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Andrea Paterlini (he/him)
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Plant Molecular Biologist 🌱 Lecturer in Genetics Education at the University of Edinburgh. Tweets are my own 🌈
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kubasawicki.bsky.social
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...
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,
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February 9, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
📣 Hot off the press! 📣

Check out the newest Community Resource article at JXB on building a diverse and inclusive plant science community 🌱🤝

#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
plantteaching.bsky.social Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 1d
Super excited to have this online at @jxbotany.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
"Building a diverse and inclusive plant science community," a call-to-action. Thanks to @apaterlini.bsky.social
@mehta-lab.com @yoselin.bsky.social
@goormachtig.bsky.social & Agnes Uhereczky + funders!💚
Graphic recording of the workshop session. Key words, messages and topics covered are grouped by speaker(s). This visual summary is intended to capture the essence of the session, it obviously cannot resolve or explore in detail all the complex issues listed. The illustration was commissioned to the illustrator Zsofi Lang. "Building a diverse and inclusive community through effective teaching and mentoring"
February 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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plantteaching.bsky.social
Super excited to have this online at @jxbotany.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
"Building a diverse and inclusive plant science community," a call-to-action. Thanks to @apaterlini.bsky.social
@mehta-lab.com @yoselin.bsky.social
@goormachtig.bsky.social & Agnes Uhereczky + funders!💚
Graphic recording of the workshop session. Key words, messages and topics covered are grouped by speaker(s). This visual summary is intended to capture the essence of the session, it obviously cannot resolve or explore in detail all the complex issues listed. The illustration was commissioned to the illustrator Zsofi Lang. "Building a diverse and inclusive community through effective teaching and mentoring"
February 9, 2026 at 12:53 PM
apaterlini.bsky.social
Very proud to present, together with @plantteaching.bsky.social, Agnes Uhereczky, @yoselin.bsky.social, Sofie Goormachtig and @mehta-lab.com, our @jxbotany.bsky.social community resource paper on building a diverse and inclusive plant science community 🌱. academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... (🧵 1/2)
February 9, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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spoel-lab.bsky.social
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👇🏾
February 9, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
Ubiquitin recognition integrates plant immune signaling by cell-surface and intracellular receptors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.06.703835v1
February 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🧬📍 SPECIAL ISSUE EXPERT VIEW 📍🧬

📄 Implementation of proximity labeling technologies will advance our understanding of plasmodesmata.
✍️ Li & Aung

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 1.Potential applications of diverse PL technologies in studying PD biology. Various PL technologies have been developed in recent years, offering promising avenues for advancing the study of PD biology. (A) Comprehensive PL assays using known PD-localized proteins as baits to map PD subdomain proteomes. (B) Tissue/cell type-specific PD-localized proteins tagged with TbID to identify PD protein complexes in specific tissues/cell types. (C) Stress-responsive PD-associated proteins tagged with TbID to identify PD protein complexes in response to stresses. (D) Split-TbID to identify proteins at PD-PM and PD-ER contact sites. (E) TransitID to map endogenous protein movement between cells through PD. (F) MS2-based TbID assay to identify RBPs of mobile RNAs.
February 7, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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richardsever.bsky.social
Best articulated here by the JCS Caveman years ago journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
February 4, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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bucbotany.bsky.social
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026. All this year's teams signed-up; a record 32 from around the UK and Ireland. Some new, some returning, some regular, two present in every competition since the start in 2016! Welcome to all! Which ones are you supporting?
Outline map UK and Ireland indicating approximate locations all Botanical University Challenge 2026 teams. Also logos of the 32 institutions.
February 3, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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plantteaching.bsky.social
"But teaching helps you to be a better scientist. We tend to become overspecialized, and teaching forces you to return to fundamentals, understand them thoroughly, and communicate them clearly."
Cyril is always right, right? 💚
theplantjournal.bsky.social The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · 7d
🗣️ 𝐼𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐃𝐫. 𝐂𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝐙𝐢𝐩𝐟𝐞𝐥

Cyril Zipfel, a leading voice in plant immunity, reflects on plant immune recognition, his scientific journey, and what’s next for the field 🌱🧬

interviewed by @luisdeluna.bsky.social

👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70688
February 3, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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plantteaching.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
Opinion | Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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maddyseale.bsky.social
Out in @science.org this week: A decline in epigenetic silencing of TEs in older plant organs but not in the shoot meristem. TCX5 and TCX6 help regulate DNA methylation in this context.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#plantscience
Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs
Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...
www.science.org
February 2, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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jfcsteele.bsky.social
You can't think about a sustainable chemical industry without considering our most abundant energy source: sunlight.

So how can we engineer microbes to harness this energy for our benefit?

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Interfacing solar energy with bacterial metabolism for sustainable chemical synthesis
Nature Reviews Clean Technology - Phototrophic bacteria could be used for chemical manufacturing from various carbon sources. This Review discusses the pathways, engineering and potential...
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February 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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ecl-hubs.bsky.social
We continue our series of inspirational profiles of senior academics. They share tips & ideas to support early-career researchers in their journeys. Today, we hear from Prof Patrick Walsh. Prof in Biological Education and Head of Institute of Ecology & Evolution @edinburghbiology.bsky.social 🧵 1/11
Prof. Patrick Walsh wearing a warm blue jacket. He is leaning against the railing of a cruise boat. The boat is leaving the docks of a Turshish city on a foggy day.
February 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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instmolplantsci.bsky.social
A new blog is out on our website! 📄 Go check it out! Diego Sanchez Ganfornina from @sandyheth.bsky.social's lab talks about the field work he just completed in Scotland. He is trying to generate a lycophyte living collection – likely UK’s largest! 🌿 biology.ed.ac.uk/plant-scienc...
Blog - Bringing the wilderness to IMPS: Fieldwork in Scotland to generate a lycophyte living collection – likely UK’s largest! | Molecular Plant Sciences | Biology
This blog was written by Diego Sanchez Ganfornina, of the Molecular Palaeobotany and Evolution Group (Hetherington Lab | Biology MPEG), collating considerations and reflections through his spring fiel...
biology.ed.ac.uk
February 2, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🎯🌾 DARWIN REVIEW 🌾🎯

