VIII. RECENT MAIZE PUBLICATIONS

Abdel-Hady, MS; Abdel-Sattar, AA; Mahmoud, IM, 2004. Prediction of heterosis and combining ability in maize using tissue cultures. Bull. Natl. Res. Ctr. (Cairo) 29:109-119.

Abdolhamid, R; Bahman, Y; Abasali, Z; Alireza, T; Hosein, Z; Abdolmajid, R, 2004. Estimate of heterosis and combining ability in maize (Zea mays L.) using diallel crossing method. Pp. 395-397 in Genetic Variation for Plant Breeding. J Vollmann, H Grausgruber and P Ruckenbauer, eds. Proc. 17th EUCARPIA Gen. Congr., Tulln, Austria, 8-11 September 2004.

Abdul, A; Kumbhar, MB; Buriro, UA; Muhammad, S, 2004. Harvest index of maize as affected by population density, genotype and planting date. Sarhad J. Agric. 20:381-384.

Acosta, R; Rios, H; Verde, G; Pomagualli, D, 2003. Morphoagronomic evaluation of genetic diversity of local maize varieties in La Palma, Pinar del Rio. Cult. Trop. 24:61-67.

Adamczyk, J; Cygert, H; Czajczynski, J, 2003. Fifty years of hybrid maize breeding in Poland - achievements and prospects. Biul. Inst. Hod. Aklim. Rosl. 423-431.

Adams, WR; Huang, S; Kriz, AL; Luethy, MH, 2004. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis of zeins in mature maize kernels. J. Agric. Food Chem. 7:1842-1849.

Adawy, SSM; Stupar, RM; Jiang, JM, 2004. Fluorescence in situ hybridization of knob-associated DNA elements analysis reveals multiple loci in one-knob and knobless maize lines. J. Histochem. Cytochem.52:1113-1116.

Amorim, EP; Almeida, CCD; Sereno, M; Bered, F; Neto, JFB, 2003. Genetic variability in sweet corn using molecular markers. Maydica 48:177-181.

Anderson, LK; Salameh, N; Bass, HW; Harper, LC; Cande, WZ; Weber, G; Stack, SM, 2004. Integrating genetic linkage maps with pachytene chromosome structure in maize. Genetics 166:1923-1933.

Anderson, PC; Flick, CE; Gordon-Kamm, WJ; Kausch, AP; Mackey, CJ; Orozco, EM; Orr, P; Stephens, MA; Walters, DA; Walters, DS, 2004. Methods and compositions for the production of stably transformed, fertile monocot plants and cells thereof. Patent no. US 6803499, DeKalb Genetics Corporation.

Anderson, PL; Hellmich, RL; Sears, MK; Sumerford, DV; Lewis, LC, 2004. Effects of Cry1Ab-expressing corn anthers on monarch butterfly larvae. Environ. Entomol. 33:1109-1115.

Anderson, SR; Lauer, MJ; Schoper, JB; Shibles, RM, 2003. Pollination timing effects on kernel set and silk receptivity in four maize hybrids. Crop Sci. 44:464-473.

Antonio Miguel, M; Arellano Vazquez, JL; Garcia de los Santos, G; Miranda Colin, S; Mejia Contreras, JA; Gonzalez Cossio, FV, 2004. Maize landraces of Chalqueno race blue kernel. Agronomic traits and seed quality. Rev. Fitotec. Mex. 27:9-15.

Antuna Grijalva, O; Rincon Sanchez, F; Gutierrez del Rio, E; Ruiz Torres, NA; Bustamante Garcia, L, 2003. Genetic components of agronomic and physiological seed quality traits in maize inbred lines. Rev. Fitotec. Mex. 26:11-17.

Arbelbide, M; Bernardo, R, 2003. Random mating before selfing in maize BC1 populations. Crop Sci. 44:401-404.

Arellano Vazquez, JL; Tut Couoh, C; Ramirez, AM; Salinas Moreno, Y; Taboada Gaytan, OR, 2003. Blue maize from the Mexican highlands. I. Grain yield and agronomic traits. Rev. Fitotec. Mex. 26:101-107.

Arthur, KM; Vejlupkova, Z; Meeley, RB; Fowler, JE, 2003. Maize ROP2 GTPase provides a competitive advantage to the male gametophyte. Genetics 165:2137-2151.

Asakura, Y; Hirohashi, T; Kikuchi, S; Belcher, S; Osborne, E; Yano, S; Terashima, I; Barkan, A; Nakai, M, 2004. Maize mutants lacking chloroplast FtsY exhibit pleiotropic defects in the biogenesis of thylakoid membranes. Plant Cell 16:201-214.

Asano, T; Tsudzuki, T; Takahashi, S; Shimada, H; Kadowaki, K, 2004. Complete nucleotide sequence of the sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) chloroplast genome: A comparative analysis of four monocot chloroplast genomes. DNA Res. 11:93-99.

Assuero, SG; Mollier, A; Pellerin, S, 2004. The decrease in growth of phosphorus-deficient maize leaves is related to a lower cell production. Plant Cell Environ. 27:887-895.

Auger, DL; Ream, TS; Birchler, JA, 2004. A test for a metastable epigenetic component of heterosis using haploid induction in maize. Theor. Appl. Genet. 108:1017-1023.

Ayala-Ochoa, A; Vargas-Suarez, M; Loza-Tavera, H; Leon, P; Jimenez-Garcia, LF; Sanchez-de-Jimenez, E, 2004. In maize, two distinct ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase activase transcripts have different day/night patterns of expression. Biochimie 86:439-449.

Ayliffe, MA; Steinau, M; Park, RF; Rooke, L; Pacheco, MG; Hulbert, SH; Trick, HN; Pryor, AJ, 2004. Aberrant mRNA processing of the maize Rp1-D rust resistance gene in wheat and barley. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 17:853-864.

Aylor, DE, 2004. Survival of maize (Zea mays) pollen exposed in the atmosphere. Agric. For. Meteorol. 123:125-133.

Azevedo, RA; Damerval, C; Landry, J; Lea, PJ; Bellato, CM; Meinhardt, LW; Le Guilloux, M; Delhaye, S; Toro, AA; Gaziola, SA; Berdejo, BDA, 2003. Regulation of maize lysine metabolism and endosperm protein synthesis by opaque and floury mutations. Eur. J. Biochem. 270:4898-4908.

Azevedo, RA; Damerval, C; Lea, PJ; Landry, J; Bellato, CM; Meinhardt, LW; Le Guilloux, M; Delhaye, S; Toro, AA; Gaziola, SA; Varisi, VA; Gratao, PL, 2004. Genetic control of lysine metabolism in maize endosperm mutants. Funct. Plant Biol. 31:339-348.

Azevedo, RA; Lea, PJ; Damerval, C; Landry, J; Bellato, CM; Meinhardt, LW; Le Guilloux, M; Delhaye, S; Varisi, VA; Gaziola, SA; Gratao, PL; Toro, AA, 2004. Regulation of lysine metabolism and endosperm protein synthesis by the opaque-5 and opaque-7 maize mutations. J. Agric. Food Chem. 52:4865-4871.

Bailey, MR; Woodard, SL; Callaway, E; Beifuss, K; Magallanes-Lundback, M; Lane, JR; Horn, ME; Mallubhotla, H; Delaney, DD; Ward, M; Van Gastel, F; Howard, JA; Hood, EE, 2004. Improved recovery of active recombinant laccase from maize seed. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 63:390-397.

Balconi, C; Cavallini, A; Natali, L; Motto, M, 2004. Evaluation of in vitro methods to define the role of the cob and pedicel-placento-chalazal tissues in the amino acid supply to the developing maize endosperm. Plant Sci. 166:1313-1320.

Baluska, F; Volkmann, D; Barlow, PW, 2004. Eukaryotic cells and their cell bodies: Cell theory revised. Ann. Bot. 94:9-32.

Bard, JBL; Rhee, SY, 2004. Ontologies in biology: design, applications and future challenges. Nat. Rev. Genet. 5:213-223.

Basandrai, AK; Saxena, VK; Gurjit, K; Kalia, V; Akhilesh, S, 2004. Evaluation of common rust (Puccinia sorghi) resistance in maize (Zea mays) inbred lines. Indian J. Agric. Sci. 74:284-286.

Bastias, E; Fernandez-Garcia, N; Carvajal, M, 2004. Aquaporin functionality in roots of Zea mays in relation to the interactive effects of boron and salinity. Plant Biol. 6:415-421.

