Similar work some years back shows cell-cell telomeric DNA transfer between immune cells enhances T cell lifespan...horizontal gene transfer has no copyright Next step would be to find out if the transferred gene loci are random or targeted...exciting times ahead! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do different clonal layers interact to make a leaf flat? How do they integrate genetic and mechanical cues to achieve this remarkable feat? That is precisely what we answered through our work! Special thanks to all contributors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

2nd annual meeting of our @green-te.bsky.social Gravitation program is about to start. So wonderful to see the ideas transform into a vibrant community studying Plant Mechanobiology 🤩

Would you like to learn 2D and 3D segmentation with #MorphoGraphX? Have a look at the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar led by @routierlab.bsky.social and Amelie Bauer👇

LLMs are making me a better reviewer. After I write my review, I often ask an LLM whether there are things that I might have overlooked, both in the narrative and evaluation criteria. The typical outcome is that my review becomes more positive. I seem to be good enough at spotting flaws. 😎

We are very happy and proud to present a study led by @jorgehg.bsky.social (now PI in Madrid – keep an eye on him!) in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social. In this work, we discover how auxin-regulated ARF transcription factors learned to activate transcription. A 🧵…(1/17) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How plants pattern with precision and flexibility Thoroughly enjoyed reading this review by Mabel and @stanfordstomata.bsky.social it nicely explores asymmetric cell division as a strategy for generating diversity, linking early symmetry-breaking to stable cell fates across plants and algae.

A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Roeder Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY with a focus on researching Polyploidy. Apply by March 1. Please spread the word. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

Happy to share the third chapter of my postdoctoral adventure at @mpipz.bsky.social ➡️doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.20.719616 We used C. chenopodiifolia's ability to produce explosive aerial fruit and non-explosive underground fruit to identify REVOLUTA's role in cell fate and wall patterning🌿💥 ⬇️🧵

Such an inane and unqualified review should’ve dismissed the first time around. Sending it to the same reviewer is just unfathomable. Hope there are higher ups you can complain to. I’d be more than happy (or should I say angry) to write a supporting letter!

Not only will heat harm crop plants, but farmers and livestock (animals) and fish too. I know you know, but articles like this help raise awareness of the coming challenges and why it's imperative that we act yesterday, today, and tomorrow to prepare. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

These images show live embryos of animals (jellyfish, crustacean, worm, sea urchin, sea squirt, beetle) and one of animals closest single-celled relatives. They were captured taking advantage of fluorescent proteins localised on the outer membrane of cells, allowing us to observe cell outlines. 1/9

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The latest elegant (as always) review from @onsunlau.bsky.social Silent master: SPEECHLESS the driver of stomatal stem cell fate and integrator of intrinsic and environmental cues - Yang - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1111/...

‘Resurrection plants’ bounce back after years of drought. Do they hold lessons for crops? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... It's nice to see Jill Farrant's excellent work highlighted!

A research fellow post combining MESOZOIC PALAEOBOTANY and plant ecophysiology here at Nottingham with Barry Lomax. Fixed term to March 2029. Please spread the word! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #paleobotany #plantscijobs 🌍⚒️🌱🧪🔬

Histone deacetylases and cell cycle regulators orchestrate cell identity transitions during Arabidopsis root regeneration #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Functional divergence in auxin response- A conserved degradation mechanism for A- and B-class ARFs in Marchantia polymorpha, but with distinct functional outcomes!

Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sometimes you come across a study which you quickly realise it is going to have a big impact. The last week published study "A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution" in science I think is one of those. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience

After a long journey, our new paper is out! 🌱 In this study, Tiina and colleagues show that cambium activation in the Arabidopsis root is triggered by the induction of auxin, cytokinin, and TDIF peptide signalling. 🧵1/x doi.org/10.1093/plce...

🆒!!! Kudos to everyone involved. Lots to ponder about translating molecular discoveries to real life and how much transcriptome signatures represent “real” stress responses.

