Resequencing hundreds or thousands of individuals from the same species has become routine... but processing all those genomes efficiently? Still a headache! Here's my solution that used to be lab-internal but that I am happy to share: crolllab.github.io/genomepanel_...

1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🌱 New preprint out on bioRxiv! How do plants sense seasonal changes in day length? In our new study, we profiled high resolution (2h) RNA seq time courses in tomato across three photoperiods to uncover how light duration shapes gene expression dynamics. Summary in next post...

Preprint!!!! This is the result of an ongoing collaboration between us and the genomics core to make genetics cheap and easy. A synergy between library prep and analytical approaches. This one hinges on recognizing 1. that DNA molecules are shaped by evolution and 2. we have friends everywhere.

Did you know that most knockouts in Arabidopsis actually do have phenotypes and aren't some redundancy situation? All you have to do is measure in multiple tissues in multiple environments and then the phenotypes show up. Redundancy was an assumption never tested.

Malate matters! Especially in tomato fruit, where malate reaches levels that would shut down “normal” metabolism. Tomato solves this with BTPC, part of a malate-insensitive Class-2 PEPC complex.

Chromosome-scale Solanum pennellii and Solanum cheesmaniae genome assemblies reveal structural variants, repeat content and recombination barriers of the tomato clade https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695418v1

Congrats to RootResponse lab members (CBGP) for this review in JXB DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraf520 how root traits, microbiome interactions, and epigenetic regulation play a role in plant heat stress resilience, stressing the need for lab approaches that closely reflect field-conditions

We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes. Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New preprint from the lab on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! We show how SEPALLATA MADS-box genes in tomato functionally diverged to regulate inflorescence and floral organ development while maintaining redundant functions in conferring floral meristem identity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🗣️ Today, José Jiménez Gómez from @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social came to visit us in Málaga to share his research with a great talk entitled “Metabolic adaptations towards salt tolerance in Arabidopsis plants from the Cape Verde Islands” as part of our #IHSMLaMayoraSeminars series

Amazing talk by @jimenezgomez.bsky.social at @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social

I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.

There are lots of answers out there that are beautiful because the truth of the system is beautiful. If I find one of these beautiful facts, it doesn’t make me brilliant. Just right place and right time. True scientific heroes acknowledge that fact.

📋 Join us on Friday 14th for a fascinating seminar with the researcher José Jiménez Gómez (@cbgpmadrid.bsky.social, Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas). Don't miss it! 🕓 9:30 AM 📍 IHSM La Mayora Auditorium More information here! ⬇️

I’m very pleased to share our latest work, led by the talented @cbuckley.bsky.social as part of his PhD. It’s our first attempt at studying #circadian rhythms in wheat with the help of some great collaborators @jesshyles.bsky.social @adaevo.bsky.social et al. #plantsci 🌾⏰ 1/7 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Save the date, 1-3 July 2026, for the XVIII Plant Molecular Biology Meeting #RBMP2026 in Bilbao. Check out the website for updates rbmp2026.com/RBMP/en/info

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Like I mentioned last week I like it when plants find a way against all odds. It is not just the perseverance and adaption. But also, that we can learn something from how those pioneering plants manage to survive against all odds. 🧵1/3 🧪 #PlantScience

We just published our work in #ScienceAdvances "Parallel evolution of salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from Cape Verde Islands" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Short summary and credits follow:

Our story about salinity tolerance in the Cape Verde islands is out in Science Advances! @science.org. Two independent mutations in the same gene conferred salt resistance to Arabidopsis plants! Check it out here! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

These were my very first experiments done at @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social. I still remember the excitement of @jimenezgomez.bsky.social and me when observing the plates and the shocking phenotype! Thanks to all the authors for the work and so happy to continue working on this!

