Vanessa Carina Bieker

TL;DR: Future genetic studies of historical herbarium specimens are expected to use genomic, metagenomic, and population genetic approaches to investigate how plant populations respond to environmental change; infer temporal changes in genetic diversity; identify genes under recent selection; investigate past plant pathogen epidemics.

TL;DR: The spatiotemporal spread of LP is investigated through an analysis of 14 warriors from the Tollense Bronze Age battlefield in northern Germany and selection was ongoing in various parts of Europe over the last 3,000 years, suggesting that the surge of rs4988235 in Central and Northern Europe was unlikely caused by Steppe expansions.

TL;DR: The development of the ancient DNA discipline and the role of plant research in its progress and refinement are reviewed and the understanding of long-term plant DNA preservation and the characteristics of degraded DNA is summarized.

TL;DR: An efficient solid-phase/cyclorelease method for the synthesis of a collection of macrocyclic depsipeptides with bipartite peptide/polyketide structure inspired by the very potent F-actin stabilizing depsipes of the jasplakinolide/geodiamolide class is reported.

TL;DR: The findings demonstrate that it is generally possible to use herbarium specimens for metagenomic analyses, but that the results should be treated with caution, as some of the identified species may be her barium contaminants rather than representing the natural metagenomics community of the host plant.