Eléonore Durand

TL;DR: A high-quality draft of the genome sequence of grapevine is obtained from a highly homozygous genotype, revealing the contribution of three ancestral genomes to the grapevine haploid content and explaining the chronology of previously described whole-genome duplication events in the evolution of flowering plants.

TL;DR: Comparative genomic analyses of laboratory, wild and domesticated yeast populations are providing unprecedented detail about many of the processes that govern evolution, including long-term processes, such as reproductive isolation and speciation, and short- term processes,such as adaptation to natural and domestication-related environments.

TL;DR: It is proposed that both a cluster of tightly linked genes and epistasis contribute to the phenotypic variation for flowering time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors uncover the evolution of how at least 17 small RNA-producing loci and their multiple target sites collectively control the dominance hierarchy among alleles within the gene controlling the pollen S-locus phenotype in a self-incompatible Arabidopsis species.

TL;DR: Starting from a highly inbred material, populations are created within a few generations that strikingly differ from the initial seed lot for flowering time while preserving most of the phenotypic characteristics of the initial inbred.