D. Weigel

The paper shows that mutation rates in Arabidopsis thaliana are influenced by cytogenetic features and are lower in genes with deleterious mutations, contradicting neutral expectations.

The paper introduces hamPCR, a method to measure microbial load and community composition from amplicon sequencing, demonstrating its accuracy and scalability across different host-microbe systems.

The paper identifies a singleton NLR gene, DM10, and its interaction with DM11 causing hybrid necrosis in Arabidopsis thaliana.

The paper assesses microbial load and composition in Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere using shotgun metagenomics, finding high microbial loads correlate with pathogen proliferation and reduced diversity.

This study identifies ELF6 and REF6 as JMJ histone demethylases in Arabidopsis that maintain H3K27me3 and H3K27me1 homeostasis, preventing epigenetic imprints and transposon activation during sexual reproduction.

The paper reanalyzes GWAS data using k-mers derived from raw sequencing to detect structural variants and missing regions in plant genomes, finding stronger associations than SNPs.

The paper identifies imbalanced parental genome contributions as a source of transcriptional and epigenetic variation in doubled haploid plants, revealing a role for epigenetic modification of transposons in generating heritable phenotypic diversity.

The paper confirms that TCP genes are not targeted by miR159 and shows that specific sequence differences enable miR319 to regulate TCP transcription factors.

This study investigates the genetic mechanisms of glyphosate resistance in Amaranthus tuberculatus, finding multiple modes of convergent adaptation through gene flow and de novo mutations in different populations.

The paper shows that HR4Fei-0 disrupts RPP7bLerik1-3 oligomerization, triggering NLR signaling and cell death, while HR4Col-0 does not.

The paper assesses climate change-driven natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana by analyzing fitness impacts of rainfall manipulation across different geographic regions.

The paper defines the Arabidopsis thaliana pan-NLRome by analyzing NLR diversity across 65 accessions, finding that 40 accessions saturate the NLRome and identifying architectural diversity and selective forces.

The paper shows that balancing selection maintains genetic diversity at immunity genes across Capsella species after population bottlenecks.

The paper investigates how natural alleles of the NLR gene SNC1 modulate the autoimmune activity of the ACD6 gene in Arabidopsis thaliana, revealing genetic interactions that influence immune system trade-offs.

The paper shows that Arabidopsis thaliana accessions exhibit variation in growth allometry linked to climate adaptation, with PUB4 gene under balancing selection affecting trade-offs between stress resistance and seed production.

The paper surveys Pseudomonas in Arabidopsis thaliana over multiple years and sites, finding that pathogenic sublineages coexist without a single dominant strain overtaking populations.

This study identifies segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana by analyzing over 500 segregating populations using reduced-representation genome sequencing, revealing biased allele transmission in up to a quarter of populations.

The paper predicts future genetic changes in A. thaliana populations by integrating climate change models with genomic data from experimental drought survival experiments.