Debunking the idea of biological optimisation: quantitative biology to the rescue | Quantitative Plant Biology | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3U0PdH4
I have long suspected, without analysis to back up the gut feeling, what Hamant lays out here.
Auxin transport streams in the Arabidopsis root affect the length, position, and expansion rate of the growth zone, but to know that, you need something like Patch Track - new kinematic analysis platform. See the paper here: doi.org/10.3390/ijms24221647…
Ming Che earned his PhD in Botany in December 2022. The Plant Journal featured his research on the cover of the latest issue and in a Research Highlight article. doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16076
LAZY1 raises Arabidopsis shoot branches via gravitropism. Ximing (Ming) Che (PhD '22) showed that BRXL4 physically interacts with LAZY1 to oppose its action - see the opposite phenotypes and their molecular basis in the published paper: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16055
A new paper showing how two QTL studies can be much more useful than the simple sum of their results - thousands of roots performing gravitropism were measured by machine vision pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
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A highly readable mini-history of primary wall structure, leading to our 2021 coarse-grain model. Faculty Review doi.org/10.12703/r-01-000001… by Geitmann @GeitmannLab, Mulder @belamulder, Persson & Spalding @phytomorph. @PlantCellWalls @Pam_Hines
Maize endosperm composition & quality - predicted. Invert a hyperspectral camera, move it with a motor beneath a plate of glass on which you have scattered maize kernels, process the images with some trained ML algorithms, and voila...High Throughput!
doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2…
Need something new on the walls of your workspace?
Two posters available for download and printing here, spalding.botany.wisc.edu/sam… courtest of the Phytomorph project.
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If you change just two amino acids in the LAZY1 protein, the inflorescence stem will grow down instead of up. #reverse_gravitropism
doi.org/10.1104/pp.19.01144
If you ever wondered how much force a maize kernel generates during imbibition, or if the rate of swelling is genetically controlled, or if imbibition rate can be measured automatically and in high throughput, see this paper: plantmethods.biomedcentral.c…
Here is what you can learn about a corn crop by analyzing drone-based pictures - a three year study. doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01…
Want thousands of images of maize ears or the data extracted from them, plus location and genotype? G2F dataset doi.org/10.7946/P2C34P
Edgar Spalding retweeted
Working with maize tassels? Try it TIPS to analyse them! plant-image-analysis.org/sof… @phytomorph plantmethods.biomedcentral.c…
'cloud' computing-based method for measuring maize ear, cob, and kernel traits - open to the public, and open source
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