Detlef Weigel elected to the Royal Society of London
Detlef Weigel is one of eight Foreign Members who have been elected to the Royal Society of London this year.
The Royal Society was founded in 1660 and is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world. Among its … Read the rest
Collection of 80 sequenced accessions available from ABRC
A collection of 80 A. thaliana accessions sequenced as part of the 1001 Genomes Project is available from ABRC.
Each of the accessions is an inbred line that can be ordered as an individual line or as a set (… Read the rest
New paper: finding mutations in non-reference strains
Last year, we demonstrated that short-read sequencing is very useful to hunt down mutations causal for phenotypes in lines isolated from EMS mutant screens (Schneeberger et al., 2009).
However, this was for mutations induced in the Col-0 reference background, for … Read the rest
