Species-wide Genetic Incompatibility Analysis Identifies Immune Genes as Hot Spots of Deleterious Epistasis
Eunyoung Chae, Kirsten Bomblies, Sang-Tae Kim, Darya Karelina, Maricris Zaidem, Stephan Ossowski, Carmen Martín-Pizarro, … Read the rest
Evolution of DNA Methylation Patterns in the Brassicaceae is Driven by Differences in Genome Organization
Danelle K. Seymour, Daniel Koenig, Jörg Hagmann, Claude Becker, Detlef Weigel
PLoS Genetics Published: November 13, 2014; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004785
DNA methylation is an ancient molecular … Read the rest
Genome Res. 2014 Nov 3. pii: gr.170332.113.
Genome-wide analysis of local chromatin packing in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Wang C, Liu C, Roqueiro D, Grimm D, Schwab R, Becker C, Lanz C, Weigel D.
Genome Res. 2014 Nov 3. pii: gr.170332.113.
The … Read the rest
We were able to contribute analyses based on 1001 Genomes data to his exciting project describing how a common set of … Read the rest
Our two projects in the SPP1529 (Research Focus Program of the German Research Council DFG) have been renewed
One on variation in Capsella, with Magnus Nordborg and Barbara Neuffer, and one on adaptation of various Brassicaceae along a steep rainfall … Read the rest
Mol Plant. 2014 Oct 24. pii: ssu119. [Epub ahead of print]
Dissection of miRNA pathways using Arabidopsis mesophyll protoplasts.
Martinho C, Confraria A, Elias CA, Crozet P, Rubio-Somoza I, Weigel D, Baena-González E.
microRNAs (miRNAs) control gene expression mostly post-transcriptionally … Read the rest
Trowel: a fast and accurate error correction module for Illumina sequencing reads.
Lim EC, Müller J, Hagmann J, Henz SR, Kim ST, Weigel D.
Bioinformatics. 2014 Jul 29. pii: btu513. [Epub ahead of print]
MOTIVATION:
The ability to accurately read … Read the rest
The genome of the stress-tolerant wild tomato species Solanum pennellii
Anthony Bolger, … , Christa Lanz, … , Korbinian Schneeberger, … Daniel Koenig, … , Detlef Weigel, Björn Usadel & Alisdair R Fernie
Nature Genetics (2014) doi:10.1038/ng.3046
Solanum pennellii is … Read the rest
Tomorrow (Friday, June 13), we are taking over the eLife Twitter account.
We’ll give you a glimpse of what our lab does, what we are excited about, and what new initiatives we are thinking about. Follow us under #elifetakeover.… Read the rest
Jane Devos and Gautam Shirsekar are in the US for two months, collecting Arabidopsis thaliana along the Eastern Seaboard and in the Midwest.
This is part of a project where we are following a lineage of A. thaliana that was … Read the rest
