Matt Stata

I'm very pleased to have been a part of this great study, which is now out in Current Biology!

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And this albino shoot would be the result of a quirk of cell division where an axillary meristem formed from just one layer.

Actually I read up on this a little and it's even cooler. The variegation in this mint variety comes from a stable clonal condition where one layer of meristem cells has chloroplasts that do not produce chlorophyll.

A somatic mutation seems to have occurred in my pineapple mint yielding a single albino shoot.

New preprint up: "Single-cell-level response to drought in Sorghum bicolor reveals novel targets for improving water use efficiency."

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Here we show that drought response supersedes differences in cell identity and identify key transcriptional regulators.

This was a long time (too long) in the works, but I'm thrilled that it is finally out:

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"How evolution repeatedly builds complexity: a case study with C4 photosynthesis in Blepharis (Acanthaceae)"

And this was chosen for a cover photo:

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UnigeneFinder: An Automated Pipeline for Gene Calling From Transcriptome Assemblies Without a Reference Genome For most species, transcriptome data are much more readily available than genome data. Without a reference genome, gene calling is cumbersome and inaccurate because of the high degree of redundancy i...

We are pleased to announce our new paper "UnigeneFinder: An Automated Pipeline for Gene Calling From Transcriptome Assemblies Without a Reference Genome" is officially in press at @plantdirectj.bsky.social!

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Made friends with a squirrel during a morning coffee break.

GitHub - TheRheeLab/UnigeneFinder Contribute to TheRheeLab/UnigeneFinder development by creating an account on GitHub.

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UnigeneFinder: An Automated Pipeline for Gene Calling From Transcriptome Assemblies Without a Reference Genome For most species, transcriptome data are much more readily available than genome data. Without a reference genome, gene calling is cumbersome and inaccurate because of the high degree of redundancy i...

New methods paper out:

UnigeneFinder is a software tool designed to reduce the redundancy of de novo transcriptome assemblies and produce sets of primary transcripts, coding sequences, and proteins, along with gene expression data.

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Relationships between proposed C3 and C4 trait spectra.

#TansleyReview: #C4 #photosynthesis, trait spectra, and the fast-efficient phenotype

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Matt Stata (@mattstata.bsky.social), @rheelab.bsky.social postdoc, has been awarded a PRI Seed Grant for "Cell-Specific Metabolic Remodeling: Mapping C₄ Evolution Through snRNA-seq and Metabolomics in Parallel Intermediate-Rich Lineages." Matt is joined by Co-PIs Beth Holland & Kelem Gashu Alamrie!

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An Arabidopsis single-nucleus atlas decodes leaf senescence and nutrient allocation A comprehensive single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of Arabidopsis across multiple tissues enables the quantification of leaf cell aging state at a single-cell level, highlighting the senescence-relat...

Amazing resource for the Arabidopsis and plant community

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