Publications

• Dong Z, Li W, Unger-Wallace E, Yang J, Vollbrecht E, Chuck G. (2017). Ideal crop plant architecture is mediated by tassels replace upper ears1, a BTB/POZ ankyrin repeat gene directly targeted by TEOSINTE BRANCHED1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., (), .
• Strable J, Wallace JG, Unger-Wallace E, Briggs S, Bradbury PJ, Buckler ES, Vollbrecht E. (2017). Maize YABBY Genes drooping leaf1 and drooping leaf2 Regulate Plant Architecture. Plant Cell, 29(7), 1622-1641.
• Char SN, Unger-Wallace E, Frame B, Briggs SA, Main M, Spalding MH, Vollbrecht E, Wang K, Yang B. (2015). Heritable site-specific mutagenesis using TALENs in maize. Plant Biotechnol. J., 13(7), 1002-10.
• Pautler M, Eveland AL, LaRue T, Yang F, Weeks R, Lunde C, Je BI, Meeley R, Komatsu M, Vollbrecht E, Sakai H, Jackson D. (2015). FASCIATED EAR4 encodes a bZIP transcription factor that regulates shoot meristem size in maize. Plant Cell, 27(1), 104-20.
• Yi G, Neelakandan AK, Gontarek BC, Vollbrecht E, Becraft PW. (2015). The naked endosperm genes encode duplicate INDETERMINATE domain transcription factors required for maize endosperm cell patterning and differentiation. Plant Physiol., 167(2), 443-56.
• Chettoor AM, Givan SA, Cole RA, Coker CT, Unger-Wallace E, Vejlupkova Z, Vollbrecht E, Fowler JE, Evans MM. (2014). Discovery of novel transcripts and gametophytic functions via RNA-seq analysis of maize gametophytic transcriptomes. Genome Biol., 15(7), 414.
• Eveland AL, Goldshmidt A, Pautler M, Morohashi K, Liseron-Monfils C, Lewis MW, Kumari S, Hiraga S, Yang F, Unger-Wallace E, Olson A, Hake S, Vollbrecht E, Grotewold E, Ware D, Jackson D. (2013). Regulatory modules controlling maize inflorescence architecture. Genome Res., 24(3), 431-43.
• McGrail M, Hatler JM, Kuang X, Liao HK, Nannapaneni K, Watt KE, Uhl JD, Largaespada DA, Vollbrecht E, Scheetz TE, Dupuy AJ, Hostetter JM, Essner JJ. (2011). Somatic mutagenesis with a Sleeping Beauty transposon system leads to solid tumor formation in zebrafish. PLoS ONE, 6(4), e18826.
• Gallavotti A, Long JA, Stanfield S, Yang X, Jackson D, Vollbrecht E, Schmidt RJ. (2010). The control of axillary meristem fate in the maize ramosa pathway. Development, 137(17), 2849-56.
• Vollbrecht E, Duvick J, Schares JP, Ahern KR, Deewatthanawong P, Xu L, Conrad LJ, Kikuchi K, Kubinec TA, Hall BD, Weeks R, Unger-Wallace E, Muszynski M, Brendel VP, Brutnell TP. (2010). Genome-wide distribution of transposed Dissociation elements in maize. Plant Cell, 22(6), 1667-85.
• Sigmon B, Vollbrecht E. (2010). Evidence of selection at the ramosa1 locus during maize domestication. Mol. Ecol., 19(7), 1296-311.
• Ahern KR, Deewatthanawong P, Schares J, Muszynski M, Weeks R, Vollbrecht E, Duvick J, Brendel VP, Brutnell TP. (2009). Regional mutagenesis using Dissociation in maize. Methods, 49(3), 248-54.
• Bortiri E, Chuck G, Vollbrecht E, Rocheford T, Martienssen R, Hake S. (2006). ramosa2 encodes a LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARY domain protein that determines the fate of stem cells in branch meristems of maize. Plant Cell, 18(3), 574-85.
• Vollbrecht E, Sigmon B. (2005). Amazing grass: developmental genetics of maize domestication. Biochem. Soc. Trans., 33(Pt 6), 1502-6.
• Vollbrecht E, Springer PS, Goh L, Buckler ES, Martienssen R. (2005). Architecture of floral branch systems in maize and related grasses. Nature, 436(7054), 1119-26.
• Bommert P, Lunde C, Nardmann J, Vollbrecht E, Running M, Jackson D, Hake S, Werr W. (2005). thick tassel dwarf1 encodes a putative maize ortholog of the Arabidopsis CLAVATA1 leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase. Development, 132(6), 1235-45.
• May BP, Liu H, Vollbrecht E, Senior L, Rabinowicz PD, Roh D, Pan X, Stein L, Freeling M, Alexander D, Martienssen R. (2003). Maize-targeted mutagenesis: A knockout resource for maize. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 100(20), 11541-6.
• Vollbrecht E, Reiser L, Hake S. (2000). Shoot meristem size is dependent on inbred background and presence of the maize homeobox gene, knotted1. Development, 127(14), 3161-72.
• Vollbrecht E, Heckmann R, Wray V, Nimtz M, Lang S. (1998). Production and structure elucidation of di- and oligosaccharide lipids (biosurfactants) from Tsukamurella sp. nov. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 50(5), 530-7.
• Kerstetter R, Vollbrecht E, Lowe B, Veit B, Yamaguchi J, Hake S. (1994). Sequence analysis and expression patterns divide the maize knotted1-like homeobox genes into two classes. Plant Cell, 6(12), 1877-87.