Florencia Montecillo

TL;DR: A large number of rice or soybean ferritin over-accumulators in rice mega-variety IR64 are generated and evaluated by introducing soybean or riceFerritin genes into the endosperm for product development and transcript analysis was conducted on a subset of genes involved in iron uptake and loading.

TL;DR: Gas exchange measurements indicated an impaired ability to regenerate ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate in photorespiratory conditions, and MCs of gdch lines exhibited a significant reduction in chloroplast area and coverage of the cell wall when grown in air, traits that occur during the later stages of C4 evolution.

TL;DR: By using embryo rescue to save vital embryos as well as shorten the breed cycle of sorghum, the breeding cycle was made comparable or even shorter than that of other model crops, which would allow the development of breeding materials much faster.

TL;DR: Data indicate that the brassinosteroid pathway promotes high vein density in the sorghum leaf, and suggest that differences between C(4) and C(3) leaf anatomy may arise in part through differential activity of this pathway in the two leaf types.