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Genomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives highlight genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza
The genus Oryza is a model system for the study of
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Seminar at UC San Diego at the Minisymposium of the “Food & Fuel for the 21st Century” group.
Detlef discussed collaborative work with Pepe Gutierrez-Marcos, led by Anjar Wibowo and Claude Becker, … Read the rest
Life on the edge prepares plants for climate change
In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant species can adapt to climate change, we found that central European populations of A. thaliana are most … Read the rest
A role for the F-box protein HAWAIIAN SKIRT in plant microRNA function
Lang PLM, Christie MD, Dogan ES, Schwab R, Hagmann J, Van de Weyer AL, Scacchi E, Weigel D.
Plant Physiol. 2017 Nov 7. doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.01313
As regulators of gene … Read the rest
How we sequence DNA – teaching lab for kids
As big fans of Die Maus, we participated in this year’s open house event and showed how DNA can be extracted, read and sequenced.
Big thanks to all kids for … Read the rest
A rainfall-manipulation experiment with 517 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions
Exposito-Alonso et al. https://doi.org/10.1101/186767
The gold standard for studying natural selection is to quantify lifetime fitness in individuals from natural populations that have been grown together under different field conditions. This has
Giovanna successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Exploring the role of temperature regulated alternative splicing in flowering time and morphogenesis’
Congratulations, Giovanna!
Prominent topologically associated domains differentiate global chromatin packing in rice from Arabidopsis
Chang Liu, Ying-Juan Cheng, Jia-Wei Wang & Detlef Weigel
Nature Plants (2017) doi.org/10.1038/s41477-017-0005-9
The non-random three-dimensional organization of genomes is critical for many cellular processes. Recently, analyses of
Altered chromatin compaction & histone methylation in an interspecific Arabidopsis hybrid
Wangsheng Zhu et al., Genome Biology 2017 18:157, doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1281-4
Background: The merging of two diverged genomes can result in hybrid offspring that phenotypically differ greatly from both parents. In … Read the rest
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