GRASSIUS Contributors

• Fabio Gomez Cano (Michigan State University, MI)
• John Gray (University of Toledo, OH)
• Erich Grotewold (Michigan State University, MI)
• Hadi Nayebi (Michigan State University, MI)
• Sarah Percival (Michigan State University, MI)
• Oliver Tessmer (Michigan State University, MI)

• Jeffrey Campbell
• Ramana Davuluri
• Eric Easley
• Evans Kataka
• Maria Katherine Mejia-Guerra
• Eric Maina
• Wilberforce Ouma
• Saran Palaniswamy
• Glaucia Souza
• Hao Sun
• Alper Yilmaz
• Milton Yutaka Nishiyama Jr.

Acknowledgments

Oliver Tessmer is the webmaster. We are grateful for comments and insights provided by Plant Genome Project advisory committee, Drs. C. Robin Buell (Michigan State University), Doreen Ware (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Tom Brutnell (Cornell University) and Patty Springer (University of California, Riverside).

We wish also to thank Alper Yilmaz, Ramana Davuluri and Saran Palaniswamy for the initial concept of GRASSIUS, Bernardo Garcia Fuentes for his help in creating and designing the MySQL database and page design, Milton Yutaka Nishiyama Jr. for his help in populating the transcription factor data, Dr. Daniel Janies and Eric Easley for their help in construction of phylogenetic trees. Drs. John Gray and Guo-Liang Wang for help providing TFome collection data. Dr. Lee Pratt for his help in sorghum data. Sugarcane transcription factor data partially provided by Dr. Glaucia Souza's lab. Additional thanks to Andrew Reed and Jeffrey Campbell for additional functionality and updates to the Grassius website.