RDP lab
@rdplab.bsky.social
News and updates from the Plant Development and Reproduction (RDP) Lab at ENS de Lyon, FRANCE.
We explore the molecular, physical, and evolutionary foundations of plant morphogenesis.
🔗 https://www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/
🧑🔬 curated by @thomaswidiez.bsky.social
We explore the molecular, physical, and evolutionary foundations of plant morphogenesis.
🔗 https://www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/
🧑🔬 curated by @thomaswidiez.bsky.social
Two days of retreat and amazing discussions with @cosheidelberg.bsky.social ; @igflyon.bsky.social ky.social & @rdplab.bsky.social
The power of science really shows when different organisms (and minds!) come together.
The power of science really shows when different organisms (and minds!) come together.
February 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Two days of retreat and amazing discussions with @cosheidelberg.bsky.social ; @igflyon.bsky.social ky.social & @rdplab.bsky.social
The power of science really shows when different organisms (and minds!) come together.
The power of science really shows when different organisms (and minds!) come together.
🎉 Huge congratulations to Clara Igisch on a brilliant PhD defense and outstanding work throughout her PhD! 🎓👏
Kudos as well to her supervisor, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social , for the great support along the way! 🌱🔬
Kudos as well to her supervisor, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social , for the great support along the way! 🌱🔬
January 23, 2026 at 8:29 PM
🎉 Huge congratulations to Clara Igisch on a brilliant PhD defense and outstanding work throughout her PhD! 🎓👏
Kudos as well to her supervisor, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social , for the great support along the way! 🌱🔬
Kudos as well to her supervisor, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social , for the great support along the way! 🌱🔬
Ahead of Clara Igisch’s PhD defense tomorrow, we enjoyed four excellent talks today in a 🌱 mini-symposium:
@emmanuellebayer.bsky.social / @ottlab.bsky.social / @jennyrussinova.bsky.social & @structplantbio.bsky.social
Great science, great stories!
@emmanuellebayer.bsky.social / @ottlab.bsky.social / @jennyrussinova.bsky.social & @structplantbio.bsky.social
Great science, great stories!
January 22, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Ahead of Clara Igisch’s PhD defense tomorrow, we enjoyed four excellent talks today in a 🌱 mini-symposium:
@emmanuellebayer.bsky.social / @ottlab.bsky.social / @jennyrussinova.bsky.social & @structplantbio.bsky.social
Great science, great stories!
@emmanuellebayer.bsky.social / @ottlab.bsky.social / @jennyrussinova.bsky.social & @structplantbio.bsky.social
Great science, great stories!
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Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany.
Sept 23rd-25th, 2026
~€350 all inclusive
Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon.
For more info, see
raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...
Sept 23rd-25th, 2026
~€350 all inclusive
Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon.
For more info, see
raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...
January 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany.
Sept 23rd-25th, 2026
~€350 all inclusive
Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon.
For more info, see
raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...
Sept 23rd-25th, 2026
~€350 all inclusive
Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon.
For more info, see
raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...
🌟 Great seminar this week at RDP lab
with Artemis Perraki ( @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social , @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social) sharing her exciting science to understand how developmental and environmental pathways intersect during anther development 🌱
with Artemis Perraki ( @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social , @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social) sharing her exciting science to understand how developmental and environmental pathways intersect during anther development 🌱
January 14, 2026 at 12:37 AM
🌟 Great seminar this week at RDP lab
with Artemis Perraki ( @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social , @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social) sharing her exciting science to understand how developmental and environmental pathways intersect during anther development 🌱
with Artemis Perraki ( @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social , @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social) sharing her exciting science to understand how developmental and environmental pathways intersect during anther development 🌱
🔥 Hot new preprint before the Christmas break 🎄
Egg cell fertilization–dependent peptide receptor signaling mediates endosperm polarity
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Audrey Creff, @jackrhodes.bsky.social , Cyril Zipfel, Gwyneth Ingram and others
Egg cell fertilization–dependent peptide receptor signaling mediates endosperm polarity
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Audrey Creff, @jackrhodes.bsky.social , Cyril Zipfel, Gwyneth Ingram and others
December 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🔥 Hot new preprint before the Christmas break 🎄
Egg cell fertilization–dependent peptide receptor signaling mediates endosperm polarity
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Audrey Creff, @jackrhodes.bsky.social , Cyril Zipfel, Gwyneth Ingram and others
Egg cell fertilization–dependent peptide receptor signaling mediates endosperm polarity
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Audrey Creff, @jackrhodes.bsky.social , Cyril Zipfel, Gwyneth Ingram and others
Today, our Director, Gwyneth Ingram, received the CNRS Silver Medal. (👇see the post below👇)
This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels.
