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Molecular concepts to explain heterosis in crops: Trends in Plant Science cell.com/trends/plant-s…

Cold mediates maize root hair developmental plasticity via epidermis-specific transcriptomic responses (Yaping Zhou, Mauritz Leonard Sommer, Annika Meyer, Danning Wang, Alina Klaus, Tyll Stöcker, et. al.) buff.ly/4dH8LIO Yaping Zhou Frank Hochholdinger ASPB #PlantSci

Find three new papers on our BonnMu sequence indexed mutant repository in the maize 🌽 collection of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols.

Congratulations to former PhD student and postdoc Peng Yu (Peng Yu) who was today appointed professor for Plant Genetics at TU München. The whole lab is very proud of you 👏 🎊🎉🥂

I stayed in Bonn for 11 years! Thanks for the original curiosity and continued passion on science! Thanks for financial support from DFG public | @[email protected] and Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn! I am now ready for new challenges and willing to deepen “Plant Genetics” for agriculture and One Health in TU München !

One week from today, the Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology will be announced. Here are the 79 most likely awardees, each of whom has won two or more pre-Nobel “predictor” prizes:

Andrew Meselson (*1930) & Franklin Stahl (*1929) discovered that DNA replication is semi-conservative. Their 1958 paper is one of the landmarks in the history of molecular biology. They never received the #NobelPrize but are still alive! Their paper 👇 pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Congrats to Ed Buckler (USDA-ARS) who has been chosen as the 2025 recipient of The Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies by the Maize Genetics Cooperation!

We have expanded our sequence indexed, transposon induced BonnMu maize 🌽 mutant repository ⁩to 426.000 insertions in 93% of genes w/ on av. 12 mutant alleles/gene. We have now also mutations in European Flint lines DK105, F7 & EP1. ⁦The Plant Journal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…

I learnt yesterday, that at the 2024 maize genetics meeting, with >500 attendants, only 27 printed copies of the abstract book were sold. I bought one of them. I guess these are now very rare and desirable collectors items 🤩. ⁦MaizeGeneticsCoop⁩ ⁦MaizeGDB⁩

Our new lab building ⁦Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn⁩ is almost finished. My favorite feature is our cooled seed storage room.

Our 2024 🌽 harvested has been successfully completed. Thanks to all who helped.

The annual meeting of our BMBF funded project MAZE 3.0, which aims at accessing native diversity to improve quantitative traits in 🌽 took place Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn this week. Our main targets are genes relevant for cold tolerance during early development. europeanmaize.net

This is how ChatGPT thinks my workplace looks like.

Association of the benzoxazinoid pathway with boron homeostasis in maize (Liuyang Chu, Vivek Shrestha, Cay Christin Schäfer, Jan Niedens, George W Meyer, Zoe Darnell, Tyler Kling, Tobias Dürr-Mayer, Aleksej Abramov, et. al.) buff.ly/3Z1nQjG

In this paper Michaela Matthes‘ group demonstrates that boron homeostasis in maize 🌽 is connected to the benzoxazinoid defense pathway via bx3 and specific intermediates.

Please check out this cool paper by the lab of Michaela Matthes Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn "Association of the benzoxazinoid pathway with boron homeostasis in maize" academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

#OTD 15 years ago, the draft genome of the maize 🌽 inbred line B73 was published. MaizeGDB

Karen Koch, Don McCarty, Frank Hochholdinger and Caroline Marcon honored at #MGC2025 for the UniformMu and BonnMu reverse genetics resources. Changed the way we study genes in the maize genome and makes my job so much easier and more fun.

Without Karen & Don, BonnMu would not have been possible. They gave advice on MuSeq & even provided their whole dataset to test our bioinformatics pipeline. After thanking Karen for their data she said: „What else could I have done?“. That‘s the spirit of the maize community!