Yang Dong

This annotated world map, featuring clade diagrams and in situ morphological images, illustrates evolutionary history reconstructions of Cupressus L., based on 1991 single-copy nuclear genes and plastid genomes.

Family #tree level: Expert!

Wu et al. use #phylogenomics to shed light on the complex #evolutionary history of the #gymnosperm genus Cupressus, revealing East Asian–Tethyan disjunction.

Free to read version here:
doi.org/10.1111/jse....

#plant #systematics #JSE #cypress

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute:

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

🗓️ Closes 25 August

Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

🗓️ Closes 5 September

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Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk

We are honored to have this opportunity to summarize the latest advances in the genetics and developmental mechanisms underlying fruit diversification in Brassicaceae. Please check it out!

Beautiful！！！

With pleasure! Great to have you and your nice talk in IBCAS

It's a Capsella ett arf4 double mutant gynoecium

Immensely proud of Heather and @yang-brassicaceae.bsky.social for having led this work from conception to publication, connecting non-canonical ETT-mediated auxin signalling with canonical auxin signalling in #Arabidopsis and #Capsella @dev-journal.bsky.social

It is great to see our work published in Development as the cover! Click: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Thanks Heather McLaughlin and all the authors for the great work and @larsostergaard.bsky.social for the endless encouragment and support!
@dev-journal.bsky.social
@johninnescentre.bsky.social

I'm happy to announce a postdoctoral position is available in my lab. We have lots of great data to analyze with respect to transposons & epigenetics and cool biological questions to answer.
Please reskeet and share.

New Article: "Redox modification of m6A demethylase SlALKBH2 in tomato regulates fruit ripening" rdcu.be/d55UR

With Research Briefing rdcu.be/d55U8

This redox modification affects SlALKBH2 protein stability, thereby modulating its function in fruit ripening. #PlantScience

40 years of the homeobox A large family of developmental genes share a 180 bp DNA sequence, called the homeobox, which encodes a DNA-binding domain. This year, 2024, marks the 40th year since the discovery of the homeobox in 1984, a landmark that fundamentally impacted several fields including genetics, developmental biology, neuroscience and evolution. To celebrate this anniversary, Development has commissioned a series of articles from leaders in the field demonstrating the impact of the homeobox discovery on different disciplines. These review-type articles will be published throughout 2024, starting with an introductory Editorial and collated here. We hope you find these articles interesting and we welcome your future submissions detailing how this remarkable family functions in development, stem cells and regeneration.

To mark the 40th year since the homeobox discovery, we've commissioned a series of articles from leaders in the field demonstrating the impact of the discovery on different disciplines. Check out the full collection: https://journals.biologists.com/dev/collection/10249/40-years-of-the-homeobox

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image.

All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

Do you want to know how to live-image internal floral organs with confocal microscope for up to 2 weeks?
Check out our protocol:
bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...
#Arabidopsis #Flower

A captivating image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy resembles a wagon wheel, with a bright central hub and multiple rings of stars and dust. The inner ring is a region of intense star formation, while the outer ring is expanding outward, pushing into the surrounding gas and triggering star formation in its path. The image also reveals distant galaxies in the background, showcasing the vastness of the universe.

NIRCam view of Cartwheel galaxy.
Processed by @thocarp.bsky.social
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Evolution of a SHOOTMERISTEMLESS transcription factor binding site promotes fruit shape determination Nature Plants - This study identifies a molecular mechanism promoting fruit shape variation. Local meristem identity is maintained through autoregulatory activation of the STM gene to allow...

Beautiful Brassicaceae fruit-shape diversity. And here we tell you (part of) how it’s done! rdcu.be/d3i8x
What a great collab it’s been! Thanks Yang Dong, @matmajda.bsky.social, Richard Smith and entire team. @natureplants.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social