Ovidiu Paun
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http://plantgenomics.univie.ac.at 06-07-2018 13:02:57
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Wonderful to see this paper on #dioecy in #Melastomataceae - this family holds many surprises, and it seems so puzzling why plants evolve separate sexes at high elevations or islands... way to go Juan Angulo and Fabián A. Michelangeli
I couldn't be happier today, as a co-author of an article published in The Plant Cell, of course, but above all as a PI. Clara Groot Crego has conducted outstanding work, rigorously analyzing diverse datasets +🙏Ovidiu Paun et al. Press release Universität Wien:medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recen…
Interested to know more about our work: academic.oup.com/plcell/advance… By combining comparative genomics, transcriptomics and popgen, we studied how genetic drivers influenced the evolution of CAM, a water-saving photosynthesis, in Tillandsia, a textbook example of radiation in plants
Int. researchers have unlocked the secrets of plant adaptation, revealing how #GeneRegulation leads to water-efficient #photosynthesis in air plants. A breakthrough in understanding plant resilience!🧬 Read more about this study in The Plant Cell. ⤵ academic.oup.com/plcell/advance…
Author Clara Groot Crego:"Our findings reveal that while large-scale changes have influenced Tillandsia's genomes like other plants, the adjustment of how photosynthesis works mainly happens through how genes are regulated – not by changing the sequences that code for proteins."🧬
CAM evolution is associated with gene family expansion in an explosive bromeliad radiation (Clara Groot Crego, Jaqueline Hess, Gil Yardeni, Marylaure de La Harpe, et. al.) buff.ly/3UraSIi Clara Groot Crego Plant Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics UniVienna Ovidiu Paun Thibault Leroy ASPB #PlantSci
A 160 Gbp fork fern genome shatters the size record for eukaryotes: cell.com/iscience/fullt… Why does such a tiny fern need such a massive genome? It's astonishing - about 50 times larger than the human genome! Congratulations, Ilia Leitch!
Congratulations to our talented fresh #PhD #graduate Clara Groot Crego from the Ovidiu Paun lab! She successfully defended her thesis yesterday entitled "Molecular sources of variation and their role in the adaptive radiation of Tillandsia" #evolution #genetics