Detlef Weigel elected to National Academy of Sciences
Detlef Weigel, a naturalized US citizen, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences at their 146th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
The National Academy of Sciences is the US’ most prestigious scientific organization, and election to membership in the … Read the rest
PNAS paper on Capsella speciation published
Self-compatible Capsella rubella and -incompatible C. grandiflora are two closely related and crossable species.
Remarkably, we have now found, in collaboration with other groups from the ERA-PG ARelatives consortium, that C. rubella apparently originated from C. grandiflora only a few … Read the rest
Science paper on triplet repeats published
Triplet repeat expansions cause many human genetic diseases. Until now, no naturally occurring triplet repeat associated genetic defects were known from other multicellular species.
We have identified such a case in Arabidopsis thaliana, which provides a convenient genetic model … Read the rest
