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My colleague Jinliang Yang puts on a sport coat to lead and moderate the packed maize session at #PAG30 (photo credit: Wei Wu).

Both a research highlight and the cover of the latest issue of The Plant Journal. Congratulations to my former postdoc Marcin Grzybowski and thank you Gwendolyn Kirschner for writing such a nice highlight! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Corn's tolerance for moderate heat stress (30-35 C) going up but so is sensitivity to extreme heat (>37 C) - Aaron Kusmec of Iowa State Agronomy. Based on 175,000 observations over past century mined from hard copy yield trial records by undergraduates and Iowa State U Library staff #MGM2023

Genetic control of expression variation in some, but not all, maize genes declined or was lost as this amazing crop moved out of central America and into new environments around the globe. genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Unexpected outcome of the derecho that tore across Iowa and Nebraska in 2020: A chance to understand the genes governing lodging resistance in corn using GWAS and TWAS across six environments. Nice work Zihao Zheng! doi.org/10.1093/plphys…

Way to go, Jinliang! His promotion to associate professor (with tenure) just announced. Really grateful to have you as a colleague and collaborator Jinliang Yang. Feels like your job talk was just yesterday. 🌽 news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

Our startup commercializing instant readout plant nitrate sensors with have the potential to save farmers $6 billion/year just received a $1M SBIR award from NSF. I'm so excited! @NebraskaC4E seedtoday.com/article/297876…

Happy to see this paper on hybrid allele-specific chromatin binding sequencing (HASCh-seq), to which I made a small contribution, is finally out. genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Bacterium-enabled transient gene activation by artificial transcription factors for resolving gene regulation in maize buff.ly/45AyYFB Sanzhen Liu mingxia zhao K-State Department of Plant Pathology ASPB #PlantSci

Our preprint by James Schnable, Pat Schnable, and Jinliang Yang identifies candidate genes with remarkable precision using variations of gene expression, alternative splicing, and structural variations from RNA-Seq in soybean. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #Soybean #eQTL #TWAS

I am going to hire a postdoc work on functionally validation and characterization of putative conserved cis-regulatory element in grasses. See details in below flyer. Please contact me via [email protected]

We are recruiting two postdoctoral fellows to work on (1) plant phenotyping (2) any aspect plant biology (basic or applied). Great opportunity. Please reach out if you have questions or if you would like to work with me in developing your application.

The cleanest manhattan plot we’ve ever produced in my lab. Part of a new preprint led by Vladimir Torres, PhD linking genes to roles in determining flowering time using expression data using RNA collected from nearly 700 kinds of maize (corn). (1/7) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great job today from Vladimir Torres, PhD and Harshita speaking about maize and sorghum TWAS at the Center for Plant Science Innovation research seminar series.

It is finally out! A large scale canopy phenotyping project that Schnable lab at ISU had been working for seven years! Check this one out! Genetic regulation of self-organizing azimuthal canopy orientations and their impacts on light interception in maize academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

Genome editing validates a newly IDed gene for soybean pod color + mapping genes controlling cotyledon color, flower color and disease resistance using expression data from soybean seedlings. Really fun project lead by Delin Li in Molecular Plant & Plant Communications cell.com/plant-communic…

TWAS facilitates gene-scale trait genetic dissection through gene expression, structural variations, and alternative splicing in soybean #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-communic…

The Science Friday audience burst into spontaneous applause when Pat Schnable explains how much water (10-15 gallons) is saved by each egg produced by a chicken fed proso millet. Put a smile on my face. sciencefriday.com/segments/clima…

Transcriptome wide association studies in plants can address some of the biggest limitations of GWAS, particularly identifying specific candidate genes. New review lead by Vladimir Torres, PhD with input from Delin Li (1/2)