Latest from our lab in 2025. A wonderful collaboration with Sabrina Sabatini's team at Sapienza University of Rome. How mechanical signals contribute to root growth and zonation @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @upm.es doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Accessible chromatin enables rapid recruitment of PIFs to induce expression of shade-induced genes! doi.org/10.1186/s130.... Particularly proud of the excellent work of Sandi Paulišić and Alessandra Boccaccini. Many thanks to all authors who made it happen. @unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi boost plant resilience by remodelling the plant-pathogen membrane interface Check-out the latest paper from @alexguyon.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social News article www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/arbuscu...

Thankful, happy and excited to be awarded an ERC consolidator grant to understand how and why some plants make stomata on their upper leaf surface. tuit.ut.ee/en/news/erc-... #ERCCoG @erc.europa.eu

Thrilled to have our paper out in @science.org. Cell division guides plant cell wall formation. Does the reverse hold? We show that bimodal pectin methylesterification, via PME5 mRNA nuclear sequestration, influences plant cell division and cell plate orientation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Inferring Spatial Ploidy (iSPy), a high-throughput pipeline to quantify ploidy across tissues from microscopy images, now at @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social, try it out! Thanks @nickrussell31.bsky.social, @roederlab.bsky.social and Fox lab for such an exciting collaboration! doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

Congratulations Elise Laruelle & @robinsonsci.bsky.social on your @acceleratescience.bsky.social - @c2d3.cam.ac.uk funded project "Plant automatic cell lineage reconstruction" More info www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-a... Illustration by Elise Laruelle & leaf images by @sainikumud.bsky.social

Also happy to say that Arabidopsis epidermal cells make the cover of @theplantjournal.bsky.social for the issue with our paper, showing that nitrate availability impacts pectin metabolism and cell wall mechanics for growth 🌱 Check the work here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

“If we didn’t have plants, we’d still be fish!” 🐠🌍 Our keynote @plantteaching.bsky.social about the importance of plants, from photosynthesis to evolution and development... through aliens! 🌱🛸 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social #NBIAST2025

Really nice work with an adaptive twist on SAM hydraulics. Congrats to @weibingyang.bsky.social and all involved 🌱🌊 #plantscience www.cell.com/developmenta...

**Please Repost** Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate. PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Deadline: October 15.

New paper from @cam.ac.uk, Universities of Adelaide & Western Australia, & NASA highlighting how controlled environment agriculture (CEA) can boost the translation of fundamental plant science into real-world impact. DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.08.014

A comparative study of plant #phenotyping workflows based on three-dimensional reconstruction from multi-view images by Daiki Someno & Koji Noshita doi.org/10.1101/2024... via @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social #PlantScience

To be or not to be

Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very cool story out about NRT1.1 also serving as ABA receptor to integrate nitrate and ABA responses in plants ! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @cellpress.bsky.social

#PaperCBGP 🆕📄A new study, led by @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social & @wabniklab.bsky.social from the CBGP and published in @natplants.nature.com, shows plant roots have an “internal clock” ⏱️ 🧬Key findings on how plants coordinate growth and enhance root strength & efficiency 📎 More: shorturl.at/yzTxO

Exciting technical advance in @theplantjournal.bsky.social "Whole-tissue 3D immunostaining of shoot apical meristems in rice at single-cell resolution" #microscopy #PlantScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Oxford Biology is growing 📢 We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in: 🌱 Plant Sciences 🦉 Animal Behaviour 🔬 Molecular Cell Biology 3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7 Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

@UniBasel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

It was already known that auxins (surprise!) had a key role controlling the end of flowering, plant menopause. Now we can tell you how and where they act in the inflorescence meristem to control the process. @irenegonzlez.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

We are looking for a PDRA for the PlantPlug project, turning parasitic plants into programmable bio-modules! Using mistletoe as a novel chassis, we are exploring the frontiers of inter-species communication. Apply online by 15/10/2025. *RP* #PlantSciencesJobs vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

PAPER from @jennyrussinova.bsky.social in @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A U‐box E3 ubiquitin ligase CmPUB15 targets CmMYB73 to regulate #anthocyanin #biosynthesis in response to low temperatures in #chrysanthemum Research by Geng, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/4U8NQ4... #PlantScience

