In maize, many genes of small effects explain variation in flowering time.
In contrast, we report in this paper here that a large portion of flowering-time variation in A. thaliana can be explained by large-effect loci, but that these tend … Read the rest
Out in PLoS Genetics: MiRNA-mediated control of vegetative phase change in trees — collaboration across three continents (Asia, Europe, North America)!
Detlef Weigel has been elected a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities: http://www.haw.uni-heidelberg.de/index.en.html… Read the rest
Detlef Weigel has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
An honor accorded to distinguished members of the Association, the world’s largest scientific society and publisher of Science magazine. Fellows are elected annually … Read the rest
Felipe Felippes is the sixth student to graduate with a PhD this year.
He is also first author on the last paper of 2010 published by the department (out of 34 total!):
Comparative analysis of non-autonomous effects of tasiRNAs in … Read the rest
Dissertation prize of the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Stiftung
Marco Todesco received the dissertation prize of the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Stiftung today.… Read the rest
Perspective by Detlef Weigel and nine other leading geneticists published in Nature Reviews Genetics
Ten years of genetics and genomics: what have we achieved and where are we heading?… Read the rest
Global effects of the small RNA biogenesis machinery on the Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome.
Laubinger, S., Zeller, S., Henz, S. R., Buechel, S., Sachsenberg, T., Wang, J.-W., Rätsch, G., and Weigel, D.
Global effects of the small RNA biogenesis machinery on … Read the rest
On reconciling the interactions between APETALA2, miR172 and AGAMOUS with the ABC model of flower development.
Wollmann H, Mica E, Todesco M, Long JA, Weigel D.Development. 2010 Sep 28. [Epub ahead of print]… Read the rest
In a paper just out in PLoS Genetics, we report the generation of a large-scale collection of knockdowns for Arabidopsis thaliana miRNA families.
This has been achieved using artificial miRNA target mimics, a recently developed technique fashioned on an endogenous … Read the rest
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