Publications

2024

  • A Kusmec, C Yeh; Genomes to Fields Initiative; PS Schnable. (2024). Data-driven identification of environmental variables influencing phenotypic plasticity to facilitate breeding for future climates, New Phytol, 10.1111/nph.19937
  • H Liu, O Adesina, R Bika, R Singh, M Jugulam, S Liu. (2024). Homotools: a suite of genomic tools for homologous retrieval and comparison. Genomics Communications, 1:e002.10.48130/gcomm-0024-0002
  • H Cheng, JD Washburn, N Schleif, Y Hao, H Kaeppler, SM Kaeppler, Z Zhang, J Yang, S Liu. (2024). Trait association and prediction through integrative k-mer analysis, Plant Journal, 10.1111/tpj.17012 full text
  • N Gyawali, Y Hao, G Lin, J Huang, R Bika, LC Daza, H Zheng, G Cruppe, D Caragea, D Cook, B Valent, S Liu. (2024). Using recurrent neural networks to detect supernumerary chromosomes in fungal strains causing blast diseases, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 6:lqae108.10.1093/nargab/lqae108
  • DK Weerasooriya, AY Bandara, S Liu, TT Tesso. (2024). RNA-seq unveils cross-talk among stress response mechanisms during leaf color transformation in ALS resistant sorghums, Crops, 4:348-365.10.3390/crops4030025
  • S Liu, J Yang, Z Wu. (2024). Genomics Communications − an enabling platform to explore the boundless horizons, Genomics Communications, 1:e001.10.48130/gcomm-0024-0001
  • E Cavalet-Giorsa, A González-Muñoz, N Athiyannan, S Holden, A Salhi, C Gardener, J Quiroz-Chávez, SM Rustamova, AF Elkot, M Patpour, A Rasheed, L Mao, ES Lagudah, SK Periyannan, A Sharon, A Himmelbach, JC Reif, M Knauft, M Mascher, N Stein, N Chayut, S Ghosh, D Perovic, A Putra, AB Perera, CY Hu, G Yu, HI Ahmed, KD Laquai, LF Rivera, R Chen, Y Wang, X Gao, S Liu, WJ Raupp, EL Olson, JY Lee, P Chhuneja, S Kaur, P Zhang, RF Park, Y Ding, DC Liu, W Li, FY Nasyrova, J Dvorak, M Abbasi, M Li, N Kumar, WB Meyer, WHP Boshoff, BJ Steffenson, O Matny, PK Sharma, VK Tiwari, S Grewal, CJ Pozniak, HS Chawla, J Ens, LT Dunning, JA Kolmer, GR Lazo, SS Xu, YQ Gu, X Xu, C Uauy, M Abrouk, S Bougouffa, GS Brar, BBH Wulff, SG Krattinger. (2024). Origin and evolution of the bread wheat D genome, Nature, 10.1038/s41586-024-07808-z
  • P Zhang, J Huguet-Tapia, Z Peng, S Liu, K Obasa, AK Block, FF White. (2024). Genome analysis and hyphal movement characterization of the hitchhiker endohyphal Enterobacter sp. from Rhizoctonia solani, Appl Environ Microbiol, 90:e0224523. 10.1128/aem.02245-23

