Publications


A cost‐effective maize ear phenotyping platform enables rapid categorization and quantification of kernels. The Plant Journal. 2021.
Cedar Warman, Christopher M. Sullivan, Justin Preece, Michaela E. Buchanan, Zuzana Vejlupkova, Pankaj Jaiswal, John E. Fowler
Maize ear scanner
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  • DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15166
  • PMID: 33476427
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  • Fowler Lab @ Oregon State University
  • Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing @ Oregon State University
  • EarVision object detection model (Tensorflow)
  • 300 maize ear images with kernels annotated by bounding boxes (Pascal VOC format)

    • Deep learning-based high-throughput phenotyping can drive future discoveries in plant reproductive biology. Plant Reproduction. 2021.
    Cedar Warman, John E. Fowler
    Deep learning in plant reproduction phenotyping
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  • DOI: 10.1007/s00497-021-00407-2
  • PMID: 33725183
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  • Fowler Lab @ Oregon State University

    • A Maize Male Gametophyte-Specific Gene Encodes ZmLARP6c1, a Potential RNA-Binding Protein Required for Competitive Pollen Tube Growth. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2021.
    Lian Zhou, Zuzana Vejlupkova, Cedar Warman, John E. Fowler
    ZmLARP6c1 pollen phenotypes
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  • DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.635244
  • PMID: 33719310
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  • Fowler Lab @ Oregon State University
  • LARP6C in Arabidopsis

    • No evidence for transient transformation via pollen magnetofection in several monocot species. Nature Plants. 2020.
    Zuzana Vejlupkova, Cedar Warman, Rita Sharma, Henrik Vibe Scheller, Jenny C. Mortimer, John E. Fowler
    Microscope images of biolistic pollen transformation
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  • DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-00798-6
  • PMID: 33139861
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  • Fowler Lab @ Oregon State University
  • Mortimer Lab @ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • An interesting PubPeer thread
  • A relevant Twitter thread

    • High expression in maize pollen correlates with genetic contributions to pollen fitness as well as with coordinated transcription from neighboring transposable elements. PLOS Genetics. 2020.
    Cedar Warman, Kaushik Panda, Zuzana Vejlupkova, Sam Hokin, Erica Unger-Wallace, Rex A. Cole, Antony M. Chettoor, Duo Jiang, Erik Vollbrecht, Matthew M. S. Evans, R. Keith Slotkin, John E. Fowler
    Plot of transmission rates of mutant alleles
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  • DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008462
  • PMID: 32236090
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  • Fowler Lab @ Oregon State University
  • Slotkin Lab @ The Danforth Center
  • Evans Lab @ Carnegie Institution for Science
  • Vollbrecht Lab @ Iowa State University