This study performs multi-environment GWAS on photosynthetic light use efficiency in Arabidopsis thaliana, identifying robust and conditional quantitative trait loci.

bioRxiv · Aug 7, 2026 · PreprintGenetics

Towards an unbiased characterization of genetic polymorphism

Anna A. Igolkina, Sebastian Vorbrugg, Fernando A. Rabanal, Haijun Liu, Haim Ashkenazy, Aleksandra E. Kornienko, Joffrey Fitz, Max Collenberg, Christian Kubica, Almudena Molla Morales, Benjamin Jaegle, Travis Wrightsman, Vitaly Voloshin, Alexander D. Bezlepsky, Víctor Llaca, , Magnus Nordborg

The paper analyzes whole-genome polymorphism data from 27 Arabidopsis thaliana genomes to highlight challenges and insights in unbiased genetic variation characterization.

bioRxiv · May 30, 2024 · PreprintGenomics

Reciprocal cybrids reveal how organellar genomes affect plant phenotypes

Pádraic J. Flood, Tom P. J. M. Theeuwen, Korbinian Schneeberger, Paul Keizer, Willem Kruijer, Edouard I. Severing, Evangelos Kouklas, Jos A. Hageman, Raúl Y. Wijfjes, Vanesa Calvo‐Baltanás, Frank F. M. Becker, Sabine K. Schnabel, Leo A. J. Willems, Wilco Ligterink, Jeroen van Arkel, , T.G. Wijnker

This study uses cybrids to show that plasmotype variation affects plant phenotypes through additive and epistatic interactions, with epistasis explaining more variance than additivity.

Nature Plants · Jan 13, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics

Linked-read sequencing of gametes allows efficient genome-wide analysis of meiotic recombination

Hequan Sun, Beth A. Rowan, Pádraic J. Flood, Ronny Brandt, Janina Fuß, Angela M. Hancock, Richard W. Michelmore, Bruno Hüettel, Korbinian Schneeberger

The paper develops a linked-read sequencing method to efficiently identify meiotic crossovers at kilobase resolution in pooled recombinants, validated in Arabidopsis.

Nature Communications · Sep 20, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics