Publications
2023
Hannah R Thomas, Alice Gevorgyan, Margaret H Frank, Anatomical and biophysical basis for graft incompatibility within the Solanaceae, Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 74, Issue 15, 17 August 2023, Pages 4461–4470, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad155
Highlighted in Science Magazine: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk9203
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Szeluga, N., Baldrich, P., DelPercio, R., Meyers, B. C., & Frank, M. H. Introduction of barnase/barstar in soybean produces a rescuable male sterility system for hybrid breeding. Plant Biotechnology Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.14155
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Michelle Heeney, Margaret H Frank, The mRNA mobileome: challenges and opportunities for deciphering signals from the noise, The Plant Cell, Volume 35, Issue 6, June 2023, Pages 1817–1833, https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad063
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Arielle R Johnson, Yuanzheng Yue, Sarah B Carey, Se Jin Park, Lars H Kruse, Ashley Bao, Asher Pasha, Alex Harkess, Nicholas J Provart, Gaurav D Moghe, Margaret H Frank, Chromosome-level Genome Assembly of Euphorbia peplus, a Model System for Plant Latex, Reveals that Relative Lack of Ty3 Transposons Contributed to Its Small Genome Size, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2023, evad018, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad018
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2022
Frank, MH, Komarov, S, Wang, Q, Li, K, Hecking, M, Fowler, H, Ravenburg, C, Widmier, A, Johnson, A, Thomas, H, Coneva, V, Chitwood, DH, Tai, Y-C. Integrated PET and confocal imaging informs a functional timeline for the dynamic process of vascular reconnection during grafting (2022) In Review
Preprint on BioRxvi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.27.513862
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Li, M, Frank, MH, Migicovsky, Z (2022) ColourQuant: a high-throughput technique to extract and quantify color phenotypes from plant images. Book chapter in High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping. Methods Mol Biol​ 2539:77-85. Editor: Dr. Argelia Lorence.
Preprint on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01652
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Baldrich, P, Bélanger, S, Kong, S, Pokhrel, S, Tamim, S, Teng, C, Schiebout, C, Gurazada, SGR, Gupta, P, Patel, P, Nakano, M, Dusia, A, Meyers, BC, Frank, MH (2022) The evolutionary history of small RNAs in the Solanaceae. Plant Physiology​ 189(2): 644-665. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac089
Preprint on BioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.26.445884
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Thomas, H*, Van den Broeck*, L, Spurney, R, Sozzani, R, Frank, M (2022) Gene regulatory networks for compatible versus incompatible grafts identify a role for SlWOX4 during junction formation. The Plant Cell 34(1): 535-556. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab246
Preprint on BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2021/02/27/2021.02.26.433082.full.pdf
2021
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Li, M, Coneva, V, Clark, D, Chitwood, DH, Frank, MH (2021) A quantitative dissection of color patterning in the foliar ornamental, coleus. Plant Physiology 187(3): 1310-1324. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiab393
Preprint on BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.11.426252
Johnson, A, Moghe, G, Frank MH (2021) Growing a glue factory: open questions in laticifer development. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 64: 102096
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102096
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Williams, Brandon, Muhammad Umair Ahsan, and Margaret Frank. (2021). Getting to the root of grafting-induced traits. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 59: 101988. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2020.101988
2020
Li Chengjie Chen, Hao Chen, Yi Zhang, Hannah R.Thomas, Margaret H.Frank, Yehua He, and Rui Xia (2020) TBtools - an integrative toolkit developed for interactive analyses of big biological data. Molecular Plant 13(8): 1194-1202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2020.06.009
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Preprint on BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/289660v3
Download TBtools HERE: https://github.com/CJ-Chen/TBtools/releases
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Daniel H. Chitwood, Joey Mullins, Zoë Migicovsky, Margaret H. Frank, Robert VanBuren, Jason P. Londo (2020) Vein-to-blade ratio is an allometric indicator of climate-induced changes in grapevine leaf size and shape.
