I’m very happy to share that my paper has been published in Plant and Cell Physiology and selected as a Research Highlight in this issue.😊 This work explores how STAY-GREEN 1 mutation in tomato influences fruit ripening and volatile organic compound production.

Alternative #Splicing: A New #Regulatory Mechanism for Plants Responds to #Biotic and #Abiotic Stresses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #PlantSci @pplplantarum.bsky.social @wileylifesci.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @plantgenomics.bsky.social

🌱🧬Alternative splicing is not random. Chromatin state influences co‑transcriptional splicing, enabling repeatable stress responses Population‑level comparisons, not just condition‑specific studies, will reveal AS contribution to adaptation @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/plant...

The SlMYC2-SlNAC72-SlMIEL1 module contributes to high-temperature tolerance in tomato by regulating jasmonic acid biosynthesis (Xiangguang Meng , Zhen Kang , Guo Chen , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

🍃 REVIEW 🍃 Single-Cell CRISPR: An Efficient Strategy for Decoding Plant Cis-Regulatory Complexity – Zhang et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70647 #plantscience 🧪

NEWS - New group leader outlines big, broad, shared vision Dr Chris Whitewoods, a specialist in leaf development, will return to our institute as a tenure track group leader in 2026 🌱👉 www.jic.ac.uk/news/new-gro...

Look at those trichomes

🌸 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌸 Perkins et al. explore the role of small signalling peptides, such as CLE & RALF, in plant reproduction using differential gene expression, and other strategies to investigate reproductive thermotolerance under heat stress 🌡️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!

A wonderful collaboration with our colleagues from Düsseldorf within the @cerealcell.bsky.social consortium. @isaiavardanega.bsky.social @simonrdg.bsky.social Jan Maika. Thanks to the sequencing facilities at Uni Heidelberg and Uni Bern, and past and present team members for this "tour de force"

7/ Finally—our community tool 🌾 shiny.ips.unibe.ch The B. distachyon Leaf Gene Expression Viewer allows visualization of any gene across the whole leaf, epidermal, or stomatal subsets.
Interactive UMAPs and ggPlantmap provide an eFP-browser-like experience for grass developmental biology.

1/ Preprint alert:
 🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social

And @newphyt.bsky.social continues it's great series of Profiles with this one on @pdchristine.bsky.social: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantImmunity #PlantLuminaries