Joshua C. Stein

The paper tracks structural mutations in rice over a century of breeding, showing exonic mutations are removed more rapidly than other mutation types during selection.

This study evaluates the impact of sequence depth and read length on long-read assembly quality for the maize genome, finding that lower depths and shorter reads result in fragmented assemblies.

The paper improves the maize reference genome using single molecule technologies, resulting in longer contigs and better annotation of repetitive elements and genes.