So, we all know that VIPP1 (the Very Important Protein in Plants) is the "photosynthetic ESCRT-III", required for the biogenesis and maintenance of light-harvesting thylakoids. But what about ESCRT-II, you say? ...Meet VIA1! Congrats @mayankdu.bsky.social on your lab's first paper! #PlantScience 🧪 🌾

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

A calcium-decoding module translates volatile DMNT into jasmonic acid-mediated herbivore resistance in Camellia sinensis (Bo Li, Yanni Deng, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata. Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🧵1/n #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to write my final News & Views on starch metabolism! Original paper by Heutinck et al: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

I'm thrilled to share that our study is now published in Cell: Extensive N4 cytosine methylation is essential for Marchantia sperm function. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... This paper confirms our 4mC discovery in Marchantia sperm and takes it much further. A thread: 0/13

PRESS RELEASE - Professor Uauy appointed as Director of the John Innes Centre Following an international search, we are delighted to announce that Professor @cristobaluauy.bsky.social has been appointed as the next Director of the John Innes Centre. www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas... @ukri.org

#PlantScienceClassics #18: Ethylene triple response mutants. 35 years ago Anthony Bleecker et al. exploited the triple response phenotype to identify the #ethylene receptor ETR1 @science.org. The ethylene story is another example for #PlantBlindness at the Nobel Prize. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Two new #hornwort papers from our group out in Nature Plants @natureplants.bsky.social today - a great way to celebrate the new year! 1/4

📣 Plant Physiology welcomes new Assistant Features Editors starting in 2025 and 2026!👉 https://academic.oup.com/plphys/advance-article/doi/10.1093/plphys/kiae661/7922604 A big thanks, to those who are stepping down from the position!👏

New Article: "Co-option of plant gene regulatory network in nutrient responses during terrestrialization" rdcu.be/d1MXn With News & Views: "Plant evolution: Agile nutrient network evolution" rdcu.be/d1MXG

@jiaaawen.bsky.social talks about her work towards unravelling ethylene biosynthesis in Marchantia polymorpha #nonseedUK24 🌱

Thanks to @fromani.bsky.social for organising #nonseedUK24 in Cambridge. What a fantastic meeting. Thanks for the generous sponsorship @gensocuk.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social 😃 🌱 🧬

📜 Amyloplasts are necessary for full gravitropism in thallus of Marchantia polymorpha 🧑‍🔬 Mimi Hashimoto-Sugimoto, Miyo Terao Morita, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #Marchantia #PlantEvoDevo #PlantDevelopment

Our News and Views article is out, 'Follow the calcium road: Conserved mechanisms of growth and development in Marchantia polymorpha'. Great experience to co-write with Jiawen Chen! News and Views article: academic.oup.com/plphys/advan... Original research article: academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Happy to share this part of my PhD on starch granule initiation in wheat endosperm! academic.oup.com/plphys/advan... Many thanks to the co-authors, my supervisor David Seung, and the reviewers!

New New & Views on shoot aerenchyma formation in duckweeds! academic.oup.com/plphys/advan... Original paper: academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Check out my editor profile interview with Alistair McCormick! We talk about his career journey, current research and role as monitoring editor for Plant Phys! plantae.org/working-towa...

SAGA1 and SAGA2 promote starch formation around proto-pyrenoids in Arabidopsis chloroplasts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.25.568654v1