Rod A. Wing

Bud Antle Endowed Chair Professor - School of Plant Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Arizona Genomics Institute
rwing@mail.arizona.edu, Keating BioResearch Building, Room 253
520-626-9595 / 520-626-9601 (Lab)

Educational Background

  • 1980 B.A. Biochemistry, UC Berkeley
  • 1987 Ph.D. Genetics, UC Davis
  • 1987-1990, Postdoctoral Research Associate, USDA-UC Berkely Plant Gene Expression Center, Albany, CA
  • 1990-1991, Reserach Associate, NSF Plant Science Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Research Interests

  • Comparative Evolutionary Genomics of Crop Plants (Rice, Oryza, Maize, Cotton, Brassica, Amborella)
  • Genome Sequencing and Physical Mapping
  • Bioinformatics
  • BAC Library Construction & Distribution (www.genome.arizona.edu/orders)
  • Education and Outreach - Plant Science Family Night

Selected Publications

Wing, R.A*, M.D. Purugganan & Q. Zhang* (*Co-corresponding authors). The rice genome revolution: from an ancient grain to Green Super Rice. 2018. Nature Reviews Genetics, doi.org/10.1038/s41576-018-0024-z.
Wu, W., X. Liu, M. Wang, R.S. Meyer, X. Luo, M.-N. Ndjiondjop, L. Tan, J. Zhang, J. Wu, H. Cai, C. Sun, X. Wang, R.A. Wing*, Z. Zhu1* (*Co-corresponding authors). A single-nucleotide polymorphism causes smaller grain size and loss of seed shattering during African rice domestication. 2017. Nature Plants doi 10.1038/nplants.2017.64.
Wang, W., R. Mauleon, Z. Hu, D. Chebotarov, S. Tai, Z. Wu, M. Li, T. Zheng, R.R. Fuentes, F. Zhang, L. Mansueto, D. Copetti, M. Sanciangco, K.C. Palis, J. Xu, C. Sun, H. Zhang, B. Fu, Yongming Gao1,5, Xiuqin Zhao1, Fei Shen, Xiao Cui, Hong Yu, Zichao Li, M. Chen, J. Detras, Y. Zhou, X. Zhang, Y. Zhao, D. Kudrna, C. Wang, R. Li, B. Jia, J. Lu, X. He, Z. Dong, J. Xu, Y. Li, M. Wang, J. Shi, J. Li, D. Zhang, S. Lee, W. Hu, A. Poliakov, I. Dubchak, V.J. Ulat, F.N. Borja, J.R. Mendoza, J. Ali, J. Li, M. Yang, Y. Niu, Z. Yue4, M.E.B. Naredo, J. Talag, X. Wang, J. Li, X. Fang, Y. Yin, J.C. Glaszmann, J. Zhang, J. Li, R.S. Hamilton, R.A.Wing*, C. Wei*, J. Ruan*, G. Zhang*, K.L. McNally*, N. Alexandrov*, Z. Li*, H. Leung (*Co-corresponding authors). 2018. Harnessing natural variation across 3,000 rice genomes: SNP discovery, population structure and genome diversity. 2018. Nature [Article] 557:43-49.
J.C. Stein, Y. Yu, D. Copetti, D.J. Zwick, L. Zhang, C. Zhang, K. Chougule, D. Gao, A. Iwata, J.L. Goicoechea, S. Wei, J. Wang, Y. Liao, M. Wang, J. Jacquemin, C. Becker, D. Kudrna, J. Zhang, C.E.M. Londono, X. Song, S. Lee, P. Sanchez, A. Zuccolo, J.S.S. Amiraju, J. Talag, A. Danowitz, L.F. Rivera, A.R. Gschwend, C. Noutsos, C. Wu, S. Kao, J. Zeng, F. Wei, Q. Zhao, Q. Feng, M. Elbaidouri, M.C. Carpentier, E. Lasserre, R. Cooke, D.R. Farias, L.C. Maia, R.S. Santos, K.G. Nyberg, C. Fan, D. Weigel, K.K. Jena, T. Wicker, M. Chen, B. Han, R. Henry, Y.C. Hsing, N. Kurata, A.C. Oliveira, O. Panaud, S.A. Jackson, C.A. Machado, M.J. Sanderson, M. Long, D. Ware & R.A. Wing. 2018. Genomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives reveal genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza. 2018. Nature Genetics [Article & Cover] 50:285-296.