🌱Congratulations!🥂
This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels.
🌱Congratulations!🥂
December 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Today, our Director, Gwyneth Ingram, received the CNRS Silver Medal. (👇see the post below👇)
This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels.
🌱Congratulations!🥂
This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels.
🌱Congratulations!🥂
👇 New preprint from the lab on cell layer identity in petunia flower 🌸
▶️Interplay between petal identity and cell layer identity in petunia flower
Lead by @mariemonniaux.bsky.social now located in Lille, .univ-lille.fr/en/research/... and Daniel Bouyer
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▶️Interplay between petal identity and cell layer identity in petunia flower
Lead by @mariemonniaux.bsky.social now located in Lille, .univ-lille.fr/en/research/... and Daniel Bouyer
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Check our new preprint! How the petal identity gene PhDEF behaves differently in the epidermis and mesophyll, in petunia flowers (1/n)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Interplay between petal identity and cell layer identity in petunia flowers
In flowering plants, floral organ identity is specified by the combinatorial action of homeotic genes. While the role of these genes in the early specification of organ identity is well established, t...
www.biorxiv.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
👇 New preprint from the lab on cell layer identity in petunia flower 🌸
▶️Interplay between petal identity and cell layer identity in petunia flower
Lead by @mariemonniaux.bsky.social now located in Lille, .univ-lille.fr/en/research/... and Daniel Bouyer
👇👇
▶️Interplay between petal identity and cell layer identity in petunia flower
Lead by @mariemonniaux.bsky.social now located in Lille, .univ-lille.fr/en/research/... and Daniel Bouyer
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Celebrating a successful PhD defense from our lab @rdplab.bsky.social 🎉
Huge congrats to Hugo CAUMON for his hard work on temporal integration of auxin information🌱
Supervised by @tevavernoux.bsky.social & C. GALVAN-AMPUDIA (SIGNAL team ▶️ www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/signalis... )
@ensdelyon.bsky.social
Huge congrats to Hugo CAUMON for his hard work on temporal integration of auxin information🌱
Supervised by @tevavernoux.bsky.social & C. GALVAN-AMPUDIA (SIGNAL team ▶️ www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/signalis... )
@ensdelyon.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Celebrating a successful PhD defense from our lab @rdplab.bsky.social 🎉
Huge congrats to Hugo CAUMON for his hard work on temporal integration of auxin information🌱
Supervised by @tevavernoux.bsky.social & C. GALVAN-AMPUDIA (SIGNAL team ▶️ www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/signalis... )
@ensdelyon.bsky.social
Huge congrats to Hugo CAUMON for his hard work on temporal integration of auxin information🌱
Supervised by @tevavernoux.bsky.social & C. GALVAN-AMPUDIA (SIGNAL team ▶️ www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/signalis... )
@ensdelyon.bsky.social
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Congrats to Dr Elsa Gascon who defended her PhD today at @rdplab.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social
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December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Congrats to Dr Elsa Gascon who defended her PhD today at @rdplab.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social
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New publication from RDPlab by Christophe Godin's team
➡️ Multi-physics modeling for ion homeostasis in multi-compartment plant cells using an energy function
📖 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
➡️ Multi-physics modeling for ion homeostasis in multi-compartment plant cells using an energy function
📖 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Multi-physics modeling for ion homeostasis in multi-compartment plant cells using an energy function
Author summary Osmosis is a physical effect by which water is attracted into compartments with a high concentration of solute. Plant cells exploit osmosis to attract water into their subcellular compa...
