Publications
 

Dong, X.; Jiao, W.-B.; Goldkuhle, L.; Rabanal, F.; Amar, S.; Parker, M.; Campoy, J.; Tao, Y.; Huettel, B.; Ton, J. et al.; Smith, L.; Puchta, H.; Weigel, D.; Schneeberger, K.: The mutational dynamics of the Arabidopsis centromeres. Nature Epub ahead (2026)

Li, W.; Li, Y.; Lin, X.; Chen, R.; Li, W.; You, C.; Chen, D.; Gao, L.; Li, X.; Luo, S. et al.; Li, Y.; Long, Y.; Hu, Z.; Zhu, Y.; Li, X.; Bao, Z.; Gu, Y.; Wang, S.; Sun, L.; Wang, W.; Wang, H.; Wu, Y.; Huang, Y.: The domestication-associated WHP10 tandem cluster of amino-acid transporter genes enhances whole-plant protein accumulation in maize. Molecular Plant 19 (9), pp. 1911 - 1931 (2026)

Pérez-Jordà, G.; Peña-Chocarro, L.; Drosou, K.; Tello, J.; Bouby, L.; Bonhomme, V.; Alonso, N.; Ibáñez, J.; Posth, C.; Weigel, D. et al.; Martínez-Zapater, J.; Carbonell-Bejerano, P.; Royo, C.: Eastern origin and three-millennia persistence of a founding grapevine lineage in Iberian viticulture. Current Biology Epub ahead (2026)

Gaischuk, S.; Marchetti, C.; Petrillo, E.; Rabanal, F.; Weigel, D.; Bellora, N.; Arrana, M.: A cost-effective DNA extraction protocol for long-read sequencing in non-model plants. Applications in Plant Sciences 14 (4), e70055 (2026)

Gorringe, N.; Topp, S.; Burns, R.; Yamaguchi, S.; Rabanal, F.; Fernandes, J.; Weigel, D.; Kakutani, T.; Naish, M.; Henderson, I.: Natural variation modifies centromere proximal meiotic crossover frequency and segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 233 (4), iyaf264 (2026)

Oya, S.: The spliceosome's secret life: PRP8 silences transposons through 3D chromatin organization. Plant Cell 38 (8), koag231 (2026)

Duque-Jaramillo, A.; Symeonidi, E.; Neumann, M.; Ashkenazy, H.; Allen, M.; Weigel, D.; Karasov, T.: Biosynthetic gene clusters in Pseudomonas viridiflava have a fitness cost during Arabidopsis thaliana infection. mSystems 11 (7), e0021226 (2026)

Huang, Y.; Zhu, Y.; Cui, Y.; Shi, G.; Wu, X.; Li, W.; Chen, Z.; Zhou, Y.; Gu, Y.; Bao, Z. et al.; Luo, S.; Wu, X.; Li, R.; Liu, J.; Dai, X.; Liu, J.; Chen, D.; Gao, L.; You, C.; Li, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Wang, W.; Wang, H.; Wu, Y.: Teosinte alleles enhance nitrogen assimilation and seed protein in maize. Nature 655 (8124), pp. 1006 - 1015 (2026)

Serok, N.; Polonsky, K.; Ashkenazy, H.; Mayrose, I.; Thorne, J.; Pupko, T.: A deep-learning-based score to evaluate multiple sequence alignments. Molecular Biology and Evolution 43 (8), msag173 (2026)

Backman, T.; Cui, J.; Caullireau, E.; Bleak, E.; Bezrukov, I.; Girardi, P.; Hawks, A.; Lasky, J.; Latorre, S.; Erberich, J. et al.; Lopez, L.; Neumann, M.; Perkins, A.; Symeonidi, E.; Azadi, P.; Horvath, M.; Muszyński, A.; Lang, P.; Karasov, T.; Burbano, H.: Persistent trade-offs balance competition and colonization across centuries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123 (23), e2534310123 (2026)

