Paul Budworth

TL;DR: A draft sequence of the rice genome for the most widely cultivated subspecies in China, Oryza sativa L. ssp.indica, by whole-genome shotgun sequencing is produced, with a large proportion of rice genes with no recognizable homologs due to a gradient in the GC content of rice coding sequences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used mRNA profiles generated from microarray experiments to deduce the functions of genes encoding known and putative Arabidopsis transcription factors, showing that transcription factors are important in regulating plant responses to environmental stress.

TL;DR: Five genes that contribute to disease resistance in Arabidopsis are identified by identifying interaction domains for 200 proteins from stressed and developing tissues by localizing the cognate genes to regions of stress-tolerance trait genetic loci.

TL;DR: Most genes in the starch biosynthetic pathway show multiple distinct spatial and temporal expression patterns, suggesting that different isoforms of a given enzyme are expressed in different tissues and at different developmental stages.

TL;DR: The designed and used a high-density oligonucleotide probe array (GeneChip) to profile global gene expression patterns of Arabidopsis thaliana, providing insight into the coordinated transcriptional regulation of the genes during plant growth and development.