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Open AccessA Wox3-patterning module organizes planar growth in grass leaves and ligules
Grass leaves develop from a ring of primordial initial cells within the periphery of the shoot apical meristem, a pool of organogenic stem cells that generates all of the organs of the plant shoot. At maturity...
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Protoplast Isolation from Undifferentiated Maize Seedling Shoot Tissue
Protoplasts are plant cells that have had their cell walls removed, which allows for a variety of cellular manipulations that are not possible within the context of intact plant tissue. Unfortunately, the remo...
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A functionally informed evolutionary framework for the study of LRR-RLKs during stem cell maintenance
Plants maintain populations of stem cells to generate new organs throughout the course of their lives. The pathways that regulate plant stem cell maintenance have garnered great interest over the past decades,...
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Author Correction: Widespread long-range cis-regulatory elements in the maize genome
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Widespread long-range cis-regulatory elements in the maize genome
Genetic map** studies on crops suggest that agronomic traits can be controlled by gene–distal intergenic loci. Despite the biological importance and the potential agronomic utility of these loci, they remain...
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Open AccessGenome-wide nucleotide patterns and potential mechanisms of genome divergence following domestication in maize and soybean
Plant domestication provides a unique model to study genome evolution. Many studies have been conducted to examine genes, genetic diversity, genome structure, and epigenome changes associated with domesticatio...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Genome-wide discovery and characterization of maize long non-coding RNAs
The original version [1] of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The additive effects of the eQTLs of lncRNAs were flipped, meaning that the base allele in the contrast to derive the additive effect...
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Open AccessSubstantial contribution of genetic variation in the expression of transcription factors to phenotypic variation revealed by eRD-GWAS
There are significant limitations in existing methods for the genome-wide identification of genes whose expression patterns affect traits.
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Stem cell regulation is critical to the development of all multicellular organisms; in plants, stem cell niches reside in meristems. Two newly identified plant genes establish a novel signaling feedback from t...
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Open AccessGenetic control of morphometric diversity in the maize shoot apical meristem
The maize shoot apical meristem (SAM) comprises a small pool of stem cells that generate all above-ground organs. Although mutational studies have identified genetic networks regulating SAM function, little is...
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Open AccessLeaves of grass: focusing phenomics on maize leaf growth
The detailed analysis of leaf growth dynamics, when coupled with transcriptomic research, can facilitate the discovery of genes required for leaf elongation.
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Open AccessGenome-wide discovery and characterization of maize long non-coding RNAs
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts that are 200 bp or longer, do not encode proteins, and potentially play important roles in eukaryotic gene regulation. However, the number, characteristics and ex...
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Mutagenesis by Transitive RNAi
Transitive RNAi is a posttranscriptional mechanism of gene silencing that is based on the phenomenon of “transitivity.” This term refers to the spreading of silencing outside of the initial target sequence and...
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Kernel Biology
Maize kernels contain a persistent endosperm and a developmentally precocious embryo, each of which is comprised of a relatively small number of distinct tissue types. Clonally distinct yet genetically identic...
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The maize heat shock factor-binding protein paralogs EMP2 and HSBP2 interact non-redundantly with specific heat shock factors
The heat shock response (HSR) is a conserved mechanism by which transcripts of heat shock protein (hsp) genes accumulate following mobilization of heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) in response to thermal st...
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Phenotypic analysis and molecular cloning of discolored-1 (dsc1), a maize gene required for early kernel development
Recessive mutations in the maize dsc1 locus prevent normal kernel development. Solidification of the endosperm in homozygous dsc1− mutant kernels was undetectable 12 days after pollination, at which time the t...
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DNA sequence and transcript analysis of transposon MuA2, a regulator of Mutator transposable element activity in maize
The 4942 bp DNA sequence of Zea mays transposon MuA2 was determined. Previous evidence indicated MuA2 controls activity of the Mu1 transposon located in the mutable allele a1-mum2. MuA2 contains two large, ATG-in...
