X-specific methylation distorts sex

Niels A Müller

Nature Plants 10, 1619–1620.

Genomic variation of European beech reveals signals of local adaptation despite high levels of phenotypic plasticity

Desanka Lazic, Cornelia Geßner, Katharina J Liepe, Isabelle Lesur-Kupin, Malte Mader, Céline Blanc-Jolivet, Dušan Gömöry, Mirko Liesebach, Santiago C González-Martínez, Matthias Fladung, Bernd Degen, Niels A Müller

Nature Communications 15 (1), 8553.

Identification of full-sibling families from natural single-tree ash progenies based on SSR markers and genome-wide SNPs

Melina Krautwurst, Franziska Past, Birgit Kersten, Ben Bubner, Niels A Müller 

Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection 131 (5), 1301-1310.

High-molecular-weight DNA extraction for broadleaved and conifer tree species

Melina Krautwurst, Annika Eikhof, Sylke Winkler, Daniel Bross, Birgit Kersten, Niels A. Müller 

Silvae Genetica 73 (1), 85-98.

High-quality genome assembly enables prediction of allele-specific gene expression in hybrid poplar 

Tian-Le Shi, Kai-Hua Jia, Yu-Tao Bao, Shuai Nie, Xue-Chan Tian, Xue-Mei Yan, Zhao-Yang Chen, Zhi-Chao Li, Shi-Wei Zhao, Hai-Yao Ma, Ye Zhao, Xiang Li, Ren-Gang Zhang, Jing Guo, Wei Zhao, Yousry Aly El-Kassaby, Niels Müller, Yves Van de Peer, Xiao-Ru Wang, Nathaniel Robert Street, Ilga Porth, Xinmin An, Jian-Feng Mao

Plant Physiology 195 (1), 652-670. 

A simulation study comparing advanced marker-assisted selection with genomic selection in tree breeding programs 

Bernd Degen, Niels A Müller 

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 13 (10), jkad164.

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 2023.05. 11.540382.

Advanced marker-assisted selection versus genomic selection in breeding programs 

Bernd Degen, Niels A Müller

bioRxiv 2023.02. 20.529263.

SNPscan breeder – a computer program to test genomic tools in breeding programs

Bernd Degen, Niels A Müller

Silvae Genetica 72 (1), 126-131.

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 18 (6), 38.

Sex determination and sex chromosome evolution in land plants

Susanne S Renner, Niels A Müller

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 377 (1850), 20210210.

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 377 (1850), 20210217.

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 40 (23), e108903.

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 70 (1), 145-155.

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 30 (23), 6072-6086.

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 2021.04. 06.438606.

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

Susanne S Renner, Niels A Müller

Nature Plants 7 (4), 392-402.

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 11, 580488.

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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