Choi, J.Y., A.E. Platts, D.Q. Fuller, Y.I. Hsing, R.A. Wing, M.D. Purugganan. The rice paradox: Multiple origins but single domestication in Asian rice. 2017. Mol. Biol. Evol. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msx049
Lee, C.-R., B. Wang, J.P. Mojica, T. Mandáková, K.V.S.K. Prasad, J.L. Goicoechea, N. Perera, U. Hellsten, H.N. Hundley, J. Johnson, J. Grimwood, K. Barry, S. Fairclough, J.W. Jenkins, Y. Yu, D. Kudrna, J. Zhang, J. Talag, W. Golser, K. Ghattas, M.E. Schranz, R.A. Wing, M.A. Lysak, J. Schmutz, D.S. Rokhsar, T. Mitchell-Olds. Young inversion with multiple linked QTLs under selection in a hybrid zone. 2017. Nature Ecology & Evolution doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0166.
Copetti, D., A. Búrquez, E. Bustamante, J.L.M. Charboneau, K.L. Childs, L.E. Eguiarte, S. Lee, T.L. Liue, M.M. McMahon, N.K. Whiteman, R.A. Wing, M.F. Wojciechowski & M.J. Sanderson. Extensive gene tree discordance and hemiplasy shaped the genomes of North American columnar cacti. 2017. PNAS USA doi:10.1073/pnas.1706367114.
Harkess, A., J. Zhou, C. Xu, J.E. Bowers, R.V. Hulst, S. Ayyampalayam, F Mercati, P. Riccardi, M.R. McKain, A. Kakrana, H. Tang, J. Ray, J. Groenendijk, T. Arikit, S. Mathioni, M. Nakano, H. Shan, A. Telgmann-Rauber, A. Kanno, Z. Yue, H Chen, W. Li, Y. Chen, X. Xu, Y. Zhang, S Luo, H. Chen, J. Gao, Z Mao, J.C. Pires, M. Luo, D. Kudrna, R.A. Wing, B.C. Meyers, K. Yi, H. Kong, P. Lavrijsen, F. Sunseri, A. Falavigna, Y. Ye, J. Leebens-Mack, G. Chen. The asparagus genome sheds light on the origin and evolution of a young Y chromosome. 2017 Nature Communications 1279, doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01064-8.
Copetti, D., R.A. Wing. The dark side of the genome: revealing the native transposable element/repeat content of eukaryotic genomes. 2016. Molecular Plant doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2016.09.006.
Mansueto, L., R.R. Fuentes, F.N. Borja, J. Detras, J.M. Abriol-Santos, D. Chebotarov, M. Sanciangco, K. Palis, D. Copetti, A. Poliakov, I. Dubchak, V. Solovyev, R.A. Wing, R.S. Hamilton, R. Mauleon, K.L. McNally, N. Alexandrov. Rice SNP-seek database update: new SNPs, indels, and queries. 2016. Nucleic Acids Research doi:10.1093/nar/gkw1135
Zhang, J., L.L. Chen, F. Xing, D. Kudrna, W. Yao, D. Copetti, T. Mua, W. Lia, J.-M. Song, W. Xie, S. Lee, J. Talag, L. Shao, Y. An, C.-L. Zhang, Y. Ouyang, S. Sun, W.-B. Jiao, F. Lv, B. Du, M. Luo, C.E. Maldonado, J.L. Goicoechea, L. Xiong, C. Wu, Y. Xing, D. Zhou, S. Yu, Y. Zhao, G. Wanga, Y. Yu, Y. Luo, Z.W. Zhou, B.E.P. Hurtado, A. Danowitz, R.A. Wing*, & Q. Zhang* (*Co-corresponding Authors). Extensive complementarity of two indica rice reference genomes. 2016. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA doi:10.1073/pnas.1611012113; Vol. 113, no. 35, E5163-E5171.
van Andel, T.R., R.S. Meyer, S.A. Afllitos, J.A. Carney, M.A. Veltman, D. Copetti, J.M. Flowers, R.M. Havinga, H. Maat, M.D. Purugganan, R.A. Wing, M.E. Schranz. Ancestor rice of Suriname Maroons traced back to its African origin. 2016 Nature Plants doi: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.149.
