Another PhD thesis graduate of WeigelWorld
Effie defended her thesis ‘Studying salicylic acid function in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana using CRISPR/Cas technology’. She applied CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing of the same gene (ICS1) to multiple accessions, developed with … Read the rest
Position paper by Europe’s leading plant scientists
European scientists unite to safeguard precision breeding for sustainable agriculture
Public debate at DAI Heidelberg
Detlef will debate Member of Parliament and former Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture Renate Künast (Green Party) on genome editing.
Im grünen Bereich?
Monday, October 29, 2018, 8 pm
German American Institute … Read the rest
EFFECTOR OF TRANSCRIPTION factors are novel plant?specific regulators associated with genomic DNA methylation in Arabidopsis
Tedeschi et al., New Pyhtologist, online September 25, 2018
Plant-specific EFFECTORS OF TRANSCRIPTION (ET) are characterised by a variable number of highly conserved ET repeats, … Read the rest
Leily successfully defended her PhD thesis on building and using a genome graph.
Congratulations, Leily!
Modulation of ACD6 dependent hyperimmunity by natural alleles of an Arabidopsis thaliana NLR resistance gene
OA | ACD6 hyperimmunity suppressed by natural alleles of an NLR resistance gene
Zhu W, Zaidem M, et al.
PLoS Genet. 2018 Sep 20;14(9):e1007628. doi: … Read the rest
Partial maintenance of organ-specific epigenetic marks during plant asexual reproduction leads to heritable phenotypic variation
OA | Phenotypic variation after clonal propagation due to altered epigenetics
Wibowo, Becker et al.
PNAS, published online September 10, 2018
While clonally propagated individuals … Read the rest
(Or download the .mp file here.)
An efficient CRISPR vector toolbox for engineering large deletions in Arabidopsis thaliana
OA | CRISPR vector toolbox for deletions – plasmids in Addgene
Rui Wu et al Plant Methods 14:65
Vectors available at Addgene
Our knowledge of natural genetic variation … Read the rest
Spatio-temporal variation in fitness responses to contrasting environments in Arabidopsis thaliana
Exposito-Alonso et al., Evolution (2018)
The evolutionary response of organisms to global climate change is expected to be strongly conditioned by preexisting standing genetic variation. In addition, natural selection … Read the rest
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