Our paper is now out in PNAS! Crops often show boron deficiency in volcanic soils. Here, we identified six variants in two key boron transporter genes, BOR1 and BOR2, that increase leaf boron in natural populations of A. thaliana from volcanic islands in Cape Verde. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In the frame of the French ANR funded project HOMONIME project (anr.fr/Projet-ANR-2...), we will open 3 PhD positions to work on nickel homeostasis in plants using genomic, proteomic, metabolomic and spectrometric approches in Toulouse, Grenoble and Pau. Contact me for further informations

HMA proteins produce 2',3'-cNMP signaling molecules and activate CNL-mediated immunity in rice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.15.711844v1

New Article! Quantitative imaging of apoplastic pH in plant roots via confocal microscopy

An #Arabidopsis #single-nucleus atlas decodes leaf #senescence and #nutrient allocation www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... #PlantScience @cp-cell.bsky.social @prepub-singlecell.bsky.social @singlecell.broadinstitute.org @plantcellatlas.bsky.social @libraryarablit.bsky.social @ensa-research.bsky.social

NRAMP2 controls manganese partitioning between seed coat and embryo to regulate seed vigor https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709681v1

I am happy to announce the launch of a new Arabidopsis genomics resource! Check out arabidopsislyrata.org Now you can easily look at the natural genetic variation across the entire species range of A. lyrata and A. arenosa.

I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961

Very interesting and thorough discussion of the history and challenges of the #genotype -> #phenotype mapping. A genetic approach, of course. Are we missing something in that 'missing #heritability'? academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

#ResultatScientifique🔎| La bactérie responsable de la tuberculose est capable d'évacuer les métaux toxiques pour résister au système immunitaire ✍️ @oneyrolles.bsky.social 🤝 @ipbstoulouse.bsky.social 📕 buff.ly/4R5iaMB ▶️

Big news from our lab: we can now stably edit the genome of a parasitic plant! Transgene-free, genome-edited P. japonicum in one generation! This will transform how we study #parasiticplants and other hard-to-transform plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I know science can’t fix the world — here’s why I do it anyway www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A transposon insertion in the 5′ UTR of OsPT1 reprograms its expression pattern and promotes cadmium accumulation in rice grains: Plant Communications www.cell.com/plant-commun...

Thank you @jennyrussinova.bsky.social for visiting us in Toulouse for our @tulip-gs-labex.bsky.social seminar series. Plant cell biology at its best, and so many new avenues explored in brassinosteroid signaling and homeostasis 😎 ! Mind-blowing... @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social

TULIP Summer School 2026 Applications are OPEN ✅ “Biological interactions from genes to ecosystems” will take place from June 27 to July 3, in France 🏔️ Open to PhD, Masters students & Postdoc researchers in ecology, evolution and functional biology www.labex-tulip.fr/eng/news/tul...

So, throw the trainees under the bus and keep the PIs unscathed?!? What if the PI created a toxic environment leading to this behaviour? What if the institute creates a toxic environment glorifying CNS papers??? Will you mention these at the retraction note?

Hey scientists: USDA staff have been told to Google-vet foreign coauthors for “subversive or criminal activity” and report flagged names to officials 🤠 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Discover how micro-XRF localizes metals inside plant tissues & cells! 🔬 Our video showcases this & other advanced techniques, revolutionizing phytoremediation & crop nutrition 🌱. Excited to share: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... #PlantScience #Phytoremediation #MicroXRF #Metals #ResearchMethods

La liste des publications 2025 qui nous remercient est mise sur notre site web ici : vm-genoword.toulouse.inrae.fr/FAQ/about-us... Ces publications, comme les présentations orales dans lesquelles vous nous mentionnez sont des indicateurs indispensables de notre utilité. Merci de votre fidélité !

Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this

@gautamdey.bsky.social, @fritzlaylin.bsky.social, @alebenoit.bsky.social and @eelcotromer.bsky.social discuss how the field of evolutionary cell biology works to understand how cells evolve & diversify, highlighting current challenges & the future outlook. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

New Article: "Arabidopsis IONIC CURRENT FAMILY A proteins facilitate environmental calcium acquisition essential for stress tolerance" rdcu.be/eXFko High-order ica mutants show lower Ca2+ levels and higher stress sensitivity, revealing ICAs’ role in Ca2+ homeostasis.

Extremely dark day for US today, darker than Venezuelan petrol. As a scientist and citizen, I will not go back on US soil until US citizens change their actual Régime

#ResultatScientifique🔎| Saviez-vous que des plantes comme les mousses ont « emprunté » des gènes à des microbes pour survivre et évoluer ? 🧬 ✍️ Leon Dirick & Bernard Goffinet 📕 @natcomms.nature.com | buff.ly/6MltjLp

Check out our latest paper. Very glad to see this one finally out. Fantastic work by @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social . Learn more about MBAP proteins and their roles in brassinosteroid signaling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gain and loss of gene function shaped the nickel hyperaccumulation trait in Noccaea caerulescens (Célestine Belloeil , Vanesa Sanchez Garcia de la Torre , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

It is out! I m so happy for my students, colleagues and collaborators. It was a long journey 😊 Gain and loss of gene function shaped the nickel hyperaccumulation trait in Noccaea caerulescens url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

🐛 Rising from the earth: Europe’s first ever #soil law was published in the EU’s Official Journal today! 🎉 After adoption of the #SoilMonitoring Law in October, this marks the final milestone of the process and opens the door to implementation. A first step in the right direction for our soils!

A lire, la contre attaque de la sphère complotiste/trumpiste contre ceux qui tente de debunker la fausse science. @themeta.news themeta.news/les-scienceg...

We would be happy to host a postdoctoral fellow with a projet related to metal homeostasis and accumulation in plants! see the @utoulouse.bsky.social program AToUT tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...

Check it out and learn more about the mechanisms driving the endocytosis and the lateral polarity of a plasma membrane protein ! @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

1/ It is my pleasure to share the latest preprint of the team: "Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants" doi.org/10.1101/2025... Here, we identified and functionally validated a novel master regulator of intracellular symbioses! A thread ... #PlantScience

I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are! #plantscience 🧪 "DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫 Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all! Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Engineered geminivirus replicons enable rapid in planta directed evolution | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Great story in collaboration with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and @jeanmichelane.bsky.social groups. EPP1 story continues after many years of collaborations with Pierre-Marc and Jean-Michel!!!

Thank you Yohan ! Was so difficult for me to catch-up 🥵 theconversation.com/pendant-des-...

Face aux changements climatiques, l'equipe REDYWOOD collabore avec une pépinière occitane pour améliorer la résistance des arbres en zone urbaine (projet ARBEAUD'OCC - @occitanie.bsky.social - FEDER) 🔽 www.ladepeche.fr/2025/09/21/d...

A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com 130 bryophyte genomes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Back online after few months of silence... We had time to finalize our last paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... where we describe the genome assembly of Noccaea caerulescens and provide new evidence for the role of IRT1 in nickel hyperaccumulation

...by the way, if you want to develop a Postdoctoral project with us on #metal #hyperaccumulation, the Toulouse University is opening the TIRIS AToUT Posdoctoral Fellowship program tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...