Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again. They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️ Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱 @plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out! 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

Hello everyone! I am pleased to share information on the first ever Computational Structural Virology Symposium, conducted August 4th on zoom and highlighting work in this emerging field. You can register for this event here: forms.gle/CNiqskMwQEuV.... Please re-post!

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

Temperature-dependent polar lignification of a seed coat suberin layer promoting dormancy in Arabidopsis. Beautiful work from Lena Hyvärinen, Luis Lopez-Molina et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just sprouted on #Bluesky 🌱 Let’s turn over a new leaf together! 🌿