Manuel Spannagl

TL;DR: This study leverages 850 wheat RNA-sequencing samples, alongside the annotated genome, to determine the similarities and differences between homoeolog expression across a range of tissues, developmental stages, and cultivars and suggests that the transposable elements in promoters relate more closely to the variation in the relative expression of homoeologicals across tissues than to a ubiquitous effect across all tissues.

TL;DR: The Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS) has many years of experience in providing annotated collections of biological data and a novel literature-mining tool, EXCERBT, gives access to structured information on classified relations between genes, proteins, phenotypes and diseases extracted from Medline abstracts by semantic analysis.

TL;DR: Wounding triggered transient sieve tube occlusion, enhanced energy metabolism, and accumulation of defense-related proteins in the pumpkin EFP, and indicated that Cyclophilin18 is a reliable marker for stress responses of the EFP.

TL;DR: It is shown that these, so far unexploited, sources of variation have had a massive impact on the wheat genome and that ancestral methylation states become preferentially ‘hard coded’ as SNPs via 5-methylcytosine deamination.

TL;DR: Haplotypes derived from core genome SNPs demonstrate the tessellation of modern maize resulting from a complex breeding history and provide an important tool to study maize improvement at a genome scale and to enhance modern hybrid breeding.