Jonathan Isaiah Gent

Our new data show that plant centromeres can be engineered. We seeded CENH3 to synthetic repeat arrays, causing chromosome breakage. Fragments passed through meiosis formed neochromosomes with synthetic centromeres and were faithfully transmitted. bit.ly/3RWm7pV

Merging two independent assemblies (one from PacBio and another Nanopore), guided by Bionano maps, yielded a dramatically improved assembly of an inbred carrying maize Abnormal chromosome 10. The contig N50 is 162 Mb, with two fully gapless chromosomes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are pleased to release genome assemblies and gene model annotations for 26 maize NAM inbreds for immediate use without restrictions. See nam-genomes.org. Supported by NSF-1744001 with Matt Hufford (@mbhufford) Doreen Ware, Candice Hirsch (@HirschCandice) #NAMgenomes

We asked the question, what happens to long DNA when it is introduced by biolistic methods? The answer is that it is usually broken. We were more surprised by what happened to the genome. biorxiv.org/content/early/…