Now out in PNAS: Epigenetics during clonal reproduction
Partial maintenance of organ-specific epigenetic marks during plant asexual reproduction leads to heritable phenotypic variation
OA | Phenotypic variation after clonal propagation due to altered epigenetics
Wibowo, Becker et al.
PNAS, published online September 10, 2018
While clonally propagated individuals … Read the rest
Are gene technology and organic farming compatible?
Deutschlandfunk radio: Detlef debates Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein, Chairman of the Board of the Organisation of Organic Farmers (Bund Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft BÖLW). You can listen to the debate here.
(Or download the .mp file here.)
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Rui’s CRISPR/Cas9 vectors in Plant Methods
An efficient CRISPR vector toolbox for engineering large deletions in Arabidopsis thaliana
OA | CRISPR vector toolbox for deletions – plasmids in Addgene
Rui Wu et al Plant Methods 14:65
Vectors available at Addgene
Our knowledge of natural genetic variation … Read the rest
