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Isaia Vardanega
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Plant biologist🌾
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Happy to share our recent thoughts on how grasses form and pattern stomata
doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾
Congrats to
@lbmountain.bsky.social
on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!
October 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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A wonderful collaboration with our colleagues from Düsseldorf within the @cerealcell.bsky.social consortium. @isaiavardanega.bsky.social @simonrdg.bsky.social Jan Maika.
Thanks to the sequencing facilities at Uni Heidelberg and Uni Bern, and past and present team members for this "tour de force"
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now:

The Moment
That
Symmetry
Breaks.

#plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬
w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
From Tip to Grain: Sculpting Barley Inflorescence Through the Regulation of Meristem Activity thenode.biologists.com/from-tip-to-...
From Tip to Grain: Sculpting Barley Inflorescence Through the Regulation of Meristem Activity - the Node
Written by Isaia Vardanega Behind the Paper Story of “CLAVATA signalling shapes barley inflorescence by controlling activity and determinacy of shoot
thenode.biologists.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now.....
tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d
May 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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#PlantScience Research Weekly: May 23, 2025 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Lost in translation; How to eat an idea; RNA editing in mitochondria; Non-destructive ubiquitin tagging by COP1; When CLV walked in fields of gold (1/2)
May 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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I am thrilled to share our work on integrating single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. Here, we assign a spatial position to protoplasts by gene expression imputation, allowing us to dissect regulatory networks during meristem and organ determination in barley.

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Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development
Grass inflorescences are composite structures, featuring complex sets of meristems as stem cell niches that are initiated in a repetitive manner. Meristems differ in identity and longevity, generate b...
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May 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Excited to see our work finally out! 🌾🏴‍☠️
We show how HvCLV1 and HvFCP1 shape barley inflorescence using innovative techniques and some cool microscopy.
Huge thanks to everyone involved in this study!

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59330-z
t.co
April 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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PHOTOPERIOD 1 enhances stress resistance and energy metabolism to promote spike fertility in barley under high ambient temperatures (Tianyu Lan, Agatha Walla, Kumsal Ecem Çolpan Karışan, et. al.) academic.oup.com/plphys/advan... #PlantScience
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April 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM