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𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰📚 To infinity and beyond: recent progress, bottlenecks, and potential of clonal seeds by apomixis 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70… by Heidemann, Primetis, Zahn & Charlie Underwood Radboud University MPIPZ Cologne Advances+challenges+potential in apomixis

Starships 🚀- a natural system of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes. Very interesting. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 📚 Engineering Agrobacterium for improved plant transformation🦠🌱 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70… 📝Goralogia, Willig & Strauss 🗺️ Oregon State University This review covers Agrobacterium genomics, gene delivery tools, and T-DNA genes for improved plant transformation

🚀 Our collaborative work with Mónica Pradillo , "Genetic dissection of MutL complexes in Arabidopsis meiosis," is now published in NAR! 🌱 doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk… 🔬 We show that MutLγ is crucial for ZMM-dependent crossovers, with MUS81 unable to fully compensate for its loss.

Paper "Triploid bridges enable gene flow in mixed-ploidy populations of Cardamine amara" published in Molecular Ecology! doi.org/10.1111/mec.17… The study reveals how rare triploids help overcome ploidy barriers and mediate gene flow between diploid and tetraploid populations.

Thrilled to share our new paper Cell, where we show 4mC occurs in 50% of CpGs in Marchantia sperm, and regulates sperm transcription and fertility. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm thrilled to share that our study is now published in Cell: Extensive N4 cytosine methylation is essential for Marchantia sperm function. cell.com/cell/fulltext/… This paper confirms our 4mC discovery in Marchantia sperm and takes it much further. A thread: 0/13

▶️Maternal haploid induction in maize via mutation of Gamete Expression protein 1 (ZmGEX1) 🌱 Plant Biotechnology Journal 📖 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pb…

📢 Excited to share our work out now in nature! 📢 We present the phased pan-genome of the European tetraploid potato, based on 10 historical cultivars representing 85% of European potato diversity. Learn more below! 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/7

Interested in hearing more about the story behind our latest paper? Check out our blog post and the latest Nature Podcast episode! 📝 go.nature.com/3G73vT7 🎙️ nature.com/articles/d4158…

Grateful to share that our study on "The genetic architecture of cell type–specific cis regulation in maize" is now published in Science Magazine! Huge thank you to all co-authors and the 4 tough, but fair, reviewers who helped to improve the study 🌽🧬 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I'm psyched to see our latest collaborative paper come out in The Plant Cell in which we show that Aurora 1 kinase is an APC/C substrate that mediates spindle assembly and chromosome segregation in #Meiosis: academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

We have discovered plant cell penetrating peptides! Tag your protein of interest with these small peptides for direct protein delivery to plants! tiny.cc/8g5i001 Plantae | #NIFAImpacts

Plant Breeding Finding! 🌱 Adjusting CENH3 function with RPS5a - MIGS in Arabidopsis boosts haploid induction. At 30 °C, rates rise; homozygous stacking hits 66.7%. Balances induction & plant health. transform crop breeding? 🔗: DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2025.101349 #HaploidInduction

"Native nucleosomes know where to go!” Our Condense-seq paper is now published in Nature! 📄 nature.com/articles/s4158… I’m deeply grateful to my PhD advisor Taekjip Ha and our incredible collaborators The Muir Lab , Bin Zhang , Erika Pearce, and Ben Garcia lab!!

Check out the beautiful cover to our focus issue on Translational research from Arabidopsis to crop plants and beyond. More articles coming shortly. Congrats Patrice Salome and John Lovell academic.oup.com/plcell/issue/3…

A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution Department of Plant Sciences jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51488/

Excited to share that our COmapper preprint on bioRxiv has been updated following two rounds of major revision—thanks to insightful peer reviews! COmapper is now even better—check it out on GitHub: github.com/KyuhaChoi-Lab/… biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Journal version coming soon!

New apomixis development! The hawkweed PARTHENOGENESIS gene can trigger embryogenesis and clonal reproduction in hybrid rice plants! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…