Publications
* Equal contribution. Please feel free to contact Minya for a copy if you cannot access any of these papers.
19. Min, Y., Ferreira, B, T., Yuan., Y. W. (2025). The Moment Symmetry Breaks: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of CYCLOIDEA Expression During Early Floral Development. Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.05.668671v1
18. Min, Y. (2025) Position and Identity, Two Separable but Inseparable Processes in Floral Meristem Patterning. Accepted at Current Opinions in Plant Biology.
17. LaFountain, A. M., Lin, Q., McMahon., H. E., Min, Y., Ding., B., Gurung, V., Seemann, J., Yuan., Y. W. (2024). A distinct foliar pigmentation pattern in monkeyflower formed by activator-repressor gradients upstream of an anthocyanin-activating R2R3-MYB. Cell Reports. doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114444.
16. Johns, J., Min, Y., Ballerini, E. S., Kramer, E. M., & Hodges, S. A. (2024) Loss of staminodes in Aquilegia jonesii reveals a fading stamen-staminode boundary. EvoDevo. doi.org/10.1186/s13227-024-00225-3
15. Min, Y., & Kramer, E. M. (2022) All’s Well that Ends Well: The Timing of Floral Meristem Termination. Invited Tansley Insight; accepted by New Phytologist.
* Popular science summary: plantae.org/review-how-floral-meristem-termination-shapes-flowers/
14. Min, Y., Ballerini, E. S., Edwards, M. B., Hodges, S. A., Kramer, E. M. (2022) Genetic architecture underlying variation in floral meristem termination in Aquilegia. The Journal of Experimental Botany. erac277, doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac277
13. Min, Y.*, Conway, S. J.*, & Kramer, E. M. (2022) Quantitative live-imaging in Aquilegia floral meristems. Bio-protocol. 12(12): e4449. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4449.
12. Min, Y.*, Conway, S. J.*, & Kramer, E. M. (2022) Quantitative live-imaging of floral organ initiation and floral meristem termination in Aquilegia. Development 149 (4): dev200256. doi.org/10.1242/dev.200256
* Selected as Research Highlight of the issue: Build me up, buttercup.
* Interviewed by The people behind the papers.
* Interviewed by No Time To Read podcast (S1E5)
11. Edwards, M. B., Choi, G. P., Derieg, N. J., Min, Y., Diana, A. C., Hodges, S. A., ... & Ballerini, E. S. (2021). Genetic architecture of floral traits in bee-and hummingbird-pollinated sister species of Aquilegia (columbine). Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14313
10. Min, Y., & Kramer, E. M. (2020). Transcriptome profiling and weighted gene co-expression network analysis of early floral development in Aquilegia coerulea. Scientific Reports. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76750-7
9. Ballerini, E. S., Min, Y., Edwards, M. B., Kramer, E. M., & Hodges, S. A. (2020). POPOVICH, a C2H2 transcription factor, plays a central role in the development of a key innovation, floral nectar spurs, in Aquilegia. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006912117
* Read the press release from Harvard University and University of California Santa Barbara.
8. Henkhaus, N. A., … Min, Y., … & Stern, D. B. (2020) Plant Science Decadal Vision 2020–2030: Reimagining the Potential of Plants for a Healthy and Sustainable Future. Plant Direct. https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.252
* to learn more about the Plant Summit 3 and Plant Science Decadal Vision, visit this webinar.
7. Zhang, R., Min, Y., Holappa, L. D., Walcher-Chevillet, C. L., Duan, X. S., Donaldson, E., Kong, H. Z., & Kramer, E. M. (2020). A role for the Auxin Response Factors ARF6 and ARF8 homologs in petal spur elongation and nectary maturation in Aquilegia. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16633
6. Ickert-Bond, S. M., Sousa, A., Min, Y., Loera, I., Metzgar, J., Pellicer, J., Hidalgo, O., & Leitch, I. J. (2020). Polyploidy in gymnosperms – Insights into the genomic, ecological and evolutionary consequences of polyploidy in Ephedra. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106786
5. Meaders, C., Min, Y., Freedberg. K., & Kramer, E. M. (2020). Developmental and molecular characterization of novel staminodes in Aquilegia. Annals of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaa029
4. Min, Y.., Bunn, J. I., & Kramer, E. M. (2019). Homologs of the STYLISH gene family control nectary development in Aquilegia. New Phytologist. 221(2), 1090-1100.
* Imani was the first student I mentored and her senior thesis became part of this paper. Super proud!
* Commentary: How to be STYLISH: columbine study sheds new light on the obscure mechanisms of nectary formation.
3. Min, Y., & Kramer, E. M. (2017). The Aquilegia JAGGED homolog promotes proliferation of adaxial cell types in both leaves and stems. New Phytologist. 216(2), 536-548.
* My proud first first-author publication! JAG is one of my fav genes because of this.
2. Wang, H., Talavera, M., Min, Y., Flaven, E., & Imbert, E. (2016). Neutral processes contribute to patterns of spatial variation for flower color in the Mediterranean Iris lutescens (Iridaceae). Annals of Botany, 117(6), 995-1007.
1. Huang, S., ... Min, Y., ... & Yu, J. (2013). Draft genome of the kiwifruit Actinidia chinensis. Nature Communications, 4:2640.