Most organisms are well adapted to the environment they have been exposed to for many generations. However, changing environments pose existential threats to populations, unless they are able to adapt...

Fungal effectors may have evolved from ancient antimicrobials, shaping plant microbiota and immunity during infection.

Abstract. Hybridization between species can occur along repeated zones of contact, providing a natural laboratory for studying the interplay between migrat

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Elena Hamann, Pflanzenökologie

Background: Grain amaranth is a nutritious pseudocereal from the Americas that was independently domesticated three times from a common wild ancestor. The three domesticated grain amaranths, their wil...

Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous components of the genome whose mobility can be triggered by environmental stress and influenced by genotype…

Stellenausschreibungen in Pflanzenwissenschaften und Botanik

The interplay between the chromatin landscape and plant domestication remains unclear. Here, the authors report the genome assembly and chromatin landscape map of amaranth and reveal the association b...

Global challenges and new demands require adaptation of cropping systems. Plant genetic diversity can contribute to adapt and improve crops and create more sustainable agricultural systems. In order t...

Plant domestication has had profound impacts on the morphology and genetic diversity of crops. Beyond sequence diversity, changes in chromatin structure can play an important role in plant adaptation....

The introduction of populations to novel environments can lead to a loss of genetic diversity and the accumulation of deleterious mutations due to selection and demographic changes. We investigate ho...