Kilian Duijts
@kilianduijts.bsky.social
PhD canidate | Investigating how plant roots branch during salt stress | Wageningen NL | He/him
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We just published our work in #ScienceAdvances
"Parallel evolution of salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from Cape Verde Islands"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Short summary and credits follow:
"Parallel evolution of salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from Cape Verde Islands"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Short summary and credits follow:
July 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We just published our work in #ScienceAdvances
"Parallel evolution of salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from Cape Verde Islands"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Short summary and credits follow:
"Parallel evolution of salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from Cape Verde Islands"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Short summary and credits follow:
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This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚
June 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚
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Most plants can`t handle salt, but have evolved strategies to survive in it. How do they do it?🌱🧪
Excited to share some of our first insights using a new cryoelemental imaging technique to answer these questions at the subcellular scale!(1/8)
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com #PlantScience
Excited to share some of our first insights using a new cryoelemental imaging technique to answer these questions at the subcellular scale!(1/8)
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com #PlantScience
Elemental cryo-imaging reveals SOS1-dependent vacuolar sodium accumulation - Nature
This study demonstrates that cryo nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (CryoNanoSIMS) enables direct multi-elemental imaging at subcellular resolution of macro- and micronutrients or trace elemen...
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January 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Most plants can`t handle salt, but have evolved strategies to survive in it. How do they do it?🌱🧪
Excited to share some of our first insights using a new cryoelemental imaging technique to answer these questions at the subcellular scale!(1/8)
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com #PlantScience
Excited to share some of our first insights using a new cryoelemental imaging technique to answer these questions at the subcellular scale!(1/8)
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com #PlantScience
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And.... the story is now out in PNAS, greatly improved with new data since the pre-print, so check it out and find out how ABA plays an unexpected role in root responses to salinity. @pph-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
And.... the story is now out in PNAS, greatly improved with new data since the pre-print, so check it out and find out how ABA plays an unexpected role in root responses to salinity. @pph-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The BAR is moving to Bluesky Social...please follow us here for posts about the Bio-Analytic Resource for Plant Biology at bar.utoronto.ca!
January 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The BAR is moving to Bluesky Social...please follow us here for posts about the Bio-Analytic Resource for Plant Biology at bar.utoronto.ca!
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Come join us!!
We have an opening for a 4-year postdoc position to study the #rhizosphere #microbiome in @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social, joint project with @marnixmedema.bsky.social in the context of MiCRop. Please tag/forward this to potential candidates and/or repost: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Bioinformatics Postdoc at UU/WUR: Map Metabolic Interactions in the Rhizosphere
Contribute to plant health and our understanding of the metabolic interactions between microbes and plants in the rhizosphere by computational modelling!
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December 5, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Come join us!!
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Gymnosperm #seeds can have multiple cotyledons (unlike the one or two typical of angiosperms). Rather than having a fixed number, the number of cotyledons can vary between seeds. Here are some Pinus sylvestris seedlings, their cotyledons making them look like little whisks! 🧪🌲
November 24, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Gymnosperm #seeds can have multiple cotyledons (unlike the one or two typical of angiosperms). Rather than having a fixed number, the number of cotyledons can vary between seeds. Here are some Pinus sylvestris seedlings, their cotyledons making them look like little whisks! 🧪🌲
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Welcome @kinpanchung.bsky.social at Wageningen University & Research, we are very pleased to welcome you to the @pph-wur.bsky.social team. Huge congratulations with this ERC StG funded dream start. Looking forward to the cool science and new research directions ahead!
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ERC-grant for research on plant cytoplasmic inheritance
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a research grant to researcher Kin Pan Chung. He receives the ERC Starting Grant for his research on the inheritance of cytoplasmic genomes. Chung trans...
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September 10, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Welcome @kinpanchung.bsky.social at Wageningen University & Research, we are very pleased to welcome you to the @pph-wur.bsky.social team. Huge congratulations with this ERC StG funded dream start. Looking forward to the cool science and new research directions ahead!
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A recent thread about one of my bean projects over on Twitter got some actual press! www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/r...
A biologist is developing blue lima beans. Are blue carrots next?
St. Paul, Minn., researcher Darren Abbey wants to develop blue lima beans for science, in hopes of eventually getting them onto grocery store shelves.
Along the way, he's offering life lessons about p...
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August 30, 2024 at 4:09 PM
A recent thread about one of my bean projects over on Twitter got some actual press! www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/r...
