Zhukuan Cheng

Publication List Details

Period

2006 - 2006

Number

32

Co-Authors

The Tomato Sequencing Project, the First Cornerstone of the International Solanaceae Project (SOL) (2006)

Lukas A. Mueller, Steven D. Tanksley, Jim J. Giovannoni, Joyce Van Eck, Stephen Stack, Doil Choi, ...

The genome of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is being sequenced by an international consortium of 10 countries (Korea, China, the United Kingdom, India, The Netherlands, France, Japan, Spain, Italy...

Complex mtDNA constitutes an approximate 620-kb insertion on Arabidopsis thaliana chromosome 2: Implication of potential sequencing errors caused by large-unit repeats

Stupar, Robert M., Lilly, Jason W., Town, Christopher D., Cheng, Zhukuan, Kaul, Samir, Buell, C. Robin, ...

Previously conducted sequence analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype Columbia-0) reported an insertion of 270-kb mtDNA into the pericentric region on the short arm of chromosome 2. DNA fiber-based...

Functional Rice Centromeres Are Marked by a Satellite Repeat and a Centromere-Specific Retrotransposon

Cheng, Zhukuan, Dong, Fenggao, Langdon, Tim, Ouyang, Shu, Buell, C. Robin, Gu, Minghong, ...

The centromere of eukaryotic chromosomes is essential for the faithful segregation and inheritance of genetic information. In the majority of eukaryotic species, centromeres are associated with...

A Fine Physical Map of the Rice Chromosome 4

Zhao, Qiang, Zhang, Yu, Cheng, Zhukuan, Chen, Mingsheng, Wang, Shengyue, Feng, Qi, ...

As part of an international effort to completely sequence the rice genome, we have produced a fine bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-based physical map of the Oryza sativa japonica Nipponbare...

Toward a Cytological Characterization of the Rice Genome

Cheng, Zhukuan, Buell, C. Robin, Wing, Rod A., Gu, Minghong, Jiang, Jiming

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) will be the first major crop, as well as the first monocot plant species, to be completely sequenced. Integration of DNA sequence-based maps with cytological maps will be...

Structural features of the rice chromosome 4 centromere

Zhang, Yu, Huang, Yuchen, Zhang, Lei, Li, Ying, Lu, Tingting, Lu, Yiqi, ...

A complete sequence of a chromosome centromere is necessary for fully understanding centromere function. We reported the sequence structures of the first complete rice chromosome centromere through...

Chromatin immunoprecipitation cloning reveals rapid evolutionary patterns of centromeric DNA in Oryza species

Lee, Hye-Ran, Zhang, Wenli, Langdon, Tim, Jin, Weiwei, Yan, Huihuang, Cheng, Zhukuan, ...

The functional centromeres of rice (Oryza sativa, AA genome) chromosomes contain two key DNA components: the CRR centromeric retrotransposons and a 155-bp satellite repeat, CentO. However, several...

A Tiling Microarray Expression Analysis of Rice Chromosome 4 Suggests a Chromosome-Level Regulation of TranscriptionW⃞

Jiao, Yuling, Jia, Peixin, Wang, Xiangfeng, Su, Ning, Yu, Shuliang, Zhang, Dongfen, ...

The complete genome sequence of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) provides an unprecedented opportunity to understand the biology of this model cereal. An essential and necessary step in this effort is...

Complex Organization and Evolution of the Tomato Pericentromeric Region at the FER Gene Locus1[w]

Guyot, Romain, Cheng, Xudong, Su, Yan, Cheng, Zhukuan, Schlagenhauf, Edith, Keller, Beat, ...

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) is a model species for molecular biology research and a candidate for large-scale genome sequencing. Pericentromeric heterochromatin constitutes a large portion of...

The Transcribed 165-bp CentO Satellite Is the Major Functional Centromeric Element in the Wild Rice Species Oryza punctata

Zhang, Wenli, Yi, Chuandeng, Bao, Weidong, Liu, Bin, Cui, Jiajun, Yu, Hengxiu, ...

Centromeres are required for faithful segregation of chromosomes in cell division. It is not clear what kind of sequences act as functional centromeres and how centromere sequences are organized in...

Molecular Cytogenetic Characterization of the Antirrhinum majus Genome

Zhang, Dongfen, Yang, Qiuying, Bao, Weidong, Zhang, Yu, Han, Bin, Xue, Yongbiao, ...

As a model system in classical plant genetics, the genus Antirrhinum has been well studied, especially in gametophytic self-incompatibility, flower development biology, and transposon-induced...

