Fei Lu (鲁非)

We showed how human selection has sculpted gluten gene diversity of wheat across millennia—favoring flexible, variable loci over structurally conserved ones, and strengthening epistatic interactions to boost the performance. All comments are welcome! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@funny_deva @agtbreeding @Bullinsid Are you at this meeting as well?

Super happy to see this paper published in @NaturePlants! "Early human selection of crops’ wild progenitors explains the acquisitive physiology of modern cultivars" nature.com/articles/s4147… @RubenMilla6 @Ismabio2

We are hiring: Postdoctoral position in engineering disease resistance into wheat Wulff Lab, KAUST, Saudi Arabia (wulfflab.org) For application details please visit: tiny.cc/qaatvz

Years of teamwork with Zifeng have been rewarding. Using our large germplasm and VMap, we have published three nice papers together in 2023, to dissect genetics of plant height, grain number, and grain size in wheat. Truly a fruitful journey! doi.org/10.1186/s13059…

It is time to do wheat population genomics using long reads :)

Check out this exciting new opening for an Asst/Assoc professor position in Population Genomics in Cornell's Department of Computational Biology! cornell.app.box.com/s/6pawkbu4gahi…

📢Out now: many fungi carry their genomes in separate nuclei, but what is the advantage? AMF have two dynamic nuclear populations with distinct roles: nature.com/articles/s4156… @Blunt_Microbe Rust fungi gain virulence by swapping intact nuclei: nature.com/articles/s4156… @Figueroa_MM

I'm delighted to release the first half of my new open-access online textbook in human population genetics: web.stanford.edu/group/pritchar…

A paper published in @Nature presents a new theoretical framework – assembly theory – that bridges physics and biology to provide a unified approach for understanding how complexity and evolution emerge in nature. go.nature.com/3Qim0X7

New Article: "Population genomics identifies genetic signatures of carrot domestication and improvement and uncovers the origin of high-carotenoid orange carrots" rdcu.be/dnlLg News & Views: "Crop domestication - The changing colour of carrot" rdcu.be/dnlLw

We studied the population genetics of introgression in grapevine domestication and found that introgression shaped the aroma of wine grapes with an increased genetic burden. @PNASNews @grapetweets @IVES_publisher @ViticultureTips @VitisGen @GrapeResearch pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@szintri @JinliangYang Congratulations!!! 😀

Way to go, Jinliang! His promotion to associate professor (with tenure) just announced. Really grateful to have you as a colleague and collaborator @JinliangYang. Feels like your job talk was just yesterday. 🌽 news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

@AvaisRasheed Thank you!

Another excellent wheat genome resource from @fei_genetics

@aimeejschulz A new angler in Buckler Lab!

My 7th Maize Meeting is in the books! I was so honored to share the work of my incredible co-authors for my first Maize Meeting talk. reelGene is a pipeline we built to allow us to identify good gene model annotations 🧵 #MGM2023

New Editorial: "Flourish with the wild" rdcu.be/c8cEa Domestication of crops wild relatives promoted the rise of civilizations and shaped cultures (). However, shrinkage of their populations worldwide demands better conservation to retain their valuable biodiversity.

@Jgdp_S_Sidhu @NaturePlants The genotype data from VMap 1.1 are publicly available at the Genome Variation Map (https://bigd.big. ac.cn/gvm) under accession number GVM000272.

@fei_genetics @NaturePlants Awesome work! Are the sequences for this panel available somewhere? If you can share that, that would a great help. If not whole genome could we request genome sequence of specific gene s?

I am delighted to share with you all that our latest research is published on @NaturePlants! The evolutionary history of bread wheat and its relatives is now clearer than ever :D nature.com/articles/s4147…