| Contents |
Basic information / Li Kefeng and Ramakrishna Wusirika -- Breeding and genetic diversity / Major M. Goodman, James B. Holland and J. Jesus Sánchez G. -- Genomic distribution of genetic diversity in elite maize germplasm / Christine Hainey, J. Antoni Rafalski, Michael Hanafey, Ying Zhang, William Krespan, Stanley D. Luck, Oscar S. Smith, Geoff Graham and Scott Tingey -- Genetic inference on quantitative traits through linkage and association studies / Seth C. Murray and Randall J. Wisser -- Molecular marker-assisted breeding for tropical maize improvement / B.M. Prasanna, Raman Babu, Sudha Nair, Kassa Semagn, Vijay Chaikam, Jill Cairns, Xuecai Zhang, Yunbi Xu and Michael Olsen -- Comparative genomics / Ramakrishna Wusirika and Rafi Shaik -- Functional genomics / Christine M. Gault and A. Mark Settles -- Epigenomics / Thelma F. Madzima, Amy Sloan, Linda Stroud and Karen M. McGinnis -- Proteomic research progress in maize development, stress response and heterosis / Jihua Tang, Zhiyuan Fu and Baichen Wang -- Artificial chromosome platforms in maize / James A. Birchler -- Databases / Mary L. Schaeffer, Taner Z. Sen and Carolyn J. Lawrence -- Non-traditional uses of maize: biofuels, remediation and pharmaceuticals / Rupali Datta, Goeff K. Kinrade and Dibyendu Sarkar -- Future maize hybrid development: breeding with assistance of molecular and genomics technologies and transgenics / Mei Guo and Mark Cooper. |