Zhang, J. D. Kudrna, T. Ming, W. Li, D. Copetti, Y. Yu, J.L. Goicoechea, Y. Lei, R.A. Wing. Genome Puzzle Master (GPM) - An integrated pipeline for building and editing pseudomolecules from fragmented sequences. 2016. Bioinformatics doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw370.
Wicker, T., R.A. Wing, I. Schubert. Inter-chromosomal sequence exchange in a peculiar group of grass chromosomes. 2015. The Plant Journal 84: 747-759.
Zhang, Y., S. Zhang2, H. Liu, B. Fu, L. Li, M. Xie, Y. Song, X. Li, J. Cai, W. Wan, L. Kui, H. Huang, J. Lyu, Y. Dong, W. Wang, L. Huang, J. Zhang, Q. Yang, Q. Shan, Q. Li, W. Huang, D. Tao, M. Wang, M. Chen, Y. Yu, R.A. Wing*, W. Wang*, F. Hu* (*co-corresponding authors). 2015. Genome and comparative transcriptomics of African wild rice Oryza longistaminata provide insights into molecular mechanism of rhizomatousness and self-incompatibility. Molecular Plant 8:1683–1686.
Copetti, D., J. Zhang, M. El Badouri, D. Gao, J. Wang, E. Barghini, R. Cossu, A. Angelova, C.E. Maldonado, S. Roffler, H. Ohyanagi, T. Wicker, C. Fan, A. Zuccolo, M. Chen, A.C. de Oliveira, B. Han, R. Henry, Y.I. Hsing, N. Kurata, W. Wang, S. Jackson, O. Panaud, R.A. Wing. 2015. RiTE database: a resource database for genus-wide rice genomics and evolutionary biology. BMC Genomics 16:538.
Wang, M., Y. Yu, G. Haberer, P. Marri, C. Fan, J.L. Goicoechea, A. Zuccolo, X. Song, D. Kudrna, S.A. Jetty, R. Cossu , C. Maldonado, J. Chen , S. Lee, N. Sisneros, K. de Baynast , W. Golser, M. Wissotski, W. Kim , P. Sanchez, M.N. Ndjiondjop, K. Sanni , M. Long, J. Carney, O. Panaud, T. Wicker, C. Machado, M. Chen, K. Mayer, S. Rounsley, & R.A. Wing. 2014. The genome of African rice (Oryza glaberrima): Evidence for independent domestication. Nature Genetics 46:982-988.
Zwickl D., J. Stein, R.A. Wing, D. Ware, & M. Sanderson. 2014. Disentangling methodological and biological sources of gene tree discordance on Oryza (Poaceae) chromosome 3. Systematic Biology doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syu027.
Amborella Genome Project. 2013. The Amborella genome and the evolution of flowering plants. Science 342:1241084.
Chamala, S., A.S. Chanderbali, J.P. Der, T. Lan, B. Walts, V.A. Albert, C.W. dePamphilis, J. Leebens-Mack, S. Rounsley, S. Schuster, R.A. Wing, N. Xiao, R. Moore, P.S. Soltis, D.E. Soltis, & W. Barbazuk.2013. Assembly and validation of the complete nuclear genome sequence of the basal angiosperm Amborella, a non-model species. Science 342:1516-1517.
Jacquemin, J., J.S.S. Ammiraju, G. Haberer2, D.D. Billheimer, Y. Yu., L.C. Liu, L.F. Rivera, K. Mayer, M. Chen, & R.A. Wing. 2013. 15 MYA of evolution in the Oryza genus shows extensive gene family expansion. Molecular Plant (10.1093/mp/sst149).
