Branched oligosaccharides cause atypical starch granule initiation in Arabidopsis chloroplasts academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

Maturase K forms a plastidial splicing complex with a neofunctionalized branching enzyme biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🌱 New Research Alert! 🌱 Discover how the Arabidopsis OCTOPUS (OPS) gene family influences plant growth beyond phloem development! 📖 🐙🌱 #PlantBiology #Arabidopsis #Phloem doi.org/10.1093/jxb/er…

In this new preprint, we show that fatty acid biosynthesis in oil-accumulating plant tissues is not isolated but is associated with a simultaneous breakdown of fatty acids. #Lipid_turnover #Beta_oxidation #plant_science

Our joint study led by Basavraj khanppnavar and Oneda Leka, on the interactions between botulinum neurotoxin BoNT/A1 and its receptor SV2B, is now out in Nature Communications. This was a great collaboration with the group of Richard Kammerer (PSI Paul Scherrer Institut)! rdcu.be/d9rOL

Joins us Karnik Lab Plant Science Glasgow School of Molecular Biosciences UofG MVLS for an exciting new post doctoral research opportunity to study CO2-control of membrane vesicle trafficking in #plants. *Applications close 12th March 2025*. With MVLS Shared Research Facilities #plantsci #job

Highly recommended if you are passionate in working with non-coding RNAs in plants...You could not find a better mentor.

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 Come join our team (thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on bacterial secretion systems. The position is funded by the Wellcome Trust. For more details and to apply please see imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…

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…

Woohoo! We made the cover! Huge thanks to our very own Yizhong Yuan for the amazing artwork! FERONIA signaling maintains cell wall integrity during brassinosteroid-induced cell expansion in Arabidopsis: Molecular Plant cell.com/molecular-plan…

Delighted to share this. A novel H4 variant that modulates chromatin to mediate salt stress response. This mammoth work was driven to perfection by Vivek Hari Sundar, a wonderful PhD student who also taught me. We report its CryoEM structure & unusual chemistry National Centre for Biological Sciences 1/3

Amazing toolkit…🫶🏻🤗Thank you Authors and Wohlever Lab..😊

Floral Stage Optimization and Immune Evasion Enhance Agrobacterium-Mediated Genome Editing in Arabidopsis biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

Have a look at our recent Tansley Insights article.

Pleased to share my very general review of Photosynthesis now published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 🌞🌱 rdcu.be/em1lz Hopefully a useful primer for Postgrad and undergrad students

🚨#LLPS: New trick for an old membrane protein! Homo- and hetero-condensates of a native membrane protein in E. coli tagged with PopTag 🔬🦠 LacY-PopTag is functional and localizes at cell poles or mobile foci in a curvature-dependent manner 🔗doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…

New paper alert! Our latest work shows how oxygen sensing in plants evolved to make life on land possible. Please, have a look-cell.com/molecular-plan…

point mutation in PsbW disrupts thylakoid membrane organization and causes aberrant starch granule formation academic.oup.com/plphys/article…