Thomas F. Cooke

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that CYP94B3 exerts negative feedback control on JA-Ile levels and performs a key role in attenuation of jasmonate responses, as well as in promoting the formation of COI1-JAZ receptor complexes.

TL;DR: It is shown that sequence variation in a hypervariable region of the degron affects JAZ stability and JA-regulated physiological responses, and that JAZ8 is stabilized against jasmonate (JA)-mediated degradation and, when ectopically expressed in Arabidopsis, repressesJA-regulated growth and defense responses.

TL;DR: It is proposed that production of dominant JAZ repressors by alternative splicing reduces the negative consequences associated with inappropriate or hyperactivation of the JA response pathway.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that GBS is a cost-effective method for generating genome-wide SNP data suitable for genetic mapping in a highly diverse and heterozygous agricultural species and future improvements to the GBS analysis pipeline presented here will enhance the utility of next-generation DNA sequence data for the purposes of genetic mapping across diverse species.

TL;DR: This work uses genome-wide association mapping and gene-expression analysis to map the Mendelian blue locus, which abolishes yellow pigmentation in the budgerigar, and finds that the blue trait maps to a single amino acid substitution (R644W) in an uncharacterized polyketide synthase (MuPKS).