Rewiring gene circuitry for plant improvement

AT Borowsky, J Bailey-Serres - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Aspirations for high crop growth and yield, nutritional quality and bioproduction of materials
are challenged by climate change and limited adoption of new technologies. Here, we …

A spatially resolved multi-omic single-cell atlas of soybean development

X Zhang, Z Luo, AP Marand, H Yan, H Jang, S Bang… - Cell, 2025 - cell.com
Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) precisely control spatiotemporal gene expression in cells.
Using a spatially resolved single-cell atlas of gene expression with chromatin accessibility …

Evolution of plant cell-type-specific cis-regulatory elements

H Yan, JP Mendieta, X Zhang, AP Marand, Y Liang… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) are critical in coordinating the regulation of gene
expression. Understanding how CREs evolve represents a challenging endeavor. Here, we …

Massive-scale single-cell chromatin accessibility sequencing using combinatorial fluidic indexing

X Zhang, AP Marand, H Yan, RJ Schmitz - BioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Single-cell ATAC-seq has emerged as a powerful approach for revealing candidate cis-
regulatory elements genome-wide at cell-type resolution. However, current single-cell …

Evolutionary innovation hints at ways to engineer efficient photosynthesis in crops

M Rath, D Bergmann - 2024 - nature.com
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Comparative spatiotemporal single cell transcriptomes reveal rewiring of pre-existing regulations during emergence of Kranz anatomy in C4 grasses

C Zhao, J Yang, A Ni, H Chen, H Su, Y Cheng, X Li… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Many of the world's most productive food and bioenergy crops use C4 photosynthesis, which
have high photosynthetic efficiency due to a Kranz anatomy-based CO2 concentrating …