Luca Comai

The paper compares mutation rates in different layers of plant meristems and finds the L1 layer accumulates mutations 1.9 times faster than the L2.

The paper investigates the genetic basis of twin and single spots in tobacco, finding that they arise primarily from deletions, translocations, and aneuploidy rather than homologous recombination.

The paper sequenced twelve Camelina sativa genomes to study pangenomic variation in an allohexaploid species, finding minimal gene presence-absence variation but subgenome-specific gene content.

The paper introduces BSA-k-mer, a k-mer-based bulked segregant analysis method to identify genetic loci associated with seed traits in potato, finding novel loci for seed size and matching loci for seed spot.

The paper introduces and compares two Direct PCR methods for Arabidopsis and rice, finding Line-PCR to be faster, cheaper, and more accurate than existing methods.

The paper characterizes chromoanagenesis in an Arabidopsis asy1 meiotic mutant, identifying over 300 novel DNA junctions and linking defective meiosis to genome shattering.

The paper introduces LD-CNV, a method to detect chromosomal translocations by analyzing linkage disequilibrium between copy number variable loci in plant genomes.

The paper investigates the functional roles of two paralogous CENH3 variants in cowpea centromeres, finding that CENH3.1 is essential for plant development and reproduction while CENH3.2 shows reduced functionality.

The paper investigates genomic outcomes of haploid induction crosses in potato, finding most dihaploids lack residual pollinator DNA and showing chromosomal addition and dosage variation.

The paper analyzes genome instability in potato plants regenerated from protoplasts, finding widespread aneuploidy and chromosomal segmental changes.

This study shows CRISPR-Cas9 in Arabidopsis can induce duplication and translocation through nonhomologous recombination of distant DNA breaks.