Richard Sibout

The paper validates variant effect predictions in a Brachypodium distachyon mutant population using burden and purging tests, showing ESM outperforms SIFT and PlantCAD for missense variants.

The paper identifies exodermis lignification as a mechanism limiting lateral root emergence in Brachypodium distachyon, showing it is regulated by stress-induced gene expression.

The paper identifies a new group of LysM-RLK receptors that bind both LCO and CO, playing a complementary role with LYR-IA receptors in arbuscular mycorrhiza formation.

The paper generates transcriptomic data for 22 fern species to study their evolutionary genetics and cell wall composition, revealing unique gene families and divergent cell wall biochemistry.

The paper investigates the factors influencing LTR-RT mobility in Brachypodium distachyon, finding that environmental stress has limited effects while RNA polymerase IV loss significantly increases transposon activity.