Student Accomplishments

Wyatt G, Zerbe P, Tiedge K (2024) Characterization of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) PvKSL1 as a levopimaradiene/abietadiene-type diterpene synthase. Plant Biol. doi: 10.1111/plb.13708.
Baldwin WC, Chiang A, Wyatt G, Nau K, Chastagner G, Landgren C, Kowalski J, Sims C, Zerbe P, Whitehill JGA (2025) Distinct terpene metabolite blends serve as core drivers of consumer aroma preferences in fir Christmas tree species. Sci Rep. 15:18500.
Hawkins C, Xue B, Yasmin F, Wyatt G, Zerbe P, Rhee SY (2025) Plant Metabolic Network 16: expansion of underrepresented plant groups and experimentally supported enzyme data. Nucleic Acids Res.53:D1606-D1613.

Huang, C.H., F.L. Peng, Y.-R.J. Lee, and B. Liu. 2024. The microtubular preprophase band recruits Myosin XI to the cortical division site to guide phragmoplast expansion during plant cytokinesis. Developmental Cell, 17:2333-2346.e6.
Guo*, X., C.H. Huang*, T. Akagi, S. Niwa, R.J. McKenney, J.-R. Wang, Y.-R.J. Lee, and B. Liu. 2024. An Arabidopsis Kinesin-14D Motor Is Associated with Midzone Microtubules for Spindle Morphogenesis. Current Biology. 34 (16):3747-3762.e6.
Huang, C.H., A.M. Koenig, Y.-R.J. Lee, Y. Shi, J. Hu, and B. Liu. 2025. A role of villin-dependent F-actin organization in peroxisome motility in Arabidopsis cells. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.23.650090

Rottersman, M. G., Zhang, W., Zhang, J., Grigorean, G., Burguener, G., Carter, C., Vang, T., Hegarty, J., Zhang, X., Finnie, S., & Dubcovsky, J. (2025). Deletion of wheat alpha-gliadins from chromosome 6D improves gluten strength and reduces immunodominant celiac disease epitopes. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 138(5), 94. https://doi.org/10.1007/S00122-025-04882-3
Brightly, W. H., Bedoya, A. M., Carlson, M. M., Rottersman, M. G., & Strömberg, C. A. E. (2024). Correlated evolution of dispersal traits and habitat preference in the melicgrasses. American Journal of Botany, 111(10), e16406. https://doi.org/10.1002/AJB2.16406

Huo, H.H., M. Luo, Y.R.J. Lee, and B. Liu. 2025. The Arabidopsis homolog of Microspherule protein 1 (MCRS1) is essential for embryogenesis and interacts with the Myb-like transcription factor DRMY1. Plant & Cell Physiology. pcaf033.

Manzano C, Morimoto KW, Shaar-Moshe L, Mason GA, Cantó-Pastor A, Gouran M, De Bellis D, Ursache R, Kajala K, Sinha N, Bailey-Serres J, Geldner N, Del Pozo JC, Brady SM. Regulation and function of a polarly localized lignin barrier in the exodermis.Nat Plants. 2025 Jan;11(1):118-130. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01864-z
Roeder AHK, Bent A, Lovell JT, McKay JK, Bravo A, Medina-Jimenez K, Morimoto KW, Brady SM, Hua L, Hibberd JM, Zhong S, Cardinale F, Visentin I, Lovisolo C, Hannah MA, Webb AAR. Lost in translation: What we have learned from attributes that do not translate from Arabidopsis to other plants. Plant Cell. 2025 May 9;37(5):koaf036. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf036

Taylor T, Daksa J, Shimels MZ, Etalo DW, Thiombiano B, Walmsey A, Chen AJ, Bouwmeester HJ, Raaijmakers JM, Brady SM, Kawa D. Evaluating Mechanisms of Soil Microbiome Suppression of Striga Infection in Sorghum. Bio Protoc. 2024 Sep 5;14(17):e5058. https://doi.org/10.21769/bioprotoc.5058

Adaskaveg, J. A., Lee, C., Wei, Y., Wang, F., Grilo, F. S., Mesquida‐Pesci, S. D., Davis, M., ... & Blanco‐Ulate, B. (2025). In a nutshell: pistachio genome and kernel development. New Phytologist, 246(3), 1032-1048. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70060
Davis, J. T., Li, Q., Grassa, C. J., Davis, M. W., Strauss, S. Y., Gremer, J. R., ... & Maloof, J. N. (2025). A chromosome-level genome assembly of the varied leaved jewelflower, Streptanthus diversifolius, reveals a recent whole genome duplication. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 15(4), jkaf022. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf022
Groh, J. S., Vik, D. C., Davis, M., Monroe, J. G., Stevens, K. A., Brown, P. J., ... & Coop, G. (2025). Ancient structural variants control sex-specific flowering time morphs in walnuts and hickories. Science, 387(6729), eado5578. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado5578

Zhao K, Lensink M, Monroe JG. 2025. Functional insights into dispensable genes using genome-wide loss-of-function burden tests in Arabidopsis. bioRxiv: 2025.04.30.651390. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.30.651390

Cryan E, Phinney G, Seetharam AS, Evans MMS, Kellogg EA, Zhan J, Meyers BC, Kliebenstein DJ, Ross-Ibarra J. Molecular evolution of a reproductive barrier in maize and related species. Genetics. 2025 May 8:iyaf085. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyaf085.

David F. Bridges, Alexander R. Hendricks, Nicholas J. Colella, W. Scott Compel, Maeli Melotto, Treatment of Alfalfa Seeds With Food-grade Organic Acid Mixtures Reduces Loads of Pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella Typhimurium on Sprouts Without Reducing Germination Percentage or Sprout Mass, Journal of Food Protection, Volume 88, Issue 7, 2025, 100513, ISSN 0362-028X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfp.2025.100513.

Paraiso, F., Lin, H., Li, C., Woods, D. P., Lan, T., Tumelty, C., ... & Dubcovsky, J. (2024). LEAFY and WAPO1 jointly regulate spikelet number per spike and floret development in wheat. Development, 151(15), dev202803. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202803
Xu, X., Lin, H., Zhang, J., Burguener, G., Paraiso, F., Tumelty, C., ... & Dubcovsky, J. (2025). Spatial and single-cell expression analyses reveal complex expression domains in early wheat spike development. bioRxiv, 2025-02. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.15.638402

Monroe, J.G., Lee, C., Quiroz, D., Lensink, M., Oya, S., Davis, M., Long, E., Bird, K.A., Pierce, A., Zhao, K. and Runcie, D. (2025). Convergent evolution of epigenome recruited DNA repair across the tree of life. eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.105016.1

Agosto-Ramos A, Muhich AJ, Kliebenstein Convergently evolved metabolites are new to me but not to my attackers. DJ.New Phytol. 2024 Jun;242(6). https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19672