Yaomin Cai

The paper shows that nitrogen responses in plant roots are cell-type specific and evolve across species, with NLP7 proteins modulating these responses in Arabidopsis and tomato.

The paper describes a split luciferase assay to measure transcription factor-DNA interactions and uses the data to design synthetic plant promoters with controllable response strengths.

This paper presents a workflow for automated DNA assembly and cell-free expression of plant proteins to accelerate functional characterisation.

The paper identifies functional elements in plant promoters and develops minimal synthetic promoters for precise gene expression control in plants.