Handbook of Maize

I. Maize and the Origins of Plant Genetics

1. East, Emerson, and the Birth of Maize Genetics
Ed Coe

2. Barbara McClintock
Lee B. Kass, Paul Chomet

3. The Birth of Maize Molecular Genetics
L. Curtis Hannah, Drew Schwartz

4. Mutagenesis – the Key to Genetic Analysis
M. G. Neuffer, Guri Johal, M. T. Chang, Sarah Hake

II. Maize Improvement

5. Development of Hybrid Corn and the Seed Corn Industry
A. Forrest Troyer

6. Maize and the Biotech Industry
G. Richard Johnson, Zoe P. McCuddin

7. Modern Maize Breeding
Elizabeth A. Lee, William F. Tracy

III. The Maize Genome

8. Cytogenetics and Chromosomal Structural Diversity
James A. Birchler, Hank W. Bass

9. Maize Genome Structure and Evolution
Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

10. Genetic Diversity, Linkage Disequilibrium and Association Mapping
Antoni Rafalski, Evgueni Ananiev

11. The Polyploid Origin of Maize
Joachim Messing

12. Maize Centromeres and Knobs (neocentromeres)
R. Kelly Dawe

13. Transposons Ac/Ds, En/Spmand their Relatives in Maize
Jianbo Zhang, Thomas Peterson, Peter A. Peterson

14.
Mutator and MULE transposons
Damon Lisch, Ning Jiang

15. The LTR-Retrotransposons of Maize
Phillip SanMiguel, Clémentine Vitte

16.
Helitrons: Their Impact on Maize Genome Evolution and Diversity
Shailesh K. Lal, Nikolaos Georgelis, Curtis L. Hannah

17. Maize GEvo: A Comparative DNA Sequence Alignment Visualization and Research Tool
Eric Lyons, Sara Castelletti, Brent Pedersen, Damon Lisch, Michael Freeling

18. Meiotic Genes and Meiosis in Maize
W. Zacheus Cande, Inna Golubovskaya, C. J. Rachel Wang, Lisa Harper

19. Homologous Recombination in Maize
Hugo K. Dooner, An-Ping Hsia, Patrick S. Schnable

20. Paramutation: Heritable in TransEffects
Maike Stam, Marieke Louwers

21. Imprinting in Maize
Nathan M. Springer, Jose F. Gutierrez-Marcos

22. Chromatin, DNA Methylation, RNAi and Epigenetic Regulation
Shawn Kaeppler

23. The B Chromosome of Maize
Wayne Carlson

24. Mitochondria and Chloroplasts
Kathleen J. Newton, David B. Stern, Susan Gabay-Laughnan

IV. Maize Genetic and Genomic Technologies

25. Genetic Mapping and Maps
Karen C. Cone, Edward H. Coe

26. Genetic Analyses with Oat-Maize Addition and Radiation Hybrid Lines
Ronald L. Phillips, Howard W. Rines

27. Maize Chromosome Tools: Quantitative Changes in Chromatin
David Weber

28. Transposon Resources for Forward and Reverse Genetics in Maize
Donald R. McCarty, Robert B. Meeley

29. TILLING and Point Mutation Detection
Clifford Weil, Rita Monde

30. Gene Expression Analysis
David S. Skibbe, Virginia Walbot

31. Maize Transformation
Kan Wang, Bronwyn Frame, Yuji Ishida, Toshihiko Komari

32. Doubled Haploids
Hartwig H. Geiger

33. Databases and Data Mining
Carolyn J. Lawrence, Doreen Ware

34. Sequencing Genes and Gene Islands by Gene Enrichment
Pablo D. Rabinowicz, W. Brad Barbazuk

V. Genes and Gene Families

35. Maize Transcription Factors
Erich Grotewold, John Gray

36. The Genetics and Biochemistry of Maize Zein Storage Proteins
Rebecca S. Boston, Brian A. Larkins

37. The Cytochrome P450 Superfamily of Monooxygenases
Alfons Gierl

38. Cell wall Biosynthetic Genes of Maize and their Potential for Bioenergy Production
Wilfred Vermerris

VI. Future Prospects

39. The Future of Maize
Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Genetics & Genomics, Plant Sciences