Mutation bias reflects natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana
Grey Monroe et al., Nature, published online January 12, 2022
Since the first half of the twentieth century, evolutionary theory has been dominated by the idea that mutations occur randomly with respect … Read the rest
Rafal Gutaker, former postdoc with Hernán Burbano and now a group leader at Kew Botanical Gardens, and Derek Lundberg, current postdoc and soon Group Leader at SLU Uppsala, won ERC Starting Grants. Rafal’s project GREENrice aims to unlock … Read the rest
MethylScore, a pipeline for accurate and context-aware identification of differentially methylated regions from population-scale plant WGBS data
Patrick Hüther et al. bioRxiv 475031 doi 10.1101/2022.01.06.475031 (posted January 6, 2022)
Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) is the standard method for profiling DNA … Read the rest
Commensal Pseudomonas protect Arabidopsis thaliana from a coexisting pathogen via multiple lineage-dependent mechanisms
Or Shalev et al., ISME J, published December 11, 2021
Plants are protected from pathogens not only by their own immunity but often also by colonizing commensal … Read the rest
International symposium on occasion of Detlef’s 60th birthday
Current and former members of the Weigel Lab present the “Celebration of Plant Science 2021“, a free International Online Symposium with exceptional line up of speakers, on Dec 16, 2021. More information … Read the rest
Derek wins Wallenberg Academy Fellowship for his new lab at SLU
Wallenberg Academy Fellows, the career program for young researchers launched by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in 2012, provides long-term funding for young, promising Swedish and foreign researchers … Read the rest
Thanvi successfully defended her thesis on the interplay between DNA methylation and gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Congratulations, Thanvi!
Multiple Sources of Introduction of North American Arabidopsis thaliana from across Eurasia
Gautam Shirsekar et al., Molecular Biology and Evolution, published September 9, 2021
Large-scale movement of organisms across their habitable range, or migration, is an important evolutionary process … Read the rest
The EDS1–PAD4–ADR1 node mediates Arabidopsis pattern-triggered immunity
Rory N. Pruitt et al., Nature 598, 495–499 (2021)
Plants deploy cell-surface and intracellular leucine rich-repeat domain (LRR) immune receptors to detect pathogens1. LRR receptor kinases and LRR receptor proteins at the plasma … Read the rest
Host-associated microbe PCR (hamPCR) enables convenient measurement of both microbial load and community composition
Derek S Lundberg et al., eLife 10:e66186 (2021)
The ratio of microbial population size relative to the amount of host tissue, or ‘microbial load’, is a … Read the rest
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