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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
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Matthew T Parker, Samija Amar, Jonas Freudigmann, Birgit Walkemeier, Dong Xiao, Victor Solier, Magdalena Marek, Bruno Hüettel, Raphaël Mercier, Korbinian Schneeberger
The paper benchmarks single-cell methods for meiotic recombination mapping in Arabidopsis thaliana and introduces tools to detect crossovers and haplotypes from sparse sequencing data.
bioRxiv · Feb 4, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
Dipesh Kumar Singh, Alexander Mahlandt, Sylvie Jolivet, Stéphanie Durand, Birgit Walkemeier, Christelle Taochy, Victor Solier, Maria Derkacheva, Laurence Cromer, Raphaël Mercier
This study identifies molecular components enforcing monopolar kinetochore orientation in meiosis I of Arabidopsis thaliana, showing cohesin, CENP-C, and SPF2 are essential.
bioRxiv · Aug 19, 2025 · PreprintCell Biology
Manish Goel, José Antonio Campoy, Kristin Krause, Lisa Correa-Baus, Anshupa Sahu, Hequan Sun, Birgit Walkemeier, Magdalena Marek, Randy Beaudry, David Ruiz, Bruno Hüettel, Korbinian Schneeberger
The paper analyzes somatic mutations in an Apricot tree, finding most mutations are layer-specific and can lead to somaclonal phenotypic variation.
Genome biology · Jul 24, 2024Peer-reviewedGenomics
Dipesh Kumar Singh, Qichao Lian, Stéphanie Durand, Joiselle Blanche Fernandes, Aurélie Chambon, Aurélie Hurel, Birgit Walkemeier, Victor Solier, Rajeev Kumar, Raphaël Mercier
The paper identifies HEIP1 as a conserved protein involved in meiotic crossover formation, showing its role in both early and late stages of the class I crossover pathway in Arabidopsis and its presence in mammals.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · May 30, 2023Peer-reviewedGenetics
Dipesh Kumar Singh, Rigel Salinas-Gamboa, Avinash Kumar Singh, Birgit Walkemeier, Jelle Van Leene, Geert De Jaeger, Imran Siddiqi, Raphaël Guérois, Wayne Crismani, Raphaël Mercier
The paper identifies FANCC as an anti-CO gene conserved from vertebrates to plants and shows it regulates meiotic recombination with FANCE and FANCF.
Nucleic Acids Research · Dec 14, 2022Peer-reviewedGenetics
Qichao Lian, Victor Solier, Birgit Walkemeier, Bruno Hüettel, Korbinian Schneeberger, Raphaël Mercier
The paper shows that megabase-scale recombination landscapes in Arabidopsis are independent of sequence divergence and can be predicted by chromatin features.
bioRxiv · Jan 10, 2022 · PreprintGenetics