Susan R. Wessler

The paper constructs a single-cell chromatin accessibility atlas in rice and compares it across grass species to study the evolution of cell-type-specific cis-regulatory elements.

The paper uses a phased genome of the Fairchild mandarin to analyze how haplotype-specific chromatin states influence allele-specific gene expression.

This study characterizes a transposable element (TE) burst in rice, showing how mPing elements generate structural genomic variations through insertion, excision, and recombination.

The paper tracks transposable element dynamics during rice domestication, identifying two key events that contributed to mPing hyperactivity.