BioRxiv 2020.05.20.106906; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.20.106906​
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Abigail E. Bryson et al. (2020) Composite modeling of leaf shape across shoots discriminates Vitis species better than individual leaves.
BioRxiv 2020.06.22.163899; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.22.163899​
2019
Li Li, M, Frank, MH, and Migicovsky, Z (2019) ColourQuant: a high-throughput technique to extract and quantify colour phenotypes from plant images. AriXiv http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01652 and In Review for Springer Books
Thomas, HR and Frank, MH (2019) Connecting the pieces: uncovering the molecular basis for long-distance communication through plant grafting. New Phytologist. 223(2): 582-589.
DOI:10.1111/nph.15772
2018
Lee, J-Y and Frank, MH (2018) Plasmodesmata in phloem: different gateways for different cargoes. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 43:119-124
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2018.04.014
Li, M, Frank, MH, Coneva, V, Mio, W, Topp, CN, and Chitwood, DH (2018) The persistent homology mathematical framework provides enhanced genotype-to-phenotype associations for plant morphology. Plant Physiology
DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.00104
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Li, M, An, H, Angelovici, R, Bagaza, C, Batushansky, A, Clark, L, Coneva, V, Donoghue, MJ, Edwards, E, Fajardo, D, Fang, H, Frank, MH, Gallaher, T, Gebken, S, Hill, T, Jansky, S, Kaur, B, Klahs, PC, Klein, LL, Kuraparthy, V, Londo, J, Migicovsky, Z, Miller, A, Mohn, R, Myles, S, Otoni, WC, Pires, JC, Rieffer, E, Schmerler, S, Spriggs, E, Topp, CN, Van Deynze, A, Zhang, K, Zhu, L, Zink, BM, and Chitwood DH (2018) Topological Data Analysis as a Morphometric Method: Using Persistent Homology to Demarcate a Leaf Morphospace. Frontiers in Plant Science 553
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00553
2015-2017
2017
Coneva, V, Frank, MH, de Luis Balaguer, MA, Sozzani, R, and Chitwood, DH (2017) Genetic architecture and molecular networks underlying leaf thickness in desert-adapted tomato Solanum pennellii. Plant Physiology 175(1):376-391.
DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.00790
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Andres, RJ, Coneva, V, Frank, MH, Tuttle, JR, Han, S-W, Samayoa, LF, Kaur, B, Zhu, L, Fang, H, Bowman, DT, Rojas- Pierce, M, Haigler, CH, Jones, DC, Holland, JB, Chitwood, DH, and Kuraparthy, V. Modifications to a LATE MERISTEM IDENTITY-1 gene are responsible for the major leaf shapes of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Plus 114(1):E57-E66.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613593114
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2016
Frank, MH and Chitwood, DH (2016) Plant Chimeras: the good, the bad, and the ‘Bizzaria’. Developmental Biology 419: 41-53.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.07.003
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Warschefsky, EJ, Klein, LL, Frank, MH, Chitwood, DH, Londo, JP, von Wettberg, EJB, and Miller, AJ (2016) Rootstocks: Diversity, Domestication, and Impacts on Shoot Phenotypes. Trends in Plant Science 21: 418-37.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.11.008
2015
Frank, MH and Scanlon, MJ (2015) Cell-Specific Transcriptomic Analyses of 3-Dimensional Shoot Development in the moss Physcomitrella patens. The Plant Journal 83: 743-751.
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12928
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Frank, MH, Edwards, MB, Schultz, ER, McKain, MR, Fei, Z, Sorensen, I, Rose, JKC, Scanlon, MJ (2015) Dissecting the molecular signatures of apical cell-type shoot meristems from two ancient land plant lineages. New Phytologist 207: 893-904.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13407
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Frank, MH and Scanlon MJ (2015) Transcriptomic Evidence for the Evolution of Shoot Meristem Function in Sporophyte-Dominant Land Plants through Concerted Selection of Ancestral Gametophytic and Sporophytic Genetic Programs. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32: 355-367.
DOI: 10.1093/mol- bev/msv182