We are hiring a technician for our BarrierFates consortium! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Cortex is fantastic and can form so many diverse modifications! We've been lately thinking a lot about cortex in Poaceae and you can now read it about it!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It's alive! Our work combining experiments and computational models to show that "Root stem cell homeostasis in Arabidopsis involves cell-type specific transcription factor complexes"! Amazing collaboration with Vivien Strotmann and
@yvonnestahl.bsky.social! 🌱🌱 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

These webinars are meant to get you thinking and discussing too! We clearly have no fully baked answers to what is a cell type.

So we invite your ideas, and you can post them here: padlet.com/nolan84/what...

A little balloon came our way☺️
It will help us to test the role of Suberin-Inducing Microbes in enhancing crop stress resilience.
www.nwo.nl/en/news/gran...

Vicia lunata is a rare wildflower that grows on just a few mountain slopes in Cyprus and Turkey. Its flowers are so bright they look as though someone coloured them in with a highlighter pen.

Over the moon with our BarrierFates consortium funded. Roots, barriers, maize, stresses -it's going to be awesome!!!

Fun #MicroscopyMonday content: the aerial roots of my office orchid! Sectioned and fluorol yellow (suberin) stained by student in @dorotakawa.bsky.social lab.

I am so excited to share Dr. C Manzano’s work: she demonstrates the developmental timeline, function and genetic regulation of the polar lignin cap in the tomato root. It functions as a distinct intercellular barrier from the Casparian strip and is repressed in inner layers. rdcu.be/d10Pd