Excited to share our new preprint on rhizobacterial biosensors mapping sucrose exudation 🌱
Work spanning my TomKat postdoc in @josedinneny.bsky.social's lab to my own lab at @universityofga.bsky.social; co-first with my PhD student Gretchen Brinkman: 🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
there goes the central dogma, i guess. is nothing sacred anymore?
Meet OmicsCanvas!
This powerful new platform integrates diverse #epigenomic and #transcriptomic #data into a unified framework, making multi-omics analysis accessible to #biologists without #bioinformatics expertise.
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
@wileylifesci.bsky.social
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It would be interesting to screen variations of strigolatone biosynthesis gene cluster in this pangenome, towards searching Sorghum varieties with good behavior against Striga
"We wanted to build a resource that demonstrates DNA sequence diversity, gene repertoire, and the phenotypic diversity across this plant in one accessible resource." — John Lovell, JGI Plant Program
More: jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-sto...
🌱 From Frontiers in Agronomy: Biosolarization can cut broomrape germination by over 99 percent, offering a faster, low-chemical option to protect crops from parasitic weeds. (Bradley D. Hanson)
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Happy to share our work on soil-emulating plant growth media! 🌱 ArtSoil supports a self-repopulating complex microbiome, promotes plant growth, avoids sucrose artifacts, and enables reproducible, cell-type-specific root responses 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MKTXP2...
Broomrapes of the World, published by Kew, out now. Years of fieldwork, collaboration, observation and passion went into these 600 pages. We hope it will inspire others to enjoy these beautiful plants:
How Thale Cress adapts – or goes extinct.
In an unprecedented field experiment plant scientists investigated evolutionary adaptation of Arabidopsis thaliana to a wide range of climates at 30 locations: from the Alps to the Negev Desert was investigated.
In @science.org
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Or maybe downregulate ABA catabolism during early herbs' germination
@gildasguillemer.bsky.social
Single-molecule peptide sequencing through reverse translation of peptides into DNA | Nature Biotechnology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-026-03061-z
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Proposed working model of candidate pathways and genes potentially associated with seed coat coloration based on comparative transcriptomic associations observed at a single developmental stage (110 DAS). This schematic illustrates transcriptomic associations across the phenylpropanoid-flavonoid pathway from phenylalanine-derived precursors to anthocyanin and proanthocyanidin (PA) accumulation in vacuoles. Genes upregulated in black seed coats are shown in green and those upregulated in yellow seed coats in brown (color intensity reflects log2 fold-change)...
Transcriptomic and Metabolic Insight Into Flavonoid Biosynthesis Underlying Black and Yellow Seed Coat Color Variation in Soybean (Glycine max) (Kahee Moon, Prakash Basnet, Seung Young Choi, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
Disruption of a single gene, tnaA, encoding tryptophanase makes E. coli mutualistic to stinkbug, resulting in the accumulation of tryptophan and the reduction of toxic indole. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 New paper out in @PlantPhysiology! We asked: how do trees talk to their fungal partners during ectomycorrhizal symbiosis? Turns out, tiny secreted peptides play a big role. 1/
Read the full paper here 👇
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
I think the profile of glucosinolates also matter (taste surely be different if you have more C4 aliphatic GSLs than C3 aGSLs FI)
The Arabidopsis PRC2 subunit MSI1 interacts with HY5 to repress hypocotyl elongation through H3K27 tri-methylation (Yingchao Xu , Min Wang , Mei-Hui Yu , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Welcome to the "4th International Congress on #strigolactones (ICS)”, which will be held in Paris, FRANCE, from 5 to 8 October 2026. All the information available on ics2026.sciencesconf.org
Did you know that some fungi are CARNIVOROUS? There are lots of species that do this, but I think Arthrobotrys oligospora is especially bonkers. These fungi sense when their prey (nematodes) are nearby by eavesdropping on the chemical signals that the nematodes use to communicate with each other 🧪🪲🍄
A shorter green-leafed plant on the left, marked "Ctrl" is about half the size of a similar looking plant on the right.
Scientists have identified a protein in poplar that, when turned off, results in increased growth, stronger cell walls and trees that are more disease-resistant.
More: jgi.doe.gov/user-science...
@jbei.lbl.gov @axelvisel.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers,
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵
I tried it, it's very interesting, maybe it's an oversight but i was unable to find a way to export UMAP graph (SVG, PNG etc)
Gibberellin transport affects lateral root growth through HY5 in response to far-red light (Kasper van Gelderen , Kyra van der Velde , Chia-kai Kang , Jessy Hollander , Alicia Koppenol , Orfeas Petropoulos , Putri Prasetyaningrum , Tuğba Akyüz , Ronald Pierik) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
CRISPR meets AlphaFold: guiding SWEET10-enhanced oil production #plantscience
Cracking the seed code: How nitrate directly breaks ABA signaling for germination (Nitin Uttam Kamble) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
Incredible opportunity #PlantSciJobs #plantscience #AcademicJobs
AP1 floral induction system and experimental strategy used. (A) The AP1 floral induction system (pAP1::AP1-GR ap1 cal) was used in Arabidopsis. On the left, an SEM image of overproliferation inflorescence meristems of the ap1 cal mutant and on the right, an SEM image of many synchronized floral buds 5 d after dexamethasone (DEX) treatment are shown. (B) Overview of the workflow and sampling scheme. The extraction buffer Trizol was used, so from the same tissue sample, RNA and protein could be extracted. Subsequently, RNA-seq and LC-MS/MS were performed, followed by data analyses. SEM images provided by José Luis Riechmann.
🌸🧬🔬 INSIGHT 🌸🧬🔬
Almost lost in translation: integrated transcriptome and proteome analyses for early Arabidopsis flower development - Stefan de Folter
📝 Insight: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
🔬 Research: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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