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
German American Institute … Read the rest
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
Our knowledge of natural genetic variation … Read the rest
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
Pangenome analysis tool for Pseudomonas online
panX website for 1,524 Pseudomonas genomes
panX is a software package for comprehensive pan-genome analysis, web-based interactive visualization and dynamic exploration, developed by Wei Ding and Richard Neher.
We have recently assembled the genomes of 1,524 Pseudomonas genomes collected from … Read the rest
Detlef presentation GRC
Presentation on figshare
Detlef’s presentation at the recent Gordon Research Conference on Plant Molecular Biology – Plant Dynamic Systems, focusing on aspects of epigenetic and genetic adaptation to the abiotic environment and advertising our new Pathodopsis project.
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Spiegel Online interview with Detlef
Why Detlef is not afraid of genetically modified plants (in German).
And why it is at the same time nonsense that we will all die of hunger without GMO or genome editing.
On bioRxiv: Genomics of climate change adaptation
A map of climate change-driven natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana
Exposito-Alonso, M., et al. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/321133
Through the lens of evolution, climate change is a directional selection acting on populations, forcing them to change and adapt, or face extinction. We
On bioRxiv: Link between ACD6 and NLR signaling
Modulation of ACD6 dependent hyperimmunity by natural alleles of an Arabidopsis thaliana NLR resistance gene
Zhu, W., Zaidem, M., Van de Weyer, A.-L., Gutaker, R. M., Chae, E., Kim, S.-T., Bemm, F., Li, L., Schwab, R., Unger, F., Beha, M.
Detlef to receive the Barbara McClintock Prize 2019
The award is given annually for career accomplishments in plant genomics
On March 24, the Maize Genetics Executive Committee announced that Detlef will receive the Barbara McClintock Prize 2019 for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies. The announcement takes place at
Live fast/die young or live slow/die old?
Adaptive diversification of growth allometry in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana
Vasseur et al.: PNAS March 14, 2018. 201709141
Are there biological constants unifying phenotypic diversity across scales? Metabolic scaling theory (MST) predicts mathematical regularity and constancy in the allometric scaling
Regional GWAS of flowering adaptation
Genome-wide signatures of flowering adaptation to climate temperature: regional analyses in a highly diverse native range of Arabidopsis thaliana
Collaborative work with Carlos Alonso-Blanco and Xavi Picó
Tabas-Madrid et al.: Plant Cell Environ. published online Mar 8.
Current global
On bioRxiv: Incomplete epigenetic reprogramming during asexual reproduction
Incomplete reprogramming of cell-specific epigenetic marks during asexual reproduction leads to heritable phenotypic variation in plants
Wibowo et al. bioRxiv 2018/02/19/267955
Plants differ from animals in their capability to easily regenerate fertile adult individuals from terminally differentiated cells. This unique … Read the rest
Accumulation of mutations in A. thaliana over 400 years
The rate and potential relevance of new mutations in a colonizing plant lineage
We used a unique natural “experiment” to measure long-time substitution rates
Exposito-Alonso et al.
PLoS Genetics, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007155
A consequence of an increasingly interconnected world is the spread
