Insights into glandular trichome biology from analysis of organ‐specific gene expression programmes in cannabis, hop and tomato This study of three glandular trichome-producing species (cannabis, hop and tomato) defines tissue-specific transcriptomic atlases for five organs (trichome, flower, leaf, stem and root), providing c...

Latest from the lab - a comparative transcriptomic analysis of glandular trichomes from cannabis, hops and tomato plants. In it we identify which transcriptional regulators are shared and which are not doi.org/10.1111/tpj..... We also provide big datasets of gene expresison across several organs.

New Article: "Unravelling the predominant genetic paths for asexual reproduction in Kalanchoe" rdcu.be/e1pxI

With News & Views: "Genomic cradle for thousands" rdcu.be/e1pxK

How ‘mother of thousands’ plants sprout new plantlets from their leaves.

Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...

Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

From duplication to divergence: Single-cell insights into transcriptional and cis-regulatory landscapes in soybean Differences in regulatory DNA shape gene expression diversity of duplicated genes in soybean, with patterns across cells within a tissue and across tissues

From duplication to divergence: Single-cell insights into transcriptional and cis-regulatory landscapes in soybean (Xiang Li , Xuan Zhang , Robert J Schmitz) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

The time is ripe for chronoculture A better understanding of circadian rhythms in crop plants can help improve agricultural production, say University of Melbourne experts

@cbuckley.bsky.social and I wrote this Pursuit article about our wheat research #chronoculture #circadian #plantsci

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the...

Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants - npj Biological Timing and Sleep npj Biological Timing and Sleep - Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants

#PlantScience #Photoperiodism 🌱⏰https://www.nature.com/articles/s44323-025-00054-0

🌱🧬 "Advances in seed omics" now published in its complete form @jxbotany.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Covers how omics tech are revolutionising seed research - single-cell and multi-omics integration towards climate-resilient crops.

La Trobe (@lewseylab.bsky.social) and Zhejiang Uni.

Fig. 1 Circadian period of wheat cultivars is associated with senescence and grain nutrition.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/7) A circadian transcriptional subnetwork and EARLY FLOWERING 3 control timing of senescence and grain nutrition in bread wheat
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🍇 #Modelling of plant #CircadianClock for characterizing hypocotyl growth under different light quality conditions
doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

Circadian interactions between plants and microorganisms Life on Earth evolved in environmental conditions that fluctuate with a daily cycle. Organisms from all kingdoms of life, including plants and their a…

Circadian interactions between plants and microorganisms: congratulations to Jack Dorling, Isobel Banks and Georgia Love from the lab for writing this review #CurrOpinMicrobiol @microclockerc.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New OA Resource: "A single-cell, spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle" rdcu.be/eBmkU

An extensive single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle that represents 10 developmental time points in 6 diverse organs.

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...

La série noire (et elle ne fait que commencer !) continue : près de 43°C enregistrés aujourd’hui en France, avec 57 records battus, dont 24 records absolus.
En 2025, 598 records de chaleur contre seulement 15 records de froid.
🔴Soit 40 fois plus de records chauds que froids.

Nice paper! Congrats!

A screenshot of the first page of the scientific paper linked in the post.

Delighted to share the lab’s first independent publication, a Tansley Insight in @newphyt.bsky.social where we analyse new crop genomics studies to show how we can engineer plants that can grow at different latitudes (key for climate-smart Ag) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Using plant circadian programs to optimize agrochemical use Os agroquímicos possuem um papel importante na maximização da produção agrícola. Herbicidas são uma classe de agroquímicos usados no controle de plantas daninhas e no manejo de algumas culturas duran...

Using plant circadian programs to optimize agrochemical use - we wrote this Tansley Insight in collaboration with @carloshotta.bsky.social and @gojonnes.bsky.social for @newphyt.bsky.social #chronobiology #circadian nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dawn Nagel, UC Riverside- honored for her efforts to disseminate Arabidopsis knowledge #ICAR2025

Thank you Andrés! :)

New paper out in @jxbotany.bsky.social with Dawn Nagel and Desmond Cairo! We explore how significance levels from tools detecting oscillatory patterns in time-series data can help identify putative new clock components or primary clock target genes 🕟
👉 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Canceling NIH grants is a great example of waste, fraud, and abuse. Even canceling just my grant alone, in year 3 of 5, would be a waste of the more than $1M already given to us for this project. Multiply that by hundreds of grants, and they are just throwing away taxpayer $$$. And for what? +

Effect of temperature on circadian clock functioning of trees in the context of global warming Plant survival in a warmer world requires the timely adjustment of biological processes to cyclical changes in the new environment. Circadian oscillators have been proposed to contribute to thermal ...

