Rewiring an E3 ligase enhances cold resilience and phosphate use in maize - Nature The E3 ubiquitin ligase NLA postively regulates cold tolerance and negatively regulates phosphate uptake in maize, and a genetically engineered variant of this enzyme leads to improved cold ...

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Transcriptome assemblies for two drug‐type cannabis chemotypes by long‐read RNA sequencing Generation of transcriptomes for two contrasting cannabis chemotypes by PacBio Iso-Seq serve as crucial resource for further functional studies. More than 50,000 transcripts covered 60% of gene loci...

Our paper on PacBio transcriptome assemblies for two drug-type Cannabis chemotypes is out.

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Phase separation of the redox sensor RCD1 mediates differential ROS signals to regulate plant growth and stress responses This study demonstrates that RCD1 functions as a redox sensor that perceives ROS signals and undergoes a ROS-triggered phase separation transition, fine-tuning ROS signaling in response to development...

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Turned out not too bad

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.

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...

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Nice work Mulu, Bhavna and rest of team !
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Nice day for koala spotting

Paradigm shift

OsWRI1a coordinates systemic growth responses to nitrogen availability in rice Nitrogen (N) deficiency–induced increases in the root-to-shoot biomass ratio in plants are adaptive in nature but suboptimal for agriculture. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms governing this dev...

OsWRI1a coordinates systemic growth responses to nitrogen availability in rice | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

SCALPEL: A pipeline for processing large-scale spatial transcriptomics data

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As a genomics journal, is converting a 10 MB Supplemental Table from Excel to PDF state-of-the-art ? Good luck to the reviewers sorting through 14,000 pages....

CAN1-mediated autophagosome size regulation fine-tunes phosphate starvation tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02...

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Metabolism, Perception, and Functions of Inositol (Pyro)Phosphates in Plants Inositol phosphates and pyrophosphates are small, water-soluble molecules involved in a range of physiological processes across eukaryotic organisms, including plants. Over the past two decades, signi...

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Recent major changes to TAIR: updates to the database, website, and Arabidopsis genome Abstract. The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) is the primary knowledgebase for Arabidopsis thaliana, providing curated genetics and genomics data,

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Just awesome.

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...

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Looks like 25 years ago 😉

Phosphorus acquisition and pathogen defense: synergies versus trade-offs During their life cycle, plants encounter simultaneous biotic and abiotic stresses. A low availability of inorganic phosphorus (P) commonly limits plant growth in natural and agricultural ecosystems. ...

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Genetic improvement of nitrogen- and phosphorus-use efficiency in crops: Old goals with new aspirations This review synthesizes recent genetic advances in crop nitrogen- and phosphorus-use efficiency (NUE and PUE), highlighting key genes and their natural variations that underpin adaptation to soil cond...

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Sending two PhD students into the world. Well done Viet D Nguyen and Benjamin Wee

A Single-Cell-Resolution Spatial Transcriptomic Atlas Decodes Wheat Spike Development and Yield Potential Summary: This study presents a comprehensive single-cell resolution spatial transcriptomic atlas of wheat spike development across five key developmental stages. By resolving cell-type-specific phytoh...

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We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.

Explains how I feel... 😄
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Trying to submit a paper:
Step 1: Build pdf from pdfs - fail
Step 2: Please upload Supp Tables in Excel 2000 format... 😱

Thanks for covering our paper on Cannabis cultivation and chemotype variation

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Function and regulatory mechanism of HvSPX4 in maintaining phosphate homeostasis in barley A 50-bp insertion in the promoter region of HvSPX4 enhances its expression and is associated with reduced plant growth in a natural barley population under

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Activation of alternative oxidase ensures carbon supply for ethylene and carotenoid biosynthesis during tomato fruit ripening The alternative oxidase pathway is post-translationally activated at the onset of climacteric ripening for promoting carbon mobilization toward ethylene an

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Helixer: ab initio prediction of primary eukaryotic gene models combining deep learning and a hidden Markov model - Nature Methods By leveraging both deep learning and hidden Markov models, Helixer achieves broad taxonomic coverage for ab initio gene annotation of eukaryotic genomes from fungi, plants, vertebrates and invertebrat...

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