🧪Very timely, the paper from the story that @jimenezgomez.bsky.social explained us during #SEG2025 was published yesterday. Congrats to all the team and specially first co-author @laskotillean.bsky.social! Beautiful story! 🫶🏻

The quantitative effect of seed production triggers the end of flowering in tomato (María Jesús López-Martín , Cristina Ferrándiz , Concepción Gómez-Mena) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Our work on MYBs and WRKY regulating suberin in tomato exodermis is now out in @jxbotany.bsky.social! 🍅 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 👩‍🔬 @leonardojo.bsky.social @riannekluck.bsky.social @marianasartur.bsky.social Sara Buti, Alex Cantó-Pastor @bradylabs.bsky.social 🌱 #PlantScience

Twenty years ago this month Kevin Wright and I set out on an 18,000 mile journey from Durham, NC across North America to collect monkeyflowers. The seeds from that trip (my third rotation project) have given rise to major advances and scores of scientific publications over the past two decades.

Lots of #arabidopsis mixed with the #tulips in the #JardinBotanico in #Madrid. I asked the local expert Carlos Alonso-Blanco: they likely came from Holland with the bulbs or the soil 🤦🏻

Amazing resource for the Arabidopsis and plant community www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Lots of cool new features at the BAR ePlant Browser, such as ecotype SNP data mapped to protein sequence and structure. Check it out at: bar.utoronto.ca/eplant/ #PlantScience @bar-plantbio.bsky.social

Today’s weird potato flower is one that looks like fasiflora (fa) mutants in tomato, but as usual, nothing is known about this mutation in tuber bearing Solanum. Pub with the fa mutant in tomato: www.researchgate.net/profile/Beat...

Solanum galapagense (Galápagos tomato/“tomatillo”) Isla Santiago, Galápagos

#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #InBrief #ICYMI

Dear #plantsci community, PLEASE HELP or RT! We are looking for a leaf specific promoter for a tissue specific CRISPR experiment in Arabidopsis. Any suggestions?

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrdpm5yf

I❤️PhD defense days. We welcome our youngest doctor, Maria Jesus Lopez Martín, who has done an excellent job studying the end of flowering in tomato. Here with proud supervisors @conchagm.bsky.social and @cristicris.bsky.social, the PhD committee and all her mates at @ibmcp.bsky.social

Fun fact I did not know: A significant proportion of liver cells are polyploid! shalevlab.weizmann.ac.il/wp-content/u...

Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.

Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies. Interested in contributing? Please contact us! #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mariele Lensink (coadvised with @grey-monroe.bsky.social) has conducted a detailed analysis of natural variation in Salicylic acid response in the Bay x Sha RIL population biorxiv.org/cgi/content/.... Aka Thesis Chapter 1.

Son hormigas resolviendo un problema geométrico y es para flipar en colores.

#PlantScience Come join us!, The MoRE Lab (shorturl.at/CUwM4) is open to support PhD candidates for these programs (shorturl.at/FQBaI and shorturl.at/FmwiF), early postdocs (shorturl.at/KVyVv) and senior (shorturl.at/zkk7l), check eligibility and get in touch!, help us spread the word, please!

Online course contents for Experimental Design & Analysis w/ R at UC Davis by Dr. Dan Runcie (listed as Plant Sciences 205 at UC Davis). I took it in 2017 when I was a PhD student, one of the best classes I have ever taken! Highly recommend. deruncie.github.io/PLS205_course/ #Stats #PlantScience

The Salk Institute shared the sad news that Prof. Joanne Chory passed away yesterday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was one of the most influential biologists of our time. And this is how I will remember Joanne, expertly guiding us on where to go. Joanne, we will miss you! ❤️

I had a try at making this bsky-follow-finder.theo.io Enter your handle and it will find people followed by lots of the people you follow (but not you)

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

New preprint from the lab! We find that Arabidopsis plants from the Cape Verde Island accumulate a disaccharide that protects them from high salinity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We map the gene, characterize the metabolite, and discover a case of parallel evolution in two of the islands.

Interview with @elisabethbik.bsky.social in @elpais.bsky.social. It’s very interesting to read her story. elpais.com/proyecto-ten...