Christian S. Hardtke

The paper identifies an exonic enhancer in the BRI1 gene that regulates its expression and development, showing that exon-encoded regulatory information is conserved across plant species.

This study shows BZR1 promotes pluripotency and callus formation by directly regulating ARF7 and ARF19 in plants.

The paper identifies CARMA as a long non-coding RNA that regulates CANAR expression in the phloem to control cell size and vascular tissue formation in response to sugar and osmotic stress.

This study shows that BRI1 expression in multiple tissues is necessary but not sufficient for brassinosteroid signaling, suggesting cell-autonomous receptor function.

This paper creates an atlas of lateral root development in Brachypodium distachyon, showing that lateral roots originate from phloem pole pericycle cells and that auxin signaling is active in overlying cortical layers.