Chenxin Li, PhD

Study section that was Feb got pushed back to April. I wonder what's that about...

Ima go Mountain Bluebird for the #blue theme of #birdoftheday picked by @robcrank68.bsky.social

He knows he's pretty! He's like the blue version of that particular shade of fuchsia that makes your camera sensor freak out 😂

#birds #becurious 🪶

A plate of internode explants on white background under normal light

The same plate of internode explants under blue light illumination using a green filter over the camera. Small dots of green signal are visible.

Cute babies glowing babies

Government-issued Real IDs and driver’s licenses aren’t proof of citizenship, and most people aren’t walking around with a passport.

We are hiring a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Bryology at the National Natural History Museum Denmark, in central Copenhagen. Duties are collection-based research, curation of a… ... We are hiring a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Bryology at the National Natural History Museum Denmark, in central Copenhagen. Duties are collection-based research, curation of a h...

My good friend and director of the natural history museum of Denmark is looking for a curator for #bryophytes. Thus, if you like these small #plants, you should really apply. Great place to work, great city and amazing plants.

#sciencejobs #plantscijobs

www.linkedin.com/posts/nina-r...

Postdoctoral Researcher (Charpentier Group) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Charpentier Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of plant calcium signalling.

My lab at the JIC is recruiting 3 PDRA:
🔹 Bioinformatics / AI
🔹 Molecular Biology / Genetics
🔹 Proteomics
Programme funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
📅 Closing date: 27 February
Apply via JIC website:
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/
Please share with outstanding candidates. 🙏

BABYBOOM-like expression in the cowpea egg and central cellenables parthenogenesis, endosperm development, and viable haploid seed formation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.08.704694v1

New preprint! The same TFs can drive distinct regulatory programs depending on where they bind.

TSS → rapid stress responses

Intronic & upstream → cell-type programs

Enhancer-like CRMs → embryo/meristem programs

Coding-sequence binding → repression
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I honestly think that's too nice to them. I think a lot of them truly hate modernity and genuinely intentionally want to make life worse for the majority of people

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

Noncanonical loops regulated by EMF1 and cohesin-associated factors shape the distinct 3D genome architecture in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.08.704707v1

bonus : adding the inhibitor molecule increases the colored sectors

Have you ever wondered why some petal are bicolor ? Like in dahlias or petunia ?
(Part of) the answer is in this publication :
doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

In our latest preprint we report the unexpected discovery of Epi-STR, an R-stereoselective ortholog of the S-selective canonical Strictosidine synthases (STRs). Found in the rather obscure plant Pogonopus specious. This work was led by my stellar student Clara Morweiser!
#natprod
#PlantScience

Stolen from the other place, post by "Busta Lab": A black screen has three composited element: the leaves of a sassafras tree, a wide shot of a larger tree, and the safrole molecule diagram as white traced outline.

Steam extracts of sassafras bark are generally 90% or more safrole by weight & smell like if heaven had a candy store.

UNFORTUNATELY, in 1960, the FDA banned any use of safrole flavorings, although a number of natural spices contain small amounts: cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper.

Concentration camp - Wikipedia

'A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment.'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concent...

CsPLTs are expressed in cucumber root and shoot apices.

PLETHORA3/7 controls cucumber shoot architecture

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Kerstens et al.

@WileyPlantSci @merijnkerstens.bsky.social @violawillemsen.bsky.social

Cross-section of a Kalanchoe marnieriana leaf, with what appears to be emerging but dormant foliar embryo near the top.

Kalanchoe marnieriana in a pot.

#MicroscopeMonday Cross-section of a Kalanchoe marnieriana leaf, with what appears to be emerging but dormant foliar embryo (a dome) near the top.

Kalanchoe marnieriana is a facultative cloning plant, which normally does not produce plantlets but do produce plantlets when leaves are detached.

$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight.

Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.

Giant chromosomes of a tiny plant—the complete telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the simple thalloid liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia (Jungermanniopsida, Marchantiophyta) AbstractBackground. The liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia, a dioicous, simple thalloid species, is notable for its cryptic diversity, habitat adaptability,

Tiny plant, giant genome! 🌱🧬

We’re excited to share the final version of our paper in @GigaScience: the first complete telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembly of the liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia.
Thanks @ncn.gov.pl

Check out the full open-access study here: doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics and/or Computational Biology at Aarhus University, Denmark - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University

Aarhus University is seeking a Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor in Bioinformatics/Co… https://nat.au.dk/en/about-the-faculty/vacant-positions-and-career/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-associate-professor-in-bioinformatics-and-or-computational-biology-at-aarhus-university-denmark #job

It’s fun! And low effort in the sense that it does not require someone to go to the lab to get stuff to work.

I think for strawberry one of the subgenomes had an unknown/extinct donor.

Wait, if I cross 2 AABB plants, there 1/2 chance I will get AAAA and BBBB plants back?

If this works, we can essentially produce two species out of a single allopolypoid (de-hybridization). If the original donor of a subgenome has already gone extinct, we would be able to de-extinct it for real.

Wow. Sounds so cool in my head.

I wonder if we can manipulate meiosis in allopolyploids, such that instead of homologs separating, homeologs separate.

Take allopolyploid AABB, normal meiosis generates meiotic products w/ karyotype AB. What if we can manipulate it to make meiotic products w/ karyotypes AA & BB?

#PlantScience

I wonder how many plant species have gone extinct, but their genomic legacy lives on as intact subgenomes of extant allopolyploids.

I feel that Wiley is a bit more ethical.

Don't really understand why societies would publish their society journal(s) with Elsevier or NatureSpringer.

Examples: Phytochemistry (Phytochemical Society of North America), J. Biological Chemistry (ASBMB), Molecular Plant ( Chinese Society for Plant Biology)