Beautiful miR172 and AP2 in situs published in Development
On reconciling the interactions between APETALA2, miR172 and AGAMOUS with the ABC model of flower development.
Wollmann H, Mica E, Todesco M, Long JA, Weigel D.Development. 2010 Sep 28. [Epub ahead of print]… Read the rest
MiRNA target mimicry collection published
In a paper just out in PLoS Genetics, we report the generation of a large-scale collection of knockdowns for Arabidopsis thaliana miRNA families.
This has been achieved using artificial miRNA target mimics, a recently developed technique fashioned on an endogenous … Read the rest
Two papers on GWAS and fitness trade-off published in Nature
In collaboration with several groups from around the world, we have recently discovered a locus that underlies a major fitness trade-off between growth and disease resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana.
This work was published today in Nature. An allele at … Read the rest