Detlef Weigel at Keystone Conference on Plant Immunity

Detlef Weigel will present the work of this team on natural variation in the plant immune system at the Keystone Conference on Plant Immunity in Big Sky, Montana, April 7-12, 2013.

The Plant Immune System at the Nexus of Trade-offs … Read the rest

In Science: A sugar derivative regulating flowering

Just out in Science: New paper from Markus Schmid’s group and collaborators at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm:

Wahl et al. Regulation of Flowering by Trehalose-6-Phosphate Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. Science 339, 704-707.

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In PLoS Genetics:

Intraspecific variation in TEs and their effects

By Xi Wang, Detlef Weigel and Lisa Smith: Transposon Variants and Their Effects on Gene Expression in Arabidopsis

Abstract

Transposable elements (TEs) make up the majority of many plant genomes. Their transcription and … Read the rest