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New preprint on stomatal development in plant embryos 🌱 first work from my postdoc! We find gradual, slow, synchronized stomatal (pre-)patterning during embryogenesis ⏳ and a strong developmental block that prevents embryonic differentiation. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Genetic variation underlying differential ammonium and nitrate responses in Arabidopsis (Ella Katz Ella Katz Anna Knapp, Mariele Lensink, Caroline Kaley Keller, et al. @ucdavisplants) ASPB #PlantSci academic.oup.com/plcell/advance…

The Blackman lab Berkeley Plant & Microbial Biology is looking for a research technician! If you are a recent graduate interested in cool evolutionary plant biology, submit an application! Apply here: jobs.berkeley.edu Job posting SRA #43468

Protocol from the Voytas lab for transforming Benthi fast (Fast-TrACC). A perfect example of the synthesis of years of developmental research leading to biotech applications. Protocol: nature.com/articles/s4159… Original paper: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Happy to share our #preprint on suberin and drought tolerance in tomato! A thrilling project where we have shown how the exodermis in tomato gets suberized and acts as a root barrier with great importance in the plant drought response Brady Lab 🧵👇 1/9 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am very excited to share our last preprint about the developmental framework and genetic regulation of exodermis lignification in tomato! We prove the exodermis does not form a Casparian strip but a polar lignin cap with barrier functions Brady Lab biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵👇

The Rapid-Tome, a 3D-Printed Microtome, and an Updated Hand-Sectioning Method for High-Quality Plant Sectioning biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please retweet: Open postdoc position in our lab to characterize the role of plasmodesmata in plant development, focusing on cell to cell trafficking of the KN1/ STM class of homeodomain proteins and mRNAs. Experience in plant genetics and/or cell biology/ microscopy is desired.

#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.

Our new study is out in Plant Physiology today! This work was made possible by brilliant collaborators Dhruv Patel-Tupper Kyungyong Seong Sam Brian Staskawicz and many other twitterless heroes Institute for Geographic Information Science and Berkeley Plant & Microbial Biology academic.oup.com/plphys/advance…

Exciting news: I'll start as Junior Group Leader at ZMBP in October. We'll study plant cell identity and development. Particularly how plants control the timing of fate transitions. Job ad for a PhD position to follow soon! Check out this new print/draft lab logo 🌱

Happy to announce that our paper on single cell omics (RNA + metabolites) for medicinal plant Catharanthus is officially online. This is a fruitful collaboration between O'Connor Lab & Buell lab. This is my first paper for my postdoc work. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Really thankful to start the year in such a great way: Our paper is out today! 🥳 Congrats to all the authors for their hard work, and thanks to the editors & reviewers for their insight on how to improve it! 🧵1/3 nature.com/articles/s4147…

I am really proud to share our study on microbes, Striga and sorghum is now online in Cell Reports! doi.org/10.1016/j.celr… and the press release is here: biology.ucdavis.edu/news/soil-micr… This was an epic effort led by the incredible Dorota Kawa and many more + Harro Bouwmeester

It was a real adventure working on this over the last few years, I'm really happy for it to be out. There's so much we can do now from measuring/engineering CO2/O2 specificity, catalytic rate or even plant rubiscos!

Make the most of #PlantBio2024 by signing up for the new Bud'dy program and spending time with a new-to-you fellow attendee who shares your interests! Grow new connections, with your bud’dy and others 🌱(Deadline extended to Friday) plantbiology.aspb.org/buddy-program/

1,5 month left to apply. Reviewing & interviews to start August 🌱⏱️ Please share!

So very proud to be part of Brady Lab ♥️ We are all incredibly luck to have Siobhan as a mentor, and friend. Congratulations also to all other new HHMI investigators, specially the plant biologists José Dinneny and Mary Gehring! Fantastic day for the field! 🙌