cis-Regulatory Elements in Plant Development, Adaptation, and Evolution

AP Marand, AL Eveland, K Kaufmann… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
cis-Regulatory elements encode the genomic blueprints that ensure the proper
spatiotemporal patterning of gene expression necessary for appropriate development and …

Cis-regulatory sequences in plants: their importance, discovery, and future challenges

RJ Schmitz, E Grotewold, M Stam - The plant cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The identification and characterization of cis-regulatory DNA sequences and how they
function to coordinate responses to developmental and environmental cues is of paramount …

An efficient CRISPR–Cas12a promoter editing system for crop improvement

J Zhou, G Liu, Y Zhao, R Zhang, X Tang, L Li, X Jia… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Promoter editing represents an innovative approach to introduce quantitative trait variation
(QTV) in crops. However, an efficient promoter editing system for QTV needs to be …

Enhancing grain-yield-related traits by CRISPR–Cas9 promoter editing of maize CLE genes

L Liu, J Gallagher, ED Arevalo, R Chen, T Skopelitis… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
Several yield-related traits selected during crop domestication and improvement, are
associated with increases in meristem size, which is controlled by CLE peptide signals in the …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell RNA sequencing of develo** maize ears facilitates functional analysis and trait candidate gene discovery

X Xu, M Crow, BR Rice, F Li, B Harris, L Liu… - Developmental Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Crop productivity depends on activity of meristems that produce optimized plant
architectures, including that of the maize ear. A comprehensive understanding of …

An ethylene biosynthesis enzyme controls quantitative variation in maize ear length and kernel yield

Q Ning, Y Jian, Y Du, Y Li, X Shen, H Jia… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Maize ear size and kernel number differ among lines, however, little is known about the
molecular basis of ear length and its impact on kernel number. Here, we characterize a …

Brassinosteroid biosynthesis and signaling: Conserved and diversified functions of core genes across multiple plant species

B Zebosi, E Vollbrecht, NB Best - Plant Communications, 2024 - cell.com
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are important regulators that control myriad aspects of plant growth
and development, including biotic and abiotic stress responses, such that modulating BR …

A wheat integrative regulatory network from large-scale complementary functional datasets enables trait-associated gene discovery for crop improvement

Y Chen, Y Guo, P Guan, Y Wang, X Wang, Z Wang… - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
Gene regulation is central to all aspects of organism growth, and understanding it using
large-scale functional datasets can provide a whole view of biological processes controlling …

Photosynthetic capacity and assimilate transport of the lower canopy influence maize yield under high planting density

Y Yan, F Duan, X Li, R Zhao, P Hou, M Zhao… - Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Photosynthesis is a major trait of interest for development of high-yield crop plants. However,
little is known about the effects of high-density planting on photosynthetic responses at the …

Conserved noncoding sequences provide insights into regulatory sequence and loss of gene expression in maize

B Song, ES Buckler, H Wang, Y Wu, E Rees… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Thousands of species will be sequenced in the next few years; however, understanding how
their genomes work, without an unlimited budget, requires both molecular and novel …