Basu, S; Sharma, SP; Dadlani, M, 2004. Storability studies on maize (Zea mays L.) parental line seeds under natural and accelerated ageing conditions. Seed Sci. Technol. 32:239-245.

Bate, NJ; Niu, XP; Wang, YW; Reimann, KS; Helentjaris, TG, 2004. An invertase inhibitor from maize localizes to the embryo surrounding region during early kernel development. Plant Physiol. 134:246-254.

Battal, P, 2004. Effects of some mineral nutrients on gibberellic acid levels in maize plants (Zea mays L.). Econ. Bot. 58:195-203.

Bauer, P; Lubkowitz, M; Tyers, R; Nemoto, K; Meeley, RB; Goff, SA; Freeling, M, 2004. Regulation and a conserved intron sequence of liguleless3/4 knox class-I homeobox genes in grasses. Planta 219:359-368.

Bellon, MR; Berthaud, J, 2004. Transgenic maize and the evolution of landrace diversity in Mexico. The importance of farmers' behavior. Plant Physiol. 134:883-888.

Benveniste, P, 2004. Biosynthesis and accumulation of sterols. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 55:429-457.

Bergvinson, D; Garcia-Lara, S, 2004. Genetic approaches to reducing losses of stored grain to insects and diseases. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 7:480-485.

Betran, FJ; Bockholt, A; Fojt, F, 2004. Registration of Tx745 maize germplasm line. Crop Sci. 44:1029.

Betran, FJ; Bockholt, A; Fojt, F; Mayfield, K, 2004. Registration of Tx732 maize germplasm line. Crop Sci. 44:1028-1029.

Betran, FJ; Bockholt, A; Fojt, F; Mayfield, K, 2004. Registration of Tx770 maize germplasm line. Crop Sci. 44:1029-1030.

Betran, FJ; Bockholt, A; Fort, F; Mayfield, K; Pietsch, D, 2004. Registration of Tx714 maize germplasm line. Crop Sci. 44:1028.

Betran, FJ; Isakeit, T, 2004. Aflatoxin accumulation in maize hybrids of different maturities. Agron. J. 96:565-570.

Bicknell, RA; Koltunow, AM, 2004. Understanding apomixis: Recent advances and remaining conundrums. Plant Cell 16:S228-S245.

Bily, AC; Burt, AJ; Ramputh, AL; Livesey, J; Regnault-Roger, C; Philogene, BR; Arnason, JT, 2004. HPLC-PAD-APCI/MS assay of phenylpropanoids in cereals. Phytochem Anal 15:9-15.

Bityutskii, NP; Davydovskaya, EN; Malyuga, EA; Yakkonen, KL, 2004. Mechanisms underlying iron and zinc transport to axis organs in grain during early seedling development of maize. J. Plant Nutr. 27:1525-1541.

Blanc, G; Wolfe, KH, 2004. Widespread paleopolyploidy in model plant species inferred from age distributions of duplicate genes. Plant Cell 16:1667-1678.

Borderies, G; le Bechec, M; Rossignol, M; Lafitte, C; Le Deunff, E; Beckert, M; Dumas, C; Matthys-Rochon, E, 2004. Characterization of proteins secreted during maize microspore culture: arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) stimulate embryo development. Eur. J. Cell Biol. 83:205-212.

Borevitz, JO; Chory, J, 2004. Genomics tools for QTL analysis and gene discovery. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 7:132-136.

Borovskii, GB; Stupnikova, IV; Antipina, AI; Vladimirova, SV; Voinikov, VK, 2002. Accumulation of dehydrin-like proteins in the mitochondria of cereals in response to cold, freezing, drought and ABA treatment. BMC Plant Biol. 2:5.

Borras, L; Westgate, ME; Otegui, ME, 2003. Control of kernel weight and kernel water relations by post-flowering source-sink ratio in maize. Ann. Bot. 91:857-867.

Bosch, L; Casanas, F; Almirall, A; Sanchez, E; Nuez, F, 2003. Tropical X temperate maize germplasm: Specific recurrent selection for grain yield involving across 8443 La Posta composite. Maydica 48:313-317.

Boyer, JS; Silk, WK, 2004. Hydraulics of plant growth. Funct. Plant Biol. 31:761-773.