Euchromatin and Pericentromeric Heterochromatin: Comparative Composition in the Tomato Genome

Wang, Ying, Tang, Xiaomin, Cheng, Zhukuan, Mueller, Lukas, Giovannoni, Jim, Tanksley, Steve D.

Eleven sequenced BACs were annotated and localized via FISH to tomato pachytene chromosomes providing the first global insights into the compositional differences of euchromatin and pericentromeric...

Dasheng: a recently amplified nonautonomous long terminal repeat element that is a major component of pericentromeric regions in rice.

Jiang, Ning, Bao, Zhirong, Temnykh, Svetlana, Cheng, Zhukuan, Jiang, Jiming, Wing, Rod A, ...

A new and unusual family of LTR elements, Dasheng, has been discovered in the genome of Oryza sativa following database searches of approximately 100 Mb of rice genomic sequence and 78 Mb of BAC-end...

Highly condensed potato pericentromeric heterochromatin contains rDNA-related tandem repeats.

Stupar, Robert M, Song, Junqi, Tek, Ahmet L, Cheng, Zhukuan, Dong, Fenggao, Jiang, Jiming

The heterochromatin in eukaryotic genomes represents gene-poor regions and contains highly repetitive DNA sequences. The origin and evolution of DNA sequences in the heterochromatic regions are...

Complex mtDNA constitutes an approximate 620-kb insertion on Arabidopsis thaliana chromosome 2: Implication of potential sequencing errors caused by large-unit repeats

Stupar, Robert M., Lilly, Jason W., Town, Christopher D., Cheng, Zhukuan, Kaul, Samir, Buell, C. Robin, ...

Previously conducted sequence analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype Columbia-0) reported an insertion of 270-kb mtDNA into the pericentric region on the short arm of chromosome 2. DNA fiber-based...

Functional Rice Centromeres Are Marked by a Satellite Repeat and a Centromere-Specific Retrotransposon

Cheng, Zhukuan, Dong, Fenggao, Langdon, Tim, Ouyang, Shu, Buell, C. Robin, Gu, Minghong, ...

The centromere of eukaryotic chromosomes is essential for the faithful segregation and inheritance of genetic information. In the majority of eukaryotic species, centromeres are associated with...

A Fine Physical Map of the Rice Chromosome 4

Zhao, Qiang, Zhang, Yu, Cheng, Zhukuan, Chen, Mingsheng, Wang, Shengyue, Feng, Qi, ...

As part of an international effort to completely sequence the rice genome, we have produced a fine bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-based physical map of the Oryza sativa japonica Nipponbare...

Toward a Cytological Characterization of the Rice Genome

Cheng, Zhukuan, Buell, C. Robin, Wing, Rod A., Gu, Minghong, Jiang, Jiming

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) will be the first major crop, as well as the first monocot plant species, to be completely sequenced. Integration of DNA sequence-based maps with cytological maps will be...

Structural features of the rice chromosome 4 centromere

Zhang, Yu, Huang, Yuchen, Zhang, Lei, Li, Ying, Lu, Tingting, Lu, Yiqi, ...

A complete sequence of a chromosome centromere is necessary for fully understanding centromere function. We reported the sequence structures of the first complete rice chromosome centromere through...

A Tiling Microarray Expression Analysis of Rice Chromosome 4 Suggests a Chromosome-Level Regulation of TranscriptionW⃞

Jiao, Yuling, Jia, Peixin, Wang, Xiangfeng, Su, Ning, Yu, Shuliang, Zhang, Dongfen, ...

The complete genome sequence of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) provides an unprecedented opportunity to understand the biology of this model cereal. An essential and necessary step in this effort is...

Complex Organization and Evolution of the Tomato Pericentromeric Region at the FER Gene Locus1[w]

Guyot, Romain, Cheng, Xudong, Su, Yan, Cheng, Zhukuan, Schlagenhauf, Edith, Keller, Beat, ...

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) is a model species for molecular biology research and a candidate for large-scale genome sequencing. Pericentromeric heterochromatin constitutes a large portion of...

Chromatin immunoprecipitation cloning reveals rapid evolutionary patterns of centromeric DNA in Oryza species

Lee, Hye-Ran, Zhang, Wenli, Langdon, Tim, Jin, Weiwei, Yan, Huihuang, Cheng, Zhukuan, ...

The functional centromeres of rice (Oryza sativa, AA genome) chromosomes contain two key DNA components: the CRR centromeric retrotransposons and a 155-bp satellite repeat, CentO. However, several...

The Transcribed 165-bp CentO Satellite Is the Major Functional Centromeric Element in the Wild Rice Species Oryza punctata

Zhang, Wenli, Yi, Chuandeng, Bao, Weidong, Liu, Bin, Cui, Jiajun, Yu, Hengxiu, ...

Centromeres are required for faithful segregation of chromosomes in cell division. It is not clear what kind of sequences act as functional centromeres and how centromere sequences are organized in...

Molecular Cytogenetic Characterization of the Antirrhinum majus Genome

Zhang, Dongfen, Yang, Qiuying, Bao, Weidong, Zhang, Yu, Han, Bin, Xue, Yongbiao, ...

As a model system in classical plant genetics, the genus Antirrhinum has been well studied, especially in gametophytic self-incompatibility, flower development biology, and transposon-induced...

Euchromatin and Pericentromeric Heterochromatin: Comparative Composition in the Tomato Genome

Wang, Ying, Tang, Xiaomin, Cheng, Zhukuan, Mueller, Lukas, Giovannoni, Jim, Tanksley, Steve D.

Eleven sequenced BACs were annotated and localized via FISH to tomato pachytene chromosomes providing the first global insights into the compositional differences of euchromatin and pericentromeric...

Dasheng: a recently amplified nonautonomous long terminal repeat element that is a major component of pericentromeric regions in rice.

Jiang, Ning, Bao, Zhirong, Temnykh, Svetlana, Cheng, Zhukuan, Jiang, Jiming, Wing, Rod A, ...

A new and unusual family of LTR elements, Dasheng, has been discovered in the genome of Oryza sativa following database searches of approximately 100 Mb of rice genomic sequence and 78 Mb of BAC-end...

Highly condensed potato pericentromeric heterochromatin contains rDNA-related tandem repeats.

Stupar, Robert M, Song, Junqi, Tek, Ahmet L, Cheng, Zhukuan, Dong, Fenggao, Jiang, Jiming

The heterochromatin in eukaryotic genomes represents gene-poor regions and contains highly repetitive DNA sequences. The origin and evolution of DNA sequences in the heterochromatic regions are...

GOLD HULL AND INTERNODE2 Encodes a Primarily Multifunctional Cinnamyl-Alcohol Dehydrogenase in Rice1

Zhang, Kewei, Qian, Qian, Huang, Zejun, Wang, Yiqin, Li, Ming, Hong, Lilan, ...

Lignin content and composition are two important agronomic traits for the utilization of agricultural residues. Rice (Oryza sativa) gold hull and internode phenotype is a classical morphological...

Heat Stress Induces an Aggregation of the Light-Harvesting Complex of Photosystem II in Spinach Plants1

Tang, Yunlai, Wen, Xiaogang, Lu, Qingtao, Yang, Zhipan, Cheng, Zhukuan, Lu, Congming

Whole spinach (Spinacia oleracea) plants were subjected to heat stress (25°C–50°C) in the dark for 30 min. At temperatures higher than 35°C, CO2 assimilation rate decreased significantly. The...

SDG714, a Histone H3K9 Methyltransferase, Is Involved in Tos17 DNA Methylation and Transposition in Rice[W]

Ding, Yong, Wang, Xia, Su, Lei, Zhai, JiXian, Cao, ShouYun, Zhang, DongFen, ...

Although the role of H3K9 methylation in rice (Oryza sativa) is unclear, in Arabidopsis thaliana the loss of histone H3K9 methylation by mutation of Kryptonite [also known as SU(VAR)3-9 homolog]...

Mutations of genes in synthesis of the carotenoid precursors of ABA lead to pre-harvest sprouting and photo-oxidation in rice

Fang, Jun, Chai, Chenglin, Qian, Qian, Li, Chunlai, Tang, Jiuyou, Sun, Lei, ...

Pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) or vivipary in cereals is an important agronomic trait that results in significant economic loss. A considerable number of mutations that cause PHS have been identified in...

The Tomato Sequencing Project, the First Cornerstone of the International Solanaceae Project (SOL)

Mueller, Lukas A., Tanksley, Steven D., Giovannoni, Jim J., Van Eck, Joyce, Stack, Stephen, Choi, Doil, ...

The genome of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is being sequenced by an international consortium of 10 countries (Korea, China, the United Kingdom, India, The Netherlands, France, Japan, Spain, Italy...