Nga T. Lao

TL;DR: Phylogenetic analysis of infA sequences and assessment of transit peptide homology indicate that the four nuclear infA genes are probably derived from four independent gene transfers from chloroplast to nuclear DNA during angiosperm evolution.

TL;DR: This work has identified a novel beta-amylase gene, designated ct-Bmy, which is located on chromosome IV of Arabidopsis thaliana and encodes a precursor protein which contains a typical N-terminal chloroplast import signal and is highly similar at the amino acid level to extrachloroplastic beta-Amylases of higher plants.

TL;DR: Microarray-based transcriptional profiling of double knockout and overexpression lines revealed altered expression of genes associated with adaptation to drought stress, including six aquaporin genes, five of which are members of a recently identified co-expression network, suggesting that these DREBs play a role in the regulation of water homeostasis.

TL;DR: Cell-wall carbohydrate analyses of the parvus mutant indicated reduced levels of rhamnogalacturonan I branching and alterations in the abundance of some xyloglucan linkages that may, however, be indirect consequences of the mutation.

TL;DR: The results indicate that gene duplication, exon gain and regulatory sequence evolution each played a role in the divergence of OEP16 homologues in plants.