Lian, Q.; Hu, X.; Qu, Y.; Wang, P.; Yang, X.; Dong, D.; Bao, Z.; Xu, K.; Zhang, Z.; Zhang, C.: Characterizing the genomic consequence of diploid-to-haploid induction in potato using large-scale whole-genome sequencing. The Plant Journal 126 (5), e70955 (2026)

Henry, L.; Rat, A.; Laderman, E.; Lion, R.; Mayjonade, B.; Team Pathocom; Roux, F.; Weigel, D.; Bergelson, J.: Seasonality, land use and plant community diversity shape microbiome-pathogen interactions in wild populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. Philosophical Transactions B 381 (1951), 20250116 (2026)

Preoteasa, A.; Grigorjew, A.; Tomescu, A.; Drost, H.-G.: EMERALD-UI: An interactive web application to unveil novel protein biology hidden in the alternative alignment space. Bioinformatics 42 (5), btag305 (2026)

Stelbrink, B.; Teasdale, L.; Criscione, F.; Köhler, F.: Employing exon capture to resolve species-level relationships in Australian Arid Zone camaenid land snails. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 218, 108570 (2026)

Wang, S.; Bezrukov, I.; Wu, P.-J.; Gauß, H.; Timmermans, M.; Weigel, D.: Cell-type specific gating of gene regulatory modules as a hallmark of early immune responses in Arabidopsis leaves. New Phytologist 250 (4), pp. 2007 - 2025 (2026)

Buchfink, B.; Barbé, É.; Ashkenazy, H.; Reuter, K.; Kennedy, J.; Drost, H.-G.: Clustering the protein universe of life using DIAMOND DeepClust. Nature Methods 23 (4), pp. 724 - 727 (2026)

Oya, S.: Heat-induced Mutator: DNA repair polymerase Polλ shapes mutation under heat. The Plant Cell 38 (4), koag100 (2026)

Tautz, D.; Pallares, L.; Andersson, L.; Barghi, N.; Barton, N.; Bay, R.; Chan, Y.; Hancock, A.; Kaiser, T.; Koenig, D. et al.; Kontarakis, Z.; Liedvogel, M.; de Meaux, J.; Nordborg, M.; Palmer, A.; Purugganan, M.; Schlötterer, C.; Schmid, K.; Stainier, D.; Weigel, D.; Wolf, J.; Ebert, D.; Gibson, G.: Beyond Mendel: a call to revisit the genotype-phenotype map through new experimental paradigms. Genetics 232 (4), iyag024 (2026)

Wang, L.; Amar, M.; Arbizu, C.; Bowman, J.; Cannon, C.; Cantrill, D.; Cao, X.; Chen, S.; Chen, X.; Chen, X. et al.; Chong, K.; Deng, X.; E, W.; Guo, H.; He, C.; Hollingsworth, P.; Hu, Q.; Kong, H.; Leitch, I.; Li, D.; Li, J.; Liu, H.; Lucas, W.; Mizrachi, E.; Rakotoarinivo, M.; Ren, H.; Rieseberg, L.; Ruan, J.; Scherson, R.; Schneider, H.; Soltis, D.; Sun, H.; Silva-Filho, M.; Smith, S.; Twyford, A.; Usadel, B.; Van de Peer, Y.; Van den Berg, C.; Varshney, R.; Viccini, L.; Wang, Q.; Wang, X.-Q.; Wang, Y.; Wendel, J.; Wing, R.; Wong, G.-S.; Xing, Y.; Xu, X.; Yan, N.; Yang, H.; Zhang, S.; Zhu, Y.; Soltis, P.; Weigel, D.; Huang, S.: PLANeT: Understanding and leveraging the genome of land plants for a sustainable future. Cell 189 (9), pp. 2519 - 2532 (2026)

Mutasa, K.; Chipfunde, O.; Chapano, C.; Chatukuta, P.: A national crop wild relative checklist for Zimbabwe reveals edible crop wild relative diversity of regional and global importance. Plants, People, Planet Epub ahead (2026)