Singh, R., M. Ong-Abdullah, E.T.L. Low, M.A.A. Manaf, R. Rosli, R. Nookiah, L.C.-L. Ooi, S.E. Ooi, K.L. Chan, M.A. Halim, N. Azizi, J. Nagappan, B. Bacher, N. Lakey, S.W. Smith, D. He, M. Hogan, M.A. Budiman, E.K. Lee, R. DeSalle, D. Kudrna, J.L. Goicoechea, R.A. Wing, R.K. Wilson, R.S. Fulton, J.M. Ordway, R.A. Martienssen, & R. Sambanthamurthi. 2013. Oil plam genome sequence reveals divergence of interfertile species in old and new worlds. Nature 500:335-339.
Jacquemin, J., D. Bhatia, K. Singh, & R.A. Wing. 2013. The International - Oryza Map Alignment Project: Development of a genus-wide comparative genomics platform to help solve the 9 billion-people question. Curr. Op. Plant Biol. 16:147-156.
Chen J, Q. Huang, D. Gao, J. Wang, Y. Lang, T. Liu, B. Li, Z. Bai, J.L. Goicoechea, C. Liang, C. Chen, W. Zhang, S. Sun, Y. Liao, X. Zhang, L. Yang, C. Song, M. Wang, J. Shi, G. Liu, J. Liu, H. Zhou, W. Zhou, Q. Yu, N. An, Y. Chen, Q. Cai, B. Wang, B. Liu, J. Min, Y. Huang, H. Wu, Z. Li, Y. Zhang, Y. Yin, W. Song, J. Jiang, S.A. Jackson, R.A. Wing, J. Wang, & M. Chen. 2013. Whole-genome sequencing of Oryza brachyantha reveals mechanisms underlying Oryza genome evolution. Nature Commun 4: 1595
Maron, L.G., C.T. Guimarães, M. Kirst, P.S. Albert, J.A. Birchler, P.J. Bradbury, E.S. Buckler, A.E. Coluccio, T.V. Danilova, D. Kudrna, J.V. Magalhaes, M.A. Piñeros, M.C. Schatz, R.A. Wing, & L.V. Kochian. 2013. Aluminum tolerance in maize is associated with higher MATE1 gene copy-number. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110:5241-5246.
The International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium. 2012. A physical, genetic and functional sequence assembly of the barley genome. Nature 491:711-716.
Tomato Genome Sequencing Consortium (300+ authors). 2012. The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution. Nature 485:635-641.
Fan, C., J. Walling, J. Zhang, J. Jiang, and R.A. Wing. Conservation and purifying selection of transcribed genes in recombination-free centromeres. 2011. Plant Cell (in press).
Ammiraju, J.S.S, X. Song, M. Luo, N. Sisneros, A. Angelova, D. Kudrna, H.R. Kim, Y. Yu, J.L. Goicoechea, M. Lorieux, N. Kurata, D. Brar, D. Ware, S. Jackson, and R.A. Wing. 2010. The Oryza BAC Resource: A genus-wide and genome scale tool for exploring rice genome evolution and leveraging useful genetic diversity from wild relatives. Breeding Science 60:536-543.
Hurwitz, B. D. Kudrna, Y. Yu, A. Sebastian, A. Zuccolo, S.A. Jackson, D. Ware, R.A. Wing*, L. Stein*. 2010. Rice structural variation: a comparative analysis of structural variation between rice and three of its closest relatives in the genus Oryza. Plant Journal 63:990-1003. (*co-corresponding authors).
Ammiraju, J.S.S., C. Fan, Y. Yu, X. Song, K.A. Cranston, A.C. Pontaroli, F.L., A. Sanyal, N. Jiang, T. Rambo, J. Currie, K. Collura, J. Talag, J.L. Bennetzen, M. Chen, S. Jackson and R.A. Wing. 2010. Spatio-temporal patterns of genome evolution in homeologous Adh1 - Adh2 regions from four allotetraploid species of the genus Oryza. Plant Journal 63:430-442.
The Maize Genome Sequencing Consortium. 2009. The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics. Science 326:1112-1115.
