Happy to announce our study that has just been published from work done during my PhD at the University of Bristol working in Prof. Jill Harrison's lab. It's about WOX genes and sporophyte development in the model moss, Physcomitrium patens. Take a look 🧵👇

For liverwort mavens, I've needed to shift our Marchantia resources to a new website (I've reached retirement from academia in Cambridge) - and the plant synthetic biology stuff has moved to https://www.haseloff-lab.info (Now have more time for DIY builds! Updates to come)

Evolutionary Rewiring of Root Cell-Type Nitrogen Responses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.05.730053v1

Call for Papers Submit your latest plant and multicellular algae #DevBio research to our upcoming special issue – Plant and Algae Development #DevSIPlantAlgae Editors: @stanfordstomata.bsky.social & Susana Coelho Deadline: 2 November 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pl...

Check out our latest pre-print on the evolution of TIR activity/signalling: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Huge congratulations to Beverley Glover & Uta Paszkowski on being elected Fellows of the @royalsociety.org - a wonderful recognition of their significant contributions to plant sciences! 🎉 Read more: tinyurl.com/3vetucr4 @beverleycubg.bsky.social @paszkowskilab.bsky.social 🧪

Another cool liverwort genome by Szövényi group. #PlantScience link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#SynBYSS seminar with Dr. Michelle Muzzio, the Editor-in-Chief of Chem Circularity by Cell Press, and Dr. Facundo Romani at University of Cambridge @fromani.bsky.social @cp-chemcircularity.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social The talk video link is below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VST...

#SynBYSS 10am USA CT 199th, May 14: Dr Michelle Muzzio, chief editor at Chem Circularity @cellpress.bsky.social & Dr Facundo Romani at U Cambridge 200th, May 21: Prof David Nielsen at ASU & Prof Dongheon Lee at FAMU-FSU Break until Jul. 9! Zoom link & schedule: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Excited to have started my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social through the @dfg.de Emmy Noether program. In this project we will be looking at the mechanisms of host invasion by fungal pathogens 🍄🌱 Check it out and drop me a line if you are interested! uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

A comprehensive database for #Marchantia research Tanizawa et al. present the new improved MarpolBase #database - a central resource for M. polymorpha #genomics with near-telomere-to-telomere reference male Tak-1 and female Tak-2 genomes (ver. 7.1) 🆓 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Although the red pigments made by flowering plants and liverworts are produced by distinct chemical pathways, here we found that they are induced by homologous complexes of transcription factors. @currentbiology.bsky.social

Nice new story from Yuki's lab @yukihirakawa.bsky.social "Initiation of asexual reproduction by the AP2/ERF gene GEMMIFER in Marchantia polymorpha" doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

MpERF14/GEMMIFER paper now published in Current Biology. Congratulations Go and Yuki for leading such a nice piece of research. #PlantSciences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bryophytes: natural incubators of new gene evolution #plantscience

The last paper of my PhD work in Argentina. We dig deeper into the Marchantia MpC1HDZ transcription factor. Many experiments, but my favourite: in addition to its role in oil body cell differentiation, it is also important for another cell type! #PlantScience academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Our work on UV-B perception and signaling in #Marchantia is now out in @plantphys.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/plph... Thanks to all authors @yuankeliang.bsky.social @romanulm.bsky.social @grandpahiro.bsky.social #PlantScience

The research, led by Dr Edith Forrestier whilst at the @jimhaseloff.bsky.social lab @camplantsci.bsky.social is published in ‘Communications Biology’: tinyurl.com/ypfd54xr @fromani.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk #PlantsAtCambridge

Latest research from @jimhaseloff.bsky.social's lab @camplantsci.bsky.social sheds new light on the evolution of plant cell division & could unlock new ways to engineer crop growth. 👉 tinyurl.com/5n7h2n58 @fromani.bsky.social @ignacybo.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social 🧪

The final version of our Marchantia cell cycle paper is now published. A much improved version compared to the preprint. Cyclins, repressors, and more. Thanks to co-authors and reviewers. #PlantScience. academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established? In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A thread 🧵 [1/8]

Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬 doi.org/10.1126/scia... Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯

New paper! A study from the Berger lab at the GMI of the ÖAW has been published in PLOS Genetics. Read the publication titled “Chromatin state architecture governs transcription factor accessibility across plant genomes” here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Previously on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social now in final published version: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How did farming reach the Southern Andes? Through migration or cultural transmission? Our new paper in @nature.com combines ancient DNA, isotopes, archaeology & paleoclimate to reconstruct 2,000+ years of history in Uspallata, Mendoza. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A Thread🧵 (1/25+)

Please RP 🕊️: Postdoc position in my budding group at OIST. Looking for a colleague to work at the interface of chloroplast biology, evo-devo, and synthetic biology. More info here 📃: www.oist.jp/careers/post...