journals.plos.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
New publication from RDPlab by Christophe Godin's team
➡️ Multi-physics modeling for ion homeostasis in multi-compartment plant cells using an energy function
📖 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
➡️ Multi-physics modeling for ion homeostasis in multi-compartment plant cells using an energy function
📖 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Reinforcing the 🇫🇷France–Japan🇯🇵 collaboration in plant biology🌱
Great meeting our French and Japanese colleagues in a cozy pre-Christmas atmosphere in Strasbourg, hosted by @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
So glad to have brilliant Japanese researchers at @rdplab.bsky.social
Let’s grow science together! 🌱✨
Great meeting our French and Japanese colleagues in a cozy pre-Christmas atmosphere in Strasbourg, hosted by @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
So glad to have brilliant Japanese researchers at @rdplab.bsky.social
Let’s grow science together! 🌱✨
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Reinforcing the 🇫🇷France–Japan🇯🇵 collaboration in plant biology🌱
Great meeting our French and Japanese colleagues in a cozy pre-Christmas atmosphere in Strasbourg, hosted by @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
So glad to have brilliant Japanese researchers at @rdplab.bsky.social
Let’s grow science together! 🌱✨
Great meeting our French and Japanese colleagues in a cozy pre-Christmas atmosphere in Strasbourg, hosted by @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
So glad to have brilliant Japanese researchers at @rdplab.bsky.social
Let’s grow science together! 🌱✨
Congrats to Andrea Calhau from @rdplab.bsky.social for winning the Best Talk Award at "Seed 2025", the 10ᵉ edition of the French Seed Network Conference! 🌱
This year’s colloque, held in Nantes, brought together scientists around the theme Seeds & the agroecological, climatic, and food transitions.
This year’s colloque, held in Nantes, brought together scientists around the theme Seeds & the agroecological, climatic, and food transitions.
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Congrats to Andrea Calhau from @rdplab.bsky.social for winning the Best Talk Award at "Seed 2025", the 10ᵉ edition of the French Seed Network Conference! 🌱
This year’s colloque, held in Nantes, brought together scientists around the theme Seeds & the agroecological, climatic, and food transitions.
This year’s colloque, held in Nantes, brought together scientists around the theme Seeds & the agroecological, climatic, and food transitions.
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Article #FocusSciences🎯|
Gwyneth Ingram, biologiste végétale au @rdplab.bsky.social, tente de percer les mystères de la communication entre plante-mère, albumen et embryon 🌱
Gwyneth Ingram, biologiste végétale au @rdplab.bsky.social, tente de percer les mystères de la communication entre plante-mère, albumen et embryon 🌱
La graine, si petite et pourtant incroyablement complexe !
lejournal.cnrs.fr
October 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Article #FocusSciences🎯|
Gwyneth Ingram, biologiste végétale au @rdplab.bsky.social, tente de percer les mystères de la communication entre plante-mère, albumen et embryon 🌱
Gwyneth Ingram, biologiste végétale au @rdplab.bsky.social, tente de percer les mystères de la communication entre plante-mère, albumen et embryon 🌱
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#ResultatScientifique 🔎 Chez la mousse Physcomitrium patens, une simple diffusion d’hormone suffit à sculpter sa forme ! Une découverte qui éclaire l’évolution des plantes et la diversité de leurs architectures🌱
✍️Yoan Coudert et Christophe Godin
📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social | buff.ly/5MI0rYV
✍️Yoan Coudert et Christophe Godin
📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social | buff.ly/5MI0rYV
Les mousses révèlent le secret de leur forme
Dans un article publié dans Current Biology, des scientifiques explorent comment l’auxine, une hormone végétale, voyage dans la tige d’une mousse pou
www.insb.cnrs.fr
October 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#ResultatScientifique 🔎 Chez la mousse Physcomitrium patens, une simple diffusion d’hormone suffit à sculpter sa forme ! Une découverte qui éclaire l’évolution des plantes et la diversité de leurs architectures🌱
✍️Yoan Coudert et Christophe Godin
📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social | buff.ly/5MI0rYV
✍️Yoan Coudert et Christophe Godin
📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social | buff.ly/5MI0rYV
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🌽 Maize vs. Fusarium 🌽
Overexpressing a maize lipoxygenase (ZmLOX4) boosts resistance to Fusarium infection.
Glad that our maize Gene editing & transformation platform, at @rdplab.bsky.social, contributed to this research, led by the Lanubile's Lab.
▶️ doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Overexpressing a maize lipoxygenase (ZmLOX4) boosts resistance to Fusarium infection.
Glad that our maize Gene editing & transformation platform, at @rdplab.bsky.social, contributed to this research, led by the Lanubile's Lab.
▶️ doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
October 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🌽 Maize vs. Fusarium 🌽
Overexpressing a maize lipoxygenase (ZmLOX4) boosts resistance to Fusarium infection.
Glad that our maize Gene editing & transformation platform, at @rdplab.bsky.social, contributed to this research, led by the Lanubile's Lab.
▶️ doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Overexpressing a maize lipoxygenase (ZmLOX4) boosts resistance to Fusarium infection.
Glad that our maize Gene editing & transformation platform, at @rdplab.bsky.social, contributed to this research, led by the Lanubile's Lab.
▶️ doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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#ResultatScientifique🔎| Une mousse européenne, arrivée à La Réunion dans les années 60, grimpe maintenant aux arbres et menace la végétation locale 🌴
✍️ Yoan Coudert et Claudine Ah-Peng
📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social | buff.ly/IyTlzTC
✍️ Yoan Coudert et Claudine Ah-Peng
📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social | buff.ly/IyTlzTC
September 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
#ResultatScientifique🔎| Une mousse européenne, arrivée à La Réunion dans les années 60, grimpe maintenant aux arbres et menace la végétation locale 🌴
✍️ Yoan Coudert et Claudine Ah-Peng
📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social | buff.ly/IyTlzTC
✍️ Yoan Coudert et Claudine Ah-Peng
📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social | buff.ly/IyTlzTC
Avec les Visites insolites du @cnrs.fr, plongez dans les coulisses de la recherche !
🔬 Venez visiter noter laboratoire @rdplab.bsky.social
Tentez votre chance au tirage au sort et vivez l’exceptionnel
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🔬 Venez visiter noter laboratoire @rdplab.bsky.social
Tentez votre chance au tirage au sort et vivez l’exceptionnel
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De chercheur à "maker" : comment bricoler son propre robot pour mesurer ses plantes ? - Visites insolites du CNRS
Mesurer précisément l’architecture des plantes, c’est crucial pour comprendre les mécanismes génétiques, cellulaires et développementaux qui opèrent lorsqu’un plante...
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September 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Avec les Visites insolites du @cnrs.fr, plongez dans les coulisses de la recherche !
🔬 Venez visiter noter laboratoire @rdplab.bsky.social
Tentez votre chance au tirage au sort et vivez l’exceptionnel
9/10
visitesinsolites.cnrs.fr/visite/de-ch...
10/10
visitesinsolites.cnrs.fr/visite/de-ch...
🔬 Venez visiter noter laboratoire @rdplab.bsky.social
Tentez votre chance au tirage au sort et vivez l’exceptionnel
9/10
visitesinsolites.cnrs.fr/visite/de-ch...
10/10
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Post-doctoral position in Plant Developmental Genetics and Evolution
A 2-year post-doctoral position is available in
@rdplab.bsky.social
The successful candidate will join the SIGNAL team under the supervision of Dr. Yoan Coudert.
For more information : www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/IMG/pdf/...
