Heavy winds challenge field experiment

A stormy night in Tübingen blew away the cover of our foil tunnel harboring hundreds of Arabidopsis accessions undergoing a fitness experiment.

Thanks to all who helped repairing it so quickly!
Special thanks to all the members from Oliver Bossdorf’s Read the rest

Genetics Society of America awards Detlef the 2016 GSA Medal

Detlef has been awarded the GSA Medal for his outstanding contributions to the field of genetics in the last 15 years.

The society honors both seminar contributions to the understanding of flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana and the development of multiple … Read the rest

Genome-edited crops: regulatory framework proposal in Nature Genetics

A proposed regulatory framework for genome-edited crops

Huang, S., Weigel, D., Beachy, R. N., and Li, J.-y.

Crop breeding is being revolutionized by rapid progress in DNA sequencing and targeted alteration of DNA sequences by genome editing. Here we propose … Read the rest