Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
McCarty Lab
Led by Donald R. McCarty · Horticultural Sciences
What we study
The McCarty Lab studies seed development, plant hormones, and carotenoid metabolism in plants using comparative genomics. Research involves analyzing genetic and molecular processes in crops.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Plants
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Control of embryo size by inositol phosphate signaling revealed by big embryo mutants of maize
2026 · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Identifies maize mutants that alter embryo size via inositol phosphate signaling.
- Catabolism of jasmonoyl-isoleucine modulates maize development and defense responses
2026 · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Studies how JA-Ile catabolism affects maize growth and defense.
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- Maize big embryo 6 reveals roles of plastidial and cytosolic prephenate aminotransferases in seed and plant development
2025 · The Plant Cell
Shows how plastidial and cytosolic prephenate aminotransferases affect maize development.
- A sucrose ferulate cycle linchpin for feruloylation of arabinoxylans in plant commelinids
2024 · Nature Plants
- Independent evolution of transposase and TIRs facilitated by recombination between Mutator transposons from divergent clades in maize
2023 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Compares transposase and TIR evolution in maize Mutator transposons.
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