Joram Dongus
drdongus.bsky.social
Joram Dongus
@drdongus.bsky.social
Post-doc at Wageningen University

Working on salt-dependent responses in Arabidopsis and Rice
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In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹

Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)
December 12, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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Ingezonden brief: ‘Het bestuur moet fouten erkennen’

‘WUR bracht met de opruiming van de brug geweld terwijl vrede werd geëist’, schrijft onderzoeker Fernando in een ingezonen brief.

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Ingezonden brief: 'Het bestuur moet fouten erkennen' - Resource online
Het bestuur bracht met de opruiming van de brug geweld terwijl vrede werd geëist, schrijft onderzoeker Fernando in een ingezonen brief.
www.resource-online.nl
November 30, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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I never had a use for this image in any research paper, so eventually I used it in my short history of plant light microscopy, as it is one of very few examples of @henriqueslab.bsky.social & @superresolusian.bsky.social's #SRRF-microscopy applied in plant cells.
#PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy
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A Short History of Plant Light Microscopy
When the microscope was first introduced to scientists in the 17th century, it started a revolution. Suddenly, a whole new world, invisible to the naked eye, was opened to curious explorers. In respo...
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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New Preprint!
Excited to share our method for profiling light elements in plant tissues using XRF. Fast, cost-effective, and no extraction needed—perfect for stress-related studies in plants.

Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#PlantScience #XRF #Innovation
Quantitative light element (sodium and potassium) profiling in plant tissues using monochromatic X-ray fluorescence analysis
Accurately determining the elemental composition of plant tissues is essential for physiological studies on plant stress, including salinity tolerance. However, high-throughput routine analysis of lig...
www.biorxiv.org
November 22, 2024 at 10:47 AM