Widiez Thomas 🌽

Delighted to have this community effort online @NaturePlants 👉We unified the nomenclature of a unique membrane that enclosed the 🌱 sperm cells as the: PERI-GERM CELL MEMBRANE read more: 📖nature.com/articles/s4147… 📖rdcu.be/dW1Ie

Our new paper is out! 1/16 How does an organ rebuild its shape after injury? It's not just about making new cells, but aligning them in the right direction — like bricks shaping a structure. cell.com/current-biolog…

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Unusual cell death pathway in maize endosperm (Plant Cell) @ThomasWidiez (Summary by Mary Williams) plantae.org/unusual-cell-d… #PlantaePSRW

NEW ONLINE: A loss-of-function of ZmWRKY125 induced by CRISPR/Cas9 improves resistance against Fusarium verticillioides in maize kernels link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 We used single-cell RNA-seq + GRN analysis to uncover novel morphogenic genes that boost #maize transformation frequency 🌽 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thanks to @plaza_genomics and all other co-authors! #PlantScience #scRNAseq

🌽 A dream maize seed phenotype—finally real❗ Two KIL TFs trigger lytic cell death in endosperm (EAS) ➡️ boosting embryo growth! @ThePlantCell Huge credit to @MoritzNowack & @NicolasMDoll for leading this work 🙌 Fantastic collaboration 🤝 📖doi.org/10.1093/plcell…

🌱 Research from A. Lanubile's Lab: ▶️ editing the ZmWKRY125 transcription factor enhances maize resistance against Fusarium verticillioides🌽 Glad that our team from contributed to this work! 🤝 @PlantCellRep 🔓open access: hal.science/hal-05119616 📖 doi.org/10.1007/s00299…

1/7 I am very excited to announce our🌹NEW PAPER OUT IN NATURE!🌹 Bimodal centromeres in pentaploid dogroses shed light on their unique meiosis With the Ritz and Kovařík labs we shed light on Rosa canina’s bizarre reproduction! nature.com/articles/s4158… #Meiosis4eva #Centromere

New data from the Bob Schmitz lab (Marand 2025) on cell type-specific cis-regulation in maize! This study, in @ScienceMagazine, reveals how DNA changes impact expression and maize traits. Explore the 176 tracks on our browser (Epigenetics and DNA Binding) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

📣The Plant Cell is recruiting Assistant Features Editors. The application period opens now and runs through September 15, 2025!🌱 👉Application information can be found at this link: blog.aspb.org/the-plant-cell… #plantscience

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

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

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…

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

🚨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 @CSHL, in collab. with @mike_schatz and many others! nature.com/articles/s4158…

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

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

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

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

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

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…