Impressive A. thaliana long-read genome assemblies

High contiguity Arabidopsis thaliana genome assembly with a single nanopore flow cell

Both PacBio and Oxford Nanopore produce impressive assemblies

Todd P. Michael, Florian Jupe, Felix Bemm, S. Timothy Motley, Justin P. Sandoval, Christa Lanz, Olivier Loudet, Detlef Weigel &

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Dynamics of A. thaliana/Pseudomonas pathosystem (bioRxiv)

Arabidopsis thaliana populations support long-term maintenance and parallel expansions of related Pseudomonas pathogens

With Kemen and Neher labs, we describe the natural dynamics of the A. thaliana/Pseudomonas pathsystem over several years and locations

Talia L Karasov, Juliana Almario, Claudia Friedemann, … Read the rest

IOMAP collaboration: Comparative genomics of rice and its relatives

Now out in Nature Genetics

Genomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives highlight genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza

The genus Oryza is a model system for the study of

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Detlef seminar on adaptation to the environment

Learn more about some of our recent work:

Seminar at UC San Diego at the Minisymposium of the “Food & Fuel for the 21st Century” group.

Detlef discussed collaborative work with Pepe Gutierrez-Marcos, led by Anjar Wibowo and Claude Becker, … Read the rest

Life on the edge prepares plants for climate change

Life on the edge prepares plants for climate change

 

In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant species can adapt to climate change, we found that central European populations of A. thaliana are most … Read the rest

Role for F-box protein HAWAIIAN SKIRT in miRNA function

A role for the F-box protein HAWAIIAN SKIRT in plant microRNA function

Lang PLM, Christie MD, Dogan ES, Schwab R, Hagmann J, Van de Weyer AL, Scacchi E, Weigel D.

Plant Physiol. 2017 Nov 7. doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.01313

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Maus Türöffner Tag

How we sequence DNA – teaching lab for kids

As big fans of Die Maus, we participated in this year’s open house event and showed how DNA can be extracted, read and sequenced.

Big thanks to all kids for … Read the rest

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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