Publications

Recent Publications

Makarevitch I, Phillips RL, Springer NM. 2007. Segmental aneuploidy in maize leads gene-
specific alterations in transcript abundance and expression patterns resulting in a phenotypic syndrome. Submitted.
Stupar RM, Hermanson PJ, Springer NM. 2007. Non-additive and imprinted gene expression in hybrid maize endosperm. Plant Physiol. 145:411-425.
Makarevitch I, Stupar RM, Iniguez AL, Haun WJ, Barbazuk WB, Kaeppler SM, Springer NM. 2007. Intraspecific Variation for Epialleles Conditioned by the Maize Chromomethylase Zmet2. Genetics.
McGinnis K, Murphy N, Carlson AR, Akula A, Akula C, Basinger H, Carlson M, Hermanson PJ, Kovacevic N, McGill MA, Seshadri V, Yoyokie J, Cone KC, Kaeppler HF, Kaeppler SM, Springer NM. 2007. Assessing the efficiency of RNA interference for maize functional genomics. Plant Physiology.
Springer NM, Stupar RM. 2007. Allelic variation and heterosis in maize: How do two halves make more than a whole? Gen. Res. March 2007.
Haun WJ, Laoueille-Duprat S, O’Connell MJ, Spillane C, Grossniklaus U, Phillips AR, Kaeppler SM, Springer NM. 2007. Genomic imprinting, methylation and molecular evolution of maize Enhancer of zeste (Mez) homologs. The Plant Journal 49: 325-337..

Springer NM, Stupar RM. 2007. Allele-Specific Expression Patterns Reveal Biases and Embryo-Specific Parent-of-Origin Effects in Hybrid Maize. Plant Cell 19: 2391-2402.


Stupar RM, Springer NM. 2006. High levels of cis-transcriptional variation in maize inbred lines lead to additive expression patterns in a heterotic hybrid. Genetics 173: 2199-2210.


Springer NM, Kaeppler SM. 2005. Evolutionary divergence of monocot and dicot methyl-CpG-binding domain proteins. Plant Physiol. 138(1):92-104.
McGinnis K, Chandler V, Cone K, Kaeppler H, Kaeppler S, Kerschen A, Pikaard C, Richards E, Sidorenko L, Smith T, Springer N, Wulan T. 2005. Transgene-induced RNA interference as a Tool for Plant Functional Genomics. In RNA Interference Methods in Enzymology eds. John Rossi and David Engelke. Methods Enzymol 392:1-24.
Till BJ, Reynolds SH, Weil C, Springer NM, Burtner C, Young K, Bowers E, Codomo CA, Enns LC, Odden AR, Greene EA, Comai L, Henikoff S. 2004. Discovery of induced point mutations in maize genes by TILLING. BMC Plant Biol. 4(1):12.
Springer NM, Xu X, Barbazuk WB. 2004. Utility of different gene-enrichment approaches towards identifying and sequencing the maize gene space. Plant Physiol. 136(2):3023-33.
Springer NM, Napoli CA, Selinger DA, Pandey R, Cone KC, Chandler VL, Kaeppler HF, Kaeppler SM. 2003. Comparative Analysis of SET Domain Proteins in Maize and Arabidopsis Reveals Multiple Duplications Preceding the Divergence of Monocots and Dicots. Plant Physiol. 132:907-925
Springer NM, Danilevskaya O, Hermon P, Helentjaris T, Phillips RL, Kaeppler HF, Kaeppler SM. 2002. Sequence Relationships, Conserved Domains, and Expression Patterns for Zea mays Homologs of the Drosophila Polycomb Group Genes E(z), esc, and E(Pc). Plant Phys. 128: 1332-1345
Papa CM, Springer NM, Muszynski MG, Meeley R, Kaeppler SM. 2001. Maize chromomethylase Zea methyltransferase2 is required for CpNpG methylation. Plant Cell 13: 1919-1928.
Cao X, Springer NM, Muszynski MG, Phillips RL, Kaeppler SM, Jacobsen SE. 2000. Conserved plant genes with similarity to mammalian de novo DNA methyltransferases. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 9:4979-4984.
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