Congratulations, Dr. Leily Rabbani!
Leily successfully defended her PhD thesis on building and using a genome graph.
Congratulations, Leily!
Author Archive for: dereck.mushingairi@tuebingen.mpg.de
Entries by dereck.mushingairi@tuebingen.mpg.de
… In PLoS Genet: An NLR that modulates ACD6 activity
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
Now out in PNAS: Epigenetics during clonal reproduction
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
Are gene technology and organic farming compatible?
Deutschlandfunk radio: Detlef debates Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein, Chairman of the Board of the Organisation of Organic Farmers (Bund Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft BÖLW). You can listen to the debate here.
(Or download the .mp file here.)
… Rui’s CRISPR/Cas9 vectors in Plant Methods
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
Moi’s paper on flowering time under global change published
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
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
Crop … Read the rest
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
bioRxiv version with a slightly different title: The genetic architecture of recurrent segregation … Read the rest
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.
We have recently assembled the genomes of 1,524 Pseudomonas genomes collected from … Read the rest
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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