Irene Julca

This study identifies how incomplete functional divergence of SEPALLATA MADS-box genes drives genetic synergy in tomato floral development through residual redundancy and non-additive expression.

The paper generates transcriptomic data for 22 fern species to study their evolutionary genetics and cell wall composition, revealing unique gene families and divergent cell wall biochemistry.

This study repairs a harmful mutation in a tomato gene using base editing, resulting in plants with compact growth and earlier fruit yield.

This study tests the least diverged orthologue conjecture by analyzing sequence and expression data across multiple species, finding that the least diverged orthologue tends to retain ancestral functions.

The paper identifies a conserved genetic program in male germ cells across species, revealing 161 new spermatogenesis genes and three potential causes of human infertility.

The paper develops a negative selection method to remove auto-activators from yeast-two-hybrid assays using pGAL2-URA3 and 5-FOA treatment, reducing false-positive hits.

The paper estimates the almond genome size and assembly, identifies transposable elements (TEs) as key drivers of divergence between almond and peach genomes, and highlights TE insertions affecting gene expression in traits like kernel taste and mesocarp formation.

This study shows that the green peach aphid uses rapid transcriptional changes of duplicated genes to colonize diverse host plants without genetic specialization.