George Caldarescu
georgecaldarescu.bsky.social
George Caldarescu
@georgecaldarescu.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Department of Comparative Development and Genetics @mpipz.bsky.social | Cardamine secondary cell wall development | Plant exocytosis & cell polarity
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"Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher" - Nature News feature
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can we harness them to create better crops?
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
New preprint from my former PhD lab in Prague
We developed the Tonoplast Topology Index (TTI), a new quantitative metric for analysing plant cell vacuoles. It’s faster and more comprehensive.
Take a look at the preprint and the manual (see below)

#PlantScience #CellBiology #Microscopy #Research
The Tonoplast Topology Index - a new metric for describing vacuole organization
Background The plant vacuole arises by orchestrated interplay of membrane trafficking, cytoskeletal rearrangements and a variety of signalling pathways. In the root, the characteristic large central v...
www.biorxiv.org
September 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM