Thomas WIDIEZ
@thomaswidiez.bsky.social
🌾Plant biologist, plant reproduction, seeds, pollen, haploid induction, maize🌽. PI at lab @rdplab.bsky.social in ENS de lyon @ensdelyon.bsky.social / research director at @inrae-france.bsky.social
🌽 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/...
The cenH3 assembly factor ZmKNL2 boosts haploid induction in maize 🌽
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The cenH3 assembly factor ZmKNL2 boosts haploid induction in maize 🌽
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚨Breakthrough in haploid induction through microspore 🌾 🌱
@cp-cell.bsky.social
▶️ Reprogramming of microspore fate via BBM-BAR1 for highly efficient in vivo haploid induction
📖 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
@cp-cell.bsky.social
▶️ Reprogramming of microspore fate via BBM-BAR1 for highly efficient in vivo haploid induction
📖 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
September 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🚨Breakthrough in haploid induction through microspore 🌾 🌱
@cp-cell.bsky.social
▶️ Reprogramming of microspore fate via BBM-BAR1 for highly efficient in vivo haploid induction
📖 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
@cp-cell.bsky.social
▶️ Reprogramming of microspore fate via BBM-BAR1 for highly efficient in vivo haploid induction
📖 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
➡️NRT1.1B acts as an ABA receptor in integrating compound environmental cues for plants
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
📖https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.027
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
📖https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.027
August 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
➡️NRT1.1B acts as an ABA receptor in integrating compound environmental cues for plants
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
📖https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.027
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
📖https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.027
Yes indeed PI(4,5)P2 biosensor is enriched at the peri-germ cell membrane 😃 (another parallel!), See the picture below.
It was published here: doi.org/10.1083/jcb.... but confusingly, the peri-germ cell membrane was called here pollen "endo-PM"...
It was published here: doi.org/10.1083/jcb.... but confusingly, the peri-germ cell membrane was called here pollen "endo-PM"...
June 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Yes indeed PI(4,5)P2 biosensor is enriched at the peri-germ cell membrane 😃 (another parallel!), See the picture below.
It was published here: doi.org/10.1083/jcb.... but confusingly, the peri-germ cell membrane was called here pollen "endo-PM"...
It was published here: doi.org/10.1083/jcb.... but confusingly, the peri-germ cell membrane was called here pollen "endo-PM"...
🌽 A dream maize seed phenotype—finally real❗
Two KIL TFs trigger lytic cell death in endosperm (EAS) ➡️ boosting embryo growth!
@theplantcell.bsky.social
Huge credit to @moritznowack.bsky.social & N. Doll for leading this work 🙌 Fantastic collaboration 🤝
📖 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
Two KIL TFs trigger lytic cell death in endosperm (EAS) ➡️ boosting embryo growth!
@theplantcell.bsky.social
Huge credit to @moritznowack.bsky.social & N. Doll for leading this work 🙌 Fantastic collaboration 🤝
📖 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
June 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🌽 A dream maize seed phenotype—finally real❗
Two KIL TFs trigger lytic cell death in endosperm (EAS) ➡️ boosting embryo growth!
@theplantcell.bsky.social
Huge credit to @moritznowack.bsky.social & N. Doll for leading this work 🙌 Fantastic collaboration 🤝
📖 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
Two KIL TFs trigger lytic cell death in endosperm (EAS) ➡️ boosting embryo growth!
@theplantcell.bsky.social
Huge credit to @moritznowack.bsky.social & N. Doll for leading this work 🙌 Fantastic collaboration 🤝
📖 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
🌱 Latest research from A. Lanubile Lab
▶️ editing the ZmWKRY125 transcription factor enhances maize resistance against Fusarium verticillioides🌽
Glad that our team from @rdplab.bsky.social contributed to this work! 🤝
🔓open access: hal.science/hal-05119616
📖 publisher's link doi.org/10.1007/s002...
▶️ editing the ZmWKRY125 transcription factor enhances maize resistance against Fusarium verticillioides🌽
Glad that our team from @rdplab.bsky.social contributed to this work! 🤝
🔓open access: hal.science/hal-05119616
📖 publisher's link doi.org/10.1007/s002...
June 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🌱 Latest research from A. Lanubile Lab
▶️ editing the ZmWKRY125 transcription factor enhances maize resistance against Fusarium verticillioides🌽
Glad that our team from @rdplab.bsky.social contributed to this work! 🤝
🔓open access: hal.science/hal-05119616
📖 publisher's link doi.org/10.1007/s002...
▶️ editing the ZmWKRY125 transcription factor enhances maize resistance against Fusarium verticillioides🌽
Glad that our team from @rdplab.bsky.social contributed to this work! 🤝
🔓open access: hal.science/hal-05119616
📖 publisher's link doi.org/10.1007/s002...
🌱 What a fantastic seminar from @michaelraissig.bsky.social for our @rdplab.bsky.social external seminar.
Full of energy, with some seriously cool cell biology 🔬💚
Exciting research on stomata and Brachypodium!
#PlantScience #CellBiology #Stomata #Brachypodium
Full of energy, with some seriously cool cell biology 🔬💚
Exciting research on stomata and Brachypodium!
#PlantScience #CellBiology #Stomata #Brachypodium
May 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
🌱 What a fantastic seminar from @michaelraissig.bsky.social for our @rdplab.bsky.social external seminar.
Full of energy, with some seriously cool cell biology 🔬💚
Exciting research on stomata and Brachypodium!
#PlantScience #CellBiology #Stomata #Brachypodium
Full of energy, with some seriously cool cell biology 🔬💚
Exciting research on stomata and Brachypodium!
#PlantScience #CellBiology #Stomata #Brachypodium
▶️ A two-step self-pollination mechanism maximizes fertility in Brassicaceae
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
April 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
▶️ A two-step self-pollination mechanism maximizes fertility in Brassicaceae
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
▶️Maternal haploid induction in maize via mutation of Gamete Expression protein 1 (ZmGEX1) 🌱
-->Plant Biotechnology Journal
📖 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
-->Plant Biotechnology Journal
📖 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
April 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
▶️Maternal haploid induction in maize via mutation of Gamete Expression protein 1 (ZmGEX1) 🌱
-->Plant Biotechnology Journal
📖 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
-->Plant Biotechnology Journal
📖 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Having babies without DNA from Daddy?! 😵
🌻Yep, possible in sunflowers 🌻
Tim Kelliher's team describes a sunflower parthenogenic doubled haploid (DH) process
@nature.com
▶️Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction
📖 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌻Yep, possible in sunflowers 🌻
Tim Kelliher's team describes a sunflower parthenogenic doubled haploid (DH) process
@nature.com
▶️Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction
📖 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Having babies without DNA from Daddy?! 😵
🌻Yep, possible in sunflowers 🌻
Tim Kelliher's team describes a sunflower parthenogenic doubled haploid (DH) process
@nature.com
▶️Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction
📖 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌻Yep, possible in sunflowers 🌻
Tim Kelliher's team describes a sunflower parthenogenic doubled haploid (DH) process
@nature.com
▶️Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction
📖 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌽 The use of haploid inducer line to edit, by simple crossing, other maize lines 🌽
📖 doi.org/10.1111/pbi....
PlantBiotechJ
👉🏼Harnessing haploid-inducer mediated genome editing for accelerated maize variety development
📖 doi.org/10.1111/pbi....
PlantBiotechJ
👉🏼Harnessing haploid-inducer mediated genome editing for accelerated maize variety development
February 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🌽 The use of haploid inducer line to edit, by simple crossing, other maize lines 🌽
📖 doi.org/10.1111/pbi....
PlantBiotechJ
👉🏼Harnessing haploid-inducer mediated genome editing for accelerated maize variety development
📖 doi.org/10.1111/pbi....
PlantBiotechJ
👉🏼Harnessing haploid-inducer mediated genome editing for accelerated maize variety development
🌱 Egg cell-specific degradation of CENH3 using engineered E3-ligases successfully induce haploids 🌱
⚠️ Preprint from Andreas Houben's lab @leibnizipk.bsky.social
👉🏼 Gametophytic degradation of CENH3 - a synthetic biology approach for haploid induction in plants
📖 doi.org/10.21203/rs....
⚠️ Preprint from Andreas Houben's lab @leibnizipk.bsky.social
👉🏼 Gametophytic degradation of CENH3 - a synthetic biology approach for haploid induction in plants
📖 doi.org/10.21203/rs....
February 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🌱 Egg cell-specific degradation of CENH3 using engineered E3-ligases successfully induce haploids 🌱
⚠️ Preprint from Andreas Houben's lab @leibnizipk.bsky.social
👉🏼 Gametophytic degradation of CENH3 - a synthetic biology approach for haploid induction in plants
📖 doi.org/10.21203/rs....
⚠️ Preprint from Andreas Houben's lab @leibnizipk.bsky.social
👉🏼 Gametophytic degradation of CENH3 - a synthetic biology approach for haploid induction in plants
📖 doi.org/10.21203/rs....
Another day at RDP lab and another great seminar by Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social ,
who gave an integrated view of rhizobial infections in legume 🫘 (and maybe in other crops in the future 🌾🌽?!...)
December 10, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Another day at RDP lab and another great seminar by Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social ,
who gave an integrated view of rhizobial infections in legume 🫘 (and maybe in other crops in the future 🌾🌽?!...)
The power of spatial and single-cell OMICs presented by Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social in our 🌱Plant Science Institut ( @rdplab.bsky.social ) in Lyon.
December 9, 2024 at 1:40 PM
The power of spatial and single-cell OMICs presented by Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social in our 🌱Plant Science Institut ( @rdplab.bsky.social ) in Lyon.
➡️ Engineering high-frequency apomixis with normal seed production in hybrid rice 🌾🌾
📖 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
📖 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
November 30, 2024 at 9:00 PM
➡️ Engineering high-frequency apomixis with normal seed production in hybrid rice 🌾🌾
📖 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
📖 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
In this @natureplants.bsky.social issue we did a community effort to unify the nomenclature of a unique membrane that enclosed the 🌱 sperm cells as the:
PERI-GERM CELL MEMBRANE
read more:
📖https://nature.com/articles/s41477-024-01818-5
📖https://rdcu.be/dW1Ie
PERI-GERM CELL MEMBRANE
read more:
📖https://nature.com/articles/s41477-024-01818-5
📖https://rdcu.be/dW1Ie
November 29, 2024 at 4:28 PM
In this @natureplants.bsky.social issue we did a community effort to unify the nomenclature of a unique membrane that enclosed the 🌱 sperm cells as the:
PERI-GERM CELL MEMBRANE
read more:
📖https://nature.com/articles/s41477-024-01818-5
📖https://rdcu.be/dW1Ie
PERI-GERM CELL MEMBRANE
read more:
📖https://nature.com/articles/s41477-024-01818-5
📖https://rdcu.be/dW1Ie