Pablo González-Suárez

🌿 Ciara O'Brien 🌿

As a postdoctoral researcher at the John Innes Centre, Ciara's current research focuses on starch metabolism in potatoes 🥔

She's a strong advocate for early career development & has been involved in many early career initiatives in the past!

@johninnescentre.bsky.social

Review. How plant cells decide their fate: Balancing growth and specialization | Plantae Every plant begins its life as a single cell, which divides, differentiates, and gradually gives rise to the intricate tissues and organs we see. Initially, plant cells are highly versatile…

Plant Science Research Weekly -- How plant cells decide their fate: balancing growth and specialization (Journal of Experimental Botany) @likeyoda1.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan @ntnuchanlab) buff.ly/RjCQNKq

#PlantaePSRW

Very happy to see our work out examining guard cell transcriptomes over the course of a slowly developing drought. Thanks to @bradylabs.bsky.social and @kaisakajala.bsky.social for the inspiration, way back in Davis in 2013! The data are available in bar.utoronto.ca/eplant & doi.org/10.1093/plce...

From October 14–15, 2025, a workshop on „Academic Career Perspectives in Germany: Junior research Groups” took place in Regensburg. 📓🔬 Coach Dr. Birte Seffert from GSO* Berlin provided tips and resources on funding opportunities, host institutions, application preparation, and networking.

Our new review just got published in JXB - together with
@likeyoda1.bsky.social
we discuss recent findings on mechanisms that cells use to 'decide' between dividing and differentiating in plants 🪴 tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b

I believe that with this powerful AI model, we can uncover more fascinating rules hidden within plant nucleotides. Thank the support from the @hfspo.bsky.social and @johninnescentre.bsky.social, thank for the support from Prof. @yiliangding.bsky.social. Prof Li, Prof. Zhang and other co-authors.

Fig. 4.Bidirectional gradient of carpel development along the spike and distribution of hybrid seed set. (A) Representative images of carpels of MS cultivar Cadenza at Waddington 9.5 (W9.5) and at 6 d after W9.5 (DAW9.5). (B) Dynamics of stigma development along the spike for MS spring cultivars Cadenza and Carb76 under glasshouse conditions (n=3). Polynomial regression models are shown for stigma area of florets 1 and 2. Red full line, Cadenza 6DAW9.5; red dotted line, Cadenza W9.5; yellow full line, Carb76 6DAW9.5; yellow dotted line, Carb76 W9.5. (C) Average association between hybrid seed set (seed number per spikelet) and the time of pollination per each section of the spike (i.e. apical, central, and basal) in 2021 and 2022. Polynomial regression models are shown. (D) Forest plot illustrates the progression of hybrid seed set (slope) for each section and MS cultivar. Horizontal lines represent the 95% confidence intervals.

🌾⏳ RESEARCH 🌾⏳

Evaluation of male-sterile wheat grown under field conditions indicates that stigma longevity is not a limiting factor in hybrid seed production – Millan-Blanquez et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

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Farid El Kasmi, the coordinator of the ZMBP PhD program, opening the 9th ZMBP PhD Symposium

Theresa, from Jessica Erickson's lab, drawing how (a smiling) Xanthomonas employs type 2 and 3 secretion systems to infect tomato during her chalk talk at the 9th ZMBP PhD Symposium. The chalk talk was projected onto a large screen

Yesterday, we celebrated the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium, where our PhD students (and some from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social) presented their work as chalk talks, posters and longer talks. Thanks everyone for the scientific discussions on #plantscience!

Local regulation of auxin-related pathways in the shoot apical meristem plays a major role during proliferative arrest González-Cuadra et al. show that repression of auxin-related pathways locally in the SAM is key in the control of proliferative arrest. FRUITFULL regulates these pathways to promote meristem arrest. B...

It was already known that auxins (surprise!) had a key role controlling the end of flowering, plant menopause. Now we can tell you how and where they act in the inflorescence meristem to control the process.
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4

Stem cell regulators drive a G1 duration gradient during plant root development - Nature Plants A positional and developmentally regulated cell cycle duration gradient exists in the root meristem whereby the G1 phase is very long close to the stem cell niche. This relies on the interplay of PLET...

Did you know that there is a cell cycle duration gradient in plant root meristem? New story by joining forces between Plant dynamics lab and Crisanto Gutiérrez & Bénédicte Desvoyes lab @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social #Plants #roots #cellcycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not the most cursed plant I have seen today BTW #arabidopsis #plantscience

Maybe? I hadn’t seen it before! The stem is enlarged where they bifurcate. It does seem like both sister apexes have happily carried on

Now what is that inflorescence meristem doing in my inflorescence meristem? 🧐 #arabidopsis #flowers #plantscience

Writing a recommendation letter for yourself

A @tweeticum.bsky.social original led by the great @agauley.bsky.social 🍀

Pleased to see this out and happy to have contributed to this story during my first post-PhD adventure 🌾🌡️ Here we looked into one of wheat’s florigens (FT3) and characterised its role in temperature-regulation of floral development

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

Three man and one women wearing blue labcoats are standing in front of aspen trees in a greenhouse. They are all smiling into the camera.

🧪🌾NEWS - Aspen controls bud formation using light and temperature

Ove Nilsson's group has now discovered how aspen trees decide between growth and winter dormancy during summer cold snaps and autumn.🌿

Curious how aspen does this? Read more here:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

Congrats 👏

The quantitative effect of seed production triggers the end of flowering in tomato Auxin and abscisic acid from tomato seeds act as signals that instruct flower meristems to arrest in a coordinated and quantitative manner.

While studying how plants cease flowering we wondered if determinate inflorescences might behave different. Moreover: are fleshy fruits strong sinks that starve the meristem? Arabidopsis did not have the answers, so we turned to 🍅🍅🍅,
Curious?👇👇👇
academic.oup.com/plphys/article/199/1/kiaf195/8127772

REVIEW: Why GWAS models fails in identifying rare variants in crops and the potential of emerging technologies like #MachineLearning
by Talissa Floriani & Alexander Lipka
doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

So refreshing to hear voices of early career researchers speak up about this

Discovery happens less when you're trying to be the expert and more when you're trying to be the learner.

Congrats Anna! 🙌

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Register !! Deadline: 14th of August 2025
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Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu

Very cool! On Drosophila emerging organs switching from cell division to growth during developmental transitions 🪰

Many transcription factor families have evolutionarily conserved binding motifs in plants (Sanja Zenker , Donat Wulf , Anja Meierhenrich , Prisca Viehöver , Sarah Becker , Marion Eisenhut , Ralf Stracke , Bernd Weisshaar , Andrea Bräutigam) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Recruitment, rewiring and deep conservation in flowering plant gene regulation - Nature Plants A highly scalable approach is used to generate 3,000 genome-wide maps of transcription factor binding in ten flowering plants, along with multi-species single-nucleus RNA-seq atlases. Together, the re...

"We found that TF orthologues from distant species retain
nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread."

From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just a few days left to apply for a PhD in our lab. Margot’s a brilliant mentor and the community in the group and in ZMBP is 10/10 ✨🪴