Thomas H. Tai

TL;DR: Nuclear and chloroplast data support a closer evolutionary relationship between the indica and the aus and among the tropical japonica, temperate japonicas, and aromatic groups, and can be explained through contrasting demographic histories.

TL;DR: An advanced backcross population between an accession of Oryza rufipogon and the U.S. cultivar Jefferson was developed to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for yield, yield components and morphological traits, finding several QTLs for grain weight, plant height, and flowering time were localized to putative homeologous regions in maize, supporting the hypothesis of functional conservation of QTLS across the grasses.

TL;DR: Functional expression of Bs2 in stable transgenic tomatoes supports its use as a source of resistance in other Solanaceous plant species and suggests that it may be durable in the field and provide resistance when introduced into other plant species.

TL;DR: The populations described here would be suitable for use in a large scale TILLING project, and it is estimated that the density of induced mutations is two- to threefold higher than previously reported rice populations.

TL;DR: The advantages of the described procedure are that it is fast, does not require expensive equipment (e.g., lyophilizer) and can be used in situations where large numbers of samples must be extracted.