Commensal Pseudomonas strains facilitate protective response against pathogens in the host plant
Or Shalev et al., Nature Ecology & Evolution (published online February 24, 2022)
The community structure in the plant-associated microbiome depends collectively on host–microbe, microbe–microbe and host–microbe–microbe interactions. … Read the rest
Collaboration with Ian Henderson (Cambridge):
Pushing the limits of HiFi assemblies reveals centromere diversity between two Arabidopsis thaliana genomes
Fernando Rabanal et al. bioRxiv 480579 doi 10.1101/2022.02.15.480579 (posted February 16, 2022)
Although long-read sequencing can often enable chromosome-level reconstruction of … Read the rest
Repeated origins, widespread gene flow, and allelic interactions of target-site herbicide resistance mutations
Julia Kreiner et al., eLife 11:e70242 (2022). doi: 10.7554/eLife.70242
Causal mutations and their frequency in agricultural fields are well-characterized for herbicide resistance. However, we still lack understanding … Read the rest
Mutation bias reflects natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana
Grey Monroe et al., Nature, published online January 12, 2022
Since the first half of the twentieth century, evolutionary theory has been dominated by the idea that mutations occur randomly with respect … Read the rest
Rafal Gutaker, former postdoc with Hernán Burbano and now a group leader at Kew Botanical Gardens, and Derek Lundberg, current postdoc and soon Group Leader at SLU Uppsala, won ERC Starting Grants. Rafal’s project GREENrice aims to unlock … Read the rest
MethylScore, a pipeline for accurate and context-aware identification of differentially methylated regions from population-scale plant WGBS data
Patrick Hüther et al. bioRxiv 475031 doi 10.1101/2022.01.06.475031 (posted January 6, 2022)
Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) is the standard method for profiling DNA … Read the rest
Department of Molecular Biology
Max Planck Institute for
Biology Tübingen
D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