2023

  • S Liu, G Lin, SR Ramachandran, LC Daza, G Cruppe, B Tembo, PK Singh, D Cook, KF Pedley, B Valent. (2023). Rapid mini-chromosome divergence among fungal isolates causing wheat blast outbreaks in Bangladesh and Zambia, New Phytologist, 241:1266-1276 10.1111/nph.19402 full article
  • Y Hao, Y Hu, J Jaqueth, J Lin, C He, G Lin, M Zhao, J Ren, TM Tamang, S Park, AE Robertson, FF White, J Fu, B Li, S Liu. (2023). Genetic and transcriptomic dissection of host defense to Goss’s bacterial wilt and leaf blight of maize, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, jkad197. 10.1093/g3journal/jkad197 (a featured article in G3)
  • MK Islam, ST Mummadi, S Liu, H Wei. (2023). Regulation of regeneration in Arabidopsis thaliana, aBIOTECH, 10.1007/s42994-023-00121-9
  • M Zhao, Z Peng, Y Qin, TM Tamang, L Zhang, B Tian, Y Chen, Y Liu, J Zhang, G Lin, H Zheng, C He, K Lv, A Klaus, C Marcon, F Hochholdinger, HN Trick, Y Liu, MJ Cho, S Park, H Wei, J Zheng, FF White, S Liu. (2023). Bacterium-enabled transient gene activation by artificial transcription factors for resolving gene regulation in maize, Plant Cell, 26:koad155. 10.1093/plcell/koad155
  • X Cao, L Zhang, MK Islam, M Zhao, C He, K Zhang, S Liu, Q Sha, H Wei. (2023). TGPred: efficient methods for predicting target genes of a transcription factor by integrating statistics, machine learning and optimization, NAR Genom Bioinform, 5(3):lqad083. 10.1093/nargab/lqad083
  • C Gu, R Han, C Liu, G Fang, Q Yuan, Z Zheng, Q Yu, J Jiang, S Liu, L Xie, H Wei, Q Zhang, G Liu. (2023). Heritable epigenetic modification of BpPIN1 is associated with leaf shapes in Betula pendula, Tree Physiol, tpad085. 10.1093/treephys/tpad085
  • J Huang, S Liu, DE Cook. (2023). Dynamic genomes - mechanisms and consequences of genomic diversity impacting plant-fungal interactions, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 125:102006. 10.1016/j.pmpp.2023.102006
  • DC Lima, AC Aviles, RT Alpers, BA McFarland, S Kaeppler, D Ertl, MC Romay, JL Gage, J Holland, T Beissinger, M Bohn, E Buckler, J Edwards, S Flint-Garcia, CN Hirsch, E Hood, DC Hooker, JE Knoll, JM Kolkman, S Liu, J McKay, R Minyo, DE Moreta, SC Murray, R Nelson, JC Schnable, RS Sekhon, MP Singh, P Thomison, A Thompson, M Tuinstra, J Wallace, JD Washburn, T Weldekidan, RJ Wisser, W Xu, N de Leon. (2023). 2018-2019 field seasons of the maize Genomes to Fields (G2F) G x E project, BMC Genom Data, 24:29. 10.1186/s12863-023-01129-2

2022

  • Y Wang, J Zhang, M Sun,C He, K Yu,B Zhao,R Li, J Li, Z Yang, X Wang, H Duan, J Fu, S Liu, X Zhang, J Zheng. (2022) Multi-Omics Analyses Reveal Systemic Insights into Maize Vivipary. Plants, 10:2437. 10.3390/plants10112437
  • G Lin, S Liu. (2022). The Canu Genome Assembly Pipeline Using Nanopore Long Reads. Bio-101, e4501. 10.21769/BioProtoc.4501
  • SA Sprague, TM Tamang, T Steiner, Q Wu, Y Hu, T Kakeshpour, J Park, J Yang, Z Peng, B Bergkamp, I Somayanda, M Peterson, EO Garcia, Y Hao, PS Amand, G Bai, PA Nakata, I Rieu, DP Jackson, N Cheng, B Valent, KD Hirschi, SVK Jagadish, S Liu, FF White, S Park. (2022). Redox-engineering enhances maize thermotolerance and grain yield in the field, Plant Biotechnol J, 10.1111/pbi.13866
  • G Lin, H Chen, B Tian, SK Sehgal, L Singh, J Xie, N Rawat, P Juliana, N Singh, S Shrestha, DL Wilson, H Shult, HS Lee, W Adam, VK Tiwari, RP Singh, MJ Guttieri, HN Trick, J Poland, RL Bowden, G Bai, B Gill, S Liu. (2022). Cloning of the broadly effective wheat leaf rust resistance gene Lr42 transferred from Aegilops tauschii. Nat Commun, 13:3044. 10.1038/s41467-022-30784-9
  • G Shi, G Kariyawasam, S Liu, Y Leng, S Zhong, S Ali, P Moolhuijzen, CS Moffat, JB Rasmussen, TL Friesen, JD Faris, Z Liu. (2022). A conserved hypothetical gene is required but not sufficient for Ptr ToxC production in Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, Mol Plant Microbe Interact, MPMI12210299R. 10.1094/MPMI-12-21-0299-R
  • S Zhen, H Zhang, Y Xie, S Zhang, Y Chen, R Gu, S Liu, X Du, J Fu. (2022). PNGSeqR: An R Package for Rapid Candidate Gene Selection through Pooled Next-Generation Sequencing. Plants (Basel), 11:1821. 10.3390/plants11141821.

