Bernd Weißhaar

The paper uses phenotyping and transcriptomics to study drought responses in Arabidopsis thaliana, revealing multiple overlapping transcriptional programs that interact with aging.

The paper identifies conserved transcription factor binding motifs across plant species and shows their conservation over 450 million years.

The paper investigates how repetitive DNA sequences contribute to chromosomal differentiation and speciation in sugar beet and wild beets, identifying repeat emergence and loss patterns across gene pools.

The paper identifies core transcription factor binding motifs in Arabidopsis thaliana and shows that motif competition within TF families influences gene expression.

The paper constructs a pangenome of cultivated beet and wild relatives to identify genomic regions with beneficial traits and resolve the parental relationships of a tetraploid wild beet.

The paper presents a fully phased genome sequence of the phylloxera-resistant grapevine rootstock Borner and identifies candidate resistance genes in the Rdv1 locus.

This study identifies genomic regions associated with seed quality traits in Brassica napus using mapping-by-sequencing, revealing new intervals and potential causal genes for seed glucosinolate, protein, and oil content.

The paper sequences and assembles complete plastome genomes from 18 beet species to resolve their phylogenetic relationships with high resolution.

This study identifies and functionally characterizes 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase genes in banana involved in flavonoid biosynthesis, showing their ability to complement Arabidopsis mutants.

The paper identifies DEGs between two Pinot grapevine cultivars with different ripening times and proposes candidate genes for ripening time control.

The paper introduces QUOD, a method to quantify gene dispensability across genomes, validated using Arabidopsis thaliana data, showing dispensable genes are associated with defense and antimicrobial functions.

The paper assembles and annotates the genome of Trifoliate yam (Dioscorea dumetorum) using long-read sequencing, achieving high contiguity and predicting gene models.

The paper develops a genome assembly for the grapevine rootstock 'Börner' and uses it to identify markers for mapping a resistance locus against downy mildew.

The paper compares the genome of Musa acuminata Dwarf Cavendish to the Pahang reference genome, identifying a unique large duplication on chromosome 2 and determining its triploid ploidy.

The paper reports genome sequencing and analysis of an Arabidopsis thaliana suspension cell culture line, revealing genome size reduction and differences in sequence variants compared to the reference.

The paper identifies allele combinations in candidate genes associated with early flowering in grapevine and analyzes their expression during development.

The paper presents a chromosome-arm level assembly of the Arabidopsis thaliana Nd-1 genome, revealing genomic rearrangements and gene set differences compared to the Col-0 reference.