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Plants, Portraits, and Climate Change 📍SLCU, Cambridge
pinned post!
🚨New Preprint with Old Pals showing a PIF4-CAT2-H2O2 loop in thermomorphogenesis
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4 months ago
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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...
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Cell wall–derived mechanical signals control cell growth and division during root development
Mechanical changes in elongating root cells guide division of neighboring cells, shaping root development.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aea8647
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Christian Fankhauser
12 days ago
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
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Transcriptional dynamics and chromatin accessibility in the regulation of shade-responsive genes in Arabidopsis - Genome Biology
Background Open chromatin regions host DNA regulatory motifs that are accessible to transcription factors and the transcriptional machinery. In Arabidopsis, responses to light are heavily regulated at...
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03901-2
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)
16 days ago
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...
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Hanna Hõrak
18 days ago
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
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ERC grant helps to understand why the upper and lower surfaces of plant leaves differ
Hanna Hõrak, Associate Professor of Molecular Plant Physiology at the University of Tartu Institute of Technology, has received a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grant to study how cell pa...
https://tuit.ut.ee/en/news/erc-grant-helps-understand-why-upper-and-lower-surfaces-plant-leaves-differ
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Weibing Yang
21 days ago
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/...
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Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics
The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4102
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Pau Formosa-Jordan
23 days ago
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...
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)
29 days ago
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
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Vale Nunez-Pascual
about 2 months ago
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 👉
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The Sainsbury Laboratory
3 months ago
“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
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Juan Alonso-Serra
3 months ago
Really nice work with an adaptive twist on SAM hydraulics. Congrats to
@weibingyang.bsky.social
and all involved 🌱🌊
#plantscience
www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Epidermal hydrodynamics controls water homeostasis of shoot meristems for plant adaptation to terrestrial environments
Zhu et al. uncover an evolutionarily conserved water transport pathway in the epidermis of plant shoot meristems that maintains water homeostasis and regulates stem cell activity. This epidermal hydro...
https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807(25)00567-2
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Pallavi Singh
3 months ago
**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.
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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge
3 months ago
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
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in silico Plants
3 months ago
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
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To be or not to be
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3 months ago
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Daan Weits
3 months ago
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...
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Greg Vert
3 months ago
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
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🔬🌱 CBGP | Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas
3 months ago
#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
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Plant Editors
3 months ago
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/...
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Oxford Biology
3 months ago
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
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Trevor Lithgow
4 months ago
@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
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New endowed professorship strengthens climate research at the University of Basel
The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology. This...
https://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/new-endowed-professorship-strengthens-climate-research-at-the-university-of-basel
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Cristina Ferrándiz
4 months ago
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
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Local regulation of auxin-related pathways in the shoot apical meristem plays a major role during proliferative arrest
González-Cuadra et al. show that repression of auxin-related pathways locally in the SAM is key in the control of proliferative arrest. FRUITFULL regulates these pathways to promote meristem arrest. B...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4
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Thomas Lin Pedersen
4 months ago
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
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ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09/ggplot2-4-0-0/
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Pallavi Singh
4 months ago
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...
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Kalika Prasad
4 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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How plant roots rebuild their tips after injury
Geometry-driven cell divisions help restore shape.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-025-00167-2
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Plant Systems Biology
4 months ago
PAPER from
@jennyrussinova.bsky.social
in
@newphyt.bsky.social
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Warm temperature modifies cell fates to reduce stomata production in Arabidopsis
Stomatal abundance decrease in Arabidopsis triggered by warm temperature is attributed to PIF4-mediated repression of SPEECHLESS (SPCH) expression. We identified the unknown developmental and transc...
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70396
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New Phytologist
4 months ago
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...
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Ivan Radin
4 months ago
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
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🚨New Preprint with Old Pals showing a PIF4-CAT2-H2O2 loop in thermomorphogenesis
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Amir Porat
4 months ago
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...
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SEBiology
4 months ago
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...
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August 2025 TPJ Editor choice: The making of a leaf tip: how cell division angles define shape
Discover the Plant Journal editor's choice by Martin Balcerowicz
https://www.sebiology.org/resource/august-2025-tpj-editor-choice-the-making-of-a-leaf-tip-how-cell-division-angles-define-shape.html
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What beauty!
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Marie-Cécile Caillaud
4 months ago
🌱✂️ 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
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.18.670899v1.full.pdf
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Rodrigo Reis
4 months ago
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
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University of Oxford
4 months ago
'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
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Anja Geitmann
4 months ago
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...
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Pau Formosa-Jordan
5 months ago
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/...
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Travis Lee
4 months ago
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...
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Ryan Lister
5 months ago
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
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A double agent, active in the nodules, exposed.
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Keiko Sugimoto
5 months ago
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!
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NicolaJPatron
5 months ago
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...
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Biosynthesis and bioactivity of anti-inflammatory triterpenoids in Calendula officinalis - Nature Communications
Calendula, a plant used in traditional medicine for centuries, helps reduce inflammation. Here the authors identify natural compounds that are key to its anti-inflammatory activity, revealing how they...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62269-w
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
5 months ago
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
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
5 months ago
WIND1 controls cell fate transition through histone acetylation and deacetylation during somatic embryogenesis
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669221v1
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Antony Dodd
5 months ago
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...
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Machine learning models highlight environmental and genetic factors associated with the Arabidopsis circadian clock - Nature Communications
The authors introduce ChronoGauge as a machine learning model which can estimate a plant’s internal circadian time using gene expression. This can be used to compare the circadian clock across differe...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62196-w
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
5 months ago
Transcriptional response to warm temperatures is confounded by organ-specificity
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.05.668523v1
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)
5 months ago
🌱 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
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
5 months ago
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
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The Plant Cell
5 months ago
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...
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https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf143
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Umeå Plant Science Centre
5 months ago
🧪🌾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...
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Yuanke Liang
5 months ago
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
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Conservation and divergence of UVR8-COP1/SPA-HY5 signaling in UV-B responses of Marchantia polymorpha
Ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) poses a major challenge to all forms of plant life. The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha (Marchantia) serves as a key model organism to study signaling pathways and to in...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.16.665153v1
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