Weibing Yang
@weibingyang.bsky.social
Plant development & cell biology researcher, stem cells, cell division, cell wall, water response...
Group leader at CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science(CEMPS) and CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS)
Group leader at CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science(CEMPS) and CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS)
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Excited to share this preprint on the microtubule severing protein Katanin, and its role in cell elongation and division in maize. First author Stephanie Martinez worked collaboratively with many folks to bring you this preprint. Check it out! 🔬🌽 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
KATANIN promotes cell elongation and division to generate proper cell numbers in maize organs
Microtubule severing is essential for proper eukaryotic cell elongation and division. Here we show that the microtubule severing protein, KATANIN, is encoded by two genes in Zea mays (maize) called Di...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Excited to share this preprint on the microtubule severing protein Katanin, and its role in cell elongation and division in maize. First author Stephanie Martinez worked collaboratively with many folks to bring you this preprint. Check it out! 🔬🌽 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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(1/10) I am excited to share this signature review from our lab published @jxbotany.bsky.social
Congratulations to @ohazel.bsky.social and @jessicaa-orr.bsky.social (first published paper for Jessica!)
Nuclear positioning and cell division site specification in plants
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Congratulations to @ohazel.bsky.social and @jessicaa-orr.bsky.social (first published paper for Jessica!)
Nuclear positioning and cell division site specification in plants
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
July 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
(1/10) I am excited to share this signature review from our lab published @jxbotany.bsky.social
Congratulations to @ohazel.bsky.social and @jessicaa-orr.bsky.social (first published paper for Jessica!)
Nuclear positioning and cell division site specification in plants
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Congratulations to @ohazel.bsky.social and @jessicaa-orr.bsky.social (first published paper for Jessica!)
Nuclear positioning and cell division site specification in plants
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Check out this collaborative paper where we identified two new alleles of a myosin XI that reduce growth and branching and have strong asymmetric division defects. Making the mutant version of the protein is worse than no protein — first author @zebosi.bsky.social 🌽🎉
Recessive antimorph alleles reveal novel functions of the OPAQUE1 myosin XI in maize https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661838v1
July 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Check out this collaborative paper where we identified two new alleles of a myosin XI that reduce growth and branching and have strong asymmetric division defects. Making the mutant version of the protein is worse than no protein — first author @zebosi.bsky.social 🌽🎉
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🤩 BEAUTIFULL highlight of our work by Sabine Muller now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social
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June 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🤩 BEAUTIFULL highlight of our work by Sabine Muller now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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Amazing study from Jill Anderson, Megan Demarche and colleagues, integrating species distribution models, reciprocal transplants, snow manipulation and more to test whether a montane plant can adapt to climate change. The sad answer: not without human intervention.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Amazing study from Jill Anderson, Megan Demarche and colleagues, integrating species distribution models, reciprocal transplants, snow manipulation and more to test whether a montane plant can adapt to climate change. The sad answer: not without human intervention.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I had some absolutely incredible papers come online this week, and I need to take a minute to post about each of them. First, let me tell you about the CarboTag probes for imaging plant cell walls! From the Sprakel lab (a short thread) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I had some absolutely incredible papers come online this week, and I need to take a minute to post about each of them. First, let me tell you about the CarboTag probes for imaging plant cell walls! From the Sprakel lab (a short thread) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Building Blocks of Early Land Plants: Glycosyltransferases and Cell Wall Architecture in the model liverwort Marchantia polymorpha https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.30.651426v1
May 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
The Building Blocks of Early Land Plants: Glycosyltransferases and Cell Wall Architecture in the model liverwort Marchantia polymorpha https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.30.651426v1
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The Camelot paper is now published. If you ever wanted to try biomechanics, Camelot is an inexpensive and easy way to get started. @matmajda.bsky.social
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April 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The Camelot paper is now published. If you ever wanted to try biomechanics, Camelot is an inexpensive and easy way to get started. @matmajda.bsky.social
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🌱 When a root cell undergoes symmetric division, are the daughter cells actually identical? By combining live-cell imaging and scRNAseq we discovered a new cell state with uneven BR activity. Read our full paper in Cell: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... @nvukas.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🌱 When a root cell undergoes symmetric division, are the daughter cells actually identical? By combining live-cell imaging and scRNAseq we discovered a new cell state with uneven BR activity. Read our full paper in Cell: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... @nvukas.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social
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Just out in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. Amazing collaboration with @flowerwhatelse.bsky.social, Renaud Dumas, Matias Zurbriggen, Ken Birnbaum and François Roudier. And spearheaded by two amazing scientists: Raquel Martin-Arevalillo and Bruno Guillotin
April 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Just out in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. Amazing collaboration with @flowerwhatelse.bsky.social, Renaud Dumas, Matias Zurbriggen, Ken Birnbaum and François Roudier. And spearheaded by two amazing scientists: Raquel Martin-Arevalillo and Bruno Guillotin