NEW TODAY in nature - A vast DNA tree of life brings open access DNA sequences of >9500 flowering plants! 🧬

This invaluable resource crafted by 279 scientists lets us answer key questions about modern plant life and look back in time to its origins 🌿

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Excited to share our new work about the sequence basis of transcription initiation in human. We showed that simple rules can explain most human promoters, offering fresh insights into transcription initiation and gene regulation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen. If you're interested in adaptive evolution of plant pathogens and supernumerary chromosomes 🧬please apply! Please RT 📢
For info about ongoing projects check out our webiste: bio.mpg.de/302180/thorste…

Our groups' goal is to produce genomes that are useful; this does not always mean 'telomere-to-telomere' assemblies. The hybrid sugarcane genome is a nice example of this. The article is out this week in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Hoy escribo sobre cómo encontrar genomas de plantas en Internet: bioinfoperl.blogspot.com/2024/03/mas-ge…

Glad that the trio PacBio genome assembly of Malbec #grapevine 🍇🧬🍷 we produced with plantevolution.bsky.social 🌱 Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen is out in Horticulture Research

Collaboration for haplotype-aware transcriptomics of Malbec clones with LucianoCalderon Diego Lijavetzky and Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino (ICVV)

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How ancient genes form animal body plans go.nature.com/3UZatyZ #JournalClub by Hajk-Georg Drost Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen

Thrilled to announce - our latest on polyploid arenosa just got published in Science :-) Thanks to the amazing team that made it happen including @Thsrikant and Adrián Gonzalo!! And thanks reviewers for enthusiasm, especially reviewer 1, whoever you are!
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

#1 Happy to share our work “Specialized replication mechanisms maintain genome stability at human centromeres” Molecular Cell from A. Scelfo, A. Angrisani and T. Wilhelm Institut Curie CNRS 🌍 where we provide the causes of centromere fragility.
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Thrilled 🤩to announce that our paper from Marco Castellani Meng Zhang on 𝗺𝗲𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 has now been officially published in Nature Plants
nature.com/articles/s4147…

Structural variation and DNA methylation shape the centromere-proximal meiotic crossover landscape in Arabidopsis doi.org/10.1186/s13059… New paper from us Genome Biology

New preprint from the lab, in collaboration with the Olivier Loudet's lab. We combined our expertises to show that Enhanced recombination empowers the detection and mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci.
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Our work, describing the sequence variation of non-canonical telomeric repeat arrays at chromosome ends with HiFi reads, is now out as a preprint. It is also my first piece of work as a PhD student at plantevolution.bsky.social 🌱

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Where even HiFi assemblies fail: Yueqi managed to use HiFi reads for reconstructing telomeric repeat diversity. Mechanisms of repeat diversification and homogenization seem to be not unlike those acting also in centromeres. Let us know what you think!

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Targeting conserved regions of #kinetochore proteins KNL1 and NDC80 provides antibodies for labeling #centromeres across a spectrum of seed plants ! Great work by Ludmila Oliveira & Pavel Neumann in collaboration with Yi-Tzu Kuo, Yennifer Mata-Sucre 🇻🇪 and André Marques. doi.org/10.1101/2023.1…

🌱 🧬 Chromatin profiling of repetitive genomic sequences is anightmare for anyone working with plant genomes! Excited to share our latest work, where we implemented simultaneous accessibility and DNA methylation sequencing (SAM-seq) in plants. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Truly honored to be part of these amazing group of scientist making impactful contributions to our world through innovative ideas! Please check the entire list of this year's Science News #SN10 Scientists to Watch here 👉sciencenews.org/collections/sn…

Great work of authors Fultz, McKinlay and Enganti to fully sequence the Arabidopsis NORs (adding the final missing ~9.4 Mbp of the genome), and map the positions of active and silenced rRNA genes within them, is now published, open access ! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

First time I get the cover of a magazine and it's in nature! Had this idea to illustrate the diversity captured by the MX Biobank across Mexico and brilliant designer Mauricio Guzman brought it to life inspired by indigenous Huichol art from near my home town. nature.com/nature/volumes…