Detlef to debate Renate Künast on October 29

Public debate at DAI Heidelberg

Detlef will debate Member of Parliament and former Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture Renate Künast (Green Party) on genome editing.

Im grünen Bereich?

Monday, October 29, 2018, 8 pm

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New plant factors linked to DNA methylation

EFFECTOR OF TRANSCRIPTION factors are novel plant?specific regulators associated with genomic DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

Tedeschi et al., New Pyhtologist, online September 25, 2018

Plant-specific EFFECTORS OF TRANSCRIPTION (ET) are characterised by a variable number of highly conserved ET repeats, … Read the rest

Congratulations, Dr. Leily Rabbani!

Leily successfully defended her PhD thesis on building and using a genome graph.

Congratulations, Leily!

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In PLoS Genet: An NLR that modulates ACD6 activity

Modulation of ACD6 dependent hyperimmunity by natural alleles of an Arabidopsis thaliana NLR resistance gene

OA | ACD6 hyperimmunity suppressed by natural alleles of an NLR resistance gene

Zhu W, Zaidem M, et al.

PLoS Genet. 2018 Sep 20;14(9):e1007628. doi: … Read the rest

Now out in PNAS: Epigenetics during clonal reproduction

Partial maintenance of organ-specific epigenetic marks during plant asexual reproduction leads to heritable phenotypic variation

OA | Phenotypic variation after clonal propagation due to altered epigenetics

Wibowo, Becker et al.

PNAS, published online September 10, 2018

While clonally propagated individuals … Read the rest

Are gene technology and organic farming compatible?

Deutschlandfunk radio: Detlef debates Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein, Chairman of the Board of the Organisation of Organic Farmers (Bund Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft BÖLW). You can listen to the debate here.

(Or download the .mp file here.)

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Rui’s CRISPR/Cas9 vectors in Plant Methods

An efficient CRISPR vector toolbox for engineering large deletions in Arabidopsis thaliana

OA | CRISPR vector toolbox for deletions – plasmids in Addgene

Rui Wu et al Plant Methods 14:65

Vectors available at Addgene

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Moi’s paper on flowering time under global change published

Spatio-temporal variation in fitness responses to contrasting environments in Arabidopsis thaliana

Exposito-Alonso et al., Evolution (2018)

The evolutionary response of organisms to global climate change is expected to be strongly conditioned by preexisting standing genetic variation. In addition, natural selection … Read the rest

Talia’s paper on Pseudomonas population structure published

Arabidopsis thaliana and Pseudomonas Pathogens Exhibit Stable Associations over Evolutionary Timescales

OA | A single Pseudomonas lineage dominates local Arabidopsis populations

Karaso. Almario, Friedemann et al.

Cell Host & Microbe, Volume 24, Issue 1, 11 July 2018, Pages 155-167.e5

Crop … Read the rest

Danelle’s paper on transmission ratio distortion published

Transmission ratio distortion is frequent in Arabidopsis thaliana controlled crosses

OA | Over 500 segregating F2 populations analyzed

Seymour et al., Heredity (2018), published online June 28

bioRxiv version with a slightly different title: The genetic architecture of recurrent segregation Read the rest