Smriti Gupta, Andrea Gallavotti, Gabrielle A. Stryker, Robert J. Schmidt and Shailesh K. Lal. 2005. A novel class of Helitron-related transposable elements in maize contain portions of multiple pseudogenes. Plant Molecular Biology 57(1): 115-127. abstract | article in pdf format

Clinton J. Whipple, Pietro Ciceri, Christopher M. Padilla, Barbara A. Ambrose, Simona L. Bandong, and Robert J. Schmidt. 2004. Conservation of B-class floral homeotic gene function between maize and Arabidopsis. Development 131(24): 6083-6091. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Yong-Sic Hwang, Pietro Ciceri, Ronald L. Parsons, Stephen P. Moose, Robert J. Schmidt, and Ning Huang. 2004. The maize O2 and PBF proteins act additively to promote transcription from storage protein gene promoters in rice endosperm cells. Plant and Cell Physiology 45(10): 1509-1518. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Andrea Gallavotti, Qiong Zhao, Junko Kyozuka, Robert B. Meeley, Matthew K. Ritter, John F. Doebley, M. Enrico Pe, and Robert J. Schmidt. 2004. The role of barren stalk1 in the architecture of maize. Nature 432(7017): 630-635. first paragraph | full text article | article in pdf format

Kirsten Bomblies, Rong-Lin Wang, Barbara A. Ambrose, Robert J. Schmidt, Robert B. Meeley, and John Doebley. 2003. Duplicate FLORICAULA/LEAFY homologs zfl1 and zfl2 control inflorescence architecture and flower patterning in maize. Development 130(11): 2385-2395. summary | full text article | article in pdf format

George Chuck, Michael Muszynski, Elizabeth A. Kellogg, Sarah C. Hake, and Robert J. Schmidt. (2002) The control of spikelet meristem identity by the branched silkless1 gene in maize. Science 298(5596):1238-1241. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format | supplementary information

Matthew K. Ritter, Christopher M. Padilla, and Robert J. Schmidt. 2002. The maize mutant barren stalk1 is defective in axillary meristem development. American Journal of Botany 89(2): 203-210. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Darleen A. DeMason, and Robert J. Schmidt. 2001. Roles of the Uni gene in shoot and leaf development of pea (Pisum sativum): phenotypic characterization and leaf development in the uni and uni-tac mutants. International Journal of Plant Sciences 162(5): 1033-1051. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Barbara A. Ambrose, David R. Lerner, Pietro Ciceri, Christopher M. Padilla, Martin F. Yanofsky, and Robert J. Schmidt. 2000. Molecular and genetic analyses of the silky1 gene reveal conservation in floral organ specification between eudicots and monocots. Molecular Cell 5(3): 569-579. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Pietro Ciceri, Franca Locatelli, Annamaria Genga, Angelo Viotti, and Robert J. Schmidt. 1999. The activity of the maize Opaque2 transcriptional activator is regulated diurnally. Plant Physiology 121(4): 1321-1327. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Leslie E. Carlini, Mariena Ketudat, Ronald L. Parsons, Shashidhar Prabhakar, Robert J. Schmidt, and Mark J. Guiltinan. 1999. The maize EmBP-1 orthologue differentially regulates Opaque2-dependent gene expression in yeast and cultured maize endosperm cells. Plant Molecular Biology 41(3): 339-349. abstract (full text article and pdf available from Springer Link at this link)

Lucia Colombo, Giovanna Marziani, Simona Masiero, Peter E. Wittich, Robert J. Schmidt, Mirella Sari Gorla, and M. Enrico Pe. 1998. BRANCHED SILKLESS mediates the transition from spikelet to floral meristem during Zea mays ear development. Plant Journal 16(3): 355-363. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Montana Mena, Jesus Vicente-Carbajosa, Robert J. Schmidt, Pilar Carbonero. 1998. An endosperm-specific DOF protein from barley, highly conserved in wheat, binds to and activates transcription from the prolamin-box of a native B-hordein promoter in barley endosperm. Plant Journal 16(1): 53-62. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Robert J. Schmidt, and Barbara A. Ambrose. 1998. The blooming of grass flower development. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 1:60-67. (not available online)

Bruce Veit, Steven P. Briggs, Robert J. Schmidt, Martin F. Yanofsky, and Sarah C. Hake. 1998. The regulation of leaf intiation by the terminal ear1 gene of maize. Nature 393(6681): 166-168. first paragraph | full text article | article in pdf format

Pietro Ciceri, E. Gianazza, B. Lazzari, G. Lippoli, Annamaria Genga, G. Hoschek, Robert J. Schmidt, and Angelo Viotti. 1997.  Phosphorylation of Opaque2 changes diurnally and impacts its DNA binding activity. Plant Cell 9(1): 97-108. abstract | article in pdf format

Jesus Vicente-Carbajosa, Stephen P. Moose, Ronald L. Parsons, and Robert J. Schmidt. 1997. A maize zinc-finger protein binds the prolamin box in zein gene promoters and interacts with the basic leucine zipper transcriptional activator protein Opaque2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94(14): 7685-7690. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Montana Mena, Barbara A. Ambrose, Robert B. Meeley, Steven P. Briggs, Martin F. Yanofsky, and Robert J. Schmidt. 1996. Diversification of C-function activity in maize flower development. Science 274(5295): 1537-1540. abstract | full text article