Terezie M. Mandáková

The paper investigates the evolution and reversal of woodiness in flowering plants, finding that drought supports persistence while reduced frost drives gains and increased frost leads to loss.

This study uses CRISPR to reposition centromeres in Arabidopsis, showing how neo-chromosomes with altered centromere positions lead to meiotic segregation distortion and aneuploidy.

The paper identifies a nuclear polarity pathway in Arabidopsis meiosis by showing how telomeres interact with SUN1/2 domains on the nuclear envelope to form a bouquet structure.

This study identifies CDM1 as an RNA-binding protein that regulates meiotic gene expression through cytoplasmic condensate assemblies in Arabidopsis.

This study reclassifies B. calcarea from Boechera to Parryodes, revealing its placement in an ancestral clade of Arabideae through cytogenetic, phylogenetic, and repeatome analyses.

The paper sequences and analyzes the genome of Boechera falcata, revealing its phylogenetic relationship to North American relatives and structural chromosome features.

This study shows triploid hybrids facilitate gene flow between diploid and tetraploid Cardamine amara populations, overcoming ploidy barriers through bidirectional introgression.

This paper highlights Boechera as a model for apomixis research, emphasizing its genetic diversity, reproductive mechanisms, and genomic adaptations that contribute to understanding asexual reproduction and its agricultural applications.

This study identifies genetic adaptations to whole genome duplication in Cochlearia species, highlighting kinetochore and ion transport gene changes across multiple WGD events.

Ultra-long-read sequencing resolves Arabidopsis centromeres, revealing their genetic and epigenetic structure and dynamics.

The paper identifies parallel gene expression changes across alpine and foothill ecotypes of Arabidopsis arenosa under different environmental treatments.

This study identifies the minimal functional telomere length in Arabidopsis by analyzing a hypomorphic TERT allele, finding 400 bp as necessary and sufficient for viability.

The paper shows that rRNA gene copy number variation in Arabidopsis thaliana is heritable but unstably inherited, explaining why GWAS failed to identify the NORs as the source.