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Why do insect galls have such varied shapes even among closely related species?? The Enemy Hypothesis, posits that pressure from parasitoids drives the dynamic evolution of external gall traits. We have a new paper in Royal Society Publishing on this hypothesis see more in this🧵! #galls

Super excited to release this new preprint: Jeff and Hakhamanesh drill into key questions about GWAS and rare variant studies: What SNPs and genes do these discover and why? We introduce a concept called SPECIFICITY, which we show is a fundamental determinant of GWAS/RV studies

ZmHsf28 coordinates ABA and JA signaling to regulate drought response Liu et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/SEDUN5V7…

How do plants protect themselves from infection? 🌲 🌽 🌱 A new plant cell atlas created by Salk Professor Joe Ecker and team revealed a rare cell state called PRIMER, which acts as a plant defense strategy hub. With the publicly available atlas, scientists are now closer to

Nature research paper: Elemental cryo-imaging reveals SOS1-dependent vacuolar sodium accumulation go.nature.com/4alf7wJ

☀️ I’ve been working on this for a few years & very happy to share that my main postdoc work ‘Systematic Discovery and Design of Synthetic Immune Receptors in Plants’ is finally out on Biorxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… The full story is summarized here:

Amazing talk by Dr. Wenbo Ma! Vienna is so thrilled to have you! 🤩

🧐In this impressive and comprehensive review, Xiao et al. lay the foundation for advancing our understanding and utilization of small #peptides to improve #plant #growth, resilience and #productivity. Read it for free, right here! 🔓⤵️ doi.org/10.1111/jipb.1… Wiley Plant Science

Xiaoqi Feng Thank you Xiaoqi for coming all the way! So nice to meet with friends and The Sainsbury Laboratory alumni Yan Ma and Yasin Dagdas!

8 Elements of workplace culture

Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be.– F Jacob nature.com/articles/s4158…

🤩 Congratulations JC De la Concepción 🥂 This is so richly deserved! We are incredibly proud of you!

Gall of the week, coming to an oak tree near you soon, oak apples, caused by the cynipid wasp Biorhiza pallida. And a reminder that Oak Apple Day is May 29th. Photograph by Mike Poulton.

ROS regulation of stigma papillae growth and maturation in Arabidopsis thaliana biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

It's finally out! On the activation of RRS1-R/RPS4 paired NLRs!! Thanks to Jonathan D G Jones for this opportunity to work on this project, and thanks to all the coauthors for their effort and support! Thread to follow The Sainsbury Laboratory Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences

“a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 291 wheat varieties and integrated transcriptomic data to identify TaLAC129, a laccase (LAC)-encoding gene, as a critical negative regulator of AM colonization”

Check out our new paper in Nature Biotechnology sharing our latest kinase activity reporters! Led by former postdoc Michelle Frei, these reporters are based on HaloTag rather than an FP, for far-red imaging and superresolution! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Genomic and genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

11 things you should NOT say in high-pressure moments, And what strong leaders say instead:

Single-cell transcriptomics reveal how root tissues adapt to soil stress | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…