Checkout our latest preprint: “Adaptive evolution of DNA methylation reshaped gene regulation in maize” biorxiv.org/content/10.110… led by our super postdoc Gen Xu Gen Xu. It's such a fun collaboration with Jeff (Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra) and Nathan (Nathan Springer)!

Impressed at finally a real plant pangenome. And a great set of resources. Almost makes me want to do soybean popgen. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Talented visiting student (Jinlong Li) led a genomic prediction project to optimize the doubled haploid-based hybrid breeding strategy! Now posted on preprint server: doi.org/10.1101/2020.0…

A188 maize @Nanopore genome is online. New strategies to identify organelle integration and SV; Kernel color and callus biology. Happy collaborations w/ Shawn Kaeppler Nathan Springer Haibao Tang Pat Schnable White, McCarty, Park, Wei, Cho, H Kaeppler, Wang. tinyurl.com/yxaf5gqx

Finally, our methylome paper comes out! Big thanks to my advisor Jinliang Yang and our great collaborators!

Applying cis-regulatory codes to predict conserved and variable heat and cold stress response in maize biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

Congratulations! Really nice and exciting work done by Xiaoxi Meng (Peggy) Zhikai Liang Schnable Lab Rebecca Roston ! PNASNews tinyurl.com/5fhp3rk7

1/2) New preprint from the lab (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…). A talented Ph.D. student, Zhikai, used the genome-wide mediation analysis to identify hundreds of mediating genes to connect genotype to phenotype.

Thrilled to share our recent work posted on bioRxiv (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) that Gen Xu and collaborators have been working on for years. Thanks UNL PSI NE CRRI Nebraska EPSCoR Briefly, we found an nitrogen-associated locus under balancing selection. 1/2

Very happy to share a wonderful collaboration with colleagues in Beijing, Wuhan and Germany on identification of a previously undescribed WD40 gene as a QTL for grain number and yield in maize. The same gene was also selected in rice science.org/doi/10.1126/sc….

.James Schnable, Jinliang Yang and Holding lab contingent at the 64th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting. Well represented in St. Louis for the first in-person Maize Meeting since 2019! Schnable Lab #UNL #UNLAgroHort #MGM2022

Part of the J. Yang Lab at the #MGM2022. Always an enjoyable experience spending days with enthusiastic maize geneticists. See you next year at St. Louis Union Station.

Our mediation analysis paper led by talented student zhikai is out! Mediation analysis is complementary to #GWAS, #TWAS, and #eQTL. It assumes a causal chain: SNP -> intermediate phenotype -> phenotype. full-access via lab website (jyanglab.com/pub/). UNL PSI NE CRRI

Years of root digging finally pays off! Congratulations to the incredible and hardworking colleagues who co-authored or on the acknowledgment of this newly accepted paper (elifesciences.org/articles/75790) by eLife - the journal. NE CRRI UNL PSI Nebraska Agronomy and Horticulture Nebraska EPSCoR

Our latest study led by Nebraska Agronomy and Horticulture grad student Semra spalalidelen and our super postdoc Gen Xu estimated the genetic parameters for nitrogen-related traits. And found that N-response to yield is highly polygenetic and likely under selection. NE CRRI doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…

Hope this U.S. Department of Energy project will enable us to understand the N responsive genes one step closer. Lucky that I have a strong team to work with ---Tom Elmo Clemente, James Schnable, Yufeng, Sanzhen Liu, and colleagues HudsonAlpha. news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

We would have accomplished nothing without our talented Nebraska Agronomy and Horticulture students. n=2,000 plots manually harvested in two days! Great teamwork Musa Ulutas @AgronomistYd Gen Xu zhikai Kahheetah! And Eric and Jenifer (not in the photo)!

Our preprint describing a new model for the origin of #corn just dropped today. Preprint is here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… And a (sort of) brief thread can be found here: ecoevo.social/@jrossibarra/1…

One of the largest scale maize genotyping projects ever attempted in the public sector: 46 million SNPs and InDels scored across more than 1,500 maize inbreds, traditional varieties, and wild relatives from six continents. Out now in The Plant Journal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…