Adam L. Bray

TL;DR: Downregulation of GAUT4 reduces HG and rhamnogalacturonan II (RGII), reduces wall calcium and boron, and increases extractability of cell wall sugars, which improves biomass yields and sugar release from biomass processing.

TL;DR: How the methods and metrics used to quantify root systems can affect the authors' ability to understand them, how to bridge knowledge gaps and accelerate the derivation of structure-function relationships for roots are discussed, and why a detailed mechanistic understanding of root growth and function will be important for future agricultural gains are discussed.

TL;DR: Whether the maize mutants known to control root development may also influence quantitative aspects of root architecture, including the extent to which they overlap with the most recent maize root trait QTLs is discussed.

TL;DR: Time-lapse 3D imaging, computer vision, and mathematical modeling were used to quantify the root system architectures of three maize genotypes as they grew in complexity from a few to many roots, showing that several genetic differences in seedling architectures could persist throughout development and across environments.

TL;DR: A biolistic transformation protocol for elite switchgrass genotypes was developed and SA37 proved to be the most transformable, whereas eight transgenic calli on average were recovered per bombardment of 20 calli when using a three-day day preculture step.