2021

  • Y Wang, J Zhang, M Sun, C He, K Yu, B Zhao, R Li, J Li, Z Yang, X Wang, H Duan, J Fu, S Liu, X Zhang, J Zheng. (2021). Multi-omics analyses reveal systemic insights into maize vivipary, Plants (Basel), 10:2437. 10.3390/plants10112437
  • J Hong, C Gunasekara, C He, S Liu, J Huang, H Wei. (2021). Identification of biological pathway and process regulators using sparse partial least squares and triple-gene mutual interaction, Scientific Reports, 11:13174 10.1038/s41598-021-92610-4
  • G Lin, C He, J Zheng, DH Koo, H Le, H Zheng, D Koo, H Le, H Zheng, TM Tamang, J Lin, Y Liu, M Zhao, Y Hao, F McFarland, B Wang, Y Qin, H Tang, DR McCarty, H Wei, MJ Cho, S Park, H Kaeppler, S Kaeppler, Y Liu, NM Springer, PS Schnable, G Wang, FF White, S Liu. (2021). Chromosome-level genome assembly of a regenerable maize inbred line A188, Genome Biology, 22:175 10.1186/s13059-021-02396-x
  • GK Kariyawasam, N Wyatt, G Shi, S Liu, C Yan, Y Ma, S Zhong, JB Rasmussen, P Moolhuijzen, CS Moffat, TL Friesen, Z Liu. (2021). A genome-wide genetic linkage map and reference quality genome sequence for a new race in the wheat pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, Fungal Genetics and Biology, 152:103571. 10.1016/j.fgb.2021.103571
  • TM Tamang, SA Sprague, T Kakeshpour, S Liu, FF White, S Park. (2021). Ectopic Expression of a Heterologous Glutaredoxin Enhances Drought Tolerance and Grain Yield in Field Grown Maize, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22:5331 10.3390/ijms22105331
  • W Deng, K Zhang, C He, S Liu, H Wei. (2021). HB-PLS: A statistical method for identifying biological process or pathway regulators by integrating Huber loss and Berhu penalty with partial least squares regression, Forestry Research, 1:6 10.48130/FR-2021-0006

2020

  • C He, G Lin, H Wei, H Tang, FF White, B Valent, S Liu. (2020). Factorial estimating assembly base errors using k-mer abundance difference (KAD) between short reads and genome assembled sequences, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 2:lqaa075 10.1093/nargab/lqaa075
  • J Xie, G Guo, Y Wang, T Hu, L Wang, J Li, D Qiu, Y Li, Q Wu, P Lu, Y Chen, L Dong, M Li, H Zhang, P Zhang, K Zhu, B Li, K Deal, Y Zhang, M Luo, S Liu, Y Gu, H Li, Z Liu. (2020). A rare single nucleotide variant in Pm5e confers powdery mildew resistance in common wheat. New Phytologist, 228:1011-1026 10.1111/nph.16762
  • BA Pandian, A Varanasi, AR Vennapusa, R Sathishraj, G Lin, M Zhao, M Tunnell, T Tesso, S Liu, PV Prasad, J Mithila. (2020). Characterization, Genetic Analyses, and Identification of QTLs Conferring Metabolic Resistance to a 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate Dioxygenase Inhibitor in Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), Frontiers in plant science, 11:1890 10.3389/fpls.2020.596581
  • A Gupta, L Hua, G Lin, I Molnar, J Dolezel, S Liu, W Li. (2020). Multiple origins of Indian dwarf wheat by mutations targeting the TREE domain of a GSK3-like kinase for drought tolerance, phosphate uptake, and grain quality, Theor Appl Genet, 10.1007/s00122-020-03719-5
  • C Miao, Y Xu, S Liu, PS Schnable, JC Schnable. (2020). Increased Power and Accuracy of Causal Locus Identification in Time Series Genome-wide Association in Sorghum. Plant Physiology, 183, 1898–1909. 10.1104/pp.20.00277
  • AL Perez-Quintero, M Ortiz-Castro, JM Lang, A Rieux, G Wu, S Liu, TA Chapman, C Chang, J Ziegle, Z Peng, FF White, MC Plazas, JE Leach, K Broders. (2020). Genomic Acquisitions in Emerging Populations of Xanthomonas vasicola pv. vasculorum Infecting Corn in the United States and Argentina. Phytopathology®, 110, 1161–1173. 10.1094/PHYTO-03-19-0077-R
  • C He, Y Du, J Fu, E Zeng, S Park, FF White, J Zheng, S Liu. (2020). Early drought-responsive genes are variable and relevant to drought tolerance. G3, g3.401199.2020. 10.1534/g3.120.401199

