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Margaret Chern

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[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in broad-spectrum resistance to the rice blast disease

W Li, M Chern, J Yin, J Wang, X Chen - Current opinion in plant biology, 2019 - Elsevier
M. oryzae infects a plant during nearly all growth stages and reduces rice yield by 10–35%
[… In fact, the rice–M. oryzae pathosystem has become a premier model for studying the …

Sensing with photoluminescent semiconductor quantum dots

M Chern, JC Kays, S Bhuckory… - … and applications in …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Fluorescent sensors benefit from high signal-to-noise and multiple measurement modalities,
enabling a multitude of applications and flexibility of design. Semiconductor nanocrystal …

On the computational complexity of reliability redundancy allocation in a series system

MS Chern - Operations research letters, 1992 - Elsevier
… For any given instance of Partition, rl, r 2 ..... rn, r, we let M be a positive integer which is
strictly greater than r and define an instance of (1) and an accompanying problem as follows: …

[PDF][PDF] A natural allele of a transcription factor in rice confers broad-spectrum blast resistance

…, Z Zhu, M Chern, J Yin, C Yang, L Ran, M Cheng, M He… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
… a good rice-M. oryzae pathosystem, most such reports focus on R-gene-mediated resistance
and interaction with M. oryzae. All … Chern, and XC analyzed data and wrote the manuscript. …

Evidence for a disease‐resistance pathway in rice similar to the NPR1‐mediated signaling pathway in Arabidopsis

MS Chern, HA Fitzgerald, RC Yadav… - The Plant …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… 0.5 m of imidazole buffer after extensive step washes with 20, 50, 80 and 120 mm imidazole
buffers. Eluted protein was dialyzed into a buffer containing 20 mm Tris pH 8.0 and 0.5 mm

Acute ingestion poisoning with insecticide formulations containing the pyrethroid permethrin, xylene, and surfactant: a review of 48 cases

…, JL Lin, AH Hall, TCY Tsao, MS Chern - Journal of toxicology …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Forty-eight patients poisoned with insecticide formulations containing permethrin
(a Type I pyrethroid insecticide), xylene, and surfactants are reported here. These patients …

A single transcription factor promotes both yield and immunity in rice

J Wang, L Zhou, H Shi, M Chern, H Yu, H Yi, M He… - Science, 2018 - science.org
… , indicating that IPA1 may also improve resistance to M. oryzae. To test this hypothesis directly,
… of M. oryzae in both detached leaves and spray-inoculated plants (Fig. 1, E to G, and figs. …

Overexpression of a rice NPR1 homolog leads to constitutive activation of defense response and hypersensitivity to light

M Chern, HA Fitzgerald, PE Canlas… - Molecular Plant …, 2005 - Am Phytopath Society
Arabidopsis NPR1/NIM1 is a key regulator of systemic acquired resistance (SAR), which
confers lasting broad-spectrum resistance. Previous reports indicate that rice has a disease-…

The rice immune receptor XA21 recognizes a tyrosine-sulfated protein from a Gram-negative bacterium

…, JL Heazlewood, D Ruan, D Majumder, M Chern… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
… ratio (m/z) 300 to 2000 followed by three MS/MS UVPD events to activate the doubly charged
sulfopeptide of interest, HVGGGDsYPPPGANPK, at m/z 769.8 in negative mode and m/z …

[HTML][HTML] A novel system for gene silencing using siRNAs in rice leaf and stem-derived protoplasts

R Bart, M Chern, CJ Park, L Bartley, PC Ronald - Plant methods, 2006 - Springer
… Tissue was immediately incubated in enzyme solution (0.6 M mannitol, 10 mM MES (pH 5.7),
… The reaction was stopped by adding 1 ml 0.2 M Na2CO3. The fluorometer was calibrated …