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A new microscopy technique, named FBi (Fluorescence emission Brillouin scattering imaging) by its inventors, has been developed at the Vienna Biocenter in Austria and used to for the first time to non-invasively investigate and map in 3 dimensions the mechanical properties of growing cells…

Today, in a ground-breaking study, an international consortium spearheaded by Magnus Nordborg at the ÖAW’s Gregor Mendel Institute of Plant Molecular Biology in Vienna,and Detlef Weigel at the Max-Planck Institute of Developmental Biology in Tübingen, released high quality genomic sequence…

In a new paper in eLife, researchers from the lab of Magnus Nordborg provide the first direct evidence between adaptation to the local environment and DNA methylation. Combining Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and analysis of methylation through Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), the…

In a new Cell Host & Microbe publication, Jiradet Gloggnitzer and colleagues from the Karel Riha Group at the GMI reveal how Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) contributes to innate immunity in Arabidopsis by controlling the turnover of numerous TIR domain-containing, nucleotide-binding,…

Former GMI members from the Mittelsten Scheid group describe a new RdDM function which reinforces silencing of transposable elements in shoot apical meristems during early growth. Tuncay Baubec, now at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (Basel) and Ales Pecinka, now at…

Vanja Cavrak and other members of the Mittelsten Scheid group at the GMI have discovered how a transposon applies a “wolf in sheep´s clothing” strategy to gain an advantage over its plant host. Transposons are among the most reduced or simplified parasites that a host organism can…

In a just published Nature Genetics paper, Wolfgang Busch and his research group at the Gregor Mendel Institute use genome-wide association studies on cellular traits to identify and characterize a new regulator of root development in Arabidopsis.

With the increased availability of…

Newly published in Plant Cell, this paper from the Mittelsten Scheid Lab examines the role of the chromatin remodeling complex SWR1, which deposits histone H2A.Z. Multiple independent mutants affecting SWR1 complex subunits accumulate DNA damage, and have impaired somatic homologous…