Talia’s paper on Pseudomonas population structure published

Arabidopsis thaliana and Pseudomonas Pathogens Exhibit Stable Associations over Evolutionary Timescales

OA | A single Pseudomonas lineage dominates local Arabidopsis populations

Karaso. Almario, Friedemann et al.

Cell Host & Microbe, Volume 24, Issue 1, 11 July 2018, Pages 155-167.e5

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Danelle’s paper on transmission ratio distortion published

Transmission ratio distortion is frequent in Arabidopsis thaliana controlled crosses

OA | Over 500 segregating F2 populations analyzed

Seymour et al., Heredity (2018), published online June 28

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Pangenome analysis tool for Pseudomonas online

panX website for 1,524 Pseudomonas genomes

panX is a software package for comprehensive pan-genome analysis, web-based interactive visualization and dynamic exploration, developed by Wei Ding and Richard Neher.

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Detlef presentation GRC

Presentation on figshare

Detlef’s presentation at the recent Gordon Research Conference on Plant Molecular Biology – Plant Dynamic Systems, focusing on aspects of epigenetic and genetic adaptation to the abiotic environment and advertising our new Pathodopsis project.

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Spiegel Online interview with Detlef

Why Detlef is not afraid of genetically modified plants (in German).

And why it is at the same time nonsense that we will all die of hunger without GMO or genome editing.

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On bioRxiv: Genomics of climate change adaptation

A map of climate change-driven natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana

Exposito-Alonso, M., et al. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/321133

Through the lens of evolution, climate change is a directional selection acting on populations, forcing them to change and adapt, or face extinction. We

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On bioRxiv: Link between ACD6 and NLR signaling

Modulation of ACD6 dependent hyperimmunity by natural alleles of an Arabidopsis thaliana NLR resistance gene

Zhu, W., Zaidem, M., Van de Weyer, A.-L., Gutaker, R. M., Chae, E., Kim, S.-T., Bemm, F., Li, L., Schwab, R., Unger, F., Beha, M.

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Detlef to receive the Barbara McClintock Prize 2019

The award is given annually for career accomplishments in plant genomics

On March 24, the Maize Genetics Executive Committee announced that Detlef will receive the Barbara McClintock Prize 2019 for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies. The announcement takes place at

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Live fast/die young or live slow/die old?

Adaptive diversification of growth allometry in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana

Are there biological constants unifying phenotypic diversity across scales? Metabolic scaling theory (MST) predicts mathematical regularity and constancy in the allometric scaling

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Regional GWAS of flowering adaptation

Genome-wide signatures of flowering adaptation to climate temperature: regional analyses in a highly diverse native range of Arabidopsis thaliana

Collaborative work with Carlos Alonso-Blanco and Xavi Picó

Tabas-Madrid et al.: Plant Cell Environ. published online Mar 8.

Current global

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