Twan L. M. Rutten

The paper maps spatial metabolite distributions in barley inflorescences to link polyamine turnover and vascular lipid remodeling to spikelet fate.

This study shows that the MADS-WUS axis regulates floral initiation rates in barley, influencing inflorescence architecture and reproductive strategies through allele selection and duplication.

This study identifies the structural basis of βKNL2 centromeric targeting and its role in plant-specific kinetochore assembly, showing its dependence on the SANTA domain and interactions with centromeric DNA and KNL2.

This paper identifies Raw7 as a second gene controlling barley awn roughness, showing epistatic interaction with Raw1, and proposes a cytokinin signaling pathway mechanism.

This study identifies a hypermorphic mutation in TaARF4-A2 that represses SPL-mediated developmental timing, leading to altered wheat architecture by promoting aerial branching and reducing reproductive development.

This study presents a barley pangenome revealing structural variation linked to traits like disease resistance and plant architecture, highlighting its role in adaptive evolution.

The paper investigates convergent evolution of plant prickles, finding that mutations in a cytokinin gene repeatedly cause prickle loss across species.

The paper identifies a mutation in the HvAST gene causing leaf variegation in barley by residual activity of a chloroplast-targeted CCT-domain protein.

The paper investigates HvARM1, a partial gene duplicate of HvPUB15 in barley, showing its role in resistance to powdery mildew fungi and its interaction with plastid proteins.