Kaisa Kajala

TL;DR: Testing tomato gene expression with tagged nuclei and ribosomes and CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing shows conservation of SHORT-ROOT gene function, and transcriptional reporters, translational reporters, and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-associated nuclease9 genome edited demonstrate that SH short-roOT and SCARECROW gene function is conserved between Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and tomato.

TL;DR: The approach defines the extent to which transcript abundance in these C3 and C4 leaves differs, provides a blueprint for the NAD-malic enzyme C4 pathway operating in a dicotyledon, and furthermore identifies potential regulators.

TL;DR: A comparison of open chromatin landscapes reveals commonalities in transcriptional regulation across species and identifies a transcription factor cascade in the Arabidopsis root hair, which appears to control both cell fate regulators and abiotic stress responses.

TL;DR: This review provides an update on two of the many approaches employed by the C(4) Rice Consortium: namely, metabolic C( 4) engineering and identification of determinants of leaf anatomy by mutant screens.

TL;DR: It is found that two independent lineages of C4 plant show conserved mechanisms controlling the expression of genes important for release of CO2 around RuBisCO in bundle sheath (BS) cells, suggesting that these conserved functional genetic elements likely facilitated the repeated evolution of C 4 photosynthesis.