Bozokalfa, MK; Esiyok, D; Ugur, A, 2004. Determination of yield, quality and plant characteristic of some sweetcorn (Zea mays L. var. saccharata) varieties as main and second crops in Ege Region. Ege Univ. Ziraat Fak. Dergisi 41:11-19.

Bragina, TV; Ponomareva, YV; Drozdova, IS; Grinieva, GM, 2004. Photosynthesis and dark respiration in leaves of different ages of partly flooded maize seedlings. Russ. J. Plant Physiol. 51:342-347.

Brazauskas, G; Pasakinskiene, I; Jahoor, A, 2004. AFLP analysis indicates no introgression of maize DNA in wheat x maize crosses. Plant Breed. 123:117-121.

Brenna, OV; Berardo, N, 2004. Application of near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) to the evaluation of carotenoids content in maize. J. Agric. Food Chem. 52:5577-5582.

Bressan, W; Borges, MT, 2004. Delivery methods for introducing endophytic bacteria into maize. Biocontrol 49:315-322.

Brikmic, I; Simic, D; Zdunic, Z; Jambrovic, A; Ledencan, T; Kovacevic, V; Kadar, I, 2003. Combining abilities of corn-belt inbred lines of maize for mineral content in grain. Maydica 48:293-297.

Brkic, I; Simic, D; Zdunic, Z; Jambrovic, A; Ledencan, T; Kovacevic, V; Kadar, I, 2004. Genotypic variability of micronutrient element concentrations in maize kernels. Cereal Res. Commun. 32:107-112.

Brown, RL; Brown-Jenco, CS; Bhatnagar, D; Payne, GA, 2003. Construction and preliminary evaluation of an Aspergillus flavus reporter gene construct as a potential tool for screening aflatoxin resistance. J. Food Prot. 66:1927-1931.

Brutnell, TP, 2002. Transposon tagging in maize. Funct. Integr. Genomics 2:4-12.

Buckeridge, MS; Rayon, C; Urbanowicz, B; Tine, MAS; Carpita, NC, 2004. Mixed linkage (1 -> 3),(1 -> 4)-beta-D-glucans of grasses. Cereal Chem. 81:115-127.

Bugs, MR; Forato, LA; Bortoleto-Bugs, RK; Fischer, H; Mascarenhas, YP; Ward, RJ; Colnago, LA, 2004. Spectroscopic characterization and structural modeling of prolamin from maize and pearl millet. Eur. Biophys. J. Biophys. Lett. 33:335-343.

Bullion, A, 2004. Pioneer develops test to identify best maize hybrids for ethanol. Int. Sugar J. 106:174.

Butron, A; Tarrio, R; Revilla, P; Malvar, RA; Ordas, A, 2003. Molecular evaluation of two methods for developing maize synthetic varieties. Mol. Breed. 12:329-333.

Butron, A; Velasco, P; Ordas, A; Malvar, RA, 2004. Yield evaluation of maize cultivars across environments with different levels of pink stem borer infestation. Crop Sci. 44:741-747.

Butruille, DV; Silva, HD; Kaeppler, SM; Coors, JG, 2004. Response to selection and genetic drift in three populations derived from the golden glow maize population. Crop Sci. 44:1527-1534.

Buzgo, M; Soltis, DE; Soltis, PS; Ma, H, 2004. Towards a comprehensive integration of morphological and genetic studies of floral development. Trends Plant Sci. 9:164-173.

Bynum, ED; Xu, W; Archer, TL, 2004. Potential efficacy of spider mite-resistant genes in maize testcrosses. Crop Prot. 23:625-634.

Bynum, ED; Xu, WW; Archer, TL, 2004. Diallel analysis of spider mite resistant maize inbred lines and F-1 crosses. Crop Sci. 44:1535-1541.

Caffarri, S; Croce, R; Cattivelli, L; Bassi, R, 2004. A look within LHCII: Differential analysis of the Lhcbl-3 complexes building the major trimeric antenna complex of higher-plant photosynthesis. Biochemistry 43:9467-9476.

Cahoon, AB; Harris, FM; Stern, DB, 2004. Analysis of developing maize plastids reveals two mRNA stability classes correlating with RNA polymerase type. EMBO Rep. 5:801-806.

