Marlien M. van der Merwe

The paper examines how seed banking affects the composition and function of seed microbiomes, finding reduced diversity and beneficial traits in stored seeds compared to fresh ones.

The paper assembles a high-quality mite genome from contaminated host plant sequencing data, revealing genome streamlining and a novel telomere sequence.

This paper presents a chromosome-level genome assembly for Telopea speciosissima using long-reads, linked-reads, and Hi-C data, along with new tools for genome curation and size estimation.