2019

  • Z Peng, Y Hu, J Zhang, JC Huguet-Tapia, AK Block, S Park, S Sapkota, Z Liu, S Liu, FF White (2019). Xanthomonas translucens commandeers the host rate-limiting step in ABA biosynthesis for disease susceptibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116, 20938–20946. 10.1073/pnas.1911660116
  • V Yadav, F Yang, MH Reza, S Liu, B Valent, K Sanyal, NI Naqvi. (2019). Cellular Dynamics and Genomic Identity of Centromeres in Cereal Blast Fungus. mBio, 10. 10.1128/mBio.01581-19
  • Z Peng, E Oliveira-Garcia, G Lin, Y Hu, M Dalby, P Migeon, H Tang, M Farman, D Cook, FF White, B Valent&, S Liu. (2019). Effector gene reshuffling involves dispensable mini-chromosomes in the wheat blast fungus. PLOS Genetics, 15, e1008272. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008272
  • L Li, Y Du, C He, CR Dietrich, J Li, X Ma, R Wang, Q Liu, S Liu, G Wang, PS Schnable, J Zheng. (2019). Maize glossy6 is involved in cuticular wax deposition and drought tolerance. Journal of Experimental Botany, 70, 3089–3099. 10.1093/jxb/erz131
  • J Zheng, E Zeng, Y Du, C He, Y Hu, Z Jiao, K Wang, W Li, M Ludens, J Fu, H Wang, FF White, G Wang, S Liu. (2019). Temporal Small RNA Expression Profiling under Drought Reveals a Potential Regulatory Role of Small Nucleolar RNAs in the Drought Responses of Maize. The Plant Genome, 12, 1–15. 10.3835/plantgenome2018.08.0058

2018

  • N Rawat, A Schoen, L Singh, A Mahlandt, DL Wilson, S Liu, G Lin, BS Gill, VK Tiwari. (2018). TILL-D: An Aegilops tauschii TILLING Resource for Wheat Improvement. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9. 10.3389/fpls.2018.01665
  • J Zheng, C He, Y Qin, G Lin, W Park, M Sun, J Li, X Lu, C Zhang, CT Yeh, C Gunasekara, E Zeng, H Wei, PS Schnable, G Wang, S Liu. (2018). Co‐expression analysis aids in the identification of genes in the cuticular wax pathway in maize. The Plant Journal. 10.1111/tpj.14140
  • H Guo, TM Nolan, G Song, S Liu, Z Xie, J Chen, PS Schnable, JW Walley, Y Yin. (2018). FERONIA Receptor Kinase Contributes to Plant Immunity by Suppressing Jasmonic Acid Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. Current Biology, 28, 3316–3324.e6. 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.078
  • S Liu, JC Schnable, A Ott, CT Yeh, NM Springer,J Yu, G Muehlbauer, MCP Timmermans, MJ Scanlon, PS Schnable. (2018). Intragenic Meiotic Crossovers Generate Novel Alleles with Transgressive Expression Levels. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 10.1093/molbev/msy174
  • W Deng, K Zhang, S Liu, P Zhao. S Xu, H Wei. (2018). JRmGRN: joint reconstruction of multiple gene regulatory networks with common hub genes using data from multiple tissues or conditions. Bioinformatics, 34, 3470–3478. 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty354
  • YMAY Bandara, DK Weerasooriya, S Liu, CR Little. (2018). The Necrotrophic Fungus Macrophomina phaseolina Promotes Charcoal Rot Susceptibility in Grain Sorghum Through Induced Host Cell-Wall-Degrading Enzymes. Phytopathology®, 108, 948–956. 10.1094/PHYTO-12-17-0404-R
  • Y Hu, J Ren, Z Peng, AA Umana, H Le, T Danilova, J Fu, H Wang, A Robertson, SH Hulbert, FF White, S Liu. (2018). Analysis of Extreme Phenotype Bulk Copy Number Variation (XP-CNV) Identified the Association of rp1 with Resistance to Goss’s Wilt of Maize. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9. 10.3389/fpls.2018.00110

