Thomas Altmann

TL;DR: Hundreds of Arabidopsis genes were found that outperform traditional reference genes in terms of expression stability throughout development and under a range of environmental conditions, and the developed PCR primers or hybridization probes for the novel reference genes will enable better normalization and quantification of transcript levels inArabidopsis in the future.

TL;DR: The use of metabolite profiling is described as a new tool for a comparative display of gene function and has the potential not only to provide deeper insight into complex regulatory processes but also to determine phenotype directly.

TL;DR: Brassinosteroids compensate for different cell elongation defects of Arabidopsis det, cop, fus, and axr2 mutants, indicating that these steroids play an essential role in the regulation of plant development.

TL;DR: A complementary approach that exploits large-scale genomic and metabolic information to predict complex, highly polygenic traits in hybrid testcrosses is presented, allowing a reliable screening of large collections of diverse inbred lines for their potential to create superior hybrids.

TL;DR: This article found that starch is an integrator of the overall metabolic response in Arabidopsis, and they hypothesized that this reflects variation in a regulatory network that balances growth with the carbon supply and identified two genes (myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthase, a Kelch-domain protein) whose transcripts correlate with biomass.