Very pertinent work, highlighting the important role of the circadian clock function in trees! Felicidades @veronicaarana.bsky.social and colleagues, nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

An excellent illustration and summary of the many benefits of pulses, from cultivation to consumption!
By @effiscientifig.bsky.social
#WorldPulsesDay

A barley pan-transcriptome reveals layers of genotype-dependent transcriptional complexity - Nature Genetics A long- and short-read barley pan-transcriptome assembled from 20 diverse barley genotypes offers insights into genotype- and tissue-dependent gene expression and function.

A barley pan-transcriptome reveals layers of genotype-dependent transcriptional complexity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Up: 5 circles illustrating rivers, floodplains, marshes, estuaries, and mangroves. Down: 4 squares to illustrate how wetlands degradation contributes to floods: 1) a river and a marsh, with natural soils; 2) channelization of the river and drainage of the marsh; 3) land conversion to urban areas and agriculture; 4) heavy rain causes severe flooding. By EffiScientiFig

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay! 💧

Today, let’s celebrate the central role of #wetlands in our lives!

They increase resilience to #ClimateChange, support #biodiversity, filter water & contribute to #foodsecurity.

Preserving & restoring wetlands is essential to limit severe flooding from heavy rainfall.

A huge congratulations to Bob Schmitz and his team for the recent published @cellcellpress.bsky.social paper on spatially resolved multi-omic single-cell atlas of soybean development

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Circadian gating: concepts, processes, and opportunities | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Circadian clocks provide a biological measure of time that coordinates metabolism, physiology and behaviour with 24 h cycles in the environment. Circadian systems have a variety of characteristic prop...

Circadian gating: concepts, processes, and opportunities. We set out some of our thoughts, and also why it is valuable to know about gating. With Pirita Paajanen and @jkimmey.bsky.social #chronobiology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Genomic information pathways and their numerical linkages in relation to the Central Dogma. The boxes show different omic levels in Col-0 and Can-0. Black arrows indicate the flow of information implied by the Central Dogma starting from CDS (peach) via gbM (green) to mRNA (light blue), ribosome-associated mRNA (yellow) and finally protein (pink). The strength of Pearson correlation between levels is shown both by the numbers and by the thickness of the corresponding black arrows, and represents the correlation between quantitative expression levels (except in the case of CDS where is represents the correlation derived from the multiple regression codon frequency model, i.e. the square root of the fraction of variance explained). The merged arrows connecting CDS, gbM and mRNA to protein show the result of combining information into a single model; note that their combined correlation of 0.720 is less than the sum of their individual effects. The correlation of tRNA levels (lilac) with genome-wide codon and amino acid frequencies is shown on the left. The correlations between corresponding Col-0 and Can-0 omic levels are shown next to the grey double-headed arrows.

Happy to start 2025 by sharing our new preprint biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... -the first paper from our BBSRC collaborative project with
@richardmott.bsky.social and Kathryn Lilley to understand what controls protein abundance in plants. 🧵 1/9

Soil Organic Carbon Measurement Methods. At the top, 5 methods are mentioned from left to right. * Novel sensor technologies * Hybrid (satellite + high-resolution sensors), a promising approach * Core sampling & lab analysis, the gold standard * Hybrid (satellite + lab) * Satellite imagery Each method is illustrated with corresponding icones : soil with probe and portable device for Novel sensor technologies, soil with soil core sampling going in an erlenmeyer flask, satellite. Below is an indication of accuracy with line thickness, peaking at the center below the core sampling and lab analysis method. Novel sensor technologies present a good accuracy, and satellite imagery a relatively low accuracy. Then drawbacks are quantified with line thickness as well. Greater drawbacks for core sampling & lab analysis, then for satellite imagery, and novel sensor technologies present the lowest amount of drawbacks.

💡 Did you know #soil is the largest carbon reservoir in the terrestrial ecosystem?

🚨 Accurate estimation of soil C is crucial to addressing pressing issues such as #ClimateChange, #FoodSecurity, and #biodiversity conservation.

Learn more about the different soil C measurement methods ⬇️
#scicomm

Repairing a deleterious domestication variant in a floral regulator gene of tomato by base editing - Nature Genetics A deleterious mutation in the tomato transcription factor SSP2 was enriched during domestication. Repairing the deleterious mutation in cultivated tomato by base editing leads to compact growth and ea...

An international team identified & corrected a deleterious mutation in the SSP2 gene of tomatoes, resulting in compact growth & earlier fruiting. This application of precise genetic editing tools opens up exciting possibilities for crop improvement: dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#PlantScience