This might be one of the simplest images I captured, but very fascinating nonetheless, as it shows how tight the cytoplasm in a plant cell is. The cytosol and all other organelles are squished between the plasma membrane (magenta) and the central vacuole (its membrane is green) #MicroscopyMonday

🚨New Preprint with Old Pals showing a PIF4-CAT2-H2O2 loop in thermomorphogenesis

New preprint! "Understanding Shape and Residual Stress Dynamics in Rod-Like Plant Organs" 🌱 with @merozlab.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

TPJ Editor’s Choice – August 2025 by Martin Balcerowicz: The making of a leaf tip reveals how regional shifts in cell division angles sculpt the sharp leaf apex of Triadica sebifera. Read more: www.sebiology.org/resource/aug...

What beauty!

🌱✂️ How do plant cells decide where to divide? Our work shows that actin can override the geometric rules—guiding cells to divide in alternative orientations. #PlantScience #CellBiology #Arabidopsis @camilagoldy.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My lab's very first manuscripts are out!!!! - We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA - We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis Link to both preprints below

'Training LLMs can use 22 million litres of water' Dr Ana Valdivia, Departmental Research Lecturer in AI, Government, and Policy at @oii.ox.ac.uk, highlights online activities that use far more water than storing old emails and photos. #OxfordClimate

The maintenance of plant cell wall integrity involves complex molecular interactions. In this review, preetmanchanda.bsky.social summarizes the pivotal roles of RALF, LRX, and FERONIA as well as their interactions in different cell and tissue systems. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Introducing five concepts from dynamical systems to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms, have a read! @perez-carrasco.bsky.social‬ @roederlab.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social This effort started in a morphogenesis meeting @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social‬ in 2023. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Thrilled to have our spatial single-cell atlas of the Arabidopsis lifecycle in @NaturePlants. Turns out that its easy to make nice images when spatial expression of 1,000 genes is available! 1/n @natanellae.bsky.social @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @joeecker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're hiring! Need a microscopy wizard to help build the world’s first synthetic plant chromosome! Bring your lights, lasers, & lens-craft to characterise new artificial chromosomes. Join our ARIA-funded project at UWA in Perth & ‪@plants4space.bsky.social‬. Apply: bit.ly/3GKSRSA

A double agent, active in the nodules, exposed.

Our new work uncovering how WIND1 promotes somatic embryogenesis as a bifunctional chromatic regulator!!!! We knew WIND1 promotes new fate acquisition and now we show WIND1 also helps repressing existing identity!

Our story on the biosynthesis of anti-inflammatory triterpenes from pot marigold is published ☺️ We had a lot of fun working on this beautiful & interesting species. Well done team marigold! 🌼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Integrative comparative transcriptomics using cultivated and wild rice reveals key regulators of developmental and photosynthetic progression along the rice leaf developmental gradient https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669153v1

WIND1 controls cell fate transition through histone acetylation and deacetylation during somatic embryogenesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669221v1

We developed machine learning models to infer circadian phase from single plant samples, using it to explore variation in circadian timing. Great collab with @c-reynoldsuk.bsky.social @ajwhall.bsky.social @hannahcr6.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chronobiology

Transcriptional response to warm temperatures is confounded by organ-specificity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.05.668523v1

🌱 Flipping the script on plant engineering! New ‪‪@aria-research.bsky.social‬ grant for James Locke & Chris Micklem to pioneer stochastic synthetic biology using gene expression noise as a tool to design more resilient, climate-adaptive plants. 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/aria-gr... #synbio #plantsci

The mechanical properties of Arabidopsis thaliana roots adapt dynamically during development and to stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667350v1

Best practices in plant fluorescence imaging and reporting: A primer (Kirk J Czymmek , Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso , Tessa Burch-Smith , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

🧪🌾PAPER - Would like to use protoplasts to study cell walls but struggle with cell wall recovery?🦾 Check out the Q-Warg Pipeline: a robust and versatile workflow established by Bogdziewiez et al from the @stephanevrg.bsky.social group! Find it in @plantdirectj.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/pld3...

New preprint! 😁 We uncover how early land plants evolved UV-B tolerance by dissecting the UVR8 pathway in Marchantia polymorpha. Conserved yet rewired—evolutionary plasticity revealed. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #PlantScience #UVB #Evolution