The Beauty of Nature! Wish you a Merry Christmas and a colorful 2026!

Family #tree level: Expert! Wu et al. use #phylogenomics to shed light on the complex #evolutionary history of the #gymnosperm genus Cupressus, revealing East Asian–Tethyan disjunction. Free to read version here: doi.org/10.1111/jse.... #plant #systematics #JSE #cypress

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute: Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... 🗓️ Closes 25 August Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in... 🗓️ Closes 5 September

👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk

We are honored to have this opportunity to summarize the latest advances in the genetics and developmental mechanisms underlying fruit diversification in Brassicaceae. Please check it out!

Beautiful！！！

Immensely proud of Heather and @yang-brassicaceae.bsky.social for having led this work from conception to publication, connecting non-canonical ETT-mediated auxin signalling with canonical auxin signalling in #Arabidopsis and #Capsella @dev-journal.bsky.social

It is great to see our work published in Development as the cover! Click: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Thanks Heather McLaughlin and all the authors for the great work and @larsostergaard.bsky.social for the endless encouragment and support! @dev-journal.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

I'm happy to announce a postdoctoral position is available in my lab. We have lots of great data to analyze with respect to transposons & epigenetics and cool biological questions to answer. Please reskeet and share.

New Article: "Redox modification of m6A demethylase SlALKBH2 in tomato regulates fruit ripening" rdcu.be/d55UR With Research Briefing rdcu.be/d55U8 This redox modification affects SlALKBH2 protein stability, thereby modulating its function in fruit ripening. #PlantScience

To mark the 40th year since the homeobox discovery, we've commissioned a series of articles from leaders in the field demonstrating the impact of the discovery on different disciplines. Check out the full collection: https://journals.biologists.com/dev/collection/10249/40-years-of-the-homeobox

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

Do you want to know how to live-image internal floral organs with confocal microscope for up to 2 weeks? Check out our protocol: bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?... #Arabidopsis #Flower

NIRCam view of Cartwheel galaxy. Processed by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

Beautiful Brassicaceae fruit-shape diversity. And here we tell you (part of) how it’s done! rdcu.be/d3i8x What a great collab it’s been! Thanks Yang Dong, @matmajda.bsky.social, Richard Smith and entire team. @natureplants.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social