Jörg Hagmann

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: GenomeMapper supports simultaneous mapping of short reads against multiple genomes by integrating related genomes into a single graph structure and introduces representations for alignments against complex structures.

TL;DR: These findings reveal that plants use a highly dynamic maternal ‘short-term stress memory’ with which to respond to adverse external conditions and epigenetically targeted sequences function as distantly-acting control elements of antisense long non-coding RNAs, which in turn regulate targeted gene expression in response to stress.

TL;DR: A de novo assembly for the 375 Mb genome of the perennial model plant, Arabis alpina, revealed long-lasting and recent transposable element activity predominately driven by Gypsy long terminal repeat retrotransposons, which extended the low-recombining pericentromeres and transformed large formerly euchromatic regions into repeat-rich pericentromeric regions.

TL;DR: The results confirm earlier suggestions that actin polymerization is required for bleb retraction and for the first time directly relate the two events.