bioRxiv: Barragan et al – Predicting hybrid underperformance
RPW8/HR Repeats Predict NLR-dependent Hybrid Performance
Barragan et al., bioRxiv, posted Feb 24, 2019
Hybrid offspring can look very different from their parents, including having greatly increased or decreased fitness. In many plant species, conflicts between divergent elements of the … Read the rest
First preprint of 2019: The A. thaliana pan-NLRome
The Arabidopsis thaliana pan-NLRome
1000s of NLR genes in 65 diverse accessions
Van de Weyer et al., bioRxiv 537001, posted January 31, 2019
Disease is both among the most important selection pressures in nature and among the main causes … Read the rest
Last preprint of 2018: Evolution of herbicide resistance
Multiple modes of convergent adaptation in the spread of glyphosate-resistant Amaranthus tuberculatus
Julia M. Kreiner, Darci Giacomini, Felix Bemm, Bridgit Waithaka, Julian Regalado, Christa Lanz, Julia Hildebrandt, Peter H. Sikkema, Patrick J. Tranel, Detlef Weigel, John R. Stinchcombe, Stephen I. … Read the rest