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Natalia Conde e Silva
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Plant molecular biologist at Université Paris-Saclay
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jxbotany.bsky.social
Check out this year's articles:
🌾 Editorial
@ucdflowerpower.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

🌼 My Favourite Flowering Image. The brightest orange: California poppy flowers as windows into evolutionary developmental genetics
@plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
3/9
October 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
lel-media.bsky.social
Les OGM ont-ils des effets néfastes sur la santé ? Il y a treize ans, l’étude Séralini l’affirmait, avant d’être rétractée. Aujourd’hui, une recherche menée sur deux générations de primates démontre le contraire. Bénéficiera-t-elle de la même couverture médiatique ?
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Aucun impact sur la santé : une étude d’envergure confirme l'innocuité des OGM
Les OGM sont-ils sûrs ? Ont-ils des effets néfastes à long terme sur la santé ? Il y a treize ans, l’étude Séralini l’affirmait, avant d’être rétractée. Aujourd’hui, une recherche de long terme menée ...
lel.media
August 1, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
mariemonniaux.bsky.social
From binding to regulation: crystal-clear paper on which features better predict regulatory binding sites. Surprisingly, location of the binding site within the gene (promoter/terminator/...) is a very bad predictor, which I didn't expect!
Congrats @turchil.bsky.social @flowerwhatelse.bsky.social !
July 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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mariemonniaux.bsky.social
Please fwd: 3-year funded PhD position on the evolution and molecular mechanisms of self-incompatibility in petunia, University of Lille. Cool new exploratory project dealing with plant genetics, evolution, networks of interacting proteins (and maybe even a field trip to South America) 🤩
July 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
hsauquet.bsky.social
Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
christhorogood.bsky.social
A collection of bee orchids I’ve encountered. Bee orchids mimic the look and smell of female insects to trick male insects into trying to mate with them: thrusting against the flowers, the male insects pick up and deliver pollen without reward (a process known as pseudocopulation).
March 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
mariemonniaux.bsky.social
Great work from @tank-silvia.bsky.social and others, showing that the mysterious SPL/NZZ gene interacts with floral MADS proteins to regulate female germ cell formation - combining coIP, ChIP-Seq, RNA-Seq and beautiful confocal stacks!
tank-silvia.bsky.social Silvia Manrique @tank-silvia.bsky.social · Mar 14
🧪 I know it sounds like a cliché but I am TRULY AND UTTERLY THRILLED that this work from my postdoc at #unimi is out. SPL/NZZ is a very important gene (it initiates sporogenesis) but a very mysterious one. 🧵
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biorxiv-plants.bsky.social bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Mar 13
SPOROCYTELESS/NOZZLE acts together with MADS-domain transcription factors to regulate an auxin-dependent network controlling the Megaspore Mother Cell development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.11.641985v1
March 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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icips.bsky.social
⛔⛔WARNING⛔⛔:
Last days to register for the international "Plant EVO-DEVO" symposium entitled
🌺🌸🏵️💮"Evolution of Plant Reproduction"🌷🌼🌹🪷

Register here:
dfg-icips.org/berlin2025/
or directly here:
conferencecentral.org/32

⏳Registration deadline is on Friday 14.02 midnight ⏳
February 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social
For fruit lovers: dehiscence zone patterning in California poppy does not require SEEDSTICK, but restricting endocarp cell division and expansion does! Check it out here: rdcu.be/d6sua ...we are still clueless about poppy's dehiscence zone genes
#PlantScienceResearch

#PlantEvodevo

#Ranunculales
cross section through a stained California poppy fruit
January 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
nucleosomepolice.bsky.social
by now you probably know that #giantviruses have #histones, but some also have histone variants! Check out our latest preprint on an essential H2B-H2A histone variant in Melbournevirus - a fantastic collaboration with the Abergel Lab, spearheaded by Ale Villalta. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
pyviv.bsky.social
Le piratage, les inondations et maintenant les sangliers
Capture d'écran : L'Université ferme le campus ce lundi 23/12/24 pour chasser les sangliers qui piétinent les vertes pelouses.
December 20, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
natplants.nature.com
New OA Letter: "Evolution of a STM transcription factor binding site promotes fruit shape determination" rdcu.be/d3loF

Local meristem identity is maintained through autoregulatory activation of the STM gene to allow post-fertilization changes in fruit morphology.
This study identifies a molecular mechanism promoting fruit shape variation. Local meristem identity is maintained through autoregulatory activation of the STM gene to allow post-fertilization changes in fruit morphology.
December 19, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
behrenstimb.bsky.social
This paper is magical.
scinews.bsky.social Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Nov 24
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
December 15, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
khan-awais.bsky.social
From natural mutations to intentional breeding, these nine #Apples represent a range of origins, chance seedlings, intentionally bred cultivars & wild apple relatives.

#PlantBreeding #PlantGenetics #Biodiversity
December 15, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
elenakramer.bsky.social
Are you a plant science researcher working towards a PhD or an early career researcher who completed their PhD no more than five years ago? Consider applying to the Next Generation Scientists 2025 meeting, sponsored by New Phytologist! #botany
www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
Next generation scientists 2025
www.newphytologist.org
December 13, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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nickdesnoyer.bsky.social
In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹

Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)
December 12, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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mariemonniaux.bsky.social
Please forward: 2-year post-doc position in the lab Evo-Eco-Paleo (Lille, France) to work on plant self-incompatibility & evolution - email me if interested!
December 11, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Reposted by Natalia Conde e Silva
plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social
Have you ever wondered how plants pattern their dehiscence zone when they don't have components of the Arabidopsis network? We tried to find out in California poppy and...., SEEDSTICK is not involved! But required to restrict endocarp growth. tiny.cc/ythzzz
#PlantScience #EvoDevo #Ranunculales
Conservation of the dehiscence zone gene regulatory network in dicots and the role of the SEEDSTICK ortholog of California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) in fruit development
Background Fruits, with their diverse shapes, colors, and flavors, represent a fascinating aspect of plant evolution and have played a significant role in human history and nutrition. Understanding th...
tiny.cc
December 6, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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ips2parissaclay.bsky.social
A new study from the Ratet team reveals that Atypical rhizobia trigger nodulation and pathogenesis on the same legume hosts
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Procedure used to trap Medicago littoralis nodule endophytes and to validate the Koch’s postulate. The three behaviors (endophyte, symbiotic, or pathogenic) of the T4 strain, depending of the plant developmental stage, are indicated at the bottom of the scheme
November 22, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social
Hey plant molecular biology friends of all fields, today is the last day for registering at the meeting "Molecular Biology of Plants" organized by the German Society for Plant Sciences. Let's register to sneak more evo and evodevo contributions in: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Conference
Conference "Molecular Biology of Plants" of the Section Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology in the DBG
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de
November 22, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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peterlewislab.bsky.social
"Dark TFs": new manuscript mapped 166 uncharacterized human transcription factors, finding half bind genomic "dark matter," often closed chromatin rich in transposable elements.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 19, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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khan-awais.bsky.social
Domesticated #Apples & their wild relatives showing variation in fruit size, shape & color!

6 Malus species: Gala (Malus domestica), M. Coronaria, M. ioensis, M. angustifolia, M. fusca from North America & Malus baccata from Asia (L to R)

#GeneticDiversity #PlantGenetics #PlantBreeding
6 Malus species: Gala (Malus domestica), Malus Coronaria, Malus ioensis, Malus angustifolia, Malus fusca from North America & Malus baccata from Asia (L to R)
November 20, 2024 at 3:08 AM