K. Swarts

Domestication and lowland adaptation of coastal preceramic maize from Paredones, Peru

The paper analyzes ancient maize DNA from Peru to show it originated from Mesoamerica, arrived without teosinte introgression, and underwent lowland adaptation.

Heritable and climatic sources of variation in juvenile tree growth in an Austrian common garden experiment of Central European Norway spruce populations

The paper analyzes juvenile tree height variation in Norway spruce populations using common garden data and weather information to separate heritable and climatic factors.

Automation of tree-ring detection and measurements using deep learning

This paper develops a deep learning model for automated tree-ring detection and measurement, achieving high accuracy and deployability.

Parallel Altitudinal Clines Reveal Adaptive Evolution Of Genome Size In Zea mays

The paper investigates genome size variation in Zea mays across altitudinal gradients, finding natural selection drives genome size changes through repeat content and linking it to flowering time and cell division rates.