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@keguro.bsky.social I have run all the way from the bird app because I saw a thread by @thebiologistisn.bsky.social who is trying to create blue lima beans
August 1, 2024 at 4:44 PM
@keguro.bsky.social I have run all the way from the bird app because I saw a thread by @thebiologistisn.bsky.social who is trying to create blue lima beans
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▶️PhD position (Prof. Leónie Bentsink Group): www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
▶️Postdoc position (Dr. Mariana Silva Artur Group): www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
#plantscijobs #plantscifyi #plantPhDposition #plantpostdocposition #seedresearch #greente
▶️Postdoc position (Dr. Mariana Silva Artur Group): www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
#plantscijobs #plantscifyi #plantPhDposition #plantpostdocposition #seedresearch #greente
Postdoc Seed Desiccation GreenTE
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July 23, 2024 at 8:58 AM
▶️PhD position (Prof. Leónie Bentsink Group): www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
▶️Postdoc position (Dr. Mariana Silva Artur Group): www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
#plantscijobs #plantscifyi #plantPhDposition #plantpostdocposition #seedresearch #greente
▶️Postdoc position (Dr. Mariana Silva Artur Group): www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
#plantscijobs #plantscifyi #plantPhDposition #plantpostdocposition #seedresearch #greente
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Potato cultivars use different root physiological and molecular mechanisms to acclimate to salt stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.05.602205v1
Potato cultivars use different root physiological and molecular mechanisms to acclimate to salt stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.05.602205v1
Soil salinity induces osmotic stress and ion toxicity in plants, detrimentally affecting their growt
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July 9, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Potato cultivars use different root physiological and molecular mechanisms to acclimate to salt stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.05.602205v1
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Dissecting the genetic regulation of lateral root development in tomato under salt stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.20.599848v1
Dissecting the genetic regulation of lateral root development in tomato under salt stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.20.599848v1
Tomatoes are crucial for global food security and agricultural economies. With over 50% of arable la
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June 23, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Dissecting the genetic regulation of lateral root development in tomato under salt stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.20.599848v1
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New preprint from our lab. Xin Wang developed a handy genetic tool called #RootTracker to follow fate of lateral root primordia (LRP). He showed that arrested LRPs gradually obtain cambium identity and contribute to the secondary growth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 19, 2024 at 6:08 PM
New preprint from our lab. Xin Wang developed a handy genetic tool called #RootTracker to follow fate of lateral root primordia (LRP). He showed that arrested LRPs gradually obtain cambium identity and contribute to the secondary growth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Everyone's interested in the number of humps camels have - but it turns out the really interesting question is... how many domains do their antibodies have?
Read all about camelid antibodies in our latest blog post:
blog.addgene.org/yea...
Read all about camelid antibodies in our latest blog post:
blog.addgene.org/yea...
Year of the Camelid: Antibody Style
2024 is the Year of Camelids! To celebrate, we are taking a look at how these species (e.g. camels, llamas, alpacas) have impacted biological research.
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May 13, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Everyone's interested in the number of humps camels have - but it turns out the really interesting question is... how many domains do their antibodies have?
Read all about camelid antibodies in our latest blog post:
blog.addgene.org/yea...
Read all about camelid antibodies in our latest blog post:
blog.addgene.org/yea...
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I asked my first year #botany students to find botanical anomalies in movies, comics, book, etc.
And WOW, they found a LOT!
Some of my highlights:
And WOW, they found a LOT!
Some of my highlights:
May 9, 2024 at 8:52 AM
I asked my first year #botany students to find botanical anomalies in movies, comics, book, etc.
And WOW, they found a LOT!
Some of my highlights:
And WOW, they found a LOT!
Some of my highlights:
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Amazing work by Yutao and Nora and many other colleagues showing the major importance of minor molecular changes in the cell wall in seedlings exposed to high salinity academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
Arabinosylation of cell wall extensin is required for the directional response to salinity in roots
Salt induces ExAD-dependent arabinosylation of hydroxyproline residues in extensin to modify cell wall structure and the gravitropism response of roots.
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May 3, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Amazing work by Yutao and Nora and many other colleagues showing the major importance of minor molecular changes in the cell wall in seedlings exposed to high salinity academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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It’s King’s Day 👑 in the Netherlands. The day when everything, including the weather radar map, turns orange. Not too nice weather for all the outdoor activities though
April 27, 2024 at 5:44 AM
It’s King’s Day 👑 in the Netherlands. The day when everything, including the weather radar map, turns orange. Not too nice weather for all the outdoor activities though
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It has been a lovely EPS (Experimental Plant Sciences) annual meeting in Egmond aan Zee where I’ve enjoyed being a proud PI 🌱🔬👩🔬
April 9, 2024 at 11:12 AM
It has been a lovely EPS (Experimental Plant Sciences) annual meeting in Egmond aan Zee where I’ve enjoyed being a proud PI 🌱🔬👩🔬
Last year I was involved in organizing the European Plant Science Retreat in Wageningen. An event for and by PhD candidates to share their research and meet peers from across Europe. Today our meeting report went online in New Phytologist! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph....
March 21, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Last year I was involved in organizing the European Plant Science Retreat in Wageningen. An event for and by PhD candidates to share their research and meet peers from across Europe. Today our meeting report went online in New Phytologist! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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#Root #phenotyping news.
Root image analysis is tricky & tools for fully automated reconstruction of complex root images is still missing (roots are just plain messy).
One step in that direction has been done recently by Berrigan at al @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Root image analysis is tricky & tools for fully automated reconstruction of complex root images is still missing (roots are just plain messy).
One step in that direction has been done recently by Berrigan at al @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 10, 2024 at 7:24 PM
#Root #phenotyping news.
Root image analysis is tricky & tools for fully automated reconstruction of complex root images is still missing (roots are just plain messy).
One step in that direction has been done recently by Berrigan at al @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Root image analysis is tricky & tools for fully automated reconstruction of complex root images is still missing (roots are just plain messy).
One step in that direction has been done recently by Berrigan at al @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Root branching under high salinity requires auxin-independent modulation of LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARY DOMAIN 16 function
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#plantscience
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#plantscience
December 23, 2023 at 8:22 PM
Root branching under high salinity requires auxin-independent modulation of LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARY DOMAIN 16 function
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#plantscience
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#plantscience
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Job Alert! We're seeking a Lecturer in Plant Physiology to join our team. If you're a passionate educator with expertise in plant sciences, this position is for you. Inspire minds and be part of shaping tomorrow's leaders. Apply now!
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Docent Plantenfysiologie
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December 18, 2023 at 9:55 AM
Job Alert! We're seeking a Lecturer in Plant Physiology to join our team. If you're a passionate educator with expertise in plant sciences, this position is for you. Inspire minds and be part of shaping tomorrow's leaders. Apply now!
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
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