The methylome of soybean roots during the compatible interaction with the soybean cyst nematode

A Rambani, JH Rice, J Liu, T Lane, P Ranjan… - Plant …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The soybean cyst nematode (SCN; Heterodera glycines) induces the formation of a
multinucleated feeding site, or syncytium, whose etiology includes massive gene expression …

Exploiting genome variation to improve next-generation sequencing data analysis and genome editing efficiency in Populus tremula × alba 717-1B4

LJ Xue, MS Alabady, M Mohebbi, CJ Tsai - Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2015 - Springer
Populus species are widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere. The genetic
diversity makes the genus an ideal study system for traits of ecological or agronomic …

Transgenic poplar expressing the pine GS1a show alterations in nitrogen homeostasis during drought

JJ Molina-Rueda, EG Kirby - Plant physiology and biochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Transgenic hybrid poplars engineered to express ectopically the heterologous pine cytosolic
GS1a display a number of significant pleiotropic phenotypes including enhanced growth …

Tubulin perturbation leads to unexpected cell wall modifications and affects stomatal behaviour in Populus

PS Swamy, H Hu, S Pattathil, VJ Maloney… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Cortical microtubules are integral to plant morphogenesis, cell wall synthesis, and stomatal
behaviour, presumably by governing cellulose microfibril orientation. Genetic manipulation …

Targeted DNA Methylation Screen in the Mouse Mammary Genome Reveals a Parity-Induced Hypermethylation of Igf1r That Persists Long after Parturition

TA Katz, SG Liao, VJ Palmieri, RK Dearth… - Cancer prevention …, 2015 - AACR
The most effective natural prevention against breast cancer is an early first full-term
pregnancy. Understanding how the protective effect is elicited will inform the development of …

Estimating the proportion of true null hypotheses when the statistics are discrete

I Dialsingh, SR Austin, NS Altman - Bioinformatics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: In high-dimensional testing problems π0, the proportion of null hypotheses that
are true is an important parameter. For discrete test statistics, the P values come from a …

Bias and variance reduction in estimating the proportion of true-null hypotheses

Y Cheng, D Gao, T Tong - Biostatistics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
When testing a large number of hypotheses, estimating the proportion of true nulls, denoted
by, becomes increasingly important. This quantity has many applications in practice. For …

Mining gene link information for survival pathway hunting

GJ Jing, Z Zhang, HQ Wang, HM Zheng - IET Systems Biology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study proposes a gene link‐based method for survival time‐related pathway hunting. In
this method, the authors incorporate gene link information to estimate how a pathway is …

Drought Stress Tolerance Genes and Methods of Use Thereof to Modulate Drought Resistance in Plants

EG Kirby, JJ Molina-Rueda - US Patent App. 14/314,934, 2015 - Google Patents
The present invention has increased the resistance to drought stress in Poplar by integrating
a transgene constitutively expressing a pine Superoxide dismutase (SOD) into the plant …

[PDF][PDF] Calibration Plot for Proteomics (CP4P): A graphical tool to visually check the assumptions

QG Gianetto, F Combes, C Ramus - 2015 - hal.science
In mass-spectrometry based quantitative proteomics, the false discovery rate control (ie the
limitation of the number of proteins which are wrongly claimed as differentially abundant …