Pamela Ronald

Genome-scale Network of Rice Genes to Speed the Development of Biofuel Crops

In the Lab with Pam Ronald

Featured Publications

• “Targeted DNA insertion in plants.” PNAS (2021)
• “Suppression of rice miR168 improves rice yield, flowering time and immunity.” Nature Plants (2021)
• “Genomic mechanisms of climate adaptation in polyploid bioenergy switchgrass.” Nature (2021)
• “Marker-free carotenoid rice generated through high-efficiency targeted gene insertion using CRISPR-Cas9.” Nature Communications (2020) (Top 50 Nature Communications life and biological sciences articles published in 2020)
• “Genome sequence of the model rice variety KitaakeX.” BioRxiv (2019)
• “Whole-genome sequencing identifies a rice grain shape mutant.” Rice (2019)
• “A web-based tool for the prediction of rice transcription factor function.” Database (2019)
• “A genome scale co-functional networkof Xanthomonas oryzae genes can accurately reconstruct known regulatory circuits controlled by two-component signaling systems.” Mol. Cells (2019)
• “Biosynthesis and secretion of the microbial sulfated peptide RaxX and binding to the rice XA21 immune receptor.” PNAS (2019)
• “A histidine kinase gene is required for large radius root tip circumnutation and surface exploration in rice.” BioRxiv (2018)

• “The sequences of 1504 mutants in the model rice variety kite facilitate rapid functional genomic studies.” Plant Cell (2017)

• “Technology turbocharges functional genomics.” Plant Cell (2017)

• “Updated Rice Kinase Database RKD 2.0: Enabling transcriptome and functional analysis of rice kinase genes.”, Rice (2016)

• “A Genetic Screen Identifies Two Novel Rice Cysteine-rich Receptor-like Kinases That Are Required for the Rice NH1-mediated Immune Response.”, PloS Genetics (2016)
• “Genome-wide sequencing of 41 rice mutated lines reveals diverse mutations induced by fast-neutron irradiation.”, Molecular Plant (2016)
• “Phylogenomics databases for facilitating functional genomics in rice.”, Rice Journal (2015)
• “The rice immune receptor XA21 recognizes a tyrosine-sulfated peptide from a Gram-negative bacterium.”, Science Advances (2015)
• “Engineering spatio-temporal accumulation of a low recalcitrance polysaccharide leads to increased C6 sugar content in plant cell walls.”, Plant Biotechnology Journal (2015)
• “RiceNet v2: an improved network prioritization server for rice genes”, Nucleic Acids Research (2015)
• “Transgenic Expression of the Dicotyledonous Pattern Recognition Receptor EFR in Rice Leads to Ligand-Dependent Activation of Defense Responses.”, Plos Pathogens (2014)
• “Inactivation of OsIRX10 leads to decreased xylan content in rice stem cell walls and improved biomass saccharification.”, Molecular Plant (2013)
• “Overexpression of a BAHD Acyltransferase, OsAt10, Alters Rice Cell Wall Hydroxycinnamic Acid Content and Saccharification.”, Plant Physiology (2013)
•  “XAX1 from Glycosyltransferase Family 61 Mediates Xylosyltransfer to Rice Xylan.”, PNAS (2012)
• “Loss of Cellulose Synthase-Like F6 function results in severe reduction of mixed-linkage glucan accumulation in rice primary cell walls.”, Plant Physiology (2012)
• “A Genome-Wide Survey of Switchgrass Genome Structure and Organization.”, Plos One (2012)
• “XAX1 from Glycosyltransferase Family 61 Mediates Xylosyltransfer to Rice Xylan.”, PNAS (2012)
• “The switchgrass genome: tools and strategies.”, Plant Genome. (2011)