Selected Publications
Becraft, P. W. (2007). Aleurone cell development. In "Endosperm -
Development and Molecular biology" (O.-A. Olsen, Ed.), pp. 45-56. Springer.
[PDF] Settles, A. M., Holding, D., Tan, B., Latshaw, S., Liu, J., Suzuki, M., Li,
L., O'Brien, B., Fajardo, D., Wroclawska, E., Tseung, C.-W., Lai, J., Hunter,
C., Avigne, W., Baier, J., Messing, J., Hannah, L. C., Koch, K., Becraft, P.,
Larkins, B., and McCarty, D. (2007). Sequence-indexed mutations in maize using
the UniformMu transposon-tagging population. BMC Genomics 8, 116.
[PDF]
Cao, X., Costa, L. M., Biderre-Petit, C., Kbhaya, B., Dey, N., Perez, P.,
McCarty, D. R., Gutierrez-Marcos, J. F., and Becraft, P. W. (2007).
Abscisic acid and stress signals induce Viviparous1 expression in seed
and vegetative tissues of maize. Plant Physiol. 143, 720-731.
[PDF] Cao, X., Li, K., Suh, S.-G., Guo, T., and Becraft, P. W.
(2005). Molecular analysis of the CRINKLY4 gene family in Arabidopsis
thaliana. Planta 220, 645-657. [PDF]
Lai, J., Dey, N., Kim, C.-S., Bharti, A. K., Rudd, S., Mayer, K. F. X., Larkins,
B., Becraft, P., and Messing, J. (2004). Characterization of the maize
endosperm transcriptome and its comparison to the rice genome. Genome
Research 14, 1932-1937. [PDF]
Becraft, P. W., Li, K., Dey, N., and Asuncion-Crabb, Y. T. (2002). The maize
dek1gene functions in embryonic pattern formation and in cell fate
specification. Development 129, 5217-5225.
[PDF]
Becraft, P. W. (2002). Receptor kinase signaling in plant development.
Annu. Rev. Cell Devel. Biol. 18, 163-192. [PDF]
Becraft, P. W., Kang, S.-H., and
Suh, S.-G. (2001). The maize CRINKLY4 receptor kinase controls a cell-autonomous
differentiation response. Plant Physiol. 127, 486-496.
[PDF]
Becraft, P. W. (2001) Cell fate specification in the cereal endosperm.
Semin Cell Dev Biol 12, 387-394.
[PDF]
Jin, P., Guo, T. and Becraft, P. W. (2000) The maize CR4 receptor-like kinase mediates a growth factor-like differentiation response. Genesis 27, 104-116. [PDF]
Becraft, P. W.
and Asuncion-Crabb, Y. (2000). Positional cues specify and maintain aleurone
cell fate in maize endosperm development. Development 127,
4039-4048. [PDF]
(See also:
Thompson, R. D. (2000). Turning fields into grains. Nature 408,
39-41.)
Becraft, P. W. (1999). Development of the leaf epidermis. Curr. Topics Devel. Biol. 45, 1-40.
Timmermans, M., Hudson, A., Becraft,
P. W. and Nelson, T. (1999). ROUGH SHEATH2: a Myb-domain factor
that represses knox homeobox genes in maize leaf and floral primordia.
Science
284,
151-153. [PDF]
(See also:
This Week in Science (1999). Turning Out a New Leaf. Science 284,
9.)
Becraft, P. W., Stinard,
P. S. and McCarty, D. R. (1996) CRINKLY4: a TNFR-like receptor kinase involved
in maize epidermal differentiation.
Science 273, 1406-1409. [PDF]
(See also:
Marx, J. (1996). Plants, like animals, may make use of peptide signals.
Science
273, 1338-1339.)
Schneeberger, R. G., Becraft, P. W., Hake, S. and Freeling, M. (1995) Ectopic expression of the KNOX homeobox gene rough sheath1 transforms cell fate in the maize leaf. Genes and Development 9, 2292-2304.
Becraft, P. W. and Freeling, M. (1994) Genetic analysis of Rough sheath1 developmental mutants of maize. Genetics 136, 295-311.
Becraft, P. W., and Freeling, M. (1991) Sectors of liguleless-1 tissue interrupt an inductive signal during maize leaf development. Plant Cell 3, 801-807. [PDF]
