Lars G. Kamphuis

Pedigree-reconciled pan-genomics reveals megabase-scale hitchhiking after a century of canola breeding

The paper traces the inheritance of a genomic haplotype linked to oil quality in canola over a century of breeding, revealing its pre-existing origin and long-term persistence through hitchhiking.

Cryptic recombination and transposition drive structural variation to shape genomic plasticity and life history traits in a host generalist fungal plant pathogen

The paper analyzes structural variation in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum genomes to show distinct contributions of recombination and transposons to SV diversity and phenotypic variability.

Combined degradome and replicated small RNA sequencing identifies Brassica napus small RNAs responsive to infection by a necrotrophic pathogen

The paper identifies sRNAs in Brassica napus responsive to S. sclerotiorum infection using degradome and small RNA sequencing, revealing novel miRNAs and targets involved in plant immunity.

Selective sweeps in populations of the broad host range plant pathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

This study identifies four population clusters and detects selective sweeps in S. sclerotiorum isolates from different continents, with sweeps overlapping transcriptional regulation genes.