Publications
_{Molecular Biology}

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)

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 Epub ahead (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 Epub ahead (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)

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 Epub ahead, e70055 (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)

Wu, X.; Bellagio, T.; Peng, Y.; Czech, L.; Lin, M.; Lang, P.; Epstein, R.; Abdelaziz, M.; Alexander, J.; Alonso-Blanco, C. et al.; Andersen, H.; Berbel, M.; Bergelson, J.; Bossdorf, O.; Burghardt, L.; Caton-Darby, M.; Alonso-Blanco, C.; Calautti, R.; Delker, C.; Dimitrakopoulos, P.; Donohue, K.; Durka, W.; Escribano-Avila, G.; Franks, S.; Fritschi, F.; Galanidis, A.; Garcia-Fernández, A.; García-Muñoz, A.; Hamann, E.; Hutt, A.; Iriondo, J.; Juenger, T.; Keller, S.; Koehl, K.; Korte, A.; Korte, P.; Kuschera, A.; Lara-Romero, C.; Leventhal, L.; Maag, D.; Marcer, A.; March-Salas, M.; de Meaux, J.; Méndez-Vigo, B.; Morente-López, J.; Morton, T.; Münzbergova, Z.; Muola, J.; Nomoto, H.; Pärtel, M.; Picó, F.; Quarles-Chidyagwai, B.; Quint, M.; Reichelt, N.; Rudak, A.; Schmitt, J.; Schmitz, G.; Seifan, M.; Snoek, B.; Stam, R.; Stinchcombe, J.; Stift, M.; Stinchcombe, J.; Taylor, M.; Tiffin, P.; Till-Bottraud, I.; Traveset, A.; Valay, J.-G.; van Zanten, M.; Vandvik, V.; Violle, C.; Weigel, D.; Wódkiewicz, M.; Vasseur, F.; Scheepens, J.; Exposito-Alonso, M.: Rapid adaptation and extinction across climates in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis thaliana. Science 391 (6792) (2026)

Przybylska, M.; Mahaut, L.; Violle, C.; Vile, D.; Munoz, F.; Scheepens, J.; Le Roux, X.; Kazakou, E.; Exposito-Alonso, M.; Bossdorf, O. et al.; Weigel, D.; Vasseur, F.: An evolutionary perspective on the response-effect framework. Functional Ecology 40 (2), pp. 298 - 310 (2026)

Srikant, T.; Drost, H.-G.: Defining the epigenetic toolkit as an evolvable trait. Trends in Plant Science 31 (2), pp. 153 - 164 (2026)

Alañón-Sánchez, N.; Ferradás, Y.; Bezrukov, I.; Weigel, D.; Carbonell Bejerano, P.; Ibáñez, J.: A complex reciprocal translocation underlies reduced bunch compactness in a grapevine somatic variant. BMC Plant Biology 26, 348 (2026)

Alañón-Sánchez, N.; Ferradás, Y.; Bezrukov, I.; Weigel, D.; Carbonell-Bejerano, P.; Ibáñez, J.: A complex reciprocal translocation is linked to reduced gamete viability in a loose-bunch grapevine somatic variant. BMC Plant Biology 26, 348 (2026)

Cavalleri, A.; Astori, C.; Manrique, S.; Bruzzaniti, G.; Smaczniak, C.; Mizzotti, C.; Ruiu, A.; Spanò, M.; Movilli, A.; Gregis, V. et al.; Xu, X.; Kaufmann, K.; Colombo, L.: SPOROCYTELESS/NOZZLE cooperates with MADS-domain transcription factors to regulate an auxin-dependent network controlling Megaspore-Mother-Cell differentiation. Nature Communications 17, 683 (2026)

He, L.; Yao, Y.; You, Y.; Wei, X.; Ma, Y.; Yuan, W.; Lang, Z.; Zhu, J.-K.: Versatile molecular tools enabling customizable DNA methylation editing in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications 17, 251 (2026)