Camacho, A; Moreno-Sanchez, R; Bernal-Lugo, I, 2004. Control of superoxide production in mitochondria from maize mesocotyls. FEBS Lett. 570:52-56.

Campo, S; Carrascal, M; Coca, M; Abian, J; San Segundo, B, 2004. The defense response of germinating maize embryos against fungal infection: A proteomics approach. Proteomics 4:383-396.

Caniato, FF; Galvao, JCC; Finger, FL; Ribeiro, RA; Miranda, GV; Puiatti, M, 2004. Study of total soluble sugars, reducing sugars and starch composition in immature kernels of corn cultivars. Rev. Bras. Milho Sorgo 3:38-44.

Carey, CC; Strahle, JT; Selinger, DA; Chandler, VL, 2004. Mutations in the pale aleurone color1 regulatory gene of the Zea mays anthocyanin pathway have distinct phenotypes relative to the functionally similar TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA1 gene in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 16:450-464.

Carlson, WR, 2004. Detecting centromeric misdivision in crosses of a B-type chromosome in maize. Maydica 49:31-36.

Carrigan, LL, 2004. Hybrid maize plant & seed 38T27. Patent no. US 6806407, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

Carson, ML; Stuber, CW; Senior, ML, 2004. Identification and mapping of quantitative trait loci conditioning resistance to southern leaf blight of maize caused by Cochliobolus heterostrophus race O. Phytopathology 94:862-867.

Carvalho, VP; Ruas, CF; Ferreira, JM; Moreira, RMP; Ruas, PM, 2004. Genetic diversity among maize (Zea mays L.) landraces assessed by RAPD markers. Genet. Mol. Biol. 27:228-236.

Casas Salas, JF; Ramirez Diaz, JL; de J. Sanchez Gonzalez, J; Parra, JR; Montes Hernandez, S; Chuela Bonaparte, M, 2003. Agronomic characteristics in maize-teosinte backcrosses. Rev. Fitotec. Mex. 26:239-248.

Castle, LA; Siehl, DL; Gorton, R; Patten, PA; Chen, YH; Bertain, S; Cho, HJ; Duck, N; Wong, J; Liu, DL; Lassner, MW, 2004. Discovery and directed evolution of a glyphosate tolerance gene. Science 304:1151-1154.

Castleden, CK; Aoki, N; Gillespie, VJ; MacRae, EA; Quick, WP; Buchner, P; Foyer, CH; Furbank, RT; Lunn, JE, 2004. Evolution and function of the sucrose-phosphate synthase gene families in wheat and other grasses. Plant Physiol. 135:1753-1764.

Cervelli, M; Di Caro, O; Di Penta, A; Angelini, R; Federico, R; Vitale, A; Mariottini, P, 2004. A novel C-terminal sequence from barley polyamine oxidase is a vacuolar sorting signal. Plant J. 40:410-418.

Chandler, VL; Stam, M, 2004. Chromatin conversations: Mechanisms and implications of paramutation. Nat. Rev. Genet. 5:532-544.

Chang, JY; Clay, DE; Dalsted, K; Clay, S; O'Neill, M, 2003. Corn (Zea mays L.) yield prediction using multispectral and multidate reflectance. Agron. J. 95:1447-1453.

Chang, SC; Kim, YS; Lee, JY; Kaufman, PB; Kirakosyan, A; Yun, HS; Kim, TW; Kim, SY; Cho, MH; Lee, JS; Kim, SK, 2004. Brassinolide interacts with auxin and ethylene in the root gravitropic response of maize (Zea mays). Physiol. Plant. 121:666-673.

Chase, CD; Gabay-Laughnan, S, 2003. Exploring mitochondrial-nuclear genome interactions with S male-sterile maize. Rec. Res. Devel. Genet. 3:31-41.

Chen, CX; Wang, ZL; Yang, DE; Ye, CJ; Zhao, YB; Jin, DM; Weng, ML; Wang, B, 2004. Molecular tagging and genetic mapping of the disease resistance gene RppQ to southern corn rust. Theor. Appl. Genet. 108:945-950.

Chen, J; Harman, GG; Comis, A; Cheng, G; Liu, H, 2004. The change of maize plant proteome affected by Trichoderma harzianum and Pythium ultimum (I). Acta Phytopathol. Sin. 34:319-328.

Chen, ZY; Brown, RL; Damann, KE; Cleveland, TE, 2004. Identification of a maize kernel stress-related protein and its effect on aflatoxin accumulation. Phytopathology 94:938-945.

Cheng, YM; Lin, BY, 2004. Molecular organization of large fragments in the maize B chromosome: Indication of a novel repeat. Genetics 166:1947-1961.

Ching, A; Caldwell, KS; Jung, M; Dolan, M; Smith, OS; Tingey, S; Morgante, M; Rafalski, AJ, 2002. SNP frequency, haplotype structure and linkage disequilibrium in elite maize inbred lines. BMC Genetics 3:19.

Chow, B; McCourt, P, 2004. Hormone signalling from a developmental context. J. Exp. Bot. 55:247-251.

Clark, RM; Linton, E; Messing, J; Doebley, JF, 2004. Pattern of diversity in the genomic region near the maize domestication gene tb1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101:700-707.

Clements, MJ; Maragos, CA; Pataky, JK; White, DG, 2004. Sources of resistance to fumonisin accumulation in grain and fusarium ear and kernel rot of corn. Phytopathology 94:251-260.

Close, DC; Beadle, CL, 2003. The ecophysiology of foliar anthocyanin. Bot. Rev. 69:149-161.

Close, TJ; Wanamaker, SI; Caldo, RA; Turner, SM; Ashlock, DA; Dickerson, JA; Wing, RA; Muehlbauer, GJ; Kleinhofs, A; Wise, RP, 2004. A new resource for cereal genomics: 22K barley GeneChip comes of age. Plant Physiol. 134:960-868.

Coleman, CE; Yoho, PR; Escobar, S; Ogawa, M, 2004. The accumulation of alpha-zein in transgenic tobacco endosperm is stabilized by co-expression of beta-zein. Plant Cell Physiol. 45:864-871.

Cona, A; Manetti, F; Leone, R; Corelli, F; Tavladoraki, P; Polticelli, F; Botta, M, 2004. Molecular basis for the binding of competitive inhibitors of maize polyamine oxidase. Biochemistry 43:3426-3435.

Costa, LM; Gutierrez-Marcos, JF; Brutnell, TP; Greenland, AJ; Dickinson, HG, 2003. The globby1-1 (glo1-1) mutation disrupts nuclear and cell division in the developing maize seed causing alterations in endosperm cell fate and tissue differentiation. Development 130:5009-5017.

Costa, LM; Gutierrez-Marcos, JF; Dickinson, HG, 2004. More than a yolk: the short life and complex times of the plant endosperm. Trends Plant Sci. 9:507-514.

Coutino-Estrada, B; Vidal-Martinez, VA, 2003. Grain yield stability of corn hybrids using best linear unbiased predictors. Agrociencia 37:605-616.

Cross, JM; Clancy, M; Shaw, JR; Greene, TW; Schmidt, RR; Okita, TW; Hannah, LC, 2004. Both subunits of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase are regulatory. Plant Physiol. 135:137-144.

Danielson, SD, 2003. Induced resistance studied in maize with the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and the chemical inducer Actigard (R). J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 76:645-648.

Danilova, SA; Dolgikh, YI, 2004. The stimulatory effect of the antibiotic cefotaxime on plant regeneration in maize tissue culture. Russ. J. Plant Physiol. 51:559-562.

Daros, M; do Amaral Junior, AT; Pereira, MG; Santos, FS; Scapim, CA; de P. Freitas Junior, S; Daher, RF; Avila, MR, 2004. Correlations among agronomic traits in two recurrent selection cycles in popcorn. Ciencia Rural 34:1389-1394.

Davierwala, AP; Ramakrishna, W; Chowdari, V; Ranjekar, PK; Gupta, VS, 2001. Potential of (GATA)n microsatellites from rice for inter- and intra-specific variability studies. BMC Evol. Biol. 1:7.

