B. C. Meyers

This study shows that Spirodela polyrhiza maintains CG and CHG DNA methylation at repeats without the RdDM pathway or small RNAs, despite losing key methylation genes.

The paper analyzes small RNA dynamics during floral development in Coffea arabica to identify stage-specific regulatory mechanisms affecting flower development and ripening.

The paper studies microsporogenesis and phasiRNA biosynthesis in Coffea arabica, revealing unique patterns and temperature sensitivity in eudicots.

This study introduces a Barnase/Barstar system in soybean to create a male sterility system for hybrid breeding, showing that fertility can be rescued by adjusting gene expression levels.

The paper shows that plastid-encoded dsRNA can trigger cytoplasmic gene silencing of nuclear genes through phasiRNA production, enabling traits to function outside the plastid.

The paper introduces an enhanced freeze-substitution protocol that improves heavy metal staining in diverse organisms and tissues for volume electron microscopy.

This study performs phylogenetic analyses of AGO/DCL/RDR protein families across 196 green plant species to refine the evolutionary history of small RNA pathways.

The apoplast of Arabidopsis leaves contains diverse small and long-noncoding RNAs, including circular RNAs, that are bound to protein complexes and are located outside extracellular vesicles.

The paper identifies heat-responsive miRNAs and phasiRNAs in flax reproductive development, revealing novel regulatory elements and their differential expression under heat stress.

Tasselyzer quantifies maize anther exertion using PlantCV for automated, large-scale analysis, capturing regional differences and demonstrating utility in research and breeding.

The paper shows 24-nt phasiRNAs move from tapetal cells to meiocytes and other somatic cells in maize anthers.

The paper develops an automated microscopy method to image duckweed growth and shows sucrose enhances growth rate.

This paper sequences and annotates the Streptochaeta angustifolia genome, revealing insights into grass evolution, gene duplication, and small RNA regulation.

The paper uses over 255 small RNA datasets to characterize the small RNA landscape across the Solanaceae family, revealing dynamic evolutionary patterns and genus-specific similarities.

miRador is a tool for plant miRNA prediction that is as precise as existing tools but significantly faster.

The paper identifies conserved and non-conserved triggers of 24-nt phasiRNAs in eudicots, including new triggers and expanded loci in wild strawberry and validated pathways in rose.

This paper presents a new genome and proteome of Spirodela polyrhiza, revealing conserved chromosomal structure and high abundance of energy-related proteins.

The paper identifies 21-nt reproductive phasiRNAs in eudicots, showing their emergence in seed plants and loss in some lineages.

This study identifies two Argonaute-like proteins essential for maintaining male fertility in maize under high temperatures by controlling retrotransposon activity.

The paper evaluates small RNA library construction methods in plants, showing that ligation bias affects secondary siRNA abundances and microRNA analysis.

The paper investigates how the HD-ZIP IV transcription factor mutant ocl4 affects 21-nt phasiRNA accumulation in maize anthers under different environmental conditions, finding that these phasiRNAs buffer development under stress.

This study identifies 24-nt reproductive phasiRNAs in pre-meiotic and meiotic stages of wheat and barley anthers, absent in maize and rice.

The paper investigates genome size evolution in Brassicales, finding no correlation between genome size and TE content or significant changes in TE landscapes after WGD.

The paper investigates miRNA regulation in barley microspore embryogenesis, identifying miRNA-directed regulation of SPL, GRF, and HD-ZIPIII transcription factors during the transition to embryogenesis.

The paper develops a CRISPR-based tool to visualize Cassava bacterial blight dynamics by inserting a GFP reporter into the susceptibility gene MeSWEET10a.

The paper introduces sRNA-PAINT, a method for high-resolution detection and quantification of small RNAs, and demonstrates its application in maize anthers.

The paper characterizes miRNA, siRNA, and phasiRNA diversity across 38 monocot species, finding 21-nt reproductive phasiRNAs are more common in grasses and DCL5 likely originated before grass diversification.

The paper shows that maternal siRNAs are abundant and conserved in seed development across angiosperms, with a maternal bias in endosperm and dependence on RNA Pol IV/RDR2.

This study identifies the tasiRNA-ARF pathway's role in corolla tube formation in Mimulus lewisii through mutant and transgenic analyses, showing its impact on auxin distribution and petal primordium growth.

The paper characterizes 21-nt reproductive phasiRNAs in grasses, showing cis-directed cleavage and nonstoichiometric abundance patterns in rice and maize.