Informal meeting to talk (mainly) about maize, local adaptation, plant nutrition and related areas.
We meet on Wednesdays at the library terrace of the administrative building at 5 PM. See the list of papers below. Suggest more on slack.
Meihls et al (2013) Natural Variation in Maize Aphid Resistance Is Associated with 2,4-Dihydroxy-7-Methoxy-1,4-Benzoxazin-3-One Glucoside Methyltransferase Activity
Wu et al (2012) Presence of tannins in sorghum grains is conditioned by different natural alleles of Tannin1
Mao et al (2015)A transposable element in a NAC gene is associated with drought tolerance in maize seedlings
Fustier et al (2014)Signatures of local adaptation in lowland and highland teosintes from whole genome sequencing of pooled samples
Lemmon et al (2014)The Role of cis Regulatory Evolution in Maize Domestication
Liu et al (2012)Changes in genome content generated via segregation of non-allelic homologs
Plessis et al (2015) Multiple abiotic stimuli are integrated in the regulation of rice gene expression under field conditions
Maron et al (2017) Aluminum tolerance in maize is associated with higher MATE1 gene copy number
Waters et al (2017) Natural variation for gene expression responses to abiotic stress in maize
Shaw et al (2014) Natural Selection Canalizes Expression Variation of Environmentally Induced Plasticity-Enabling Genes
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Renny-Byfield, Rodgers-Melnick & Ross-Ibarra (2016) Gene fractionation and function in the ancient subgenomes of maize
Todesco el al (2012) Natural allelic variation underlying a major fitness trade-off in Arabidopsis thaliana
Gould et al (2016) Pooled ecotype sequencing reveals candidate genetic mechanisms for adaptive differentiation and reproductive isolation
Jian-Yang et al (2015) A gene for genetic background in Zea mays: fine-mapping enhancer of teosinte branched1.2 (etb1.2) to a YABBY class transcription factor
Postponed for general depression after Trump won the elections.
Thieme et al (2015) Endogenous Arabidopsis messenger RNAs transported to distant tissues
Selinger & Chandler (1999) Major recent and independent changes in levels and patterns of expression have occurred at the b gene, a regulatory locus in maize
Selinger, Lisch & Chandler (1998) The Maize Regulatory Gene B-Peru Contains a DNA Rearrangement That Specifies Tissue-Specific Expression Through Both Positive and Negative Promoter Elements
Je et al (2016) Signaling from maize organ primordia via FASCIATED EAR3 regulates stem cell proliferation and yield traits
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Gray et al (2016) Intensifying drought eliminates the expected benefits of elevated carbon dioxide for soybean
Lovell et al (2016) Exploiting Differential Gene Expression and Epistasis to Discover Candidate Genes for Drought-Associated QTLs in Arabidopsis thaliana