Margarita Takou

This study examines the effects of strigolactone mutants in Sorghum bicolor on ecophysiology and symbioses, revealing trade-offs in parasitic plant resistance and mycorrhizal interactions.

This study identifies genetic variants in Arabidopsis thaliana that enable adaptation to urban environmental gradients through a city-wide colonization experiment.

The paper analyzes a maize landrace selection experiment to identify loci under selection and track genetic changes over time.

This study uses machine learning to predict gene expression responses to cold stress in Arabidopsis thaliana based on DNA sequence variation, finding moderate accuracy but highlighting challenges from regulatory complexity.

This study shows that genetic incompatibilities in pollen cause segregation distortion in Arabidopsis species and populations, increasing with genetic distance and contributing to reproductive isolation.

This study examines how maize introduction to Europe shaped genetic diversity and differentiation, finding landraces maintain high diversity despite selection pressures and modern breeding accumulating genetic load.

The paper examines the genetic load linked to the self-incompatibility locus in Arabidopsis species, finding limited genomic influence of balancing selection on linked regions.

The study finds that genes with higher non-additive variance in expression show stronger purifying selection and lower synonymous variation in Arabidopsis lyrata.