Dawe, RK; Hiatt, EN, 2004. Plant neocentromeres: fast, focused, and driven. Chromosome Res. 12:655-669.

de A. Setti, JC; de Oliveira, MDX; Arias, SMS; Bazoni, R, 2001. Evaluation of nutritive value of maize cultivars for silage production. Ens. Cienc.: Ser. Cienc. Biol., Agrar., Saude 5:35-49.

de Almeida, AM; de S. Araujo, S; Cardoso, LA; Fevereiro, MP; dos Santos, DM, 2004. Attempts to establish an embryogenic callus culture in two Portuguese maize (Zea mays) landraces using leaves and mature embryos. Pp. 227-231 in Genetic Variation for Plant Breeding. J Vollmann, H Grausgruber and P Ruckenbauer, eds. Proc. 17th EUCARPIA Gen. Congr., Tulln, Austria, 8-11 September 2004.

de Carvalho, HWL; Cardoso, MJ; de L. da S. Leal, M; dos Santos, MX; dos Santos, DM; Tabosa, JN; Lira, MA; de Souza, EM, 2004. Adaptability and stability of maize hybrids in the northeast Brazilian region. Rev. Cient. Rural 9:118-125.

de Carvalho, M; Slaski, JJ; Abreu, I; Gananca, FT; dos Santos, TMM; Freitas, L; Vieira, MRC; Nunes, A; Domingues, A; Taylor, GJ, 2004. Factors contributing to the development of aluminum resistance in the Madeiran maize germplasm. J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci.-Z. Pflanzenernahr. Bodenkd. 167:93-98.

de la Casa-Esperon, E; Sapienza, C, 2003. Natural selection and the evolution of genome imprinting. Annu. Rev. Genet. 37:349-370.

de la Cruz, HR; Aguilar, R; de Jimenez, ES, 2004. Functional characterization of a maize ribosomal S6 protein kinase (ZmS6K), a plant ortholog of metazoan p70(S6K). Biochemistry 43:533-539.

de la Cruz Larios, L; Parra, JR; Ramirez Diaz, JL; de J. Sanchez Gonzalez, J; Morales Rivera, MM; Chuela Bonaparte, M; Hurtado de la Pena, SA; Mena Munguia, S, 2003. Heterosis and combining ability among commercial hybrids and exotic maize germplasm in Jalisco, Mexico. Rev. Fitotec. Mex. 26:1-10.

de la Cruz Lazaro, E; Gutierrez del Rio, E; Palomo Gil, A; Rodriguez Herrera, S, 2003. Combining ability and heterosis of maize inbred lines at the Comarca Lagunera. Rev. Fitotec. Mex. 26:279-284.

de Oliveira, FA; Viccini, LF, 2004. Induction of maize chromosome altered plants by seeds irradiation pre-soaked in metronidazole. Caryologia 57:79-87.

de S. Gomes, M; von Pinho, RG; Ramalho, MAP; Ferreira, DV; Lima, TG, 2004. Diallel analysis of in situ degradability of corn silage dry matter. Rev. Bras. Milho Sorgo 3:108-119.

de Souza Sobrinho, F; Silva e Oliveira, J; Lopes, FCF; Auad, MV, 2004. Size plot and border plot requirement for the evaluation of corn cultivars for silage utilization. Rev. Bras. Milho Sorgo 3:45-51.

de T. Machado, CT; Machado, AT; Furlani, AMC, 2004. Intra-population variability in characteristics related to phosphorus uptake and utilization efficiency in maize. Rev. Bras. Milho Sorgo 3:77-91.

Degen, T; Dillmann, C; Marion-Poll, F; Turlings, TCJ, 2004. High genetic variability of herbivore-induced volatile emission within a broad range of maize inbred lines. Plant Physiol. 135:1928-1938.

del C. Moreno-Perez, E; Lewis-Beck, D; Cervantes-Santana, T; Torres-Flores, JL, 2004. Reciprocal recurrent selection in Mexican Highland Valleys maize populations under high and low soil nitrogen content. Agrociencia (Montecillo) 38:305-311.

della Mea, M; di Sandro, A; Dondini, L; del Duca, S; Vantini, F; Bergamini, C; Bassi, R; Serafini-Fracassini, D, 2004. A Zea mays 39-kDa thylakoid transglutaminase catalyses the modification by polyamines of light-harvesting complex II in a light-dependent way. Planta 219:754-764.

Della Vedova, CB; Cone, KC, 2004. Paramutation: The chromatin connection. Plant Cell 16:1358-1364.

Delseny, M, 2004. Re-evaluating the relevance of ancestral shared synteny as a tool for crop improvement. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 7:126-131.

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