Latest from our lab! Detailed and committed work by Jennifer combined with Hiro's special skills👌. Wonderful collaboration with @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab (Damien and Etienne) and @jalonsos.bsky.social 👇

It really comes from the early days of developmental genetics, when quantitative measurements weren’t a thing yet. I think it was Lewis Wolpert who said “Take the KO to the opera and if the mutant does not react differently in any way you can measure, maybe then it’s a case of true redundancy.”

Would you call measurements of a handful of metabolites a metabolome? More seriously: any claim to a pangenome should have evidence of likely a majority of common species-wide polymorphism being captured PLUS a workable framework for making use of that information.

We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment. (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

I'm in love. #WildflowerHour Agamous Galanthus.

Our beautiful work is out in Current Biology! @currentbiology.bsky.social Immune activation suppresses reproductive growth in Arabidopsis through cytokinin signaling: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Q&A with Miltos Tsiantis, who studies plant development and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Plant Science Research Weekly --  PLETHORA-autophagy fine tunes ROS to enable de novo root regeneration (PNAS) @kalikaprasad.bsky.social @akanshaganguly.bsky.social @violawillemsen.bsky.social (Summary by Priyanka Babuta) buff.ly/Vl6Ial9 #PlantaePSRW

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

How moss makes a spiral of leaves through a rotating asymmetric division of the apical cell meristem--our paper is out @currentbiology.bsky.social today! @soestrauss.bsky.social Richard Smith, Joe Cammarata www.cell.com/current-biol...

the estimated 1 billion biochemical reactions that occur every second in every cell of our bodies 🤯

I wouldn’t put it this way for research, as science isn’t about winning. But I also returned last week from China with similar sentiments about Chinese prowess. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/o...

Amazing work by amazing colleagues!

Highlights @pnas.org , Thank you, Jian Xu (@tuliproot in X) Your excellent text makes the ideas far more accessible than we managed in the paper. @akanshaganguly.bsky.social , @plantophagy.bsky.social @IISERPune, @ANRFIndia, @DBTIndia www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Now on the Cover @pnas.org News, Delightful to see @akanshaganguly.bsky.social Journey from stress to regeneration, from leaf to root featured on cover. Akansha, you made it, very well done, congratulations.

Highly recommended, excellent work with a great PI… apply soon

I am organizing a concurrent session “Cellular reprogramming and organ regeneration” at #ICAR2026 together with @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social! Submit your abstract by Feb 22 (for oral) and share your exciting science with us🌿 icar2026.sg

"But teaching helps you to be a better scientist. We tend to become overspecialized, and teaching forces you to return to fundamentals, understand them thoroughly, and communicate them clearly." Cyril is always right, right? 💚

Our new paper! @PNASNews, 1/17 Healing isn’t about eliminating stress- it’s about regulating it. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Work led by @akanshaganguly.bsky.social reveals how plants carefully manage wound-induced stress (ROS) at the cellular level to activate organ regeneration.

Very nice work from @nikhlil-mishra.bsky.social from Carl- Philip Heisenberg lab. How shape itself drives robust development? In zebrafish, embryo geometry breaks symmetry, orchestrates cell cycles, and patterns genome activation. Egg shape sets the rhythm of life!

Feb 1 deadline approaching for our @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social QBio summer course on Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals. @streichan.bsky.social @maurazimmermann.bsky.social @maizel-lab.org @yusuke-mori.bsky.social @akankshi.bsky.social @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social

Fun to get to highlight Minya's @minyaaa.bsky.social new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1mCCK3QW8S...

Aspiring PhD candidates: do not miss this opportunity to join a great mentor and awesome project!!! Bonus: it is in Amsterdam

Glad to have this finally published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of new data since the #preprint. If you are into selective #autophagy, #evolution, #proteostasis Please have a look!

New preprint! SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation. tinyurl.com/28p7af2w