6th bioRxiv of 2017: Massive field data from rain manipulation

A rainfall-manipulation experiment with 517 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions

Exposito-Alonso et al. https://doi.org/10.1101/186767

The gold standard for studying natural selection is to quantify lifetime fitness in individuals from natural populations that have been grown together under different field conditions. This has

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Congratulations, Dr. Giovanna Capovilla!

Giovanna successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Exploring the role of temperature regulated alternative splicing in flowering time and morphogenesis’

Congratulations, Giovanna!

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In Nature Plants: Prominent TADs in rice

Prominent topologically associated domains differentiate global chromatin packing in rice from Arabidopsis

Chang Liu, Ying-Juan Cheng, Jia-Wei Wang & Detlef Weigel

Nature Plants (2017) doi.org/10.1038/s41477-017-0005-9

The non-random three-dimensional organization of genomes is critical for many cellular processes. Recently, analyses of

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