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Brad Townsley

University of California, Davis
Verified email at ucdavis.edu
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A new development: evolving concepts in leaf ontogeny

BT Townsley, NR Sinha - Annual review of plant biology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Elucidation of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) underlying aspects of leaf development in
multiple model species has uncovered surprisingly plastic regulatory architecture. The …

Compound leaf development and evolution in the legumes

…, MF Wojciechowski, RW Mei, BT Townsley… - The Plant …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Across vascular plants, Class 1 KNOTTED1-like (KNOX1) genes appear to play a critical
role in the development of compound leaves. An exception to this trend is found in the …

Evolution of asexual reproduction in leaves of the genus Kalanchoë

…, CEM Champagne, BT Townsley… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Plant somatic cells have the remarkable ability to regenerate an entire organism. Many species
in the genus Kalanchoë, known as “mother of thousands,” develop plantlets on the leaf …

Interspecific RNA Interference of SHOOT MERISTEMLESS-Like Disrupts Cuscuta pentagona Plant Parasitism

…, R Kumar, D Koenig, S Kimura, B Townsley… - The Plant …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Infection of crop species by parasitic plants is a major agricultural hindrance resulting in
substantial crop losses worldwide. Parasitic plants establish vascular connections with the host …

De novo assembly and characterization of the transcriptome of the parasitic weed dodder identifies genes associated with plant parasitism

…, Y Ichihashi, M Farhi, K Zumstein, B Townsley… - Plant …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… A and B, Number of genes up-regulated (A) and down-regulated (B) at prehaustorial stage
with associated enriched GO terms relative to stems and seedlings. C and D, Number of …

[HTML][HTML] BrAD-seq: Breath Adapter Directional sequencing: a streamlined, ultra-simple and fast library preparation protocol for strand specific mRNA library …

BT Townsley, MF Covington, Y Ichihashi… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
… (B) mRNA elution was done into 16 μl of 10 mM TrisHCl pH 8 containing 1 mM β-… annotated
stop codon (B). Base frequencies for transcript nucleotides upstream of mapped reads (C). …

Long‐distance transport of mRNA via parenchyma cells and phloem across the host–parasite junction in Cuscuta

R David‐Schwartz, S Runo, B Townsley… - New …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… (a, b) Purple-blue signal indicating expression of the LePFPα subunit in dodder (Cuscuta
pentagona) (transverse section) and in tomato tissue (longitudinal section). Dd, dodder; Tm, …

Light-induced indeterminacy alters shade-avoiding tomato leaf morphology

…, R Kumar, A Ranjan, JM Pelletier, BT Townsley… - Plant …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Plants sense the foliar shade of competitors and alter their developmental programs through
the shade-avoidance response. Internode and petiole elongation, and changes in overall …

Regulation of SHOOT MERISTEMLESS genes via an upstream-conserved noncoding sequence coordinates leaf development

N Uchida, B Townsley, KH Chung… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
The indeterminate shoot apical meristem of plants is characterized by the expression of the
Class 1 KNOTTED1-LIKE HOMEOBOX (KNOX1) genes. KNOX1 genes have been …

[HTML][HTML] An Intracellular Transcriptomic Atlas of the Giant Coenocyte Caulerpa taxifolia

A Ranjan, BT Townsley, Y Ichihashi, NR Sinha… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… pattern of transcript accumulation shown in neighboring panel B) and the location of
transcripts related to cellular compartments as shown in C). B) Heat map for genes belonging to …