Detlef Weigel

TIPPo assembles organellar genomes using HiFi data without reference genomes or nuclear information, achieving complete chloroplast assemblies and improved mitochondrial results compared to existing tools.

The paper maps meiotic crossover landscapes near centromeres in Arabidopsis, showing suppression linked to structural variation and DNA methylation.

The paper characterizes telomeric repeat diversity in 49 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions, revealing repeat unit types, evolutionary processes, and haplotype patterns.

This study shows that gene editing can relax selection constraints on plant traits by altering genetic correlations between flowering time and water use efficiency in Arabidopsis thaliana.

The paper examines transposon dynamics in Thlaspi arvense, identifying TE polymorphisms linked to genetic diversity and adaptation across populations.

The paper uses pool-based amplicon sequencing to analyze haplotype diversity at the ACCase resistance locus in blackgrass, revealing common soft sweeps and the persistence of TSR haplotypes.

The paper compares HiFi and CLR long-read assemblies in Arabidopsis thaliana to assess centromere and rDNA cluster reconstruction, finding HiFi reduces gaps and enables gapless centromere assembly.

The paper introduces SmT, a spatial metatranscriptomics method to study host-microbe interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana, revealing microbial hotspots and spatial networks.

The paper investigates gene expression patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana hybrids, finding that non-additive gene expression is common and correlates with F1 rosette size, highlighting under-dominance as a key factor in growth trajectories.

vcf2gwas streamlines GWAS analysis by integrating GEMMA, bcftools, and PLINK into a Python API, reducing workflow complexity and effort.

The paper combines shotgun sequencing and rDNA amplicon data to improve detection of microbe-microbe interaction networks in plant leaves by addressing compositionality issues in amplicon data.

The paper introduces MGR, an algorithm that builds a multi-genome reference graph to integrate results from multiple reference genomes and reduce bias in analysis.

The paper investigates how DNA methylation at different positions within the FWA locus in Arabidopsis thaliana affects gene expression, finding that methylation at the transcription start site is most effective for silencing.

The paper generates a high-density crossover map in Arabidopsis thaliana to study how structural variants and epigenetic features influence meiotic crossover positioning.

This study identifies RST1 and RIPR as proteins connecting the cytosolic RNA exosome to the Ski complex in Arabidopsis, showing their role in RNA quality control.

The paper shows that HR4Fei-0 disrupts RPP7bLerik1-3 oligomerization, triggering NLR signaling and cell death, while HR4Col-0 does not.

The paper shows that the number of RPW8/HR repeats influences hybrid necrosis severity when combined with specific RPP7 variants in Arabidopsis thaliana.

The paper assesses climate change-driven natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana by analyzing fitness impacts of rainfall manipulation across different geographic regions.

This study tests Wright's model of physiological dominance in Arabidopsis thaliana hybrids, finding that non-linear trait relationships explain most heterosis, while genetic distance explains little.

The paper develops image-based methods to estimate biomass and fruit number in Arabidopsis thaliana using regular camera images and statistical models.

The paper presents a rainfall-manipulation experiment with 517 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions to study adaptation and fitness under different climate conditions.

The paper estimates the mutation rate and evolutionary relevance in a colonizing plant lineage using historical and modern genomic data.

This paper presents a high-quality, contiguous genome assembly of Arabidopsis thaliana using a single Nanopore flow cell and consumer hardware, demonstrating cost-effectiveness and scalability.

The paper identifies HAWAIIAN SKIRT as an F-box dependent regulator of miRNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana.

The paper examines regulatory DNA variation in Arabidopsis thaliana, finding that chromatin accessibility differences often correlate with gene expression changes despite limited sequence variation.

The paper identifies DNA sequence features that predict susceptibility to epiallelic switching in Arabidopsis and verifies these findings in rice.

The paper examines DNA methylation changes in Arabidopsis thaliana lines over a century, finding minimal divergence despite varied environments and genetic similarity.