Schreier et al. list gene targets and propose genetic strategies to begin engineering enhanced plasmodesmata-mediated cell-to-cell connectivity in crops, aiming to increase yield and improve climate resilience.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 2 (shortened, full legend in paper): Plasmodesmata at different cell interfaces in C4 monocot leaves. (A) In contrast to C4 eudicots, C4 monocots can be one or combination of either NADP-ME, NAD-ME, and/or PCK subtype depending on the decarboxylation enzyme present in the bundle sheath (BS). Confocal micrographs (leftmost panel) were obtained using an excitation wavelength at 633 nm and dual emission wavelengths at 650–720 nm (magenta for Photosystem II) and 720–800 nm (blue for Photosystem I) to visualize chloroplasts. Note that BS cells of C4 NADP-ME and C4 PCK leaves have agranal chloroplasts (see second panel from left) thus appear pseudo-blue under confocal microscope due to reduced Photosystem II content. The cell wall (green) was visualized at an excitation wavelength of 405 nm and an emission wavelength of 420–480 nm.
February 1, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
Novel repressors of cambium activity in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.28.702292v1
February 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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instmolplantsci.bsky.social
This week we had a special celebration. Paul (from our Plant Growth Facilities team) performed a Wassailing blessing for the young apple trees 🍎 around the institute. Wassailing is a tradition from the west country region of England - famous for its apples - and... (🧵 1/2)
Paul performing the Wassailing blessing wearing a ceremonial hat decorated with ivy and other plants. He is holding a drinking horn filled with cider Toasted bread hanging from the branches of a young apple tree. People are around it are holding mugs filled with cider
January 30, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🔎 SPECIAL ISSUE VIEWPOINT 🔎

A variety of motifs mediate protein localization at plasmodesmata. Should they be viewed as targeting or retention signals?

Barr & Tilsner explore the motifs and mechanisms underlying plasmodesmal protein localization ⚙️

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 1.Conceptual illustration of retention of plasmodesmata (PDs) components paired with plasma membrane (PM) and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) trafficking mechanisms. (A) PM-associated proteins traffic to the bulk PM via the Golgi body and secretory pathway. (B) Ribosomes associated with the rough ER traffic ER-associated proteins to the bulk ER. (C) The specialized composition at PDs indicated with labels and illustrated with colour gradients: the cortical ER (green) and PD–ER (navy blue), and the bulk (light blue) and specialized (purple) cell wall (CW). Magenta outlining conceptualizes the properties of PD-retained proteins clustered to the PD-specific membranes.
January 30, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
Arabidopsis Membrane Contact Site protein SYNAPTOTAGMIN A maintains sieve element endomembrane morphology and function https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.26.701828v1
January 30, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
Rewiring vascular patterning through translational control in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.29.702522v1
January 30, 2026 at 3:02 PM
apaterlini.bsky.social
It was wonderful to present our Manifesto for Plant Science Education (published in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social) at the Botanic Garden Education Network (BGEN) conference today. 🌱 Thank you Lauren Baker & organising committee for the invite! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A manifesto for plant science education
Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well-trained plant scientists...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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andy8chi.bsky.social
New analysis from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social & fellow Unions.

Sizeable surplus @ Edinburgh Uni

Financial pressure is from irresponsible capital spending & depreciation

Management metrics mislead

Redundancies hit financial strength & Uni’s academic mission

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/depreci...
Depreciating the University of Edinburgh into the Ground — UCU Edinburgh
There are four key takeaways from the University of Edinburgh’s 2024-25 annual report, which this post explores: The University continues to make a sizeable surplus. What financial pressures exi...
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January 28, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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maddyseale.bsky.social
Out First Release in @science.org this week:
A feedback loop allows two shoot stem cell populations to respond differently to environmental conditions: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#plantscience
A negative feedback loop between TERMINAL FLOWER1 and LEAFY protects inflorescence indeterminacy
Inflorescences of flowering plants adopt diverse genetically programmed and environmentally tuned architectures. By contrast, continued maintenance of the stem-cell pool within the apical meristem is ...
www.science.org
January 23, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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tank-silvia.bsky.social
🧪🌱 Our paper on Genomics of Botanical Collections for the #TeachingTools collection of @theplantcell.bsky.social is out! 🎉 A wonderful publishing experience because we made a great team producing the paper but also thanks to the invaluable help of @plantteaching.bsky.social with the editing.
plantteaching.bsky.social Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 17d
New Teaching Tool!
blog.aspb.org/new-teaching...
Check out the latest unit in the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology series, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections: Opportunities and Challenges,” by M. Deglialberti, C. Paleni, F. Fainelli, C. Lambertini, & Silvia Manrique. @tank-silvia.bsky.social
A slide from the Teaching Tool. What are botanical collections? Types of collections. Herbaria, Living Collections, Seed, pollen, and spore banks; DNA and tissue banks; Palnological collections, Digital Collections, Ethnobotanical collections.
January 24, 2026 at 3:28 PM