Oliver Berkowitz
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Plant & Computational Biologist | Genomics & Phenotyping |
@latrobeuni.bsky.social
🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺 ⚽️🖤💛🏉
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Postdomestication selection of MKK3 shaped seed dormancy and end-use traits in barley
Anthropogenic selection of grain traits such as dormancy has shaped the developmental trajectories of crops. In cereals, shortening dormancy provides rapid and even post-harvest germination, but incre...
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Unlocking the potential of brassinosteroids: A path to precision plant engineering
Brassinosteroids are essential plant hormones that play a central role in regulating growth, development, and stress responses. Their impact on plant architecture and productivity makes them attractiv...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu9798?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=35366501&et_cid=5783477
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Phosphorus availability controls flowering time through subcellular reprogramming of bGLU25 and GRP7 in Arabidopsis
Cho et al. reveal that low phosphorus triggers bGLU25 to move from the ER to the cytosol, where it interacts with GRP7 via AtJAC1. This interaction increases FLC expression, delaying flowering and hig...
https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/abstract/S1534-5807(25)00635-5
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An incoherent feed-forward loop coordinates nitrate uptake and tillering in wheat
This study identifies that TaNLP3 acts as a master regulator of nitrate signaling and interacts with the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex to enhance chromatin accessibility and trigger the primary...
https://www.cell.com/molecular-plant/fulltext/S1674-2052(25)00326-0?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email
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Journal of Experimental Botany
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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨 🌿🟡 Sulfur Signaling 🟡 🌿 📝 Edited by Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi 📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025 📄 We welcome contributions! Got an manuscript in mind? Contact JXB office 👉
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Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03473-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20251030&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONR_41586_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-251030
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Ksenia Krasileva
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🚀 New preprint! We introduce K-PROB, a k-mer–based Bayesian framework that mines pangenomic promoter and expression diversity to predict cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression variation in crops 🌽🌱 🔗
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684862v1
#Genomics
#GeneRegulation
#Maize
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Natural variation in regulatory code revealed through Bayesian analysis of plant pan-genomes and pan-transcriptomes
Understanding the genetic code of cis-regulatory elements (CREs) is essential for engineering gene expression and modulating agronomic traits in crops. In plants, CREs underlying rapid evolution of ge...
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A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat - Nature
A pangenome of oat, assembled from 33 wild and domesticated oat lines, sheds light on the evolution and genetic diversity of this cereal crop and will aid genomics-assisted breeding to improve product...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09676-7
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Are these the happiest PhD students in the world?
Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey — but are these nations really the best places to do a doctorate?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03346-4?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20251023&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONR_41586_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-251023
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Time-resolved fluorescent proteins expand fluorescent microscopy in temporal and spectral domains
Fluorescence microscopy has been widely applied in the life sciences. While intensity as a steady-state signal is widely used, the time-resolved (tr) …
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The RLI1-OsPUB77-OsBZR3 module mediates the crosstalk between phosphate starvation and brassinosteroid signaling pathways to shape rice shoot architecture
Plant architecture is a critical agronomic trait directly affecting planting density and crop yield. Phosphate starvation in rice (Oryza sativa) leads…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674205225003259?via%3Dihub
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H2O2-mediated oxidation of PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE2 promotes adaptation to low phosphate in rice - Nature Communications
Phosphorus is an essential plant nutrient. Here Meng et al. show that low phosphorus availability stimulates hydrogen peroxide production which in turn promotes the oligomerization, nuclear translocat...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63841-0
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Engineering crop flower morphology facilitates robotization of cross-pollination and speed breeding: Cell
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Engineering crop flower morphology facilitates robotization of cross-pollination and speed breeding
A genome editing and AI-driven robotic system that overcomes floral barriers to facilitate automated hybrid breeding in tomato and soybean.
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2825%2900840-2
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Tripping stones / Stolpersteine in Rome
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If you have tickets and really want to get in, just wait 2 or 3 hours standing in the sun, but we might close it in the meantime... Only God knows...
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Yeah, it's all nice, but the Westfalenstadion is still better
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A day in Rome 1/n
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First day in Rome
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Palermo
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Cefalu
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Castelbueno
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Valley of the temples, Agrigento
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Villa Romana del Casale
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Was hard to see Mt Etna today, even from closeup
about 1 month ago
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Catania, day 2
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Catania
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Last meal in Germany
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Diez
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Crossing the Rhine by ferry in St. Goar, then on to Koblenz
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Markus and Rüdiger wrapping up
#SWS2025
with awards and prizes. Thailand it is in three years.
about 1 month ago
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Arrived in Heidelberg for the International Plant Sulfur Workshop
#SWS2025
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I like research results when they are clear-cut black or white
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Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack
Experimental and comparative studies suggest that the striped coats of zebras can prevent biting fly attacks. Biting flies are serious pests of livestock that cause economic losses in animal productio...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223447
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NRT1.1B acts as an abscisic acid receptor in integrating compound environmental cues for plants
NRT1.1B, a traditionally recognized nitrate receptor, can directly perceive the extracellular ABA signal to form a complex with the repressor protein SPX4, thereby releasing the SPX4-sequestered trans...
https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(25)00816-5?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email
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#EPPS2025
dinner party in full swing
about 2 months ago
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Kicking off
#EPPS2025
in a historic building. Quite a setting
about 2 months ago
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First day of
#EPPS2025
Visits to
@fz-juelich.de
and field stations. Very impressed.
about 2 months ago
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Hawkmoth
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Big church still there.
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The Heide is flowering
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Lüneburg
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Sorpesee
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Function and regulatory mechanism of HvSPX4 in maintaining phosphate homeostasis in barley - PubMed
Low phosphorus (LP) tolerance varies among plant species and genotypes within a species, and the molecular mechanisms underlying P signaling in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) remain unclear. Here, we rep...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40890047/
2 months ago
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Yum. With the right amount of Kirschwasser.
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Wut ? 😳
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One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202509
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Gasometer Oberhausen
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Spatial mutual nearest neighbors for spatial transcriptomics data
AbstractMotivation. Mutual nearest neighbors (MNN) is a widely used computational tool to perform batch correction for single-cell RNA-sequencing data. How
https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/41/8/btaf403/8214008?utm_source=etoc&utm_campaign=bioinformatics&utm_medium=email&nbd_source=campaigner&nbd=13290350520
2 months ago
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Zeche Zollverein
2 months ago
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Good to be back
2 months ago
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Spieltach
2 months ago
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