2017

  • A Ott, S Liu, JC Schnable, CT Yeh, C Wang, PS Schnable. (2017). tGBS® genotyping-by-sequencing enables reliable genotyping of heterozygous loci. Nucleic Acids Research, 45, e178–e178. 10.1093/nar/gkx853
  • A Wen A, M Jayawardana, J Fiedler, S Sapkota, G Shi, Z Peng, S Liu, FF White, Z Liu. (2017). Genetic mapping of a major gene in triticale conferring resistance to bacterial leaf streak. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 131, 649–658. 10.1007/s00122-017-3026-x
  • H Lin, Q Liu, X Li, J Yang, S Liu, Y Huang, MJ Scanlon, D Nettleton, PS Schnable (2017). Substantial contribution of genetic variation in the expression of transcription factors to phenotypic variation revealed by eRD-GWAS. Genome Biology, 18. 10.1186/s13059-017-1328-6
  • SR Marla, S Shiva, R Welti, S Liu, JJ Burke, GP Morris. (2017). Comparative Transcriptome and Lipidome Analyses Reveal Molecular Chilling Responses in Chilling-Tolerant Sorghums. The Plant Genome, 10, plantgenome2017.03.0025. 10.3835/plantgenome2017.03.0025
  • NF Charkhabi, NJ Booher, Z Peng, L Wang, H Rahimian, M Shams-Bakhsh, Z Liu, S Liu, FF White, AJ Bogdanove. (2017). Complete Genome Sequencing and Targeted Mutagenesis Reveal Virulence Contributions of Tal2 and Tal4b of Xanthomonas translucens pv. undulosa ICMP11055 in Bacterial Leaf Streak of Wheat. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8. 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01488
  • W Mei, S Liu, JC Schnable, CT Yeh, NM Springer, PS Schnable, WB Barbazuk. (2017). A Comprehensive Analysis of Alternative Splicing in Paleopolyploid Maize. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8. 10.3389/fpls.2017.00694
  • H Ye, S Liu, B Tang, J Chen, Z Xie, TM Nolan, H Jiang, H Guo, HY Lin, L Li, Y Wang, H Tong, M Zhang, C Chu, Z Li, M Aluru, S Aluru, PS Schnable, Y Yin. (2017). RD26 mediates crosstalk between drought and brassinosteroid signalling pathways. Nature Communications, 8. 10.1038/ncomms14573
  • K Obasa, FF White, J Fellers, M Kennelly, S Liu, B Katz, J Tomich, D Moore, H Shinogle, K Kel-ley. (2017). A Dimorphic and Virulence-Enhancing Endosymbiont Bacterium Discovered in Rhizoctonia solani. Phytobiomes Journal, 1, 14–23. 10.1094/PBIOMES-08-16-0005-R
  • S Liu, J Zheng, P Migeon, J Ren, Y Hu, C He, H Liu, J Fu, FF White, C Toomajian, G Wang. (2017). Unbiased K-mer Analysis Reveals Changes in Copy Number of Highly Repetitive Sequences During Maize Domestication and Improvement. Scientific Reports, 7. 10.1038/srep42444
  • T Nolan, S Liu, H Guo, L Li, PS Schnable, Y Yin. (2017). Identification of Brassinosteroid Target Genes by Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Followed by High-Throughput Sequencing (ChIP-seq) and RNA-Sequencing. Brassinosteroids, 63–79. 10.1007/978-1-4939-6813-8_7

