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Wilfred Vermerris

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Venado R, Wilker J, Pankievicz V, Infante V, MacIntyre A, Wolf E, et al.
PLoS Biol . 2025 Mar; 23(3):e3003037. PMID: 40029899
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is an important food, feed, and fodder crop worldwide and is gaining popularity as an energy crop due to its high potential for biomass production. Some sorghum...
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Wang Q, Veley K, Veley K, Johnson J, Sumner J, van Erven G, et al.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact . 2025 Feb; :MPMI05240051R. PMID: 39928577
With an increasing demand for renewable fuels, bioenergy crops are being developed with high sugar content and altered cell walls to improve processing efficiency. These traits may have unintended consequences...
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Vela S, Wolf E, Zhou M, Davis A, Mou Z, Cuevas H, et al.
Phytopathology . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39761500
(L.) Moench is the fifth most important cereal crop and expected to gain prominence due to its versatility, low input requirements, and tolerance to hot and dry conditions. In warm...
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Vela S, Wolf E, Rollins J, Cuevas H, Vermerris W
Front Fungal Biol . 2024 Sep; 5:1437344. PMID: 39220294
In warm and humid regions, the productivity of sorghum is significantly limited by the fungal hemibiotrophic pathogen , the causal agent of anthracnose, a problematic disease of sorghum ( (L.)...
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Lewis J, Jacobo E, Palmer N, Vermerris W, Sattler S, Brozik J, et al.
Int J Mol Sci . 2024 Jun; 25(11). PMID: 38891840
Chalcone synthase (CHS) and chalcone isomerase (CHI) catalyze the first two committed steps of the flavonoid pathway that plays a pivotal role in the growth and reproduction of land plants,...
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Wolf E, Vela S, Wilker J, Davis A, Robert M, Infante V, et al.
G3 (Bethesda) . 2023 Dec; 14(3). PMID: 38096484
Plant breeding and genetics play a major role in the adaptation of plants to meet human needs. The current requirement to make agriculture more sustainable can be partly met by...
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Cuevas H, Knoll J, Prom L, Stutts L, Vermerris W
Front Plant Sci . 2023 Nov; 14:1249555. PMID: 37929175
Sweet sorghum is an attractive feedstock for the production of renewable chemicals and fuels due to the readily available fermentable sugars that can be extracted from the juice, and the...
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Lewis J, Zhang B, Harza R, Palmer N, Sarath G, Sattler S, et al.
Int J Mol Sci . 2023 Sep; 24(18). PMID: 37762209
Flavonoids are potent antioxidants that play a role in defense against pathogens, UV-radiation, and the detoxification of reactive oxygen species. Dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR) and flavanone 4-reductase (FNR) reduce dihydroflavonols and...
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Wolf E, Vela S, Cuevas H, Vermerris W
Phytopathology . 2023 Sep; 114(2):405-417. PMID: 37717251
The hemibiotrophic fungal pathogen is the causal agent of anthracnose in sorghum (), resulting in leaf blight, stalk rot, and head blight in susceptible genotypes, with yield losses of up...
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Ismael M, Charras Q, Leschevin M, Herfurth D, Roulard R, Quero A, et al.
Plants (Basel) . 2023 Sep; 12(17). PMID: 37687400
is a common seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea that is able to sequester large amounts of carbon. The carbon assimilated during photosynthesis can be partitioned into non-structural sugars and cell-wall...