bioRxiv: Drought selects on plants and also their microbiomes
Drought selection on Arabidopsis populations and their microbiomes
Talia L. Karasov (2022) bioRxiv 487684 doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.08.487684
Microbes affect plant health, stress tolerance1 and life history2. In different regions of the globe, plants are colonized by distinct pathogenic and commensal microbiomes, but … Read the rest
Prestigious HFSP Long-Term Fellowship for Gal Ofir
Gal Ofir is joining us from the lab of Rotem Sorek at the Weizmann Institute, where he has helped to discover and characterize new immunity systems that bacteria use to defend themselves against phages. Check out Gal’s impressive publication record … Read the rest
bioRxiv: Stable epimutations after regeneration
Predictable and stable epimutations induced during clonal propagation with embryonic transcription factors
Wibowo et al. (2022) bioRxiv 2022.03.15.484412
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Although clonal propagation is frequently used in commercial plant breeding and plant biotechnology programs because it minimizes … Read the rest
