Manuel Poretti

Excited to share the published version of our paper: Thermal Adaptation in Worldwide Collections of a Major Fungal Pathogen 🌍🔥 Congrats to @MinanaPosada and @AliceFeurtey for leading this great work! 🎉 Read it here: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MP…

Had a lot of fun presenting my new SNSF postdoc.mobility project at APCOP-V 24. It was super refreshing discussing #TEs in the context of marine green algae 🪸

Great news: our article on the analysis of 76 barley genomes has just been published nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our latest preprint is online: “Population genomics and molecular epidemiology of wheat powdery mildew in Europe”. Thank to first author @jigi_sha and to the many collaborators that contributed to this study! 1/8 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very happy that our work investigating introgressions into bread wheat is now published in @TheorApplGenet link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Evolution of Einkorn wheat centromeres is driven by the mutualistic interplay of two LTR retrotransposons dlvr.it/TBWlS5

I am happy to share that my PhD research is now published on Nature Communications. We assembled the genome of the orchid Ophrys to investigate the genetic basis of plant adaptation to pollinators. Thanks to everyone who contributed to it! @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…

Kickstarted my Australian adventure sharing my latest work on centromere evolution at the #TEs session of @ipmb2024 in Cairns. Now, time to start my new @snsf_ch Postdoc.mobility fellowship at @UniMelb

Our new @ThePlantJournal research on ribosomal RNA expression in Cardamine allopolyploids unveils insights into epigenetic regulation and genomic rearrangements, including uniparental silencing of 5S rRNA genes. doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16… @CEITEC_Brno @BFUavcr

Very grateful to have been able to contribute to this collaborative effort with 28 authors. We show e.g. that two LTR retrotransposon families preferentially insert in einkorn centromeres, contributing to their dynamic evolution. @thomaswicker314 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Check out the last chapter of my PhD on #Triticeae de novo genes! Non-coding regions of #TEs could hold the key to functional innovation in TM domains and evolution of secreted proteins. 🌱🌾 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Oats, triticale, hull-less barley, lupin, faba beans and buckwheat are rarely cultivated. The EU project @H2020Cropdiva intends to change that. Agroscope analyses the value chains of four of these crops in order to promote their cultivation and processing. agrarforschungschweiz.ch/en/2023/02/fro…

Poster alert at #ESEB2022! I'm presenting the first chromosome-scale genome assembly of the Biscutella genus, plus interesting observations on 3D chromatin organization and centromeric TEs.

@alexsoti_92, our colleagues and I just published a paper reporting the spread of wheat powdery mildew across the world in historical times. Mildew spread through human migration and trade and locally adapted through hybridization. @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…

Happy to see our work now published #openaccess in @NewPhytologist ! 🔥 We heat-stressed #Arabidopsis and found highly drought tolerant plants in the next generations! #transposons #ClimateCrisis #loss_of_function #drought Full story: doi.org/10.1111/nph.18… 1/7⤵️

Our preprint on Triticeae-specific genes is out! Here, we identified de novo genes underlying important Triticeae adaptations, and we propose TEs as hotspots for the evolution of adaptive secreted proteins. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It's finally out! This broad spectrum resistance allele is will help sorghum farmers deal with a devastating fungal disease. Thrilled to have played a role in figuring out how this unusual gene is regulated by transposons (!) and antisense transcription. academic.oup.com/plcell/advance…

Happy to see that our latest work on populations of wheat Transposable elements just got published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gg…

Wheat no longer a GM orphan! Argentine Bioceres Hb4 drought tolerant wheat approved by Brazil tinyurl.com/557cep2m Commercial biotech wheat just around the corner. Congratulations @BioceresCropS, Tropical Melhoramento & Genética, @CTNBio, Florimond Desprez, Trigal Genetics

Three chromosome-scale Papaver genomes reveal punctuated patchwork evolution of the morphinan and noscapine biosynthesis pathway nature.com/articles/s4146… @NatureComms