Wei, F., J.C. Stein, C. Liang, J. Zhang, R.S. Fulton, R.S. Baucom, E. De Paoli, S. Zhou, L. Yang, Y. Han, S. Pasternak, A. Narechania, L. Zhang, C.-T. Yeh, K. Ying, D.H. Nagel, K. Collura, D Kudrna, J. Currie, J. Lin, H.R. Kim, A. Angelova, G. Scara, M. Wissotski, W. Golser, L. C., S. Kruchowski, T.A. Graves, S.M. Rock, S. Adams, L.A. Fulton, C. Fronick, W. Courtney, M. Kramer, L. Spiegel, L. Nascimento, A. Kalyanaraman, C. Chaparro, J.-M. Deragon, P. San Miguel, N. Jiang, S.R. Wessler, P.J. Green, Y. Yu, D.C. Schwartz, B.C. Meyers, J.L. Bennetzen, R.A. Martienssen, W.R. McCombie, S. Aluru , S.W. Clifton, P.S. Schnable, D. Ware, R.K. Wilson, R.A. Wing. 2009. Detailed analysis of a contiguous 22-Mb region of the maize genome. PLoS Genet 5: e1000728.
Wei, F., J. Zhang, S. Zhou, R. He, M. Schaeffer, K. Collura, D. Kudrna, B.P. Faga, M. Wissotski, M., Golser, W., S.M. Rock, T.A. Graves, R.S. Fulton, E. Coe, P.S. Schnable, D.C. Schwartz, D. Ware, S.W. Clifton, R.K. Wilson, R.A. Wing. 2009. The physical and genetic framework of the maize B73 genome. PLoS Genet 5: e1000715
Rounsley, S., P.R. Marri, Y. Yu, R. He, N. Sisneros, J.L. Goicoechea, S.J. Lee, A. Angelova, D. Kudrna, M. Luo, J. Affourtit, B. Desany, J. Knight, F. Niazi, M. Egholm, R.A. Wing. 2009. De novo next generation sequencing of plant genomes. RICE 2:35–43
Ammiraju, JSS, F. Lu, A. Sanyal, Y. Yu, X. Song, N. Jiang, A.C. Pontaroli, T. Rambo, J. Currie, K. Collura, J. Talag, C. Fan, J.L. Goicoechea, A. Zuccolo, J. Chen, J.L. Bennetzen, M. Chen, S. Jackson, and R.A. Wing. 2008. Dynamic evolution of Oryza genomes is revealed by comparative genomic analysis of a genus-wide vertical data set. Plant Cell 20:3191-3209
Kim, H., B. Hurwitz, Y. Yu, K. Collura, N. Gill, P. SanMiguel, J.C. Mullikin, C. Maher, W. Nelson, M. Wissotski, M. Braidotti, D. Kudrna, J.L. Goicoechea, L. Stein, D. Ware, S.A. Jackson, C. Soderlund, R.A. Wing. 2008. Construction, alignment and analysis of twelve framework physical maps that represent the ten genome types of the genus Oryza. Genome Biol 9: Article R45.
Ammiraju, J.S., A. Zuccolo, Y. Yu, X. Song, B. Piegu, F. Chevalier, J.G. Walling, J. Ma, J. Talag, D.S. Brar, P.J. SanMiguel, N. Jiang, S.A. Jackson, O. Panaud, R.A. Wing. 2007. Evolutionary dynamics of an ancient retrotransposon family provides insights into evolution of genome size in the genus Oryza. Plant J 52:342-351.
Ma, J., R.A. Wing, J.L. Bennetzen, S.A. Jackson. 2007. Evolutionary history and positional shift of a rice centromere. Genetics 177:1217-1220.
Wei, F., E. Coe, W. Nelson, A.K. Bharti, F. Engler, E. Butler, H. Kim, J.L. Goicoechea, M. Chen, S. Lee, G. Fuks, H. Sanchez-Villeda, S. Schroeder, Z. Fang, M. McMullen, G. Davis, J.E. Bowers, A.H. Paterson, M. Schaeffer, J. Gardiner, K. Cone, J. Messing, C. Soderlund, R.A. Wing. 2007. Physical and genetic structure of the maize genome reflects its complex evolutionary history. PLoS Genet 3: e123.
Zuccolo, A., A. Sebastian, J. Talag, Y. Yu, H. Kim, K. Collura, D. Kudrna, R.A. Wing. 2007. Transposable element distribution, abundance and role in genome size variation in the genus Oryza. BMC Evol Biol 7: 152.
