Courtney E. Jahn

TL;DR: It is suggested that ultimate analysis and associated properties such as H:C, O-C, and heating value might be more amenable than traditional biochemical analysis to the high-throughput necessary for the phenotyping of large plant populations.

TL;DR: It is found that RNA preparations of different quality yielded drastic differences in relative gene expression ratios and led to major errors in the quantification of transcript levels in real-time qRT-PCR.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the other surface polymers composing the extracellular matrix, cellulose, and O-antigen capsule also play a role in colonization of plants, suggesting that AgfD is a key regulator for survival outside of hosts of Salmonella spp.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that Erwinia chrysanthemi, which does not carry curli genes, requires the TTSS for pellicle formation, which supports a model where cellulose and generic protein filaments, which consist of either curli or T TSS-secreted proteins, are required for enterobacterial aggregative multicellular behavior.

TL;DR: Analysis of recently resequenced rice varieties for variation in biomass traits at several different developmental stages reveals that rice varieties have achieved high biomass production via independent developmental and physiological pathways, suggesting that there are multiple targets for biomass improvement.