Leo A. J. Willems

SeedMatExplorer: The transcriptome atlas of Arabidopsis seed maturation

The paper generates a high-resolution transcriptome atlas of Arabidopsis seed maturation and links gene expression to seed quality traits using WGCNA.

Drying kinetics govern transcriptional and post-transcriptional reprogramming during seed maturation

This study investigates how different drying rates during seed maturation affect transcriptional and post-transcriptional changes in Arabidopsis thaliana, revealing that slow drying enhances desiccation tolerance through distinct molecular mechanisms.

Reciprocal cybrids reveal how organellar genomes affect plant phenotypes

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