RNA from herbarium specimens is more stable than you think. Cool new study from now @atyszka.org on bluesky! Joseph Walker and team. KhongSam Chia and I were happy to contribute by functionally validating an NLR immune receptor last expressed in 1956.

Non-invasive imaging of salicylic and jasmonic acid activities in planta biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

After a lot of work, we are finally able to share this project about the cell cycle in Marchantia from the Haseloff lab. If you want to find out how cell division is controlled, you can’t miss out this one… #PlantScience #Synbio #EvoDevo biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Proud to share our must-read preprint, where we unveil a novel MAMP-immune receptor pair and pioneer the design of synthetic receptors to expand plant immune surveillance. Huge congratulations to Bruno Ngou, I couldn’t be prouder of this breakthrough. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

No joke! Pseudomonas viridiflava naturally infects wild Marchantia. Now published in Current Biology. Led by Kayla Robinson with Lucia Buric, Kris Grenz, KhongSam Chia from our group John Innes Centre, and Michelle Hulin & Dr. Wenbo Ma from The Sainsbury Laboratory -sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🎉 Excited to share that our work is now published in PLOS Genetics! The helper NLR NRC3 evolved to evade inhibition by the cyst nematode effector SS15 over 19 million years ago. Check out the peer-reviewed version of our paper👇 🔗doi.org/10.1371/journa… x.com/YuSugiharaY/st…

The final version of our study on SERK-BIR module in Marchantia is out. Congratulations Cate and many thanks to collaborators! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New Article: "Comparative transcriptomics in ferns reveals key innovations and divergent evolution of the secondary cell walls" rdcu.be/eiWNF Fern transcriptomes reveal repeated whole-genome duplications, unique gene families and distinct lignocellulosic evolution...

Replicated repurposing of an ancestral transcriptional complex in land plants biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

The cytochrome P450 enzyme MpCYP78E1 inhibits meristem initiation and activity in Marchantia polymorpha biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

The burning glass effect of water droplets triggers a high light-induced calcium response in the chloroplast stroma! New paper out in Current Biology, a great collaboration with Simon Stael and other great collaborators... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New! An ancient plant symbiotic fungus with distinct features identified through advanced fluorescence & Raman imaging C.Strullu-Derrien,R.Wightman,L.P.McDonnell,G.Evans,F.Fercoq,Paul Kenrick& A. Ferrari Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) Natural History Museum Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Cambridge Graphene Centre doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Diatoms are tiny but ecologically important eukaryotes. After over a million years of relative stasis, the lineage of diatoms exploded into diversity, with innovations in ecology, morphology, and life history still seen today. In PNAS: ow.ly/T3ja50W5xBq

Happy to be a part of this amazing research published in Science. This study illustrates how ROS-regulated IAA multimerization modulates auxin response. Congratulations to the entire team Ari's lab Kathryn Lilley PRAKASH KUMAR BHAGAT science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?

New Article: "A conserved Phytophthora apoplastic trypsin-like serine protease targets the receptor-like kinase BAK1 to dampen plant immunity" rdcu.be/eun3u Phytophthora secretes a protease that cleaves the extracellular domain of the co-receptor BAK1.

We demonstrated the functional importance of RNA structure in plant domestication😊 How cucumbers got longer – and why it’s a big deal for farming | John Innes Centre ⁦John Innes Centre⁩ jic.ac.uk/news/how-cucum…

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