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📢 New publication 'Going against the grain: Investigating #C4 #photosynthesis in the #wheat grain with spatial transcriptomics' by Tori Millsteed, David Kainer, Robert Sullivan, Xiaohuan Sun, Ka Leung Li, Likai Mao, Arlie Macdonald and Robert Henry in BMC Plant Biology 🧪
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
🎉🆕📰🎉: A generic model for individual leaf size in maize, sorghum and pearl millet
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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🌽 Optimisation of Weighted Ensembles of #Genomic Prediction Models in #Maize
by Shunichiro Tomura, Owen Powell, Melanie J Wilkinson, James Lefvre, and Mark Cooper
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📢 New publication 'Metabolic hijacking: how Xanthomonas feeds on plant sugars' by Farah Kanwal, Asad Riaz, Shouchuang Wang, Ke Zhou, Alisdair Fernie and Jun Yang in Trends in Plant Science 🧪
doi.org/10.1016/j.tp...
📢 New publication 'Non-Correlated Variation of #Leaf and Fine #Root Traits in Subtropical Forest Plants' by Yuzhi Zhu et al. in Ecology Letters 🧪🍃
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
#FunctionalTraits
📢 New publication 'Ensemble-based genomic prediction for #maize flowering time improves prediction accuracy and reveals novel insights into trait genetic variation' by Shunichiro Tomura et al. in G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics 🧬🧪🌽
doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
#GenomicPrediction #Ensemble
📢 New publication 'High temperature leads to a loss of isohydry in Pinus radiata' by Kritika Sharma, Ibrahim Bourbia, Faustino Rubio Pérez and Timothy Brodribb in Journal of Experimental Botany 🧪🌳
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#HeatStress #isohydry #stomata
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📢 New publication 'Carbohydrate reserve partitioning and reproductive decline following #defoliation induced carbon source limitation in #mango (Mangifera indica)' by Gerhard Rossouw et al. in Tree Physiology 🥭🧪
doi.org/10.1093/tree...
📢 New publication 'Colourings of Uniform Group Divisible Designs and Maximum Packings' by Andrea Burgess, Peter Danziger, Diane Donovan, Tara Kemp, James Lefevre, David Pike and E. Şule Yazıcı in Journal of Combinatorial Designs 🧪🧮
doi.org/10.1002/jcd....
ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success
Using coupled above- and below-ground trait sampling on individuals of co-existing species, we quantified relationships between 18 leaf and fine root traits in two environmentally contrasting subtrop....
AbstractBackground and Aims. Crop growth models (CGMs) are a valuable tool for predicting crop performance in contrasting growing conditions and interpreti
Abstract. Ensembles of multiple genomic prediction models have demonstrated improved prediction performance over the individual models contributing to the
Background The possibility of a C4 photosynthetic pathway present in the developing grain of wheat, a C3 plant, has been the source of scientific debate. Wheat is critical to food security and may benefit greatly from the biological advantages conferred by C4 photosynthesis under heat and drought stress. Therefore, significant research has gone towards engineering wheat to use C4 biochemistry, resulting in the discovery of a unique photosynthetic pathway in the grain that has been suggested to be C4 specific. Results Here, we employed a spatial transcriptomics analysis of the developing wheat grain to further investigate the spatial expression patterns of C4-pathway associated genes. Our results showed that most of the genes suggested to be involved in C4 photosynthesis in the grain were expressed in the theorised tissue locations, including isoforms of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) and pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase (PPDK). The photosynthetic pericarp cells were the site of PEPC synthesis while the endosperm was the site of PEPC carboxylation activity. Notably, isoforms of aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase and malate dehydrogenase exhibited spatially distinct expression patterns, with tissue specificity, possibly linked to the unique functions of individual isoforms. Conclusions As wheat performance under stress has been associated with the levels of expression of these C4 genes, confirmation of an active C4 pathway in the grain would have significant agronomic implications. Our results provide novel gene expression data for key genes related to photosynthesis, which could contribute to future development of highly productive, climate change resilient wheat varieties.
Abstract. While various genomic prediction models have been evaluated for their potential to accelerate genetic gain for multiple traits, no individual gen
Abstract. Pinus radiata has been characterised as strongly isohydric, which means that it tends to close stomata to maintain leaf water potential relativel
Abstract. Non-structural carbohydrate (NSC) reserves can support fruit development and buffer source–sink imbalances in fruit trees, yet their organ-specif
A weak c $c$-colouring of a design is an assignment of colours to its points from a set of c $c$ available colours, such that there are no monochromatic blocks. A colouring of a design is block-equit...
