Claude Becker

TL;DR: Insights into the history of the species and the fine-scale distribution of genetic diversity provide the basis for full exploitation of A. thaliana natural variation through integration of genomes and epigenomes with molecular and non-molecular phenotypes.

TL;DR: Compared genome-wide DNA methylation among 10 A. thaliana lines, differentially methylated sites were farther from transposable elements and showed less association with short interfering RNA expression than invariant positions, which has important implications for the potential contribution of sequence-independent epialleles to plant evolution.

TL;DR: High-quality de novo assembly of the apple genome is produced and genome-wide DNA methylation data suggest that epigenetic marks may contribute to agronomically relevant aspects, such as apple fruit development.

TL;DR: Comparison to cistrome and epicistrome datasets identifies associations between transcription factor binding sites, methylation, nucleotide variation, and co-expression modules in the 1001 Genomes collection of Arabidopsis thaliana.

TL;DR: This study resolves controversial areas of the Oryza phylogeny, showing a complex history of introgression among different chromosomes in the young ‘AA’ subclade containing the two domesticated species and announcing many new haplotypes of potential use for future crop protection.