M. T. Rutter

Analysis of the leaf metabolome in Arabidopsis thaliana mutation accumulation lines reveals association of pleiotropy and fitness consequences

The paper analyzes the metabolome of Arabidopsis thaliana mutation accumulation lines to show that high fitness mutations are less disruptive to cellular physiology and more associated with transcription regulator genes.

Mutation bias shapes gene evolution in Arabidopsis thaliana

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.

Rapid evolution by spontaneous mutation increases genetic diversity facilitating plant population survival

The paper studies how mutations affect plant population dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana by analyzing mutation accumulation lines in a field experiment.