The Sorghum bicolor reference genome: improved assembly, gene annotations, a transcriptome atlas, and signatures of genome organization

…, M Amirebrahimi, BD Weers, B McKinley… - The Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… of coding sequence start sites in exon sequence (b), but not upstream of coding sequence
start … signal with the DFT (inset of (b)). (c) Zoom in of panel B shows the periodic signal. The Y …

Sorghum bicolor's Transcriptome Response to Dehydration, High Salinity and ABA

…, I Kagiampakis, DT Morishige, BD Weers… - Plant molecular …, 2005 - Springer
Genome wide changes in gene expression were monitored in the drought tolerant C4 cereal
Sorghum bicolor, following exposure of seedlings to high salinity (150 mM NaCl), osmotic …

[PDF][PDF] Regulation of pyrimidine metabolism in plants

C Kafer, L Zhou, D Santoso, A Guirgis, B Weers… - Front …, 2004 - article.imrpress.com
B. A wide variety of carbohydrates require pyrimidine nucleotide cofactors in their
biosynthesis. … Weers, B. and RW Thornburg: Characterization of the cDNA and gene …

Overexpression of ARGOS genes modifies plant sensitivity to ethylene, leading to improved drought tolerance in both Arabidopsis and maize

…, RW Williams, HR Lafitte, BP Weers - Plant …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Lack of sufficient water is a major limiting factor to crop production worldwide, and the
development of drought-tolerant germplasm is needed to improve crop productivity. The …

DNA persistence length revisited

Y Lu, B Weers, NC Stellwagen - … : Original Research on …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… , in bp, is illustrated in Figure 5 for buffers A and B. The results obtained with buffers C and
E were very similar to those of buffer B, and are not shown for clarity. The relaxation times …

Overexpression of zmm28 increases maize grain yield in the field

J Wu, SJ Lawit, B Weers, J Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Increasing maize grain yield has been a major focus of both plant breeding and genetic
engineering to meet the global demand for food, feed, and industrial uses. We report that …

Maize ARGOS1 (ZAR1) transgenic alleles increase hybrid maize yield

…, M Goncalves-Butruille, BP Weers… - Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… Different letters 'a' versus 'b' indicates a statistically significant difference at the given LSD. …
Different letters ‘a’ versus ‘b’ indicates a statistically significant difference at the given LSD. …

[HTML][HTML] Sorghum Dw2 Encodes a Protein Kinase Regulator of Stem Internode Length

JL Hilley, BD Weers, SK Truong, RF McCormick… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
… Stem length (a), average internode length (b), and the length of the first internode below the
… For both (b) and (c), asterisk indicates the approximate location of Dw2. (c) Diagram of the …

JGI Plant Gene Atlas: an updateable transcriptome resource to improve functional gene descriptions across the plant kingdom

…, X Weng, I Torres-Jerez, B Weers… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Gene functional descriptions offer a crucial line of evidence for candidate genes underlying
trait variation. Conversely, plant responses to environmental cues represent important …

[HTML][HTML] CONSTANS is a photoperiod regulated activator of flowering in sorghum

S Yang, BD Weers, DT Morishige, JE Mullet - BMC Plant Biology, 2014 - Springer
… Analysis of the flowering time QTL on SBI-10 revealed that BTx642 encodes a recessive
CONSTANS allele containing a His106Tyr substitution in B-box 2 known to inactivate …