Markus Schmid

TL;DR: Five isolates of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria capable of growth at pH 10 were obtained and demonstrated that they possess identical 16S rDNA genes and that they are closely related to Nitrosomonas halophila, a member of the β-subclass of the Proteobacteria.

TL;DR: The purification of nuclear RNA from early stage Arabidopsis thaliana embryos is described using fluorescence-activated nuclear sorting (FANS) to generate expression profiles of early stages of the whole embryo, the proembryo and the suspensor, revealing different classes of genes with respect to biological processes and molecular functions are preferentially expressed.

TL;DR: A special organelle (the ricinosome) has been discovered in the senescing endosperm of germinating castor beans that develops at the beginning of PCD and delivers large amounts of a papain-type cysteine endopeptidase in the final stages of cellular disintegration.

TL;DR: GUS activity was promoter- and tissue-specific GUS activity during seedling, flower, and root development, especially in tissues that collapse during final stages of PCD, and in the course of lateral root formation.

TL;DR: Targeted deletions of exons in FLM, generated through CRISPR/Cas9 technology, clarify how specific splice variants contribute to the regulation of temperature-dependent flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana.