Detlef Weigel

Busoms, Silvia and Teres, Joana and Huang, Xin-Yuan and Bomblies, Kirsten and Danku, John and Douglas, Alex and Weigel, Detlef and Poschenrieder, Charlotte and Salt, David E. (2015) Salinity is an agent of divergent selection driving local adaptation of Arabidopsis

Why I Love Genetics: Essay on Occasion of Being Awarded the GSA Medal 2016

The 2016 recipient is Detlef Weigel, whose contributions include the identification of the molecular basis for floral patterning; the determination of mechanisms for flowering time; and elucidation of genetic tradeoffs between growth and immunity in natural populations. Notably, his group identified the gene for florigen, a compound made in leaves that induces flowering. Throughout these invest...

A Proposal Regarding Best Practices for Validating the Identity of Genetic Stocks and the Effects of Genetic Variants.

Linkage analysis reveals independent origin of Poeciliid sex chromosomes and a case of atypical sex inheritance in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

Plant development: The making of a leaf

A transcription factor of the Myb family has been found to couple dorsoventral patterning and proximodistal outgrowth during leaf development.