Erica Unger-Wallace

TL;DR: OP (Oligomerized Pool ENgineering), a rapid, publicly available strategy for constructing multifinger arrays, which is more effective than the previously published modular assembly method and provides an "open-source" method for rapidly engineering highly active zinc-finger arrays.

TL;DR: The high frequency of observed ZFN-induced mutagenesis suggests that targeted mutations can readily be recovered by simply screening progeny of primary transgenic plants by PCR and DNA sequencing.

TL;DR: The results uncover discrete developmental modules that function in determining grass-specific morphology and provide a basis for targeted crop improvement and translation to other cereal crops with comparable inflorescence architectures.

TL;DR: Comparison of Ds and Mutator insertions reveals distinct target preferences, which provide functional complementarity of the two elements for gene tagging in maize, and provides evidence that genes within a 2- to 3-centimorgan region flanking Ds insertions will serve as optimal targets for regional mutagenesis.

TL;DR: This study discovered a maize mutant with aberrant leaf architecture, which is named drooping leaf1 (drl1), and demonstrates that drl genes control the development of key agronomic traits in maize.