Laura Moody

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Fantastic 👍

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
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Coordination of cortex modifications in time, space, and under stress In roots, cell-type-specific differentiation enables specialized responses to environmental stress. The cortex, located between the vasculature and epidermis, is a key site for stress-responsive modi....

Delighted to present our Tansley Insight on what we know about the potential of different root cortex layers to do develop into different things!

👩‍🔬 @dorotakawa.bsky.social @hannahschneider.bsky.social

📗 @newphyt.bsky.social

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Exciting opportunities to join @justingoodrich.bsky.social group in Edinburgh as either a Postdoc or Research Assistant. See the link for further details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Registration for #nonseedUK25 is officially open: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge.... If you wish to be considered for a talk, please submit your abstract by 30th October. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social for acting as local organizer this year 😃

Fantastic. Congratulations Dr Liu 😊

4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 | John Innes Centre General Information Established thanks to the support of the Genetics Society, the Non-Seed Plant Sectional Interest Group brings together UK researchers studying all aspects of plant biology using…

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Fab looking tomatoes 🍅 😃

Cool 😎

Abscisic acid signaling regulates primary plasmodesmata density for plant cell-to-cell communication Abscisic acid reduces primary plasmodesmata density in moss through conserved ABA signaling factors of land plants.

Abscisic acid signaling regulates primary plasmodesmata density for plant cell-to-cell communication | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Infinite supplies in there 👍

I’m so excited for you Tina - massive congratulations 🥳

Congratulations Isabel 😊

Super exciting - congratulations 🙌🏻

Thanks Hugues 👍

Thanks Vinay 😃

Fantastic news Vinay - enormous congratulations 🥳

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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

Fig. 2. The snog1a mutant is cytokinin responsive. (A) Representative images of wild-type (WT), nog1dis and snog1a plants cultured in the presence or absence of the cytokinin analogue 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP).

FLOE in the 2D-to-3D growth transition

This Research Highlight showcases the work from Zoe Weeks @zoeweeks.bsky.social, Gargi Chaturvedi, Emily Day, Steven Kelly, Laura A. Moody @moodytomato.bsky.social:

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To find out more about their work, we spoke to the first author, Zoe Weeks @zoeweeks.bsky.social, and the corresponding author, Laura Moody @moodytomato.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Molecular Plant Biology at the University of Oxford, UK.

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More pieces of the puzzle will follow soon 😃

Thanks @julietccoates.bsky.social 😃

A FLOE-related protein regulates the two-dimensional to three-dimensional growth transition in the moss Physcomitrium patens Summary: The transition to 3D growth is negatively regulated by a FLOE-related protein that alters cytokinin perception and cell division processes in the moss Physcomitrium patens.

I am very excited to share my first publication from my PhD work: A FLOE-related protein regulates the two-dimensional to three-dimensional growth transition in the moss Physcomitrium patens url: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Super proud of @zoeweeks.bsky.social and the rest of the team for this work. We were honoured to be selected as a research highlight - see our interview here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

📢 To all molecular mossers 📢

The Moss Workshop will be held in (not always as sunny as this) Oxford next year (30th June until 2nd July 2026). More details will follow soon, but in the meantime please make a note of the dates 😃 👍

W1-TT-W2 Microbial Genetics - Georg-August-University Göttingen Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen

We are looking for a new colleague! If you do exciting microbial work (from various fields and approaches), please consider applying. (Yes, I am talking to you, postdocs ;) ) :)
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Fantastic Jorge 👍

Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land The evolution of plants – photosynthetic eukaryotes resulting from the endosymbiosis of a cyanobacterium and a non-photosynthetic host cell – transformed the earth system by reducing the amount of CO…

Registration for the EMBO workshop ‘Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land’ closes on 25th August. Don’t miss it! More details can be found here: meetings.embo.org/event/25-pla... 🌱 😀

Group leader (m/f/d) | Plant Development and Diversity The successful applicant will be expected to build an independent research group to study plant development and/or its natural variation.

Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social
on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...