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Akshay Gokulendran Nair
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PhD student in VIB-PSB Ghent. Interested in plant vascular development.
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New sheriff in town!
Check out the latest from the Synoxys lab identifying histone demethylase - KDMs as a new class of oxygen sensors that act in a root-specific manner and help prime plants for hypoxia tolerance.
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KDM7-mediated oxygen sensing reprograms chromatin to enhance hypoxia tolerance in the root https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690241v1
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Delighted to share this latest manuscript @nature.com Ethylene regulating root cell wall mechanics in compacted soil in collaboration with Wanqi and Staffan Persson @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @ukri.org @uonresearch.bsky.social @lucas-de-lion.bsky.social @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social rdcu.be/eR4or
Ethylene modulates cell wall mechanics for root responses to compaction
Nature - Soil compaction traps ethylene around roots, which causes transcriptional upregulation of Auxin Response Factor1, resulting in decreased root cortical cell wall thickness and thereby...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x
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November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.

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An AINTEGUMENTA phosphoswitch controls bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth | PNAS
Plant stem cells have the remarkable ability to give rise to distinct tissues and organs throughout development. Two concentric cylinders of active...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 :
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September 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Conserved transcriptional reprogramming in nematode infected root cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674408v1
September 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Some Impressions of the FASEB Mechanism of Plant Development - 110 attendees, two keynotes, 46 Talks & 83 posters but one passion: understand plant development 🌱🧪🔬🧑‍💻 #PDevSRC
August 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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New OA Article: "Water availability positions auxin response maxima to determine plant regeneration fates" rdcu.be/evfFF

High water availability induces root regeneration whereas low water availability triggers callus formation via stress hormones...
July 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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🧬🌱 EXPERT VIEW 🌱🧬

'Intrinsic cues guiding changes in division orientation in the Arabidopsis root meristem: a formative experience' - Konstantinova et al. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

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Schematic representation of a longitudinal section of the juvenile root meristem and the regulatory networks controlling changes in division orientation. In the epidermis/lateral root cap (LRC), the SMB–FEZ pathway is responsible for regulating the division guiding changes in division orientation that generate the epidermis and LRC. In the ground tissue, the SHR–SCR module guides the changes in division orientation that generate the cortex and endodermal tissues. In the vascular tissue, the TMO5/LHW–DOF2.1 module and, more specifically in the phloem, PEAR transcription factors, drive oriented divisions that regulate vascular proliferation. Inset: developmental trajectories for the various cell types found in the root meristem, beginning from the quiescent centre (QC) in the centre and ending outermost with the final forms.
May 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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It's out! Detailed transcriptome atlas of mature Arabidopsis root undergoing secondary growth. Fantastic work by Munan Lyu and Hiroyuki Iida + other lab members, wonderful collab with @bertderybel.bsky.social lab on the scRNAseq analysis. @treebiocoe.bsky.social 1/x www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The dynamic and diverse nature of parenchyma cells in the Arabidopsis root during secondary growth - Nature Plants
A combination of lineage tracing and single-cell RNA sequencing reveals how xylem and phloem parenchyma cells in the secondary tissue of Arabidopsis root mature gradually. Upon root barrier injury, th...
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March 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Our Vascular Development satellite meeting linked to ICAR2025 is filling up quickly. Only 30 spots left, so register if you want to join us in Ghent!
March 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM