204-211. Pub Med link
SanMiguel , P.J., W. Ramakrishna, J. L. Bennetzen, C. S. Busso and J. Dubcovsky (2002) Transposable elements, genes and recombination in a 215-kb contig from wheat chromosome 5A m . Functional and Integrative Genomics 2:51-59. Pub Med link
Rostoks , N., Y.-J. Park, W. Ramakrishna, J. Ma, A. Druka , B. A. Shiloff , P. J. SanMiguel , Z. Jiang ,, R. Brueggeman , D. Sandhu , K. Gill, J. L. Bennetzen and A. Kleinhofs (2002) Genomic sequencing reveals gene content, genomic organization, and recombination relationships in barley. Functional and Integrative Genomics 2:70-80. Pub Med link
Ghebru , B., Schmidt, R. J., and J. L. Bennetzen (2002) Genetic diversity of Eritrean sorghum landraces assessed with Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers. Theor . Appl . Genet . 105:229-236. Pub Med link
Devos, K. M., J. K. M. Brown and J. L. Bennetzen (2002) Genome size reduction through illegitimate recombination counteracts genome expansion in Arabidopsis . Genome Res . 12:1075-1079. Pub Med link
Yuan, Y., P. J. SanMiguel and J. L. Bennetzen (2002) Methylation -spanning linker libraries link gene-rich regions and identify epigenetic boundaries in Zea mays . Genome Res . 12:1345-1349. Pub Med link
Ramakrishna, W., J. Emberton , M. Ogden, P. SanMiguel and J. L. Bennetzen (2002) Structural analyses of the maize Rp1 complex reveals numerous sites and unexpected mechanisms of local rearrangement. Plant Cell 14:3213-3223. Pub Med link
Yan , L., V. Echenique , C. Busso , W. Ramakrishna, P. SanMiguel , J. L. Bennetzen, S. Harrington and J. Dubcovsky (2002) Cereal genes from the SNF2 family are members of a new subfamily that includes human and mouse genes. Mol. Genetics and Genomics 268:488-499. Pub Med link
Stam , M., C. Belele , W. Ramakrishna, J. Dorweiler , J. L. Bennetzen and V. L. Chandler (2002) The regulatory regions required for B' paramutation and expression are located far upstream of the maize b1 transcribed sequences. Genetics 162:917-930. Pub Med link
Ramakrishna, W., J. Dubcovsky , Y.-J. Park, C. Busso , J. Emberton , P. SanMiguel and J. L. Bennetzen (2002) Different types and rates of genome evolution detected by comparative sequence analysis of orthologous segments from four cereal genomes. Genetics 162:1389-1400. Pub Med link
Ramakrishna, W., J. Emberton , P. SanMiguel , M. Ogden, V. Llaca , J. Messing, and J. L. Bennetzen (2002) Comparative sequence analysis of the sorghum rph region and the maize rp1 resistance gene complex. Plant Physiol 130:1728-1738. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (2002) Assessment of gene content, colinearity and evolution in barley, maize, rice, sorghum and wheat. Maize Genetics Coop. Newsl . 76:93-94.
Messing, J., E. Linton, R. Song, J. Lai, B. Tanyolac , C. Kulikowski , I. Muchnik , A. Pereira do Lago , G. Fuks , G. Armhold , W. Ramakrishna, J. Ma, Y.-J. Park, J. Emberton , P. SanMiguel , and J. L. Bennetzen (2002) Colinearity of maize and sorghum at the DNA sequence level. Maize Genetics Coop. Newsl . 76:83-86.
Ramakrishna W, J. X. Ma, P. SanMiguel , J. Emberton , J. Dubcovsky , B. A. Shiloff , Z. Y. Jiang , N. Rostoks , C. S. Busso , M. Ogden, E. Linton, A. Kleinhofs , K. M. Devos, J. Messing, and J. L. Bennetzen (2002) Frequent genic rearrangements in two regions of grass genomes identified by comparative sequence analysis. Compar . Funct . Genom . 3:165-166.
Beachy , R., J. L. Bennetzen, B. M. Chassy , M. Chrispeels , J. Chory , J. R. Ecker , J. P. Noel, S. A. Kay, C. Dean, C. Lamb, J. Jones, C. R. Santerre , J. I. Schroeder, J. Umen , M. Yanofsky , S. Wessler, Y. Zhao, and W. Parrott (2002) Divergent perspectives on GM food. Nature Biotech. 20:1195-1196. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. and K. M. Devos (2002) Plant synteny , colinearity and genome evolution. Encycl . Life Sci ., http://www.els.net. London: Nature Publishing Group.
Bennetzen, J.L. (2002) Functional genomics in plants. Encyl . Life Sci ., http://www.els.net. London: Nature Publishing Group.
Bennetzen, J.L., and W. Ramakrishna (2002) Numerous small rearrangements of gene content, order and orientation differentiate grass genomes. Plant Mol. Biol., 48:821-827. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (2002) The rice genome. Opening the door to comparative plant biology. Science 296:60-63. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (2002) Mechanisms and rates of genome expansion and contraction in flowering plants. Genetica 115:29-36. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., and W. Ramakrishna (2002) Exceptional haplotype variation in maize. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci . USA 99:9093-9095. Pub Med link

2001

Tikhonov , A.P., L. Lavie , C. Tatout , J. L. Bennetzen, Z. Avramova , and J. M. Deragon (2001) Target sites for SINE integration in Brassica genomes display nuclear matrix binding activity. Chrom . Res. 9:325-337. Pub Med link
Dubcovsky , J., W. Ramakrishna, P. SanMiguel , C. S. Busso , L. Yan , B. A. Shiloff , and J. L. Bennetzen (2001) Comparative sequence analysis of colinear barley and rice BACs . Plant Physiol . 125:1342-1353. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J., E. Buckler, V. Chandler, J. Doebley , J. Dorweiler , B. Gaut , M. Freeling , S. Hake, E. Kellogg, R. S. Poethig , V. Walbot , and S. Wessler (2001) Genetic evidence and the origin of maize. Latin American Antiquity 12:84-86.
Bennetzen, J.L. (2001) Arabidopsis arrives. Nature Genet . 27:3-5. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., V. L. Chandler and P. Schnable (2001) National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop report. Maize genome sequencing project. Plant Physiol . 127:1572-1578. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., V. Subramanian, J. Xu , S. S. Salimath , S. Subramanian, D. Bhattramakki , and G. E. Hart (2001) A framework genetic map of sorghum containing RFLP, SSR and morphological markers. In R. L. Phillips and I. K. Vasil , eds., DNA-Based Markers in Plants (2nd Ed.) . Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht , pp. 347-356.
Paterson , A. H., and J. L. Bennetzen (2001) Comparative mapping of plant chromosomes. In R. L. Phillips and I. K. Vasil , eds., DNA-Based Markers in Plants (2nd Ed.) . Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht , pp. 101-114.
Devos, K. M. and J. L. Bennetzen (2001) Genome relationships: Maize and the grass model. In S. Brenner and J. H. Miller, eds., Encyclopedia of Genetics , Academic Press, New York , pp 863-865.
Bennetzen, J.L. (2001) Studies of genome structure and evolution in the cereals using comparative genomic sequencing. In KAST, eds., The Second Hallim International Symposium on Recent Advances in Life Science and Biotechnology , KAST Press, Seoul, Korea, pp. 27-47.
Bennetzen, J.L. and M. Ayele (2001) Genetic characterization of tef in the context of overall studies of grass genome content, organization, evolution and function. In H. Tefera , G. Belay and M. Sorrells, eds., Narrowing the Rift: Tef Research and Development , EARO Press, Addis Ababa , Ethiopia, pp.121-130

2000

Tikhonov , A. P., J. L. Bennetzen, and Z. Avramova (2000) Structural domains and matrix attachment regions along colinear chromosomal segments of maize and sorghum. Plant Cell 12:249-264. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (2000) Transposable element contributions to plant gene and genome evolution. Plant Mol. Biol. 42:251-269. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (2000) The many hues of plant heterochromatin. Genome Biol. 1:107.1-107.4. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (2000) Comparative sequence analysis of plant nuclear genomes: microcolinearity and its many exceptions. Plant Cell 12:1021-1029. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. , ( 2000) The study and engineering of resistance to the parasitic weed striga in rice, sorghum and maize. In B. I. G. Haussmann , D. E. Hess, M. L. Koyama, L. Grivet, H. F. W. Rattunde and H. H. Geiger, eds., Breeding for Striga Resistance in Cereals . Margraf Verlag , Weikersheim , Germany , pp. 197-206.

1999

Tikhonov , A. P., P. J. SanMiguel , Y. Nakajima, N. D. Gorenstein , J. L. Bennetzen, and Z. Avramova (1999) Colinearity and its exceptions in orthologous adh regions of maize and sorghum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci . USA 96:7409-7414. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (1999) Plant genomics takes root, branches out. Trends Genet. 15:85-87. Pub Med link
Kumar, A., and J. L. Bennetzen (1999) Plant retrotransposons. Ann. Rev. Genet. 33:479-532. Pub Med link

1998

Chen, M., P. SanMiguel , and J. L. Bennetzen (1998) Sequence organization and conservation in sh2/a1 -homologous regions of sorghum and rice. Genetics 148:435-443. Pub Med link
Avramova , Z., A. Tikhonov , M. Chen, and J. L. Bennetzen (1998) Matrix-attachment regions and structural colinearity in the genomes of two grass species. Nucl . Acids Res . 26:761-767. Pub Med link
SanMiguel , P., and J. L. Bennetzen (1998) Evidence that a recent increase in maize genome size was caused by the massive amplification of intergene retrotransposons . Annals Bot . 82:37-44.
SanMiguel , P., B. S. Gaut , A. Tikhonov , Y. Nakajima, and J. L. Bennetzen (1998) The paleontology of intergene retrotransposons of maize. Nature Genet 20:43-45. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., E. A. Kellogg, M. Lee, and J. Messing (1998) A plant genome initiative. Plant Cell 10:488-493.
Bennetzen, J.L., P. SanMiguel , M. Chen, A. Tikhonov , M. Francki , and Z. Avramova (1998) Grass genomes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci . USA 95:1975-1978. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (1998) The structure and evolution of angiosperm nuclear genomes. Curr . Opin . Plant Biol. 1:103-108. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (1998) The potential of biotechnology for the improvement of sorghum and pearl millet. Proc. 1996 Int'l Conf. on Genetic Improvement of Sorghum and Pearl Millet . INTSORMIL/ICRISAT Press, pp. 13-20.
Bennetzen, J.L. (1998) The evolution of grass genome organisation and function. In A. Greenland, E. M. Meyerowitz and M. Steer, eds., Control of Plant Development: Genes and Signals . Company of Biologists, Ltd., Cambridge, pp. 123-126. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (1998) The grasses as a single genetic system. In I. K. Vasil , ed., Molecular Improvement of Cereal Crops . Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht , pp. 387-394.

1997

Chen, M., P. SanMiguel , A. C. de Oliveira, S.-S. Woo, H. Zhang, R. A. Wing, and J. L. Bennetzen (1997) Microcolinearity in the sh2 -homologous regions of the maize, rice and sorghum genomes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci . USA 94:3431 -3435. Pub Med link
Frederick, R. D., J. Chiu, J. L. Bennetzen, and A. K. Handa (1997) Identification of a pathogenicity locus, rpfA , in Erwinia caratovora subsp . carotovora that encodes a two component sensor/regulator protein. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 10:407-415. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., and M. Freeling (1997) The unified grass genome: synergy in synteny . Genome Res . 7:301-307. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., and E. A. Kellogg (1997) Do plants have a one way ticket to genomic obesity? Plant Cell 9:1509-1514. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., and E. A. Kellogg (1997) Reply to "Slow but steady: Reduction of genome size through biased mutation" letter from Dmitri Petrov. Plant Cell 9(11):1901-1902. Pub Med link

1996

Oliveira, A. C., T. Richter, and J. L. Bennetzen (1996) Regional and racial specificities in sorghum germplasm assessed with DNA markers. Genome 39:579-587. Pub Med link
Buckner, B., P. SanMiguel , D. Janick -Buckner, and J. L. Bennetzen (1996) The Y1 gene of maize codes for phytoene synthase . Genetics 143:479-488. Pub Med link
Edwards, K. J., J. Veuskens , H. Rawles , A. Daly, and J. L. Bennetzen (1996) Characterization of four dispersed repetitive DNA sequences in Zea mays and their use in constructing contiguous DNA fragments using YAC clones. Genome 39: 811-817.
SanMiguel , P., A. Tikhonov , Y.-K. Jin, N. Motchoulskaia , D. Zakharov , A. Melake-Berhan , P. S. Springer, K. J. Edwards, M. Lee, Z. Avramova , and J. L. Bennetzen (1996) Nested retrotransposons in the intergenic regions of the maize genome. Science 274:765-768. Pub Med link
Yang, W., A. C. Oliveira, I. D. Godwin, K. Schertz, and J. L. Bennetzen (1996) Comparison of DNA marker technologies in characterizing plant genome diversity: variability in Chinese sorghums. Crop Sci . 36:1669-1676.
Avramova , Z., A. Tikhonov , P. SanMiguel , Y.-K. Jin, C. Liu, S.-S. Woo, R. A. Wing, and J. L. Bennetzen (1996) Gene identification in a complex chromosomal continuum by local genomic cross-referencing. Plant J. 10:1163-1168. Pub Med link
Chen, M., and J. L. Bennetzen (1996) Sequence organization in the Sh2/A1 -homologous region of rice. Plant Mol. Biol . 32:999-1001. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (1996) The contributions of retroelements to plant genome organization, function and evolution. Trends Micro 4:347-353. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., P. SanMiguel , C.-N. Liu, M. Chen, A. Tikhonov , A. C. Oliveira, Y.-K. Jin, Z. Avramova , S.-S. Woo, H. Zhang, and R. A. Wing (1996) Microcollinearity and segmental duplication in the evolution of grass nuclear genomes. In: J.S. Heslop -Harrison, ed., Unifying Plant Genomes , Company of Biologists, Ltd., Cambridge, pp. 1-3. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (1996) The Mutator transposable element system of maize. In H. Saedler and A. Gierl , eds., Transposable Elements , Springer- Verlag , Berlin, pp. 195-229. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (1996) The use of comparative genome mapping in the identification, cloning and manipulation of important plant genes. In B. W. S. Sobral , ed., The Impact of Plant Molecular Genetics . Birkhauser , Boston, pp. 71-86.
Bennetzen, J.L., C.-N. Liu, P. SanMiguel , P. S. Springer, Y.-K. Jin, C. A. Zanta , and Z. Avramova (1996) Commonalites and contrasts in the organization of the maize and sorghum nuclear genomes. In J. P. Gustafson and R. B. Flavell , eds., Genomes of Plants and Animals , Plenum, New York, pp. 103-114.

1995

Cresse , A. D., S. H. Hulbert, W. E. Brown, J. R. Lucas, and J. L. Bennetzen (1995) Mu1 -related transposable elements of maize preferentially insert into low copy number DNA. Genetics 140:315-324. Pub Med link
Sanz-Alferez , S., T. E. Richter, S. H. Hulbert, and J. L. Bennetzen (1995) The Rp3 disease resistance gene of maize: mapping and characterization of introgressed alleles. Theor . Appl . Genet. 91:25-32.
Richter, T. E., A. J. Pryor, J. L. Bennetzen, and S. H. Hulbert (1995) New rust resistance specificities associated with recombination in the Rp1 complex in maize. Genetics 141:373-381. Pub Med link
Salimath , S. S., A. C. de Oliveira, I. D. Godwin, and J. L. Bennetzen (1995). Assessment of genome origins in the genus Eleusine with DNA markers. Genome 38:757-763. Pub Med link
Avramova , Z., P. SanMiguel , E. Georgieva and J. L. Bennetzen (1995) Matrix attachment regions and transcribed sequences within a long chromosomal continuum containing maize Adh1 . Plant Cell 7:1667-1680. Pub Med link
Kantety , R. V., X. Zeng , J. L. Bennetzen and B. E. Zehr (1995) Assessment of genetic diversity in dent and popcorn ( Zea mays L.) inbred lines using inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) amplification. Molecular Breeding 1:365-373.
Bennetzen, J.L. (1995) Biotechnology for sorghum improvement. African Crop Sci . J. 3:161-170.
Kantety , R. V., X. Zeng , J. L. Bennetzen, and B. E. Zehr (1995) Detection of high levels of polymorphism among dent and popcorn inbred lines using Inter-Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) amplification technique. Maize Genetics Coop. Newsl . 69:132-134.
Oliveira, A. C., and J. Bennetzen (1995) Analysis of Mu element relatedness by TIR comparison. Maize Genetics Coop. Newsl . 69:134-135.
Yang, W., P. SanMiguel , P. Stinard , D. Robertson, and J. Bennetzen (1995) Opaque mutations from Mutator self populations. Maize Genetics Coop. Newsl . 69:135-136.
Springer, P. S., and J. L. Bennetzen (1995) Tlr1 may be allelic to tb1 . Maize Genetics Coop. Newsl. 69:136.

1994

Zanta , C. A., X. Yang, J. D. Axtell, and J. L. Bennetzen ( 1994) The candystripe locus, y- cs , determines mutable pigmentation of the sorghum leaf, flower, and pericarp . J. Hered . 85:23-29.
Springer, P. S., K. J. Edwards, and J. L. Bennetzen (1994) DNA class organization on maize Adh1 yeast artificial chromosomes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci . U.S.A. 91:863-867. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., and P. S. Springer ( 1994) The generation of Mutator transposable element subfamilies in maize. Theor . Appl . Genet. 87:657-667.
Thomas, C. M., D. A. Jones, J. J. English, B. J. Carroll, J. L. Bennetzen, K. Harrison, A. Burbidge , G. J. Bishop, and J. D. G. Jones (1994) Analysis of the chromosomal distribution of transposon -carrying T- DNAs in tomato using the inverse polymerase chain reaction. Mol. Gen. Genet. 242:573-585. Pub Med link
Jin, Y.-K., and J. L. Bennetzen (1994) Integration and nonrandom mutation of a plasma membrane proton ATPase gene fragment within the Bs1 retroelement of maize. Plant Cell 6:1177-1186. Pub Med link
Brown, W. E., P. S. Springer, and J. L. Bennetzen (1994) Progressive modification of Mu transposable elements during development. Maydica 39:119-126.
Bennetzen, J.L., K. Schrick , P. S. Springer, W. E. Brown, and P. SanMiguel (1994) Active maize genes are unmodified and flanked by diverse classes of modified, highly repetitive DNA. Genome 37:565-576. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (1994) Inactivation and reactivation of mutability at a Mutator -derived bronze1 allele in maize. Maydica 39:309-317 .
Bennetzen, J.L., S. Sanz-Alferez , K. S. Hong, T. E. Richter, R. D. Frederick, P. SanMiguel , and S. H. Hulbert (1994) Molecular genetic analysis of rust resistance genes in maize. In A. Bianchi, E. Luppotto and M. Motto, eds., Eucarpia , Breeding and Molecular Biology: Accomplishments and Future Promises. Bergamo, pp. 258-264.
Bennetzen, J.L., and A. Melake-Berhan (1994) Generation of a genetic map for Sorghum bicolor. In R. L. Phillips and I. K. Vasil , eds., DNA-Based Markers in Plants . Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 291-298.
Brown, W. E., and J. L. Bennetzen (1994) Transposon tagging technologies in maize. In Y. T. S. Bajaj , ed., Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry: Biotechnology in Maize Issue . Springer Verlag , New York, pp. 385-401.
Bennetzen, J.L., T. Richter, G. Hu , P. SanMiguel , K. Hong, R. Frederick, and S. Hulbert (1994) Organization and hyperevolution of rust resistance genes in maize. In M. J. Daniels, J. A. Downie and A. E. Osbourn , eds., Advances in the Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions . Kluwer , Dordrecht , pp. 261-266.

1993

Bennetzen, J. L., and S. H. Hulbert (1993) Organization, instability, and evolution of plant disease resistance genes. Plant Mol. Biol . 20:575-578. Pub Med link
Sudupak , M. A., J. L. Bennetzen, and S. H. Hulbert (1993) Unequal exchange and meiotic instability of Rp1 region disease resistance genes in maize. Genetics 133:119-125. Pub Med link
Hong, K. S., T. E. Richter, J. L. Bennetzen, and S. H. Hulbert (1993) Complex duplications in maize lines. Mol. Gen. Genet . 239:115-121. Pub Med link
Melake-Berhan , A., S. H. Hulbert, L. G. Butler, and J. L. Bennetzen (1993) Structure and evolution of the genomes of Sorghum bicolor and Zea mays . Theor . Appl . Genet . 86:598-604.
Avramova , Z., and J. L. Bennetzen ( 1993) Isolation of matrices from maize leaf nuclei and identification of a matrix-binding site adjacent to the Adh1 gene. Plant Mol. Biol . 22:1135-1143. Pub Med link
Simcox , K. D., and J. L. Bennetzen ( 1993) The use of molecular markers to study Setosphaeriaturcica resistance in maize. Phytopath . 83:1326-1330.
Bennetzen, J.L., P. A. Springer, A. D. Cresse , and M. Hendrickx , (1993) Regulation and specificity of the Mutator transposable element system in maize. In B. V. Conger, ed., Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 12:57-95.
Bennetzen, J.L., and M. Freeling ( 1993) Grasses as a single genetic system: genome composition, collinearity and complementarity. Trends Genet. 9:259-261. Pub Med link
Buckner, B., P. San Miguel, and J. L. Bennetzen (1993) The Y1 gene codes for phytoene synthase. Maize Genetics Coop. Newsl . 67:65.
Simcox , K. D., and J. L. Bennetzen (1993) Mapping the HtN resistance gene to the long arm of chromosome 8. Maize Genetics Coop. Newsl . 67:118-119.

1992

Ingels , S. C., J. L. Bennetzen, S. H. Hulbert, M.-M. Qin, and A. H. Ellingboe (1992) Mutator transposable elements that occur in clusters in the maize genome. J. Hered . 83:114-118.
Bennetzen, J.L., and J. D. G. Jones (1992) Approaches and progress in the molecular cloning of plant disease resistance genes. In J. K. Setlow , ed., Genetic Engineering, Principles and Methods. Vol. 14. Plenum Press, New York , pp. 99-124.
Springer, P. S., and J. L. Bennetzen (1992) Placement of teosinte branched on the linkage map. Maize Genetics Coop. Newsl . 66:116.

1991

Hulbert, S. H., and J. L. Bennetzen (1991) Recombination at the Rp1 locus of maize. Mol. Gen. Genet . 226:377-382. Pub Med link
Hulbert, S. H., P. C. Lyons, and J. L. Bennetzen (1991) Reactions in maize lines carrying Rp resistance genes to isolates of the common rust pathogen, Puccinia sorghi . Plant Disease 75:1130-1133.
Lyznik , L. A., J. D. McGee, P.-Y. Tung , J. L. Bennetzen, and T. K. Hodges (1991) Homologous recombination between plasmid DNA molecules in maize protoplasts. Mol. Gen. Genet . 230:209-218. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., S. H. Hulbert, and P. C. Lyons (1991) Fine structure analysis of a maize disease resistance gene. In S. S. Patil , D. Mills, and C. Vance, eds., Molecular Strategies of Pathogens and Host Plants . Springer Verlag , New York , pp. 177-188.

1990

Hulbert, S. H., T. E. Richter, J. D. Axtell, and J. L. Bennetzen (1990) Genetic mapping and characterization of sorghum and related crops by means of maize DNA probes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87:4251-4255. Pub Med link

1989

Brown, W. E., D. S. Robertson, and J. L. Bennetzen (1989) Molecular analysis of multiple Mutator -derived mutations at the Bronze locus in maize. Genetics 122:439-445.
Eckdahl , T. T., J. L. Bennetzen, and J. N. Anderson (1989) DNA structures associated with autonomously replicating sequences from plants. Plant Mol. Biol . 12:507-516.
Jin, Y.-K., and J. L. Bennetzen (1989) Structure and coding properties of the maize retrotransposon Bs1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci . USA 86:6235-6239. Pub Med link
Springer, P. S., E. A. Zimmer, and J. L. Bennetzen (1989) Genomic organization of the ribosomal DNA of sorghum and its close relatives. Theor . Appl . Genet . 77:844-850.
Handa , A. K., J. Chiu, H. Rozycki , and J. L. Bennetzen (1989) Evidence for global regulation of the expression of pathogenicity genes in soft rot Erwinias . Proceedings of the 7th Int'l. Conf. on Plant Path. Bacteria , Hungarian Acad. Sci ., Budapest , 707-712.
Bennetzen, J.L., and P. San Miguel (1989) The rescue of late field pollinations. Maize Genetics Coop. Newsl . 63:126-128.

1988

Bennetzen, J.L., M.-M. Qin, S. Ingels , and A. H. Ellingboe (1988) Allele-specific and Mutator -associated instability at the Rp1 disease resistance locus of maize. Nature 332:369-370.
Bennetzen, J.L., W. E. Blevins, and A. H. Ellingboe (1988) Cell-autonomous recognition of the rust pathogen determines Rp1 -specified resistance in maize. Science 241:208-210.
Bennetzen, J.L., W. E. Brown, and P. S. Springer (1988) DNA modification within and flanking maize transposable elements. In O. E. Nelson, Jr., ed., Plant Transposable Elements . Plenum Press, New York, pp. 237-250.
Bennetzen, J.L., S. H. Hulbert, P. J. San Miguel, C. Carter-Peek, J. Chiu, and A. K. Handa (1988) Microbial interactions with maize. In D. P. Verma and R. Palacios, eds., Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions, 1988 . APS Press, St. Paul, pp. 268-270.
Bennetzen, J.L., C. Lin, S. McCormick, and B. J. Staskawicz (1988) Transformation of Adh null pollen to Adh + by macroinjection . Maize Genetics Coop. Newsl . 62:113-114.

