Epistatic interactions between genes are a major factor in evolution. Hybrid necrosis is an
example of a deleterious phenotype caused by epistatic interactions that is observed in many …

The transition to flowering is an important event in the plant life cycle and is modulated by
several environmental factors including photoperiod, light quality, vernalization, and growth …

Although multiple environmental cues regulate the transition to flowering in Arabidopsis
thaliana, previous studies have suggested that wild A. thaliana accessions fall primarily into two …

Our understanding of gene regulation in plants is constrained by our limited knowledge of
plant cis-regulatory DNA and its dynamics. We mapped DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHSs) …

Robustness, the ability of organisms to buffer phenotypes against perturbations, has drawn
renewed interest among developmental biologists and geneticists. A growing body of …

Genetic transformation has become an important tool in plant genome research over the last
three decades. This applies not only to model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana but also …

Flowering time, a critical adaptive trait, is modulated by several environmental cues. These
external signals converge on a small set of genes that in turn mediate the flowering response. …

We study natural DNA polymorphisms and associated phenotypes in the Arabidopsis relative
Cardamine hirsuta. We observed strong genetic differentiation among several ancestry …

Phyllotactic patterns are some of the most conspicuous in nature. To create these patterns
plants must control the divergence angle between the appearance of successive organs, …

Climate change with warmer winter and spring temperatures poses major challenges to apple
fruit production. Long‐term observations confirm the trend toward earlier flowering, which …