Kim, H., P. San Miguel, W. Nelson, K. Collura, M. Wissotski, J.G. Walling, J.P. Kim, S.A. Jackson, C. Soderlund, R.A. Wing. 2007. Comparative physical mapping between Oryza sativa (AA genome type) and O. punctata (BB genome type). Genetics 176:379-390.
Piegu, B., R. Guyot, N. Picault, A. Roulin, A. Saniyal, H. Kim, K. Collura, D.S. Brar, S. Jackson, R.A. Wing, O. Panaud. 2006. Doubling genome size without polyploidization: dynamics of retrotransposition-driven genomic expansions in Oryza australiensis, a wild relative of rice. Genome Res 16:1262-1269.
Ammiraju, J.S.S., M. Luo, J.L. Goicoechea, W. Wang, D. Kudrna, C. Mueller, J. Talag, H.R. Kim, N.B. Sisneros, B. Blackmon, E. Fang, J.B. Tomkins, D. Brar, D. MacKill, S. McCouch, N. Kurata, G. Lambert, D.W. Galbraith, K. Arumuganathan, K. Rao, J.G. Walling, N. Gill , Y. Yu, P. SanMiguel, C. Soderlund, S. Jackson, R.A. Wing. (2006). The Oryza bacterial artificial chromosome library resource: Construction and analysis of 12 deep-coverage large-insert BAC libraries that represent the 10 genome types of the genus Oryza. Genome Res 16:140-147.
Kumar, C.S., R.A. Wing, V. Sundaresan. 2005. Efficient insertional mutagenesis in rice using maize En/Spm elements. Plant Journal 139:27-38.
The Rice Chromosome 3 Sequencing Consortium (R. Buell, W.R. McCombie & R.A. Wing – Corresponding Authors). 2005. Sequence, annotation, and analysis of synteny between rice chromosome 3 and diverged grass species. Genome Res 15:1-10.
The International Rice Genome Sequencing Project Project. 2005. The map based sequence of the rice genome. Nature 436:793-800.
Messing, J., A.K. Bharti, W.M. Karlowski, H. Gundlach, H.R. Kim, Y. Yu, F. Wei, G. Fuks, C.A. Soderlund, K.F. Mayer, R.A. Wing. 2004. Sequence composition and genome organization of maize. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101:14349-14354.
Dietrich, F.S., S. Voegeli, S. Brachat, A. Lerch, K. Gates, S. Steiner, C. Mohr, R. Pöhlmann, P. Luedi, S. Choi, R.A. Wing, A. Flavier, T.D. Gaffney, P. Philippsen. 2004. The Ashbya gossypii genome as a tool for mapping the ancient Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome. Science 304:304-307.
The Rice Chromosome 10 Sequencing Consortium. 2003. In-depth view of structure, activity, and evolution of rice chromosome 10. Science 300:1566-1569.
Chen M., G. Presting, Barbazuk W.B., Goicoechea J.L., Blackmon B, Fang G, Kim HR, Frisch DA, Yu Y, Higingbottom S, Phimphilai K, Phimphilai S, Thurmond S, Gaudette B, Li P, Liu J, Hatfield J, Main D, Sun S, Farrar K, Henderson C, Barnett L, Costa R, Williams B, Walser S, Atkins M, Hall C, Bancroft I, Salse J, Regad F, Mohapatra T, Singh NK, Tyagi AK, Soderlund C, Dean RA, R.A. Wing 2002. An integrated physical and genetic map of the rice genome. Plant Cell 14:537-545.
Goff, S.A., D. Ricke, R. Wang, G. Presting, D. Lan, M. Dunn, J. Glazebrook, H. Varma, D. Hadley, D Hutchison, A Sessions, C Martin, F Katagiri, P Oeller, B.M. Lange, T Moughamer, Y Xia, P Budworth, J Zhong, T Miguel, CB Ho, U Paszkowski, S Zhang, M Colbert, W Sun, L Chen, B Cooper, S Park, W Kimmerly, T.C. Wood , L. Mao, P. Quail, R.A. Wing, R. Dean, Y. Yu, S. Briggs, A. Zharkikh, R. Shen, A. Oliphant, S. Sahasrabudhe, A. Thomas, R. Cannings, A. Gutin, D. Pruss, J. Reid, S. Tavtigian, J. Mitchell, G. Eldredge, T. Scholl, R.M. Miller, S. Bhatnagar, N. Adey, T. Rubano, N. Tusneem, R. Robinson, J. Feldhaus, T. Macalma 2002. Draft sequence of the rice genome. Science 296:92-100.