1987

Bennetzen, J.L. (1987) Covalent DNA modification and the regulation of Mutator element transposition in maize. Mol. Gen. Genet . 208:45-51.
Bennetzen, J.L., R. P. Fracasso , D. W. Morris, D. S. Robertson, and M. J. Skogen-Hagenson (1987) Concomitant regulation of Mu1 transposition and Mutator activity in maize. Mol. Gen. Genet. 208:57-62.
Lee, L., C. Fenoll , and J. L. Bennetzen (1987) Construction and homologous expression of a maize Adh1 based NcoI cassette vector. Plant Physiol . 85:327-330.
Handa , A. K., R. A. Bressan , L. Lee, D. J. Charles, R. K. Jayaswal , J. Chiu, and J. L. Bennetzen (1987) Characterization of pathogenicity genes of Erwinia carotovora . In D. P. S. Verma and N. Brisson , eds., Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions . Martinus Nijhof , Dordrecht , Netherlands , p. 67-72.
Bennetzen, J.L., A. Cresse , W. E. Brown, and L. Lee (1987) Molecular cloning of maize genes by transposon tagging with Mutator . UCLA Symp . Mol. Cell. Biol ., 62:183-204.

1986-1980

Bennetzen, J.L. (1985) The regulation of Mutator function and Mu1 transposition. UCLA Symp . Mol. Cell. Biol . 35:343-354.
Dennis, E. S., W. L. Gerlach , A. J. Pryor, J. L. Bennetzen, A. Inglis , D. Llewellyn, M. Sachs, R. J. Ferl , and W. J. Peacock (1984) The Adh1 gene of maize. Nucl . Acids Res . 12:3983-4000. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., J. Swanson, W. C. Taylor, and M. Freeling (1984) DNA insertion in the first intron of maize Adh1 affects transcript levels: Cloning of progenitor and mutant alleles. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci . USA 81:4125-4128. Pub Med link
Barker, R. F., D. V. Thompson, D. R. Talbot, J. Swanson, and J. L. Bennetzen (1984) Nucleotide sequence of the maize transposable element Mu1. Nucl . Acids Res . 12:5955-5967. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L. (1984) Transposable element Mu1 is found in multiple copies only in Robertson's Mutator maize lines. J. Mol. Appl . Genet . 2:519-524. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., and T. L. Adams (1984) Selection and characterization of cadmium-resistant suspension cultures of the wild tomato Lycopersicon peruvianum . Plant Cell Rep. 3:258-261.
Bennetzen, J.L. (1984) Genetic engineering for improved crop disease resistance. In G. B. Collins and J. F. Petolino , eds., Applications of Genetic Engineering to Crop Improvement . Martinus Nijhof /Dr. W. Junk, Dordrecht , Netherlands, pp. 491-524.
Bennetzen, J.L., and B. D. Hall (1982) The primary structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene for alcohol dehydrogenase I. J. Biol. Chem . 257:3018-3025. Pub Med link
Bennetzen, J.L., and B. D. Hall (1982) Codon selection in yeast. J. Biol. Chem . 257:3026-3031. Pub Med link
Strommer , J. N., S. Hake, J. Bennetzen, W. C. Taylor, and M. Freeling (1982) Regulatory mutants of the Adh1 gene in maize caused by DNA insertions. Nature 300:542-544.
Lescure , B., J. Bennetzen, and A. Sentenac (1981) In vitro transcription of the yeast alcohol dehydrogenase I gene by homologous RNA polymerase B. (II) Selective initiation and discontinuous elongation on a supercoiled template. J. Biol. Chem . 256:1018-1024. Pub Med link
Nagamine , Y., J. Bennetzen, A. Sentenac , and P. Fromageot (1981) Single-stranded DNA transcription by yeast RNA polymerase B. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 656:220-227. Pub Med link
Williamson, V. M., J. Bennetzen, E. T. Young, K. Nasmyth, and B. D. Hall (1980) Isolation of the structural gene for alcohol dehydrogenase by genetic complementation in yeast. Nature 283:214-216. Pub Med link

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