Celebrating the astonishing career of Jonathan Jones whose work has transformed the field of plant pathogen biology and immunity, and helped shape 37 years of research at The Sainsbury Lab. @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social @kamounlab.bsky.social
The German Society for Plant Sciences (Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft DBG) is now on Bluesky 🌱
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Very proud of the work of Ganesh Nawkar & Martina Legris
with invaluable help from many others: Air channels create a directional light signal to regulate hypocotyl phototropism. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here is our latest preprint. Fusions of Cas9 to specific viral 5' exonucleases increase homology directed repair 30-fold in transient and 10-fold in stable transformations. Making non-selectable knock-ins and gene replacements possible. Congrats to the whole team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A contemporary illustration of some of the researchers highlighted in the Inclusive Botany paper. Elizabeth Knight Britton with Eustichium norvegicum, Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexía with Mimosa mexiae, Israel Lyons (Plantago succisa; synonymous with P. lanceolata), Marie Clark Taylor with Salvia splendens, Thomas Wyatt Turner with Hordeum vulgare, Sacagawea with Lewisia sacajaweana, Lafayette Frederick with Cyrtandra frederickii (synonymous with C. dentata), Catherine Furbish with Pedicularis furbishae, Hugo de Vries with Oenothera glazioviana (synonymous with O. lamarckiana), and Percy Gentle with Clusia gentlei. Importantly, at the top, we recognize the countless nameless contributors to the field. Artwork by Kasey Pham.
#PlantScience Research Weekly Nov 10 plantae.org/plant-scienc... (3/3) Single-nucleus sequencing reveals C3 to C4 transition; Dirigent protein complex directs lignin polymerization; Maize root microbiome structured by host-exuded specialized metabolite; Building an inclusive botany: A radical dream
C4 photosynthesis is beautifully intricate/complex but has evolved repeatedly. How did evolution change gene expression to enable this? Basically, C4 genes acquire elements in cis that plug them to existing cell identity networks.
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
✨Ever wondered how C4 plants 🌱 manage to shuttle metabolites back and forth between mesophyll and bundle sheath cells so efficiently? ✨ They have increased cell-to-cell connectivity between these cells through A LOT of plasmodesmata. @plantsci
How do C4 leaves make way more plasmodesmata than C3 plants? See our latest: doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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A wonderful write up of a wonderful person. ‘Delegate and trust’ - if more leaders were able to do that so many more people would feel empowered (in all walks of life)