Madelaine Elisabeth Bartlett

This paper develops a BSA-Seq framework to map mutations in genetically heterogeneous populations, successfully identifying known and novel candidate regions in maize mutants.

Conservatory, an orthogroup-centric conserved noncoding sequence finder, catalogs 2.3 million unique CNSs across 314 plant genomes and reveals regulatory elements older than angiosperms and seed plants.

This study identifies BAM1D as a co-receptor interacting with FEA3 in maize, revealing antagonistic genetic interactions that regulate inflorescence meristem size.

The paper shows that GT1 and RA3 regulate different traits through distinct mechanisms, revealing how genetic networks evolve to increase pleiotropy in grasses.

The paper identifies cryptic genetic variants in tomato that drive phenotypic change through hierarchical epistasis in a gene regulatory network.

The paper investigates the evolutionary mechanisms of grass awns, finding that developmental conservation and deep homology drive their repeated evolution and morphological diversity.