Traditional strategies for identification of causal mutations involve two discrete steps: recombinant genotyping and candidate gene sequencing.
To dramatically speed up identification of causative point mutations and small deletions, we provide the software package SHOREmap (http://1001genomes.org/downloads/shore.html), an extension of the … Read the rest
Jia-wei’s paper, reporting the discovery of a new pathway that allows Arabidopsis thaliana to flower in the absence of inductive long days, has just been published in Cell
Back to back with a paper from the Poethig lab, on which … Read the rest
Rod is spending a year-long sabbatical in the Department, with the aim of developing new strategies for comparative genomics in both rice and Brassicaceae.
Professor Rod Wing, Director of the Arizona Genomics Institute at the University of Arizona, has won … Read the rest
We were part of a large international collaboration that used Perlegen ultra-high density microarrays to interrogate 20 diverse landraces and modern varieties of rice.
This work resulted in the first rice HapMap and laid the foundation for large-scale genetic characterization … Read the rest
Two new collaborative projects have recently been funded,
The EU project AENEAS–Acquired environmental epigenetics advances: from Arabidopsis to maize, and the BMBF-GABI project TRANSNET–Transcriptional networks and their evolution in the Brassicaceae.
AENEAS is led by Serena Varotto (Padova), and includes … Read the rest
Detlef Weigel, a naturalized US citizen, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences at their 146th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
The National Academy of Sciences is the US’ most prestigious scientific organization, and election to membership in the … Read the rest
Self-compatible Capsella rubella and -incompatible C. grandiflora are two closely related and crossable species.
Remarkably, we have now found, in collaboration with other groups from the ERA-PG ARelatives consortium, that C. rubella apparently originated from C. grandiflora only a few … Read the rest
Triplet repeat expansions cause many human genetic diseases. Until now, no naturally occurring triplet repeat associated genetic defects were known from other multicellular species.
We have identified such a case in Arabidopsis thaliana, which provides a convenient genetic model … Read the rest
Department of Molecular Biology
Max Planck Institute for
Biology Tübingen
D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
