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New Correspondence: "The peri-germ cell membrane: poorly characterized but key interface for plant reproduction" rdcu.be/dYDiz

Our latest work as a cover story in Science Magazine ! 🌱 How do plants halt cytokinesis to build plasmodesmata ? Main suspect: the ER . 👀 Stellar work by Patrick ZQ. LI 李自强, with Hortense Moreau, Jules Petit, Fèlix Campelo, @Caillaud_MC, and BIC science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New Letter: "Synergistic induction of fertilization-independent embryogenesis in rice egg cells by paternal-genome-expressed transcription factors" rdcu.be/dZ2PW Embryos can be induced by expression in the egg of BBM1 & WOX9A, 2 rice TFs expressed from the male genome.

➡️ Engineering high-frequency apomixis with normal seed production in hybrid rice 🌾🌾 📖cell.com/iscience/fullt…

The power of spatial and single-cell OMICs presented by Tatsuya Nobori Tatsuya Nobori in our 🌱Plant Science Institut (RDP) in Lyon.

Another day at RDP lab and another great seminar by Thomas Ott @OttLab_Freiburg , who gave an integrated view of rhizobial infections in legume 🫘 (and maybe in other crops in the future 🌾🌽?!...)

The JCB editorial team is honored by the enduring interest of our readers, the dedication & rigor of our reviewers, and of course the trust that our authors place in JCB as a premier outlet for their most important findings. Browse our annual collection 👉 hubs.la/Q02_5g-V0

Centrophilic retrotransposon integration via CENH3 chromatin in Arabidopsis nature from Tetsuji Kakutani & colleagues - beautiful insights into control of transposon insertion into the centromeres nature.com/articles/s4158…

A plant 🌱 story on the cover of Science Magazine ➡️ Ancient structural variants control sex-specific flowering time morphs in walnuts and hickories 📖science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New paper out! 🚨 We explored pollen grain development, pollen tube growth, and the role of arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) in these processes 🌿 congratulations Sara Mendes and the whole team for the great work! 🎉 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

A study reveals that major shifts in embryo size evolution of angiosperms coincided with their diversification Vandelook and Carta PLANTSEED Lab 📖

🌱 Egg cell-specific degradation of CENH3 using engineered E3-ligases successfully induce haploids ⚠️ Preprint from Andreas Houben's lab Leibniz IPK 👉🏼 Gametophytic degradation of CENH3 - a synthetic biology approach for haploid induction in plants 📖doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…

🌽 The use of haploid inducer line to edit, by simple crossing, other maize lines 🌽 Plant Biotechnology Journal 📖 doi.org/10.1111/pbi.14… 👉🏼Harnessing haploid-inducer mediated genome editing for accelerated maize variety development

Our new collaborative paper with Emmanuelle Bayer and her dream team is out: Regulation of plasmodesmata flow by the membrane lipid PI4P and ER/PM tether MCTP cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Our new review article “To infinity and beyond: recent progress, bottlenecks, and potential of clonal seeds by apomixis” is now published open access in The Plant Journal dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... Radboud University

🚨New paper, now published in nature! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in collab. with Michael Schatz and many others! nature.com/articles/s4158…

New Online! CRISPR–Cas applications in agriculture and plant research bit.ly/43t6kax

Having babies without DNA from Daddy?! 😵 🌻Yep, possible in sunflowers 🌻 Tim Kelliher's team describes a sunflower parthenogenic doubled haploid (DH) process nature ▶️Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction 📖 nature.com/articles/s4158…

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

▶️ A two-step self-pollination mechanism maximizes fertility in Brassicaceae Cell 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…