A 2-year post-doctoral position is available in
@rdplab.bsky.social
The successful candidate will join the SIGNAL team under the supervision of Dr. Yoan Coudert.
For more information : www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/IMG/pdf/...
www.ens-lyon.fr
September 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Post-doctoral position in Plant Developmental Genetics and Evolution
A 2-year post-doctoral position is available in
@rdplab.bsky.social
The successful candidate will join the SIGNAL team under the supervision of Dr. Yoan Coudert.
For more information : www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/IMG/pdf/...
A 2-year post-doctoral position is available in
@rdplab.bsky.social
The successful candidate will join the SIGNAL team under the supervision of Dr. Yoan Coudert.
For more information : www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/IMG/pdf/...
🌱 3 plant biology institutes, 2 great days! 🌿
PhDs & postdocs from DBMV @unil.bsky.social, @psb-vib.bsky.social & @rdplab.bsky.social rocked the 2nd Trilateral Plant Bio Symposium in Lausanne!
👏 Big congrats to all ECRs, especially to @nathan-german.bsky.social for winning Best Presentation! 🏆💥
PhDs & postdocs from DBMV @unil.bsky.social, @psb-vib.bsky.social & @rdplab.bsky.social rocked the 2nd Trilateral Plant Bio Symposium in Lausanne!
👏 Big congrats to all ECRs, especially to @nathan-german.bsky.social for winning Best Presentation! 🏆💥
September 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🌱 3 plant biology institutes, 2 great days! 🌿
PhDs & postdocs from DBMV @unil.bsky.social, @psb-vib.bsky.social & @rdplab.bsky.social rocked the 2nd Trilateral Plant Bio Symposium in Lausanne!
👏 Big congrats to all ECRs, especially to @nathan-german.bsky.social for winning Best Presentation! 🏆💥
PhDs & postdocs from DBMV @unil.bsky.social, @psb-vib.bsky.social & @rdplab.bsky.social rocked the 2nd Trilateral Plant Bio Symposium in Lausanne!
👏 Big congrats to all ECRs, especially to @nathan-german.bsky.social for winning Best Presentation! 🏆💥
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September 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Thrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks @zoenv.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social and the other coauthors for all the hard work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth control programme
During morphogenesis of multicellular organs, cells acquire distinct identities that meet specific functional requirements. Epidermal identity is widely considered essential for plant morphogenesis du...
www.biorxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Thrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks @zoenv.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social and the other coauthors for all the hard work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Take a look at part of my work with @mc-caillaud.bsky.social at @rdplab.bsky.social about the role of actin cytoskeleton to maintain cytokinesis against cellular geometry 🌱🔬
Actin Counters Geometry to Guide Plant Cell Division https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.18.670899v1
August 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Take a look at part of my work with @mc-caillaud.bsky.social at @rdplab.bsky.social about the role of actin cytoskeleton to maintain cytokinesis against cellular geometry 🌱🔬
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Amazing programme including 4(!) speakers from @rdplab.bsky.social : @tevavernoux.bsky.social @coudertlab.bsky.social @zoenv.bsky.social @camilagoldy.bsky.social
Final Program announced for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA).: tinyurl.com/2cfa8keo
August 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Amazing programme including 4(!) speakers from @rdplab.bsky.social : @tevavernoux.bsky.social @coudertlab.bsky.social @zoenv.bsky.social @camilagoldy.bsky.social
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Unusual cell death pathway in maize endosperm (Plant Cell) @moritznowack.bsky.social @thomaswidiez.bsky.social @laurenspauwels.bsky.social @bertderybel.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/A3RVH6Q
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
Unusual cell death pathway in maize endosperm | Plantae
An interesting new study by Doll et al. addresses one of the most complex and important plant developmental processes, that of seed formation, with a focus on maize. Like other seeds…
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July 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Unusual cell death pathway in maize endosperm (Plant Cell) @moritznowack.bsky.social @thomaswidiez.bsky.social @laurenspauwels.bsky.social @bertderybel.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/A3RVH6Q
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW