Todd Blevins

BIRD-Seq: B2 Protein Integrated End-to-End Pipeline for dsRNA Detection and Nanopore Sequencing for Virus Monitoring

This paper introduces BIRD-Seq, a dsRNA detection and sequencing pipeline using engineered B2 protein and nanopore sequencing, achieving sub-ng mL-1 sensitivity and enabling virus identification without RNA extraction.

Transposable element-derived siRNAs control viral disease in Arabidopsis

The paper shows that 21-nucleotide siRNAs from transposable elements help Arabidopsis transition from disease to tolerance during viral infection.

Structural insights into maturation and translationof a plant mitoribosome

This study provides high-resolution structural insights into the maturation and translation processes of a flowering plant mitoribosome using cryo-electron microscopy and nanopore sequencing.

CLSY docking to Pol IV requires a conserved domain critical for small RNA biogenesis and transposon silencing.

The paper identifies a conserved CYC-YPMF motif in Pol IV critical for CLSY docking, essential for small RNA biogenesis and transposon silencing.

Transposition of HOPPLA in siRNA-deficient plants suggests a limited effect of the environment on retrotransposon mobility in Brachypodium distachyon

The paper investigates the factors influencing LTR-RT mobility in Brachypodium distachyon, finding that environmental stress has limited effects while RNA polymerase IV loss significantly increases transposon activity.

Hybrid incompatibility caused by an epiallele

The paper shows that an epiallele causes hybrid incompatibility in Arabidopsis thaliana by silencing a gene copy, leading to lethal gene combinations in hybrids.