John D. Laurie

TL;DR: Evidence of repeat-induced point mutations in the genome of U. hordei is found, indicating that smut fungi use different strategies to counteract the deleterious effects of repetitive DNA.

TL;DR: A comprehensive profile of the genes expressed in the early developing endosperm in maize shows how a series of temporal programs of gene expression correlate with progressive functional and cellular specializations, and finds a close correlation of the sequentially expressed gene sets with distinct cellular and metabolic programs in distinct compartments of the developingendosperm.

TL;DR: Grafts of wild-type floral stems to mutant rosettes produce progeny with enhanced growth and altered CG methylation strikingly similar to epi-lines, indicating a mobile signal when MSH1 is downregulated, and confirming the programmed nature of methylome and phenotype changes.

TL;DR: Gene ontology enrichment analysis of the imprinted genes suggested that 10-DAP endosperm-specific MEGs are involved in nutrient uptake and allocation and the auxin signaling pathway, coincident with the onset of starch and storage protein accumulation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method for the production of uniformly transformed plants capable of transmitting a foreign gene to progeny by sexual reproduction is described, where the transgenic plant produced by any one of these methods is homogeneously transformed.