The Plant Adaptive Genomics and Genetics group uses bioinformatics, molecular biology and genetics in Arabidopsis and tomato to identify and characterise genes important for plant adaptation and domestication.
Our lab is part of the Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP) in Madrid, Spain. CBGP is credited as a Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation; and hosts researchers from UPM and CSIC.
The Plant Adaptive Genomics and Genetics group was first started at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany in 2010, then moved to the Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France in 2017 and finally moved to CBGP in Madrid in 2022.
Featured publications
Y Xiang et al. Interaction between photoperiod and variation in circadian rhythms in tomato. BMC Plant Biol. 2022 [link]
L Zhang and JM Jiménez-Gómez. Functional Analysis of FRIGIDA Using Naturally Occurring Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal. 2020 [link]
Müller et al. Mutations in EID1 and LNK2 caused light-conditional clock deceleration during tomato domestication. PNAS. 2018 [link]
S Soyk et al. Variation in the flowering gene SELF PRUNING 5G promotes day-neutrality and early yield in tomato. Nature Genetics. 2017 [link]
Müller et al. Domestication selected for deceleration of the circadian clock in cultivated tomato. Nature Genetics. 2016. [link]
FEATURED NEWS
April 2022 - Paper on tomato circadian rhythms published
We use RNA-seq to study the interaction between the mutations that changed tomato's circadian rhythms during domestication and its photoperiod perception. Read it [here]
January 2022 - We moved to CBGP Madrid!!!
Our group has moved from IJPB to CBGP in Madrid where we continue working in genetics and genomics of Arabidopsis and Tomato.
February 2019 - Paper on FRI natural variation published
This is the preprint from June 2019. Read it all formatted in The Plant Journal.
June 2019 - Lab's first preprint uploaded
We have uploaded our first preprint to BioRxiv and we are loving it! Titled: "Functional Analysis of FRIGIDA Using Naturally Occurring Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana". See a short summary about the paper in twitter; or read the complete manuscript here.
Octobre 2018 - ANR PRCI grant succeeded.
This is a collaborative project with Dr. Schneeberger at MPIPZ. We will have funds to host a bioinformatician that will be looking at tomato evolution. Apply here if you are interested.
June 2018 - Commentary published about our article
Thanks to Santiago Mora-García and Marcelo J. Yanovsky for writing about our latest paper in a "Commentary " article in PNAS: "A large deletion within the clock gene LNK2 contributed to the spread of tomato cultivation from Central America to Europe".
May 2018 - Our new paper on tomato circadian rhythms
"Mutations in EID1 and LNK2 caused light-conditional clock deceleration during tomato domestication". Read it in PNAS.
Contact us!
Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas
Campus de Montegancedo
Autovía M-40, km 38
28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
Phone +34 91 067 91 51