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Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social · 8d

Our new review just got published in JXB - together with
@likeyoda1.bsky.social
we discuss recent findings on mechanisms that cells use to 'decide' between dividing and differentiating in plants 🪴 tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b

Diagrams depicting the mitotic cell cycle and potential exits from it (left) and morphologies of different tissues of Arabidopsis thaliana: cotyledon, shoot apical meristem, leaf, sepal, inflorescence meristem, anther (right)

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haopengyu.bsky.social @haopengyu.bsky.social · 12d

I believe that with this powerful AI model, we can uncover more fascinating rules hidden within plant nucleotides. Thank the support from the @hfspo.bsky.social and @johninnescentre.bsky.social, thank for the support from Prof. @yiliangding.bsky.social. Prof Li, Prof. Zhang and other co-authors.

Human Frontier Science Program @hfspo.bsky.social · 12d

🧪 Can AI learn the language of plant life?
HFSP Fellow Haopeng Yu developed PlantRNA-FM, a foundation model trained on RNA data from 1124 plant species. It decodes how RNA shapes gene regulation, boosting plant science and crop design. 🌱🤖
#HFSPfellowships #AI #PlantBiology #sts
🔗 zurl.co/8Ksoy

Decoding the language of plant life with AI Model

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 12d

🌾⏳ RESEARCH 🌾⏳

Evaluation of male-sterile wheat grown under field conditions indicates that stigma longevity is not a limiting factor in hybrid seed production – Millan-Blanquez et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪

Fig. 4.Bidirectional gradient of carpel development along the spike and distribution of hybrid seed set. (A) Representative images of carpels of MS cultivar Cadenza at Waddington 9.5 (W9.5) and at 6 d after W9.5 (DAW9.5). (B) Dynamics of stigma development along the spike for MS spring cultivars Cadenza and Carb76 under glasshouse conditions (n=3). Polynomial regression models are shown for stigma area of florets 1 and 2. Red full line, Cadenza 6DAW9.5; red dotted line, Cadenza W9.5; yellow full line, Carb76 6DAW9.5; yellow dotted line, Carb76 W9.5. (C) Average association between hybrid seed set (seed number per spikelet) and the time of pollination per each section of the spike (i.e. apical, central, and basal) in 2021 and 2022. Polynomial regression models are shown. (D) Forest plot illustrates the progression of hybrid seed set (slope) for each section and MS cultivar. Horizontal lines represent the 95% confidence intervals.

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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · 19d

Yesterday, we celebrated the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium, where our PhD students (and some from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social) presented their work as chalk talks, posters and longer talks. Thanks everyone for the scientific discussions on #plantscience!

Farid El Kasmi, the coordinator of the ZMBP PhD program, opening the 9th ZMBP PhD Symposium

Theresa, from Jessica Erickson's lab, drawing how (a smiling) Xanthomonas employs type 2 and 3 secretion systems to infect tomato during her chalk talk at the 9th ZMBP PhD Symposium. The chalk talk was projected onto a large screen

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Cristina Ferrándiz @cristicris.bsky.social · 27d

It was already known that auxins (surprise!) had a key role controlling the end of flowering, plant menopause. Now we can tell you how and where they act in the inflorescence meristem to control the process.
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4

Local regulation of auxin-related pathways in the shoot apical meristem plays a major role during proliferative arrest

González-Cuadra et al. show that repression of auxin-related pathways locally in the SAM is key in the control of proliferative arrest. FRUITFULL regulates these pathways to promote meristem arrest. B...

www.cell.com

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wabniklab.bsky.social @wabniklab.bsky.social · 20d

Did you know that there is a cell cycle duration gradient in plant root meristem? New story by joining forces between Plant dynamics lab and Crisanto Gutiérrez & Bénédicte Desvoyes lab @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social #Plants #roots #cellcycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stem cell regulators drive a G1 duration gradient during plant root development - Nature Plants

A positional and developmentally regulated cell cycle duration gradient exists in the root meristem whereby the G1 phase is very long close to the stem cell niche. This relies on the interplay of PLET...