2016

  • L Li, S Hey, S Liu, Q Liu, C McNinch, HC Hu, TJ Wen, C Marcon, A Paschold, W Bruce, PS Schnable, F Hochholdinger. (2016). Characterization of maize roothairless6 which encodes a D-type cellulose synthase and controls the switch from bulge formation to tip growth. Scientific Reports, 6. 10.1038/srep34395
  • MS Chen, S Liu, H Wang, X Cheng, M El Bouhssini, R Whitworth. (2016). Genes Expressed Differentially in Hessian Fly Larvae Feeding in Resistant and Susceptible Plants. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 17, 1324. 10.3390/ijms17081324
  • JC Huguet-Tapia, Z Peng, B Yang, Z Yin, S Liu, FF White. (2016). Complete Genome Sequence of the African Strain AXO1947 of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. Genome Announcements, 4. 10.1128/genomeA.01730-15
  • J Zhang, JC Huguet -Tapia, Y Hu, J Jones, N Wang, S Liu, FF White. (2016). Homologues of CsLOB1 in citrus function as disease susceptibility genes in citrus canker. Molecular Plant Pathology, 18, 798–810. 10.1111/mpp.12441
  • M Arif, GY Busot, R Mann, B Rodoni, S Liu, JP Stack. (2016). Emergence of a New Population of Rathayibacter toxicus: An Ecologically Complex, Geographically Isolated Bacterium. PLOS ONE, 11, e0156182. 10.1371/journal.pone.0156182
  • Z Peng, Y Hu, J Xie, N Potnis, A Akhunova, J Jones, Z Liu, FF White, Liu, S. (2016). Long read and single molecule DNA sequencing simplifies genome assembly and TAL effector gene analysis of Xanthomonas translucens. BMC Genomics, 17. 10.1186/s12864-015-2348-9

2015

  • J Zhou, Z Peng, J Long, D Sosso, B Liu, J Eom, S Huang, S Liu, CV Cruz, WB Frommer, FF White, B Yang. (2015). Gene targeting by the TAL effector PthXo2 reveals cryptic resistance gene for bacterial blight of rice. The Plant Journal, 82, 632–643. 10.1111/tpj.12838
  • L Li, S Hill-Skinner, S Liu, D Beuchle, HM Tang, CT Yeh, D Nettleton, PS Schnable. (2015). The maizebrown midrib4(bm4)gene encodes a functional folylpolyglutamate synthase. The Plant Journal, 81, 493–504. 10.1111/tpj.12745

2014

  • J Nestler, S Liu, TJ Wen, A Paschold, C Marcon, HM Tang, D Li, L Li, RB Meeley, H Sakai, W Bruce, PS Schnable, F Hochholdinger, 2014 Roothairless, which functions in maize (Zea mays L.) root hair initiation and elongation encodes a monocot-specific NADPH oxidase. Plant J, 79: 729-740. 10.1111/tpj.12578
  • Y Zhang, A Paschold, C Marcon, S Liu, H Tai, J Nestler, CT Yeh, N Opitz, C Lanz, PS Schnable, F Hochholdinger. (2014). The Aux/IAA gene rum1 involved in seminal and lateral root formation controls vascular patterning in maize (Zea mays L.) primary roots. Journal of Experimental Botany, 65, 4919–4930. 10.1093/jxb/eru249
  • X Wang, J Chen, Z Xie, S Liu, T Nolan, H Ye, M Zhang, H Guo, PS Schnable, Z Li, Y Yin. (2014). Histone Lysine Methyltransferase SDG8 Is Involved in Brassinosteroid-Regulated Gene Expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Plant, 7, 1303–1315. 10.1093/mp/ssu056
  • W Cai, C Wang, Y Li, C Yao, L Shen, S Liu, X Bao, PS Schnable, J Girton, J Johansen, KM Johansen. (2014). Genome-wide analysis of regulation of gene expression and H3K9me2 distribution by JIL-1 kinase mediated histone H3S10 phosphorylation in Drosophila. Nucleic Acids Research, 42, 5456–5467. 10.1093/nar/gku173
  • HM Tang, S Liu, S Hill-Skinner, W Wu, D Reed, CT Yeh, DS Nettleton, PS Schnable, 2014 The maize brown midrib2 (bm2) gene encodes a methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase that contributes to lignin accumulation. Plant J, 77: 380-392. 10.1111/tpj.12394

