Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud! @thewaroncars.bsky.social

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🔖 Kinase Partner Zinc Finger Protein modulates pollen tube growth by influencing tip vesicle trafficking @plantphys.bsky.social

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/plph...

🔬 In the movie, Co-expression of SP1-mRFP and KPZP-eGFP in pollen tube.

Opinion | Now Is the Perfect Time to Buy an Electric Vehicle

We want to remind people that the "V" in "EV" stands for "vehicle," not "car." Electric cars have a very important role to play as we try to wean the world off of fossil fuels, but if you're able to go car-free or car-lite by getting an electric bike, that's even better.

Update: carbonic anhydrases in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria Abstract. This update discusses the physiological roles of carbonic anhydrase (CA) in plants and algae. It examines some new observations about the functio

Update: carbonic anhydrases in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria

Jim Moroney LSU.

academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

It's the last week of the hornwort class, we'll be discussing species boundaries, ecology, biogeography and genomics. We'll have the pleasure of having @peterwschafran.com as our invited guest sharing his knowledge on hornwort genomics.

I looked at an Isoetes while I was in Crete on holiday & under full inundation it forms a near-continuous marginal band.
Mapping suggests ~2,500 plants rather than ~30 previous, so detectability/hydrology story. A geophyte persisting as a corm- a neat drawdown strategy.
@bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sorry Duke maybe you shoulda kept your herbarium 💁‍♀️😡

A phylogeny showing the species used on the Conservatory algorithm, with drawings of many key species shown.

Plant science research weekly, March 27 plantae.org/plant-scienc...
Review: Rare variants in crop genomes;
“Conservatory” uncovers conserved non-coding sequences;
Quinine deconstructed;
Hornwort Rubisco promotes pyrenoids in other plants;
Salt extrusion from mangrove pneumatophores (1/2)

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! 🤯

Now published @natcellbio.nature.com!
Kinase KEY1 controls pyrenoid condensate size throughout the cell cycle by disrupting phase separation interactions
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Featured image with Julia Zheku - FocalPlane Featured image with Julia Zheku - News

Our fantastic #FluorescenceFriday featured image was acquired by @juliazheku.bsky.social, a graduate student with @aribidopsis.bsky.social. The image shows a maize cross section, with a developing nodal root breaking through the basal stem node. Check out our post ⤵️:

That's a neat way to put it!

Excited to announce I’m starting a new lab at @gmivienna.bsky.social (Vienna BioCentre) in Sept 2026

We study how carbon fixation is inherited and maintained in algae using cryo-ET, imaging, environmental sampling&more

Looking for people who want to build the lab together, get in touch!

#teamtomo

🚨Preprint! Happy to share the research from my PhD “Genome delivery of a contractile tailed phage and its superinfection exclusion mechanism”. We use cryoEM to study the genome ejection of the phage T4, revealing how the tape measure protein regulates the process.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thanks Ben!

Thanks Sam ❤️ By funny coincidence I am actually at USU today and was thinking of you. Hope you are well!

Do you like it when weird organisms do silly things?? Then you're going to love this!

🚨New paper: We found - contrary to expectations - that oxygen is partially excluded from biomolecular condensates.

We find a strong anti-correlation between oxygen and protein concentrations in the condensate showing that accessible volume dominates over polarity.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
-Melville

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

Organ-specific expression of phosphate transporter, proton pump, and phosphatase genes in Marchantia polymorpha.

Rhizoids function as nutrient uptake organs in a non-vascular land plant

Kanno et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Plastomes of Anemiaceae with (Anemia hirsuta, outer plastome) or without (A. labiakii, inner plastome) a large insertion between the trnV-UGC and ndhC genes, where the Mobile Open Reading Frames in Fern Organelles cluster is located.

Evolutionary mobility and genetic dynamics of MORFFO genes: shuttling among ancient plant lineages

Labiak et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If fear is the mind killer, then comfort is the soul killer.

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List of papers you promised yourself you'd read on the plane but deep down know that you wont?

Not even "NGS verified" plasmids from twist... don't ask me how I know

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?

Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
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Great fun working with Manajit Hayer-Hartl and her amazing team at @mpibiochem.bsky.social bringing this work on the beta-carboxyome protein ApN (CcmN) together.

Look at this 🙂 #CryoEM

Structural basis for CTCF-mediated chromatin organization by @lucas.farnunglab.com @voslab.org

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...