Dina A. St. Clair

TL;DR: The first large-scale global eQTL study in a relatively large plant mapping population reveals that the genetic control of transcript level is highly variable and multifaceted and that this complexity may be a general characteristic of eukaryotes.

TL;DR: Increasing the biological knowledge of QDR and QRLs will enhance understanding of how QDR differs from qualitative resistance and provide the necessary information to better deploy these resources in breeding.

TL;DR: Two types of genetic markers from Affymetrix GeneChip expression data were developed to generate detailed haplotypes for 148 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from Arabidopsis thaliana accessions Bayreuth and Shahdara, which provided robust markers in 187 and 968 genes.

TL;DR: Transcripts of many NBS-LRR-encoding and related genes were defined, most were present at low levels and exhibited tissue-specific expression patterns, and no obvious correlation between expression pattern, phylogenetic relationship or genomic location was studied.

TL;DR: A statistical approach that is capable of assessing higher-order a priori defined gene network response, as measured by microarrays is described and has the potential to be expanded to facilitate direct tests of the relationship between phenotypic trait and transcript genetic architecture.