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Laura Moody @moodytomato.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 To all molecular mossers 📢

The Moss Workshop will be held in (not always as sunny as this) Oxford next year (30th June until 2nd July 2026). More details will follow soon, but in the meantime please make a note of the dates 😃 👍

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 10h

Can’t wait for the #EMBO workshop on Plant Evolution: From Origins to Diversification on Land! Just finalized my registration.

meetings.embo.org/event/25-pla...

Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land

The evolution of plants – photosynthetic eukaryotes resulting from the endosymbiosis of a cyanobacterium and a non-photosynthetic host cell – transformed the earth system by reducing the amount of CO…

meetings.embo.org

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 10h

Good old days 😄

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 1d

Karlsruhe botanical garden 🤩

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 2d

Plant metabolism: Zoom in to the single-cell level url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
#plantscience

Plant metabolism: Zoom in to the single-cell level

The numerous emerging single-cell technologies allow uncovering plant metabolism regulation at higher resolution, enabling precise pathway discovery and me

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 3d

ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE2-like protein mediates submergence and drought responses in Physcomitrium patens url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
#plantscience

ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE2-like protein mediates submergence and drought responses in Physcomitrium patens

A membrane-bound protein designated PpEIN2 of the moss Physcomitrium patens participates in the control of stress responses against both waterlogging and w

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 8d

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 10d

#nocomment

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 13d

Looking forward to it!
#IBMPseminars #plantscience

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Ulrich Hohmann @hohmannulrich.bsky.social · 17d

How are RNAs sorted for export vs. degradation in the nucleus? In collaboration with @heick.bsky.social’s lab we (@clemensplaschka.bsky.social and @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social labs) discovered a direct mechanistic link between the export and decay machineries: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/x)

Molecular basis of polyadenylated RNA fate determination in the nucleus

Eukaryotic genomes generate a plethora of polyadenylated (pA+) RNAs[1][1],[2][2], that are packaged into ribonucleoprotein particles (RNPs). To ensure faithful gene expression, functional pA+ RNPs, in...

www.biorxiv.org

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CNRS Biologie @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · 15d

#ResultatScientifique🔎| Découvrez comment les gamètes mâles trouvent leur chemin vers l’ovule dès le début de leur voyage.

✍️ Isabelle Fobis-Loisy & Karin John
📕 PLOS Computational Biology | buff.ly/pWArTlf

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 16d

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...

www.science.org

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 17d

#plantscience

Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 17d

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics

A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

www.nature.com

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Lichman Lab @lichmanlab.bsky.social · 17d

Hello! We are currently hiring for two post-doc positions on projects related to plant natural products, enzymes, and developing new systems to make useful small molecules. More details on our website: lichmanlab.weebly.com/post-docs.html

Post-Docs

We are currently recruiting for two post-doc positions in the Lichman lab that require similar skills and experience. We aim to do a joint recruitment process with a single interview. If you apply...

lichmanlab.weebly.com

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 18d

😋

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 18d

#TansleyInsight: The evolution of RHO of plant (ROP) #proteins and their morphogenetic #functions

Hugh Mulvey & Liam Dolan 👇

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

#LatestIssue

RHO and morphological evolution in plants.

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Maeda Plant Metabolism Lab @hiroshi-maeda.bsky.social · 27d

Our new study in Nature Plants maps how "multi-tasking" enzymes in plants transfer nitrogen, a key step toward improving crop N use efficiency. 🌱

Big thanks to our collaborators from Max Planck, Hokkaido Univ, & MSU, and for support from @NSF and @DOE.

Learn more: rdcu.be/eFOFN

#PlantMetabolism

Mapping multi-substrate specificity of Arabidopsis aminotransferases

Nature Plants - Systematic characterization of Arabidopsis aminotransferase family enzymes uncovered many previously unrecognized activities and revealed their multi-substrate specificity, aspects...

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justingoodrich.bsky.social @justingoodrich.bsky.social · 21d

I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich

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Université de Strasbourg @unistra.fr · 21d

Après 4 ans de travaux, le Musée zoologique a opéré une mue pour présenter une offre entièrement renouvelée autour de ses riches collections. Au cœur du campus universitaire, ses espaces agrandis et rénovés invitent le public à un voyage au cœur de la diversité du vivant ⤵️.

Dossier | Musée zoologique : un établissement rénové pour le 21e siècle

Après quatre ans de travaux, le Musée zoologique, qui s'inscrit dans un double réseau municipal et universitaire, a opéré une mue pour présenter une offre entièrement renouvelée autour de ses riches c...

savoirs.unistra.fr

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 24d

Oxford Biology is growing 📢

We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building

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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 28d

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Step-by-step Evolution of Strigolactone Signalling Pathway🌱

👉https://buff.ly/clqmyuZ

#PlantScience

Step by step evolution of strigolactone signalling pathway

Tue 7 Oct, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM [AEST]: Distinguished Professor Junko Kyozuka Strigolactones (SLs) serve dual functions as hormones that regulate growth and development and as rhizosphere signaling…

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · Sep 9

Insights into convergent evolution of cosexuality in liverworts from the Marchantia quadrata genome www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Insights into convergent evolution of cosexuality in liverworts from the Marchantia quadrata genome

Potente et al. show that in the liverwort M. quadrata, the evolution of cosexuality involves the retention of the male (V) sex chromosome and the complete loss of the female (U) sex chromosome. This p...

www.cell.com

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great resource!
Exploring #P450 superfamily diversity with P450Atlas - Online tool for automated subfamily assignment
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Sep 7

Membrane Biology: Nothing can replace polyunsaturated lipids

Genetic studies reveal that polyunsaturated lipids do more than simply increase the fluidity of the cell membrane.
buff.ly/qcLJNUN

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · Sep 5

Abscisic acid signaling regulates primary plasmodesmata density for plant cell-to-cell communication | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Abscisic acid signaling regulates primary plasmodesmata density for plant cell-to-cell communication

Abscisic acid reduces primary plasmodesmata density in moss through conserved ABA signaling factors of land plants.

www.science.org

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