www.nature.com

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Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social · 23d

Not the most cursed plant I have seen today BTW #arabidopsis #plantscience

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Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social · 23d

Maybe? I hadn’t seen it before! The stem is enlarged where they bifurcate. It does seem like both sister apexes have happily carried on

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Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social · 24d

Now what is that inflorescence meristem doing in my inflorescence meristem? 🧐 #arabidopsis #flowers #plantscience

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 27d

Writing a recommendation letter for yourself

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Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social · 28d

A @tweeticum.bsky.social original led by the great @agauley.bsky.social 🍀

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Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social · 28d

Pleased to see this out and happy to have contributed to this story during my first post-PhD adventure 🌾🌡️ Here we looked into one of wheat’s florigens (FT3) and characterised its role in temperature-regulation of floral development

Molecular Plant & Plant Communications @mplantpcom.bsky.social · Sep 9

Fine tuning wheat development for the winter to spring transition #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 29d

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · Sep 8

🧪🌾NEWS - Aspen controls bud formation using light and temperature

Ove Nilsson's group has now discovered how aspen trees decide between growth and winter dormancy during summer cold snaps and autumn.🌿

Curious how aspen does this? Read more here:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

Three man and one women wearing blue labcoats are standing in front of aspen trees in a greenhouse. They are all smiling into the camera.

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Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congrats 👏

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Cristina Ferrándiz @cristicris.bsky.social · Sep 4

While studying how plants cease flowering we wondered if determinate inflorescences might behave different. Moreover: are fleshy fruits strong sinks that starve the meristem? Arabidopsis did not have the answers, so we turned to 🍅🍅🍅,
Curious?👇👇👇
academic.oup.com/plphys/article/199/1/kiaf195/8127772

The quantitative effect of seed production triggers the end of flowering in tomato

Auxin and abscisic acid from tomato seeds act as signals that instruct flower meristems to arrest in a coordinated and quantitative manner.

academic.oup.com

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in silico Plants @insilicoplants.bsky.social · Sep 4

REVIEW: Why GWAS models fails in identifying rare variants in crops and the potential of emerging technologies like #MachineLearning
by Talissa Floriani & Alexander Lipka
doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

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Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social · Aug 29

So refreshing to hear voices of early career researchers speak up about this

Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · Aug 28

How an academic betrayal led me to change my authorship practices | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

How an academic betrayal led me to change my authorship practices

“Every cleaned data set, debugged script, and refined figure deserves acknowledgment,” this researcher writes

www.science.org

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Aug 27

Discovery happens less when you're trying to be the expert and more when you're trying to be the learner.

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Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social · Aug 26

Congrats Anna! 🙌

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Aug 20

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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EPS Graduate School @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social · Aug 11

Register !! Deadline: 14th of August 2025
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu

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Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social · Aug 4

Very cool! On Drosophila emerging organs switching from cell division to growth during developmental transitions 🪰

José Teles Reis @josetelesreis.bsky.social · Aug 3

A switch to non-proliferative growth sustains Drosophila wing development during the early pupal stage: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

A switch to non-proliferative growth sustains Drosophila wing development during the early pupal stage

Using precise tissue volume quantification, El Marzkioui, Gaugué, et al. show that wing primordia continue to grow during the early pupal stage, a phase of increased cell volume driven by insulin/IGF ...

www.cell.com

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · Jul 22

Many transcription factor families have evolutionarily conserved binding motifs in plants (Sanja Zenker , Donat Wulf , Anja Meierhenrich , Prisca Viehöver , Sarah Becker , Marion Eisenhut , Ralf Stracke , Bernd Weisshaar , Andrea Bräutigam) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · Jul 21

"We found that TF orthologues from distant species retain
nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread."

From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Recruitment, rewiring and deep conservation in flowering plant gene regulation - Nature Plants

A highly scalable approach is used to generate 3,000 genome-wide maps of transcription factor binding in ten flowering plants, along with multi-species single-nucleus RNA-seq atlases. Together, the re...

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