Matthias Benoit

Panagram reveals pangenome architectures underlying trait variation in plants and animals

Alignment-free pan-k-mer profiles track minimap2 similarity (whole-chromosome r^2 0.959-0.968), profile 605 vertebrate genomes in about a day on 40 cores, and nominate trait-linked loci across plants and animals.

Solanum pan-genomics and pan-genetics reveal paralogs as contingencies in crop engineering

The paper uses pan-genomics and genome editing in Solanum to show that paralog diversification hinders genotype-phenotype predictability in crop domestication.

Convergent evolution of plant prickles is drivenby repeated gene co-option over deep time

The paper investigates convergent evolution of plant prickles, finding that mutations in a cytokinin gene repeatedly cause prickle loss across species.