2013

  • L Li, D Li, S Liu, X Ma, CR Dietrich, HC Hu, G Zhang, Z Liu, J Zheng, G Wang, PS Schnable. (2013). The Maize glossy13 Gene, Cloned via BSR-Seq and Seq-Walking Encodes a Putative ABC Transporter Required for the Normal Accumulation of Epicuticular Waxes. PLoS ONE, 8, e82333. 10.1371/journal.pone.0082333
  • S Liu, AP Hsia, PS Schnable. (2013). Digestion–Ligation–Amplification (DLA): A Simple Genome Walking Method to Amplify Unknown Sequences Flanking Mutator (Mu) Transposons and Thereby Facilitate Gene Cloning. Plant Transposable Elements, 167–176. 10.1007/978-1-62703-568-2_12

2009 - 2012 (Before KSU)

  • L Lin, K Petsch, R Shimizu, S Liu, WW Xu, K Ying, J Yu, MJ Scanlon, PS Schnable, MCP Timmermans, NM Springer, GJ Muehlbauer. (2013). Mendelian and Non-Mendelian Regulation of Gene Expression in Maize. PLoS Genetics, 9, e1003202. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003202
  • S Liu, K Ying, CT Yeh, J Yang, RA Swanson-Wagner, W Wu, T Richmond, DJ Gerhardt, J Lai, NM Springer, DS Nettleton, JA Jeddeloh, PS Schnable. (2012). Changes in genome content generated via segregation of non-allelic homologs. The Plant Journal, 72, 390–399. 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.05087.x
  • S Liu, CT Yeh, HM Tang, D Nettleton, PS Schnable. (2012). Gene Mapping via Bulked Segregant RNA-Seq (BSR-Seq). PLoS ONE, 7, e36406. 10.1371/journal.pone.0036406
  • SR Eichten, JM Foerster, N de Leon, K Ying, CT Yeh, S Liu, JA Jeddeloh, PS Schnable, SM Kaeppler, NM Springer. (2011). B73-Mo17 Near-Isogenic Lines Demonstrate Dispersed Structural Variation in Maize. Plant Physiology, 156, 1679–1690. 10.1104/pp.111.174748
  • SR Eichten, RA Swanson-Wagner, J Schnable, AJ Waters, PJ Hermanson, S Liu, CT Yeh, Y Jia, K Gendler, M Freeling, PS Schnable, MW Vaughn, NM Springer. (2011). Heritable Epigenetic Variation among Maize Inbreds. PLoS Genetics, 7, e1002372. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002372
  • S Liu, HD Chen, I Makarevitch, R Shirmer, SJ Emrich, CR Dietrich, WB Barbazuk, NM Springer, PS Schnable. (2009). High-Throughput Genetic Mapping of Mutants via Quantitative Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Typing. Genetics, 184, 19–26. 10.1534/genetics.109.107557
  • PS Schnable, D Ware, RS Fulton, JC Stein, … TA Graves. (2009). The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics. Science, 326, 1112–1115. 10.1126/science.1178534
  • S Liu, CR Dietrich, PS Schnable. (2009). DLA-Based Strategies for Cloning Insertion Mutants: Cloning the gl4 Locus of Maize Using Mu Transposon Tagged Alleles. Genetics, 183, 1215–1225. 10.1534/genetics.109.108936
  • S Liu, CT Yeh, T Ji, K Ying, H Wu, HM Tang, Y Fu, DS Nettleton, PS Schnable. (2009). Mu Transposon Insertion Sites and Meiotic Recombination Events Co-Localize with Epigenetic Marks for Open Chromatin across the Maize Genome. PLoS Genetics, 5, e1000733. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000733