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...

Like I mentioned last week I like it when plants find a way against all odds. It is not just the perseverance and adaption. But also, that we can learn something from how those pioneering plants manage to survive against all odds. 🧵1/3 🧪 #PlantScience

We just published our work in #ScienceAdvances "Parallel evolution of salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from Cape Verde Islands" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Short summary and credits follow:

Our story about salinity tolerance in the Cape Verde islands is out in Science Advances! @science.org. Two independent mutations in the same gene conferred salt resistance to Arabidopsis plants! Check it out here! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

These were my very first experiments done at @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social. I still remember the excitement of @jimenezgomez.bsky.social and me when observing the plates and the shocking phenotype! Thanks to all the authors for the work and so happy to continue working on this!

🧪Very timely, the paper from the story that @jimenezgomez.bsky.social explained us during #SEG2025 was published yesterday. Congrats to all the team and specially first co-author @laskotillean.bsky.social! Beautiful story! 🫶🏻

The quantitative effect of seed production triggers the end of flowering in tomato (María Jesús López-Martín , Cristina Ferrándiz , Concepción Gómez-Mena) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Our work on MYBs and WRKY regulating suberin in tomato exodermis is now out in @jxbotany.bsky.social! 🍅 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 👩‍🔬 @leonardojo.bsky.social @riannekluck.bsky.social @marianasartur.bsky.social Sara Buti, Alex Cantó-Pastor @bradylabs.bsky.social 🌱 #PlantScience

Twenty years ago this month Kevin Wright and I set out on an 18,000 mile journey from Durham, NC across North America to collect monkeyflowers. The seeds from that trip (my third rotation project) have given rise to major advances and scores of scientific publications over the past two decades.

Lots of #arabidopsis mixed with the #tulips in the #JardinBotanico in #Madrid. I asked the local expert Carlos Alonso-Blanco: they likely came from Holland with the bulbs or the soil 🤦🏻

Amazing resource for the Arabidopsis and plant community www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Lots of cool new features at the BAR ePlant Browser, such as ecotype SNP data mapped to protein sequence and structure. Check it out at: bar.utoronto.ca/eplant/ #PlantScience @bar-plantbio.bsky.social

Today’s weird potato flower is one that looks like fasiflora (fa) mutants in tomato, but as usual, nothing is known about this mutation in tuber bearing Solanum. Pub with the fa mutant in tomato: www.researchgate.net/profile/Beat...

Solanum galapagense (Galápagos tomato/“tomatillo”) Isla Santiago, Galápagos

#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #InBrief #ICYMI

Dear #plantsci community, PLEASE HELP or RT! We are looking for a leaf specific promoter for a tissue specific CRISPR experiment in Arabidopsis. Any suggestions?

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrdpm5yf

I❤️PhD defense days. We welcome our youngest doctor, Maria Jesus Lopez Martín, who has done an excellent job studying the end of flowering in tomato. Here with proud supervisors @conchagm.bsky.social and @cristicris.bsky.social, the PhD committee and all her mates at @ibmcp.bsky.social

Fun fact I did not know: A significant proportion of liver cells are polyploid! shalevlab.weizmann.ac.il/wp-content/u...

Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.

Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies. Interested in contributing? Please contact us! #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mariele Lensink (coadvised with @grey-monroe.bsky.social) has conducted a detailed analysis of natural variation in Salicylic acid response in the Bay x Sha RIL population biorxiv.org/cgi/content/.... Aka Thesis Chapter 1.

Son hormigas resolviendo un problema geométrico y es para flipar en colores.

#PlantScience Come join us!, The MoRE Lab (shorturl.at/CUwM4) is open to support PhD candidates for these programs (shorturl.at/FQBaI and shorturl.at/FmwiF), early postdocs (shorturl.at/KVyVv) and senior (shorturl.at/zkk7l), check eligibility and get in touch!, help us spread the word, please!

Online course contents for Experimental Design & Analysis w/ R at UC Davis by Dr. Dan Runcie (listed as Plant Sciences 205 at UC Davis). I took it in 2017 when I was a PhD student, one of the best classes I have ever taken! Highly recommend. deruncie.github.io/PLS205_course/ #Stats #PlantScience

The Salk Institute shared the sad news that Prof. Joanne Chory passed away yesterday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was one of the most influential biologists of our time. And this is how I will remember Joanne, expertly guiding us on where to go. Joanne, we will miss you! ❤️

I had a try at making this bsky-follow-finder.theo.io Enter your handle and it will find people followed by lots of the people you follow (but not you)

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

New preprint from the lab! We find that Arabidopsis plants from the Cape Verde Island accumulate a disaccharide that protects them from high salinity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We map the gene, characterize the metabolite, and discover a case of parallel evolution in two of the islands.

Interview with @elisabethbik.bsky.social in @elpais.bsky.social. It’s very interesting to read her story. elpais.com/proyecto-ten...