NOTES ARE POSTED HERE IN ORDER RECEIVED FOR MNL VOLUME 84,
2010. They are posted �as is�, and will be replaced with redacted copy once the
printed copy is finalized, late Spring 2011.
Mailing to US and Foreign Addresses is in progress -- June 20-30, 2011
--- Please email
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We anticipate a cutoff of January 31, 2010 for inclusion in
the print copy. There was a call for submissions, Dec 2009, by email. If you
did not receive this call, please check MaizeGDB to be sure your email and
address are correct and use the online form to make any updates.
Adapted
from the foreword for MNL Volume 83, 2009.
The Maize Genetics Cooperation Newsletter exists for the
benefit of the maize community as an informal vehicle for communication. Its inception and continuation has been
to foster cooperation among those interested in investigating maize. This cooperation has distinguished our
field from others and as a consequence has moved it forward at a pace greater
than would have occurred otherwise.
Your submissions are encouraged to disseminate knowledge about our field
that might otherwise go unrecorded. We encourage the community to carry studies
of general scientific interest to the formal literature. However, there is a great need to share
technical tips, protocols, mutant descriptions, map information, ideas and
other isolated information useful in the lab and field.
Because maize is both a commercial species and a genetic
model system, the danger exists that the sharing of research materials might be
diminished. It is imperative for
us to work together to prevent this from occurring. Certainly, basic findings should be transferred to the
industrial sector and basic advances in industry should be shared with the
academic community for the benefit of both. Published materials must be shared for research purposes
with the only restriction being against commercial use.
We remind the readers that contributions to the Newsletter
do not constitute formal publications.
Citations to them should be accompanied by permission from the authors if
at all possible. Notes can be
submitted at any time and are entered into MaizeGDB. We have set an arbitrary cutoff of January 31, 2010 for the
next print copy, volume 84.
Electronic submission is encouraged and is done by sending your
contributions as attachments, or as text of an email, to
[email protected].
Submissions must require minimal editing to be accepted.
We encourage the community to carry studies of general
scientific interest to the formal literature. However, there is a great need to share technical tips,
protocols, mutant descriptions, map information, ideas and other isolated
information useful in the lab and field.
To
send notes
Send your notes as attachments or as the text of
an email addressed to [email protected] (we will acknowledge
receipt, and will contact you further if necessary). If email is not feasible,
please mail a double-spaced, letter-quality copy of your note, preferably with
a disk containing an electronic version to Mary Schaeffer, 203 Curtis Hall,
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-7020. Please consult a recent issue
for style format. Figures, charts and tables should be compact and
"camera"-ready, and supplied in electronic form (jpg or gif) if
possible. To separate columns in tables, please tab instead of using spaces, to
ensure quality tabulations on the web. Your MNL Notes will go on the Web
verbatim promptly, and will be edited and prepared for printing in the annual
issue. Submissions must require only minimal editing.
The Newsletter sponsors a new online journal, called the "maize gene review",
hosted at www.maizegenereview.org. The inaugural submissions were included in
the MNL vol 83, in map order, following the Table of
Contents. It is modeled on the 2000 "Mutants of Maize", eds MG Neuffer, EH Coe and S Wessler, Cold Spring Harbor,
NY. The emphasis is mutants, but reviews will include any gene with
experimentally confirmed function. This journal was first described in a poster
presentation at the 2009 Maize Genetic Conference in St. Charles, IL and was an
invited presentation at the 3rd Int. Biocurator
Conference, 2009 Berlin, Germany. We welcome contributions from all cooperators
on their favorite genes. The text summaries of each mutant, and
any new images, will be supplied to MaizeGDB, as was done in 1995 from the
"Mutants of Maize", crediting authors and the review page. Each year,
new submissions, and any substantial revisions of previous reviews, will be
included in the print copy of MNL. Unlike contributions to the Newsletter, these will be peer-reviewed and
may be cited without permission of authors. The maize gene review adheres to
the stipulations of the "Creative Commons License", with normal
copyright retained by authors, but not this Newsletter.