Wei, F., R.A. Wing, R.P. Wise. 2002. Genome dynamics and evolution of the Mla (Powdery Mildew) resistance locus in barley. Plant Cell 14:1903-1917.
Mao, L., D. Begum, S.A. Goff, R.A. Wing. 2001. Sequence and analysis of the tomato JOINTLESS locus. Plant Physiology: 126:1331-1340.
Cheng Z., C.R. Buell, R.A. Wing , M. Gu, J. Jiang. 2001 Toward a cytological characterization of the rice genome. Genome Res, 11:2133-2141.
Mao, L., D. Begum, H.W. Chuang, M.A. Budiman, E.J. Szymkowiak, E.E. Irish, R.A. Wing. 2000. JOINTLESS is a MADS-box gene controlling tomato flower abscission zone development. Nature: 406:910-913.
Yu, Y., J.P. Tomkins, R. Waugh, D.A. Frisch, D. Kudrna, A. Kleinhofs, R.S. Brueggeman, G.J. Muehlbauer, R.P. Wise, R.A. Wing. 2000. A bacterial artificial chromosome library for barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and the identification of clones containing putative resistance genes. Theoretical and Applied Genetics: 101:1093-1099.
Mao, L., T.C. Wood, Y. Yu, M.A. Budiman, S.S. Woo, M. Sasinowski, G. Presting, D. Frisch, S. Goff, R.A. Dean, R.A. Wing. 2000. Rice transposable elements: A survey of 73,000 sequence-tagged-connectors. Genome Res: 10:982-990.
Chen, M., Pl SanMiguel, A.X. de Oliveria, S.S. Woo, H. Zhang, R.A. Wing, J.L. Bennetzen. 1997. Microcolinearity in sh2-homologous regions of the maize, rice and sorghum genomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94:3431-3435.
Zhang, H.B., S.D. Choi, S.S. Woo, Z.K. Li, R.A. Wing. 1996. Construction and characterization of two rice bacterial artificial chromosome libraries from the parents of a permanent recombinant inbred mapping population. Molecular Breeding 2:11-24.
Woo S.-S., J. Jiang, B.S. Gill, A.H. Paterson, R.A. Wing. 1994. Construction and characterization of a bacterial artificial chromosome library for Sorghum bicolor. Nucleic Acids Res 22:4922-4931.
Chittenden, L.M., K. F. Schertz, Y.-R. Lin, R.A. Wing, A.H. Paterson. 1994. RFLP mapping of a cross between Sorghum Bicolor and S. propinquum, suitable for high-density mapping, suggests ancestral duplication of Sorghum chromosomes. Theor Appl Genet 87:925-933.
Lv, Shuwei, W. Wu, M. Wang, R.S. Meyer, M.N. Ndjiondjop, L. Tan, H. Zhou, J. Zhang, Y. Fu, H. Cai, C. Sun, R.A. Wing, Z. Zhu. Genetic control of seed shattering during African rice domestication. 2018. Nature Plants, 4:331–337.
Tanksley, S.D., M.W. Ganal, J.C. Prince, M.C. deVicente, MW. Bonierbale, P. Broun, T.M Fulton, J.J. Giovannoni, S. Grandillo, G.B. Martin, R. Messequer, J.C. Miller, L. Miller, A.H. Paterson, O. Pineda, M.S. Roeder, R.A. Wing, W. Wu, N.D. Young. 1992. High-density molecular linkage maps of the tomato and potato genomes. Genetics 132:1141-1160.
Wing, R.A., J.J. Giovannoni, M. Ganal, S.D. Tanksley. 1991. Isolation of molecular markers from specific chromosomal intervals using DNA pools from existing mapping populations. Nucleic Acids Res. 23: 6553-6558.
Deng, X. W., R.A. Wing, W. Gruissem. 1989. The chloroplast genome exists in multimeric forms. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 86:4156-4160.

Research Areas

  • Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
  • Genetics and Epigenetics
  • Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology