UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Mai H-J, Baby D and Bauer P (2023) Black sheep, dark horses, and colorful dogs: a review on the current state of the Gene Ontology with respect to iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Front. Plant Sci. 14:1204723. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1204723

Nicholas de Jager, Varsa Shukla, Anna Koprivova, Martin Lyčka, Lorina Bilalli, Yanrong You, Jürgen Zeier, Stanislav Kopriva, Daniela Ristova, Traits linked to natural variation of sulfur content in A. thaliana leaf, Journal of Experimental Botany, 2023; erad401, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad401

Schmitz, G., Linstädter, A., Frank, A. S. K., Dittberner, H., Thome, J., Schrader, A., Linne von Berg, K.-H., Fulgione, A., Coupland, G., & de Meaux, J. (2023). Environmental filtering of life-history trait diversity in urban populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Ecology, 00, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14211

Xin-Min Li, Hannah Jenke, Sören Strauss, Christos Bazakos, Gabriella Mosca, Rena Lymbouridou, Daniel Kierzkowski, Ulla Neumann, Purva Naik, Peter Huijser, Stefan Laurent, Richard S. Smith, Adam Runions, Miltos Tsiantis, Cell-cycle-linked growth reprogramming encodes developmental time into leaf morphogenesis, Current Biology, Volume 34, Issue 3, 2024, Pages 541-556.e15, ISSN 0960-9822, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.050.

Qichao Lian, Bruno Huettel, Birgit Walkemeier, Baptiste Mayjonade, Céline Lopez-Roques, Lisa Gil, Fabrice Roux, Korbinian Schneeberger & Raphael Mercier. A pan-genome of 69 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions reveals a conserved genome structure throughout the global species range. Nat Genet (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-01715-9.

Justine Floret was awarded the 1st prize for the best student poster presentation at the PopBio 2023 conference in Stuttgart.

Poster title: The urban niche of Arabidopsis thaliana

Lisa Mahdi received the Klaus Liebrecht Prize for her outstanding research on elucidating the molecular interactions between a plant and its microbiota