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Plant & Computational Biologist | Genomics & Phenotyping | @latrobeuni.bsky.social
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Phosphorus acquisition and pathogen defense: synergies versus trade-offs
During their life cycle, plants encounter simultaneous biotic and abiotic stresses. A low availability of inorganic phosphorus (P) commonly limits plant growth in natural and agricultural ecosystems. ...
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January 7, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Genetic improvement of nitrogen- and phosphorus-use efficiency in crops: Old goals with new aspirations
This review synthesizes recent genetic advances in crop nitrogen- and phosphorus-use efficiency (NUE and PUE), highlighting key genes and their natural variations that underpin adaptation to soil cond...
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January 5, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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Sending two PhD students into the world. Well done Viet D Nguyen and Benjamin Wee
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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A Single-Cell-Resolution Spatial Transcriptomic Atlas Decodes Wheat Spike Development and Yield Potential
Summary: This study presents a comprehensive single-cell resolution spatial transcriptomic atlas of wheat spike development across five key developmental stages. By resolving cell-type-specific phytoh...
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December 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Explains how I feel... 😄
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We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person
Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Trying to submit a paper:
Step 1: Build pdf from pdfs - fail
Step 2: Please upload Supp Tables in Excel 2000 format... 😱
December 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Function and regulatory mechanism of HvSPX4 in maintaining phosphate homeostasis in barley
A 50-bp insertion in the promoter region of HvSPX4 enhances its expression and is associated with reduced plant growth in a natural barley population under
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November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Activation of alternative oxidase ensures carbon supply for ethylene and carotenoid biosynthesis during tomato fruit ripening
The alternative oxidase pathway is post-translationally activated at the onset of climacteric ripening for promoting carbon mobilization toward ethylene an
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November 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Helixer: ab initio prediction of primary eukaryotic gene models combining deep learning and a hidden Markov model - Nature Methods
By leveraging both deep learning and hidden Markov models, Helixer achieves broad taxonomic coverage for ab initio gene annotation of eukaryotic genomes from fungi, plants, vertebrates and invertebrat...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Stolle done
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis
The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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PlantCV v4: Image analysis software for high-throughput plant phenotyping
PlantCV is an open-source Python project aimed at developing tools to address a range of image-based, plant phenotyping questions. PlantCV has been used for more than 10 years to automate trait collec...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The future role of regional research infrastructures and networks toward the global plant phenotyping community
Regional plant phenotyping research infrastructures and networks hold unique positions. Stronger collaboration between them can provide added benefits to a global community. A concept for a “global .....
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November 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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SlMIPS2, a myo-inositol phosphate synthase, regulates phosphate homeostasis by influencing SlPHL1 and SlSPX2 levels in tomato seedlings
In tomato the myo -inositol phosphate synthase gene SlMIPS2 is sharply induced early in phosphate starvation, and SlMIPS2 regulates cellular InsP6 levels a
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November 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Postdomestication selection of MKK3 shaped seed dormancy and end-use traits in barley
Anthropogenic selection of grain traits such as dormancy has shaped the developmental trajectories of crops. In cereals, shortening dormancy provides rapid and even post-harvest germination, but incre...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Unlocking the potential of brassinosteroids: A path to precision plant engineering
Brassinosteroids are essential plant hormones that play a central role in regulating growth, development, and stress responses. Their impact on plant architecture and productivity makes them attractiv...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Phosphorus availability controls flowering time through subcellular reprogramming of bGLU25 and GRP7 in Arabidopsis
Cho et al. reveal that low phosphorus triggers bGLU25 to move from the ER to the cytosol, where it interacts with GRP7 via AtJAC1. This interaction increases FLC expression, delaying flowering and hig...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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An incoherent feed-forward loop coordinates nitrate uptake and tillering in wheat
This study identifies that TaNLP3 acts as a master regulator of nitrate signaling and interacts with the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex to enhance chromatin accessibility and trigger the primary...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?
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October 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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🚀 New preprint!
We introduce K-PROB, a k-mer–based Bayesian framework that mines pangenomic promoter and expression diversity to predict cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression variation in crops 🌽🌱
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Natural variation in regulatory code revealed through Bayesian analysis of plant pan-genomes and pan-transcriptomes
Understanding the genetic code of cis-regulatory elements (CREs) is essential for engineering gene expression and modulating agronomic traits in crops. In plants, CREs underlying rapid evolution of ge...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat - Nature
A pangenome of oat, assembled from 33 wild and domesticated oat lines, sheds light on the evolution and genetic diversity of this cereal crop and will aid genomics-assisted breeding to improve product...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Are these the happiest PhD students in the world?
Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey — but are these nations really the best places to do a doctorate?
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October 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Time-resolved fluorescent proteins expand fluorescent microscopy in temporal and spectral domains
Fluorescence microscopy has been widely applied in the life sciences. While intensity as a steady-state signal is widely used, the time-resolved (tr) …
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October 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM