Celebrating the astonishing career of Jonathan Jones whose work has transformed the field of plant pathogen biology and immunity, and helped shape 37 years of research at The Sainsbury Lab. @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social @kamounlab.bsky.social

The German Society for Plant Sciences (Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft DBG) is now on Bluesky 🌱
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Very proud of the work of Ganesh Nawkar & Martina Legris
with invaluable help from many others: Air channels create a directional light signal to regulate hypocotyl phototropism. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here is our latest preprint. Fusions of Cas9 to specific viral 5' exonucleases increase homology directed repair 30-fold in transient and 10-fold in stable transformations. Making non-selectable knock-ins and gene replacements possible. Congrats to the whole team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#PlantScience Research Weekly Nov 10  plantae.org/plant-scienc... (3/3) Single-nucleus sequencing reveals C3 to C4 transition; Dirigent protein complex directs lignin polymerization; Maize root microbiome structured by host-exuded specialized metabolite; Building an inclusive botany: A radical dream

C4 photosynthesis is beautifully intricate/complex but has evolved repeatedly. How did evolution change gene expression to enable this? Basically, C4 genes acquire elements in cis that plug them to existing cell identity networks.
doi.org/10.1101/2023...

✨Ever wondered how C4 plants 🌱 manage to shuttle metabolites back and forth between mesophyll and bundle sheath cells so efficiently? ✨ They have increased cell-to-cell connectivity between these cells through A LOT of plasmodesmata. @plantsci

How do C4 leaves make way more plasmodesmata than C3 plants? See our latest: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

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A wonderful write up of a wonderful person. ‘Delegate and trust’ - if more leaders were able to do that so many more people would feel empowered (in all walks of life)

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