We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.
Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Big congratulations @tobybarilbio.bsky.social!
Please check out and share our final version of the transposon mobilization work in a fungal pathogen - out now in Nature Communications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New OA Article: "Major alleles of CDCA7 shape CG methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana" rdcu.be/ePaOY
GWAS identifies CDCA7 as a regulator of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana . CDCA7 binds the chromatin remodeller DDM1 and modulates the control of CG methylation.
New paper! Work led by @p-bourguet.bsky.social and Frédéric Berger at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social and @esasaki007.bsky.social identified how protein CDCA7 helps plants stably maintain epigenetic modifications across generations.
Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
We discovered an endogenous retrovirus that's still spreading in natural D. melanogaster populations! It was horizontally transferred from D. erecta in Central Africa, so we named it "Kuruka", which means "jump" in Swahili. Read its cool story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Screenshot showing a pink petunia flowers
Efficient creation of decorative double-flowered petunia through CRISPR/Cas9.
From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Have folks had the chance to try out the free-to-use OpenCRISPR yet?
It seems to offer a great alternative for cash-strapped startups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
TEtrimmer: a tool to automate the manual curation of transposable elements. #TransposableElements #ManualCuration #Genomics #Bioinformatics @natcomms.nature.com 🧬 🖥️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc!
Join our group in Poznan, Poland to study meiotic crossover recombination in plants 🌱 Highly motivated & enthusiastic candidates are welcome!
📅 Deadline: Nov 1, 2025
🔗 ibmib.web.amu.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Postdoc_position-2025-Ziolkowskis-Lab.pdf
Optimized R2 Retroelement Complexes Enable Precise and Efficient DNA Insertion into Plant Genomes www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
August’s Nature Plants cover story shows how we integrated large-scale multiDAP and snRNA data to reveal drivers of cell type identity and evolution in flowering plants. www.nature.com/nplants/volu... We packed a lot into this paper! Here’s a single-cell spin on what we found:
From a gene’s single cell expression–through spatial localization–to novel function, and beyond!
Now out @natplants.nature.com
We built a comprehensive spatial-transcriptomic atlas of Arabidopsis, revealing cell-type identities across organs in unprecedented detail
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New OA Resource: "A single-cell, spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle" rdcu.be/eBmkU
An extensive single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle that represents 10 developmental time points in 6 diverse organs.
And here’s my News & Views on the subject:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Epigenetics Update - Plants repress ROS1 expression to attenuate heat-induced transposon burst go.nature.com/4fxjBmr
Weiqiang Qian (Peking University) reporting in Nat Plants
#Epigenetics #Plants #DNAme #DNAm
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