bioRxiv: Barragan et al – Predicting hybrid underperformance

RPW8/HR Repeats Predict NLR-dependent Hybrid Performance

Barragan et al., bioRxiv, posted Feb 24, 2019

Hybrid offspring can look very different from their parents, including having greatly increased or decreased fitness. In many plant species, conflicts between divergent elements of the … Read the rest

First preprint of 2019: The A. thaliana pan-NLRome

The Arabidopsis thaliana pan-NLRome

1000s of NLR genes in 65 diverse accessions

Van de Weyer et al., bioRxiv 537001, posted January 31, 2019

Disease is both among the most important selection pressures in nature and among the main causes … Read the rest