The Plant Cell in a Nutshell: Co-transcriptional processing of microRNA precursors plantae.org/co-transcripti… Agata Stepien Jakub Dolata plantRNAgroup(at)AMU Mateusz Bajczyk @LabSmolinski ASPB #PlantSci

My first tweet ever. I am super happy to see our most recent paper about AGO4 slicing and retention of RNAs in RNA-directed DNA methylation now published in Genes & Development. I really appreciate all the co-authors and all members of the Pikaard Lab!

#MimulusPropaganda The invincible Mei Liang strikes again. She found the speciation gene in monkeyflowers, YUP, is a taxon-specific non-coding gene producing phased siRNAs. YUP derived from a partial inverted duplication of a source gene that has nothing to do with flower color.

The Integrator complex regulates microRNA abundance through RISC loading | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Broken up but still living together: how ARGONAUTE's retention of cleaved fragments explains its... - goo.gl/scholar/LjR1rw #ScholarAlerts

Interested in plant small RNAs? Check out this Annual Reviews article I wrote with my mentor Blake Meyers! Feel free to DM me with your email address for a PDF. annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Resolving the final frontier of massive rDNA clusters in the Arabidopsis genome biorxiv.org/content/10.110… congrats to Craig Pikaard Ramya Enganti & colleagues for completing the heavy lift on this one 💪😎💪... now Col-0 is truly T2T.

9.5 Mbp of new sequence to fill the last gaps in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome: the rDNA loci on chromosomes 2 & 4! Kudos to Drs. Fultz, McKinlay and Enganti! Sequence and epigenetic landscapes of active and silenced nucleolus organizers in Arabidopsis biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Publishing a complete, telomere-to-telomere assembly of the vast and tangled maize genome, filling in every remaining gap. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Great work of authors Fultz, McKinlay and Enganti to fully sequence the Arabidopsis NORs (adding the final missing ~9.4 Mbp of the genome), and map the positions of active and silenced rRNA genes within them, is now published, open access ! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…