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In Nature Genetics: Solanum pennellii genome

The genome of the stress-tolerant wild tomato species Solanum pennellii

Anthony Bolger, … , Christa Lanz, … , Korbinian Schneeberger, … Daniel Koenig, … , Detlef Weigel, Björn Usadel & Alisdair R Fernie

Nature Genetics (2014) doi:10.1038/ng.3046

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Taking over the eLife Twitter account

Tomorrow (Friday, June 13), we are taking over the eLife Twitter account.

We’ll give you a glimpse of what our lab does, what we are excited about, and what new initiatives we are thinking about. Follow us under #elifetakeover.… Read the rest

Team Weigelworld on collection trip in US

Jane Devos and Gautam Shirsekar are in the US for two months, collecting Arabidopsis thaliana along the Eastern Seaboard and in the Midwest.

This is part of a project where we are following a lineage of A. thaliana that was … Read the rest

New group in herbarium genomics

Dr. Hernán Burbano has been appointed project group leader in herbarium genomics.

Read more about this work here.… Read the rest

In Plant Cell: How the FLOWERING works in FT

A very large scale mutagenesis study points to surface charge being an important determinant of flower promoting activity of FT protein. Rare to have a paper with only two authors these days!

William Wing Ho Ho and Detlef Weigel:

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With Parcy lab: LEAFY evolution paper in Science

Very proud to have another collaborative paper with former postdoc

François Parcy (who left the lab in 1997), on the evolution of LEAFY DNA binding specificity. This is sort of a follow-up study on a paper by Alexis Maizel, … Read the rest