Eleni Soumpourou

TL;DR: The annotation and analysis of the draft genome sequence of Brassica rapa accession Chiifu-401-42, a Chinese cabbage, and used Arabidopsis thaliana as an outgroup for investigating the consequences of genome triplication, such as structural and functional evolution.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that three cyclic nucleotide–gated channels in Medicago truncatula are required for nuclear Ca2+ oscillations and subsequent symbiotic responses, and it is shown that they form a complex with the postassium-permeable channel, which modulates nuclear Ca 2+ release.

TL;DR: The near-complete chromosome sequence from a dicotyledonous crop species provides an example of the complexity of genome evolution following polyploidy and provides a benchmark for the performance of whole genome shotgun approaches presently being applied in B. rapa and other species with complex genomes.

TL;DR: The aim of this study was to identify and characterize orthologues of FRI in Brassica oleracea, and identify two major alleles, which appear equally functional both to each other and A. thaliana FRI, when expressed as fusions in A.Thaliana.

TL;DR: The results suggest that breeding of brassica varieties for commercially valuable variation in heading date has been achieved through the selection of cis polymorphism at FLC, similar to that underpinning natural variation in A. thaliana.