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Großkinsky DK, Faure JD, Gibon Y, Haslam RP, Usadel B, Zanetti F, Jonak C. The potential of integrative phenomics to harness underutilized crops for improving stress resilience. Front Plant Sci. 2023 Jun 20;14:1216337. PMID: 37409292; PMCID: PMC10318926. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1216337

Guerreiro, R., Bonthala, V. S., Schlüter, U., Hoang, N. V., Triesch, S., Schranz, M. E., Weber P.M. A. & Stich B. (2023) A genomic panel for studying C3‐C4 intermediate photosynthesis in the Brassiceae tribe. Plant, Cell & Environment, 46, 3611–3627. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14662

Hoang NV, Sogbohossou EOD, Xiong W, Simpson CJC, Singh P, Walden N, van den Bergh E, Becker FFM, Li Z, Zhu XG, Brautigam A, Weber APM, van Haarst JC, Schijlen EGWM, Hendre PS, Van Deynze A, Achigan-Dako EG, Hibberd JM, Schranz ME. The Gynandropsis gynandra genome provides insights into whole-genome duplications and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis in Cleomaceae. Plant Cell. 2023 Apr 20;35(5):1334-1359. PMID: 36691724; PMCID: PMC10118270.  https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad018

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

Schlüter U, Bouvier JW, Guerreiro R, Malisic M, Kontny C, Westhoff P, Stich B, Weber APM. Brassicaceae display variation in efficiency of photorespiratory carbon-recapturing mechanisms. J Exp Bot. 2023 Nov 21;74(21):6631-6649. PMID: 37392176; PMCID: PMC10662225.  https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad250

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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 Arabidopsis thaliana, Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 75, Issue 3, 2 February 2024, Pages 1036–1050, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad401

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.

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Xin-Min Li, Hannah Jenke, Sören Strauss, Yi Wang, Neha Bhatia, Daniel Kierzkowski, Rena Lymbouridou, Peter Huijser, Richard S. Smith, Adam Runions, Miltos Tsiantis. Age-associated growth control modifies leaf proximodistal symmetry and enabled leaf shape diversification, Current Biology (2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.068

Matthew T. Parker, Samija Amar, José A. Campoy, Kristin Krause, Sergio Tusso, Magdalena Marek, Bruno Huettel, Korbinian Schneeberger; Expression quantitative trait locus mapping in recombinant gametes using single nucleus RNA sequencing; bioRxiv 2024.08.02.606310; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.02.606310

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