Publications

Savage, L.J., K.M. Imre, D.A. Hall and R.L. Last. 2013. Analysis of essential Arabidopsis Nuclear Genes Ecoding Plastid-Targeted Proteins. PLoSONE 8(9): e73291. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073291

Bell, S.M., L.D. Burgoon and R.L. Last. 2012. MIPHENO: Data normalization for high throughput metabolite analysis. BMC Bioinformatics. Published 13 January; doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-10

Gu, L., A.D. Jones and R.L. Last. 2012. Rapid LC−MS/MS Profiling of protein amino acids and metabolically related compounds for large-scale assessment of metabolic phenotypes. Amino Acid Analysis Handbook in Methods in Molecular Biology. M.A. Alterman and P. Hunziker, eds. Humana Press, NY. 828:1-11. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-445-2_1

Yang, Y., T.L. Sage, Y. Liu, T.R. Ahmad, W.F. Marshall, S.-H. Shiu, J.E. Froehlich, K.M. Imre and K.W. Osteryoung, 2011. Clumped chloroplasts 1 is required for plastid separation in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. USA 108:18530-18535. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1106706108

Lu, Y., D.A. Hall, R.L. Last. 2011. A small zinc finger thylakoid protein plays a role in maintenance of photosystem II in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 23: 1861-1875. doi: 10.1105/tpc.111.085456

Lu*, Y., L.J. Savage*, M. Larson, C. Wilkerson and R.L. Last. 2011. Chloroplast 2010: A database for large-scale phenotypic screening of Arabidopsis mutants. Plant Physiol. 155: 1589-1900. doi: 10.1104/pp.110.170118

Lu, Y., L.R. Savage and R.L. Last. 2011. Systematic Phenotypic Screening of Chloroplast Protein Mutants in Arabidopsis. Methods Mol. Biol. 775:161-185. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-237-3_9

Ajjawi, I., Y. Lu, L.J. Savage, S.M. Bell and R.L. Last. 2010. Large scale reverse genetics in Arabidopsis: Case studies from the Chloroplast 2010 Project. Plant Physiol. 152:529-540. doi: 10.1104/pp.109.148494

Gao* J.,  I. Ajjawi*, A. Manoli, A. Sawin, C. Xu, J. Froehlich, R. L. Last and C. Benning 2009. FATTY ACID DESATURASE 4 of Arabidopsis encodes a protein distinct from classic fatty acid desaturases. Plant J. 60:832-839. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2009.04001.x

Lu, Y. and R.L. Last 2008. Web-Based Arabidopsis Functional and Structural Genomics Resources: October 28, 2008. The Arabidopsis Book. Rockville, MD: American Society of Plant Biologists. doi: 10.1199/tab.0118

DellaPenna, D and R.L. Last 2008. Genome-enabled approaches shed new light on plant metabolism. Science. 320(5875):479-481. doi: 10.1126/science.1153715

Lu, Y.  L.J. Savage, I. Ajjawi, K.M. Imre, D.W. Yoder, C. Benning, D. DellaPenna, J.B. Ohlrogge, K.W. Osteryoung, A. P. Weber, C.G. Wilkerson and R.L. Last. 2008. New Connections Across Pathways and Cellular Processes: Industrialized Mutant Screening Reveals Novel Associations between Diverse Phenotypes in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology. 146(4):1482-500. doi: 10.1104/pp.107.115220

Gu, L., A.D. Jones and R.L. Last. 2007. LC-MS/MS assay for protein amino acids and metabolically related compounds for large scale screening of metabolic phenotypes. Anal. Chem. 79(21) 8067-8075. doi: 10.1021/ac070938b