Publications

2023

Genomic variation of a keystone forest tree species reveals patterns of local adaptation and future maladaptation 

Niels A Müller, Cornelia Gessner, Malte Mader, Celine Blanc-Jolivet, Matthias Fladung, Bernd Degen 

bioRxiv 


Advanced marker-assisted selection versus genomic selection in breeding programs 

Bernd Degen, Niels A Müller

bioRxiv

2022

Quantitative trait loci related to growth and wood quality traits in Eucalyptus grandis W. Hill identified through single-and multi-trait genome-wide association studies

Lucas Fernandes Rocha, Thiago Romanos Benatti, Leandro de Siqueira, Izabel Christina Gava de Souza, Isadora Bianchin, Aguinaldo José de Souza, Aline Cristina Miranda Fernandes, Shinitiro Oda, José Luiz Stape, Rafael Massahiro Yassue, Humberto Fanelli Carvalho, Niels A Müller, Matthias Fladung, Juan Jose Acosta, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Evandro Vagner Tambarussi 

Tree Genetics & Genomes 


Sex determination and sex chromosome evolution in land plants

Susanne S Renner, Niels A Müller

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B


ARR17 controls dioecy in Populus by repressing B-class MADS-box gene expression  

Ana P Leite Montalvão, Birgit Kersten, Gihwan Kim, Matthias Fladung, Niels A Müller

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

2021

The Hda1 histone deacetylase limits divergent non‐coding transcription and restricts transcription initiation frequency 

Uthra Gowthaman, Maxim Ivanov, Isabel Schwarz, Heta P Patel, Niels A Müller, Desiré García‐Pichardo, Tineke L Lenstra, Sebastian Marquardt

The EMBO Journal


The genetic basis of sex determination in provides molecular markers across the genus and indicates convergent evolution  

Gihwan Kim, Ana P Leite Montalvão, Birgit Kersten, Matthias Fladung, Niels A Müller

Silvae Genetica 


Whole-genome sequencing and genome regions of special interest: Lessons from major histocompatibility complex, sex determination, and plant self-incompatibility

Xavier Vekemans, Vincent Castric, Helen Hipperson, Niels A Müller, Helena Westerdahl, Quentin Cronk

Molecular Ecology


Hda1C restricts the transcription initiation frequency to limit divergent non-coding RNA transcription

Uthra Gowthaman, Maxim Ivanov, Isabel Schwarz, Heta P. Patel, Niels A. Müller, Desiré García-Pichardo, Tineke L. Lenstra, Sebastian Marquardt

bioRxiv


Plant sex chromosomes defy evolutionary models of expanding recombination suppression and genetic degeneration

Susanne S Renner, Niels A Müller

Nature Plants


The Diversity and Dynamics of Sex Determination in Dioecious Plants

Ana P Leite Montalvão, Birgit Kersten, Matthias Fladung, Niels A Müller

Frontiers in Plant Science

2020

Default sex and single gene sex determination in dioecious plants

Quentin Cronk, Niels A Müller

Frontiers in Plant Science


A single gene underlies the dynamic evolution of poplar sex determination

Niels A Müller, Birgit Kersten, Ana P Leite Montalvão, Niklas Mähler, Carolina Bernhardsson, Katharina Bräutigam, Zulema Carracedo Lorenzo, Hans Hoenicka, Vikash Kumar, Malte Mader, Birte Pakull, Kathryn M Robinson, Maurizio Sabatti, Cristina Vettori, Pär K Ingvarsson, Quentin Cronk, Nathaniel R Street, Matthias Fladung

Nature Plants


> Plantae highlight: link


ENO regulates tomato fruit size through the floral meristem development network

Fernando J Yuste-Lisbona, Antonia Fernández-Lozano, Benito Pineda, Sandra Bretones, Ana Ortíz-Atienza, Begoña García-Sogo, Niels A Müller, Trinidad Angosto, Juan Capel, Vicente Moreno, José M Jiménez-Gómez, Rafael Lozano

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA


Long-term study of a subdioecious Populus× canescens family reveals sex lability of females and reproduction behaviour of cosexual plants

Maurizio Sabatti, Muriel Gaudet, Niels A Müller, Birgit Kersten, Cosimo Gaudiano, Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza, Matthias Fladung, Isacco Beritognolo

Plant Reproduction

2019

RNA-seq of eight different poplar clones reveals conserved up-regulation of gene expression in response to insect herbivory

Niels A Müller, Birgit Kersten, Matthias Fladung, Hilke Schroeder

BMC Genomics


Selfing of a single monoecious Populus tremula tree produces viable males, females and “supermales”

Matthias Fladung, Marek Schildbach, Hans Hoenicka, Birgit Kersten, Niels A Müller

Trees


High Level of Conservation of Mitochondrial RNA Editing Sites Among Four Populus Species

Wolfram G Brenner, Malte Mader, Niels A Müller, Hans Hoenicka, Hilke Schroeder, Ingo Zorn, Matthias Fladung, Birgit Kersten

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

2018

Mutations in EID1 and LNK2 caused light-conditional clock deceleration during tomato domestication

Niels A Müller, Lei Zhang, Maarten Koornneef, José M Jiménez-Gómez

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA


> PNAS 'Commentary': link


Prominent alterations of wild barley leaf transcriptome in response to individual and combined drought acclimation and heat shock conditions

Ahmed Ashoub, Niels Müller, José M Jiménez‐Gómez, Wolfgang Brüggemann

Physiologia Plantarum

2017

Variation in the flowering gene SELF PRUNING 5G promotes day-neutrality and early yield in tomato

Sebastian Soyk, Niels A Müller, Soon Ju Park, Inga Schmalenbach, Ke Jiang, Ryosuke Hayama, Lei Zhang, Joyce Van Eck, José M Jiménez-Gómez, Zachary B Lippman

Nature Genetics

2016

Analysis of circadian leaf movements

Niels A Müller, José M Jiménez-Gómez

Methods in Molecular Biology


Domestication selected for deceleration of the circadian clock in cultivated tomato

Niels A Müller, Cris L Wijnen, Arunkumar Srinivasan, Malgorzata Ryngajllo, Itai Ofner, Tao Lin, Aashish Ranjan, Donnelly West, Julin N Maloof, Neelima R Sinha, Sanwen Huang, Dani Zamir, José M Jiménez-Gómez

Nature Genetics


> Nature Genetics 'News & Views': link

> Nature Plants 'Research Highlight': link