Saliooooo el número 5 de la Revista Carnotaurus!! El tortugo Jorge, la tortuga gigante extinta Helianthochelys, océano plástico, evolución del Homo sapiens, parankylosaurios argentinos, unos ratoncitos de Holmberg, el tiburón espinillo, y más, en un número muy 🐢

One of the biggest challenges in microbial biotechnology? Unlocking the potential of non-model microbes and synthetic communities! Glad to share our review @sonjablasche.bsky.social @simonemozzachiodi.bsky.social @kiranrpatil.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social🧵(1/7) doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

The #nonseedUK26 meeting will be held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on 15th December 2026. Please save the date. Further details will follow 😃

Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨ It is my pleasure to share: "Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants" Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia doi.org/10.64898/202... #PlantScience A thread...

New paper from the lab. Important insights into the compartmentalisation of terpene biosynthesis in Marchantia oil body cells. #PlantScience #SynBio www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Join us at the #SEBconference Florence 2026 to discuss #Plant Robustness! 🌱🔥 @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social and I are organising the P12 session "Plant robustness from molecules to ecosystems" with the support of @greenrobust.de Check the program and submit your abstract by March 6th! 👇

The OpenPlant kit is finally available from Addgene as... a kit :) www.addgene.org/kits/haselof... @addgene.bsky.social #marchantia #synbio

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 🧵

Marchantia might seem an unlikely biotech crop, but it’s worth trying. In Aurore’s thesis, we pushed this concept by engineering the auronidins with MpMYB14 and using the pigments to dye cotton. It ended up giving a very unique and beautiful product. #PlantScience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint! The same TFs can drive distinct regulatory programs depending on where they bind.
 TSS → rapid stress responses
 Intronic & upstream → cell-type programs
 Enhancer-like CRMs → embryo/meristem programs
 Coding-sequence binding → repression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/9 Our latest paper on immunity mechanisms in Marchantia just out @pnas.org ! 🔽 Close collaboration between our former PhD students @karimaelm.bsky.social and @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social ! and the old gard @jacquet-chris.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

My mom, Silvia, is my hero. Living abroad while everything is on fire is difficult, but at least I know she is there taking care of the forest. www.vertices.com.ar/contenido.ph...

One of the most rarest and enigmatic bryophytes is now in the lab: Takakia lepidozioides. Thanks to the IMSC and Reski lab at Freiburg for maintaining them. #PlantScience

Ferns alternate between asexual #sporophyte & sexual free-living #gametophyte. This study uncovers the mechanism of male-to- #hermaphrodite conversion in the #fern #Ceratopteris, revealing a novel role for #auxin biosynthesis during #meristem formation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k5EcAU

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JAIVZX... Excited to share my latest work in @newphyt.bsky.social. Here, we used TurboID proximity labeling with CLAVATA receptors FEA3 and BAM1D in maize meristems to better understand the signaling pathways important for meristem regulation. #PlantScience

With non-seed plant research gaining momentum and a vibrant community emerging, Karima El Mahboubi and Facundo Romani highlight the growing impact of diverse model systems on key questions in plant evolution. doi.org/10.1242/bio.... #MeetingReview #NonSeedPlants #EvoDevo

This is a very special paper for me. I had the idea of combining transcription factor binding with chromatin in 2016/8. It took some time, but thanks to Fred and Vikas, we can finally share the story in @plos.org Genetics looking at chromatin states in Arabidopsis and Marchantia. #PlantScience

Happy to present our latest: Evolutionary adaptations to the hormonal regulation of vascular tissue development | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... Work by Wei Xiao and funded by @erc.europa.eu

Happy to share the pre-print on GEMMIFER, a novel ERF required for the initiation of gemma in Marchantia. One of the coolest phenotypes that I have ever seen. Congratulations to Yuki and Go, who led this research. #PlantScience @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

✂️🧬 EDITOR’S CHOICE 🧬✂️ Frangedakis et al. present an improved method for generating complex CRSIPR-mediated genome modifications in Marchantia polymorpha using the tRNA-gRNA approach together with an optimized protocol for thallus transformation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

our hornwort paper got the cover of the @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...