George Stamatiou

TL;DR: Evidence is provided for the biological relevance of ARf-ARF and ARF-Aux/IAA interaction in Arabidopsis plants and it is demonstrated that an individual ARF can act in both invariantly programmed pattern formation as well as in conditional responses to external signals.

TL;DR: The Next Generation Mapping (NGM) method as discussed by the authors uses a chastity statistic to quantify the relative contribution of the parental mutant and mapping lines to each SNP in the pooled F2 population, then uses this information to objectively localize the candidate mutation based on its exclusive segregation with the mutant parental line.

TL;DR: The embryonic phenotype of the presumedrsw1 null mutant indicates that the RSW1(CESA1) product has a critical, nonredundant function, but is nevertheless not strictly required for primary cell wall formation.

TL;DR: This work developed a high-throughput strategy, using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, to identify mutants with improved sugar release from plant biomass and demonstrates that information gleaned from this genetic model can be directly translated to monocotyledonous crops to improve sugar extractability from biomass.

TL;DR: In this paper, compositions comprising at least one auxin transport inhibitor for pre-treating a plant or seed to increase saccharification, or saccharide release by hydrolysis are presented.