Gynheung An

TL;DR: The large population of T-DNA-tagged lines will be useful for identifying insertional mutants in various genes and for discovering new genes in rice.

TL;DR: It is concluded that GID2 is a positive regulator of GA signaling and that regulated degradation of SLR1 is initiated through GA-dependent phosphorylation and finalized by an SCFGID2-proteasome pathway.

TL;DR: Results demonstrate that in tobacco leaves the introns of both inhibitor I and inhibitor II genes were excised correctly and that pre and prepro inhibitors I and II proteins were correctly processed, and indicated that trypsin inhibitory activity, but not chymotrypsin inhibitsory activity was mainly responsible for the inhibition of larval growth.

TL;DR: This study reports that a major quantitative trait locus, GLW7, encoding the plant-specific transcription factor OsSPL13, positively regulates cell size in the grain hull, resulting in enhanced rice grain length and yield and demonstrates that new genes can be effectively identified on the basis of genome-wide association data.

TL;DR: Tobacco calli were transformed at levels up to 50% by cocultivation of tobacco cultured cells with Agrobacterium tumefaciens harboring the binary transfer-DNA vector, pGA472, containing a kanamycin resistance marker, suggesting that rapid growth of plant cells is an essental factor for efficient transformation of higher plants.