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Lab News - Plant Development
Online now: Transport properties of canonical PIN-FORMED proteins from Arabidopsis and the role of the loop domain in auxin transport dlvr.it/TFNRlJ
I'm deeply honoured to be selected as the Best Young European Scientist by the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB) at #PBE2025!🌱 Huge thanks to #JXB for supporting early-career researchers, and to my incredible PhD and postdoc supervisors and collaborators
Latest from our lab: We discovered a nontranscriptional incoherent feedforward loop in a receptor kinase signaling pathway, with the translational control of a signal amplifier at its core. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Now available as typeset corrected proof : academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-ar…
A brief report from our lab in @PCP_EIC (not yet typeset); “Extracellular pH, cell length and cell differentiation do not firmly correlate across Arabidopsis root tissues” based on the differentiation marker MINIYO and the pH sensor Apo-acidin4. academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-ar…
A brief report from our lab in @PCP_EIC (not yet typeset); “Extracellular pH, cell length and cell differentiation do not firmly correlate across Arabidopsis root tissues” based on the differentiation marker MINIYO and the pH sensor Apo-acidin4. academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-ar…
Amazing talk by Christian Hardtke @hardtke_lab on phloem development during his sabbatical at #UPSC! We are thrilled to have you with us! 🌱
OPS family genes are rather important for plant growth and development: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…
A fantastic example of how a developmental novelty emerged from the connection of preexisting genetic circuits is now published in @Dev_Cell. This work is primarily from Anna Solé’s PhD thesis and led by my colleagues @IBMCP Miguel Blázquez and Javi Agustí (@agusti_lab). 👇
Repairing deleterious mutations enriched during #domestication in a floral regulator gene applying #CRISPR in cultivated tomato. #genetics #plantscience nature.com/articles/s4158…
In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)
It is out! We identified the stem cell factors of the vascular cambium. This work is a result of fruitful collaboration with @khwjtuss and @peter_etchells labs. @ERC_Research @TreeBioCoE @SuomenAkatemia @BioEnvHelsinki @helsinkiuni @durham_uni @UniUtrecht science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Congratulations to our very own Hang! An intriguing story from his M.Sc. work out now in @Dev_Cell : cell.com/developmental-…
New Article: "Antagonistic CLE peptide pathways shape root meristem tissue patterning" rdcu.be/dYDmf The activity of antagonistic CLE peptide pathways intersects to produce and specify different tissue layers in the Arabidopsis root tip.
Paradoxes lingering around our lab ever since we started working on CLE peptide signaling finally resolved, genetically 🫛🫛🫛🥕: One type of CLE signaling must be dialed down so that another type can drive root phloem initiation and differentiation! ⚖️ nature.com/articles/s4147…
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Paradoxes lingering around our lab ever since we started working on CLE peptide signaling finally resolved, genetically 🫛🫛🫛🥕: One type of CLE signaling must be dialed down so that another type can drive root phloem initiation and differentiation! ⚖️ nature.com/articles/s4147…
Paradoxes lingering around our lab ever since we started working on CLE peptide signaling finally resolved, genetically 🫛🫛🫛🥕: One type of CLE signaling must be dialed down so that another type can drive root phloem initiation and differentiation! ⚖️ nature.com/articles/s4147…

Great to see BAR reach 20 years of making connections for plant science researchers. Congrats @BAR_PlantBio and the team. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…
Thank you very much for the generous hospitality @KeijiNakajima1 ! 🙏🏼 I certainly got inspired 💡 by the exceptional Plant Science at @NAIST_MAIN_EN and its beautiful campus 🌳
We appreciate Christian Hardtke @hardtke_lab for choosing @NAIST_MAIN as a destination of his sabbatical journey across east Asia! Hope he’s got new inspirations from the discussions with 8 plant biologists in one day.
Finally out: many years of excellent work by @Mich_aelFuchs doing imaging and quantification in collaboration with Mathematicians Thomas Stiehl and Anna Marciniak-Czochra on modeling. Exciting news on plant stem cell induction- thanks to all authors!
Cell-to-cell mobility of the stem cell inducing WUSCHEL transcription factor is controlled by a balance of transport and retention biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants