Literature for the PhD course Trends in Plant Biotechnology

Rick Dixon
Fu CX, Mielenz JR, Xiao XR, Ge Y, Hamilton CY, Rodriguez M, Chen F, Foston M, Ragauskas A, Bouton J, Dixon RA, Wang ZY (2011) Genetic manipulation of lignin reduces recalcitrance and improves ethanol production from switchgrass. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 3803-3808.

Wang HZ, Avci U, Nakashima J, Hahn MG, Chen F, Dixon RA (2010) Mutation of WRKY transcription factors initiates pith secondary wall formation and increases stem biomass in dicotyledonous plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, 22338-22343.

Zhao Q, Dixon RA (2011) Transcriptional networks for lignin biosynthesis: more complex than we thought? Trends in Plant Science 16, 227-233.

 

Sacco de Vries
Albrecht C, Boutrot F, Segonzac C, Schwessinger B, Gimenez-Ibanez S, Chinchilla D, Rathjen JP, De Vries SC, Zipfel C (2011) Brassinosteroids inhibit pathogen-associated molecular pattern-triggered immune signaling independent of the receptor kinase BAK1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In press. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1109921108

 

Belkhadir Y, Jaillais Y, Epple P, Balsemão-Pires E, Dangl JL, Chory J (2011) Brassinosteroids modulate the efficiency of plant immune responses to microbe-associated molecular patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In press doi: 10.1073/pnas.1112840108

 

Wang ZY (2011) Brassinosteroids modulate plant immunity at multiple levels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In press doi: 10.1073/pnas.1118600109

 

David Salt
Baxter I, Brazelton JN, Yu DN, Huang YS, Lahner B, Yakubova E, Li Y, Bergelson J, Borevitz JO, Nordborg M, Vitek O, Salt DE (2010) A coastal cline in sodium accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana is driven by natural variation of the sodium transporter AtHKT1;1. PLoS Genet 6, e1001193.

Rus A, Baxter I, Muthukumar B, Gustin J, Lahner B, Yakubova E, Salt DE (2006) Natural variants of AtHKT1 enhance Na+ accumulation in two wild populations of Arabidopsis. PLoS Genet 2, e210.

Salt DE, Baxter I, Lahner B (2008) Ionomics and the study of the plant ionome. Annual Review of Plant Biology 59, 709-733.

 

Toni M. Kutchan
Croteau R, Kutchan TM, Lewis NG (2000) Natural Products (Secondary Metabolites) in
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants, B. Buchanan, W. Gruissem, R. Jones, Eds. Chapter 24 pp. 1250-1318 (sections 24.6 to 24.8)

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Mario Caccamo
Berkman P, Skarshewski A, Manoli S, Lorenc M, Stiller J, Smits L, Lai KT, Campbell EI, Kubaláková M, Simková H, ., Dolezel J, Hernandez P, Edwards D (2011) Sequencing wheat chromosome arm 7BS delimits the 7BS/4AL translocation and reveals homoeologous gene conservation. TAG Theoretical and Applied Genetics DOI 10.1007/s00122-011-1717-2, 1-10.

Choulet F, Wicker T, Rustenholz C, Paux E, Salse J, Leroy P, Schlub S, Le Paslier MC, Magdelenat G, Gonthier C, Couloux A, Budak H, Breen J, Pumphrey M, Liu SX, Kong XY, Jia JZ, Gut M, Brunel D, Anderson JA, Gill BS, Appels R, Keller B, Feuillet C (2010) Megabase Level Sequencing Reveals Contrasted Organization and Evolution Patterns of the Wheat Gene and Transposable Element Spaces. The Plant Cell Online 22, 1686-1701.

Iqbal Z, Caccamo M, Turner I, Flicek P, McVean G (2012) De novo assembly and genotyping of variants using colored de Bruijn graphs. Nat Genet advance online publication, doi:10.1038/ng.1028.

Mayer KFX, Martis M, Hedley PE, Simková H, Liu H, Morris JA, Steuernagel B, Taudien S, Roessner S, Gundlach H, Kubaláková M, Suchánková P, Murat F, Felder M, Nussbaumer T, Graner A, Salse J, Endo T, Sakai H, Tanaka T, Itoh T, Sato K, Platzer M, Matsumoto T, Scholz U, Dolezel J, Waugh R, Stein N (2011) Unlocking the Barley Genome by Chromosomal and Comparative Genomics. The Plant Cell Online 23, 1249-1263.

Paux E, Sourdille P, Salse J, Saintenac C, Choulet F, Leroy P, Korol A, Michalak M, Kianian SF, Spielmeyer W, Lagudah ES, Somers D, Kilian A, Alaux M, Vautrin S, Bergès H, Eversole K, Appels R, Safar J, Simkova H, Dolezel J, Bernard M, Feuillet C (2008) A Physical Map of the 1-Gigabase Bread Wheat Chromosome 3B. Science 322, 101-104.