Archive Press Releases

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend”. Abraham Lincoln’s political wisdom can also be transferred to evolution as illustrated by many examples of mutually beneficial interactions or even symbioses between species that started out as deadly adversaries. [more]

Researchers cultivate the majority of bacteria in the laboratory that colonize Arabidopsis plants in nature [more]

Pleiotropy influences the genes shaping leaf diversity [more]

Wild and domesticated varieties of tomato have a different circadian rhythm [more]

Variation in leaf shapes within a plant species is caused by differences in how fast plants develop [more]

In this article published in Cell, Le Roux et al. (2015), describe an exquisite recognition mechanism in the model plant species Arabidopsis. [more]

A study published by Alcazar et al in PLoS Genetics provides some important leads to the evolution of the immune system in European populations of Arabidopsis thaliana and mechanisms underlying the maintenance of particular immunity-related genes or allelic forms in nature. [more]

A small molecule inhibits jasmonic acid and helps to explain its effects [more]

Arabidopsis thaliana lost the RCO gene over the course of evolution and thus forms simple leaves [more]

Signalling pathway links local and systemic plant immunity [more]

The molecular architecture of three key proteins and their complexes reveals how plants fine-tune their immune response to pathogens [more]

The parasitic plant fungi primarily turn to sexual reproduction when host plants improve their defense mechanisms [more]

Alpine rock cress uses a ribonucleic acid to measure its age and tell when it’s the right time to flower [more]

An algorithm that compares genomes to find serious mutations [more]

Even in closely-related species, life-style moulds the genetic make-up of pathogens and how their genes are used [more]