M. Eric Schranz

The paper uses mass-spectrometry to systematically profile specialized metabolites across Brassicaceae species, identifying unique profiles and substructure motifs.

The paper investigates the evolution and reversal of woodiness in flowering plants, finding that drought supports persistence while reduced frost drives gains and increased frost leads to loss.

KCFtools uses k-mer profiles for introgression screening and GWAS without sequence alignment, showing effectiveness in detecting introgressed segments and trait-associated loci in lettuce.

This study shows that post-mating odors in butterflies serve ecological roles like deterring predators and parasitoids, not just sexual selection.

The Lettuce Expression Browser provides a high-resolution gene expression atlas for cultivated and wild lettuce, enabling exploration of gene activity across development and stress conditions.

The paper collects and standardizes metabolic fingerprints of 17 Brassicaceae species across three tissues using LC-MS/MS, enabling integration with genomic and transcriptomic data for natural product discovery.

MoGAAAP automates genome assembly and annotation using HiFi and other long-read data, producing quality assessments for comparative genomics.

This study shows that sedum roofs support lower pollinator diversity than nature roofs and roof gardens due to limited flower availability, highlighting design recommendations for urban green roofs.

The paper identifies QTL associated with agronomic, nutritional, and photosynthetic traits in Gynandropsis gynandra to aid in crop improvement.

This study presents two high-quality rose genomes and constructs a Rosa pangenome to explore genetic diversity, evolution, and breeding potential in the genus Rosa.

The paper presents 11 new chromosome-level genome assemblies of Oryza species, revealing core genome conservation and subgenome plasticity, and highlights implications for crop improvement.

This study investigates the evolutionary origin and genomic trajectory of S-RNase genes in eudicots using phylogenetic and synteny analyses across 130 angiosperm genomes.

This paper characterizes the NAD(P)-Malic Enzymes in tomato, revealing convergent and parallel evolution patterns and challenging assumptions about functional orthology based on phylogeny.

This study constructs a lettuce super-pangenome to reduce bias in reference genes, identifying novel QTLs for disease resistance and origins of non-reference resistance loci from wild relatives.

This paper presents an improved genome assembly of Hirschfeldia incana, revealing insights into chromosomal evolution, phylogenomics, and genes related to high photosynthesis traits.

This study uses genomic analysis of Maroon rice varieties to trace their historical origins and show how Maroon farmers preserved crop diversity over 350 years of colonial history.

The paper identifies three mutations in cannabinoid oxidocyclases that affect enzyme activity and product specificity, revealing a key region for catalytic function.

The paper presents de novo genome assemblies and annotations for 19 Brassiceae species to study the evolution of C3-C4 intermediate photosynthesis.

The paper reports a chromosome-level genome assembly of Lactuca saligna and identifies resistance genes associated with non-host resistance to downy mildew.

syntenet infers and analyzes synteny networks from whole-genome protein sequences to identify taxon-specific gene clusters and resolve phylogenetic relationships.

GENESPACE provides pan-genome annotations to analyze syntenic relationships across diverse eukaryotic genomes, revealing structural variation at multiple biological scales.

The paper improves bulk segregant analysis by using Gene Ontology to filter flowering time genes in Brassica oleracea, identifying relevant pathways and candidate genes.

The paper presents a reference genome assembly of Hirschfeldia incana, showing its high photosynthetic efficiency compared to related Brassicaceae species and identifying genomic features potentially contributing to this trait.

The paper presents the genome and developmental transcriptome of the beet armyworm Spodoptera exigua, identifying potential pest control targets through comparative genomic analysis.

The paper infers a novel angiosperm phylogeny using whole-genome microsynteny analysis, revealing new relationships among key clades.

The paper introduces a multi-reference read mapping approach using PanTools, which is as accurate as existing methods but more efficient for large genome collections.

The paper improves the genome of Aethionema arabicum using long-read sequencing and constructs a genetic map, enhancing genome assembly and enabling comparative genetic studies.

The paper characterizes the structural diversity of plant mitochondrial DNA in lettuce species using long-read and short-read sequencing, revealing complex isoforms and recombination events.

This study reanalyzes whole genome sequences of African rice to reassess its domestication origin and geographic diversification, suggesting a non-centric or polycentric origin.