Zi-Liang Hu
@zi-liang.bsky.social
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Here is my @currentbiology.bsky.social dispatch on an excellent article by the @coudertlab.bsky.social. Re-visiting the shoot branching field (and learning many new things in the process!) brought back fond memories from my time at @slcuplants.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Plant development: Auxin diffusion controls moss shoot architecture
The phytohormone auxin is a conserved inhibitor of shoot branching in plants. While directional, carrier-mediated transport is necessary for the proce…
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November 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Here is my @currentbiology.bsky.social dispatch on an excellent article by the @coudertlab.bsky.social. Re-visiting the shoot branching field (and learning many new things in the process!) brought back fond memories from my time at @slcuplants.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New OA Article: "In situ architecture of the nuclear pore complex of the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana" rdcu.be/eNFiR
Advanced imaging techniques and computer modelling to create a detailed structural model of a nuclear pore complex from a seed plant.
Advanced imaging techniques and computer modelling to create a detailed structural model of a nuclear pore complex from a seed plant.
October 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New OA Article: "In situ architecture of the nuclear pore complex of the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana" rdcu.be/eNFiR
Advanced imaging techniques and computer modelling to create a detailed structural model of a nuclear pore complex from a seed plant.
Advanced imaging techniques and computer modelling to create a detailed structural model of a nuclear pore complex from a seed plant.
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My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available →
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October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available →
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Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!
October 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!
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Happy to share our recent thoughts on how grasses form and pattern stomata
doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾
Congrats to
@lbmountain.bsky.social
on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!
doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾
Congrats to
@lbmountain.bsky.social
on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!
October 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Happy to share our recent thoughts on how grasses form and pattern stomata
doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾
Congrats to
@lbmountain.bsky.social
on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!
doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾
Congrats to
@lbmountain.bsky.social
on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!
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Gorgeous imaging by Takashi Ueda sensei's lab!
Retrieval from vacuolar and endosomal compartments underpinning the neofunctionalization of SNARE in plants @natplants.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Protocol for Super-resolution Confocal Imaging: bio-protocol.org/epdf/3732
Gorgeous imaging by Takashi Ueda sensei's lab!
Retrieval from vacuolar and endosomal compartments underpinning the neofunctionalization of SNARE in plants @natplants.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Protocol for Super-resolution Confocal Imaging: bio-protocol.org/epdf/3732
October 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Gorgeous imaging by Takashi Ueda sensei's lab!
Retrieval from vacuolar and endosomal compartments underpinning the neofunctionalization of SNARE in plants @natplants.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Protocol for Super-resolution Confocal Imaging: bio-protocol.org/epdf/3732
Gorgeous imaging by Takashi Ueda sensei's lab!
Retrieval from vacuolar and endosomal compartments underpinning the neofunctionalization of SNARE in plants @natplants.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Protocol for Super-resolution Confocal Imaging: bio-protocol.org/epdf/3732
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#TansleyReview: An updated history of TDIF-PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning
He et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
He et al. 👇
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#LatestIssue #PlantScience
October 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
#TansleyReview: An updated history of TDIF-PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning
He et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
He et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
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Check out our new review in JXB:
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
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@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
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October 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Check out our new review in JXB:
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
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How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇
Mechano-osmotic signals control chromatin state and fate transitions in pluripotent stem cells - Nature Cell Biology
McCreery, Stubb et al. show that mechano-osmotic changes in the nucleus induce general transcriptional repression and prime chromatin for cell fate transitions by relieving repression of specific differentiation genes.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇
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We are happy to present the magnum opus of Sjoerd Woudenberg, at the close of his PhD – Transgenerational inheritance of the polarity axis in a fern embryo…a thread (1/17)
tinyurl.com/4y53xekv
tinyurl.com/4y53xekv
Transgenerational polarity axis inheritance during Ceratopteris embryogenesis
For sexually reproducing organisms to pass on their genetic information, progeny must successfully establish. Various life history strategies have evolved, using either dispersal of large numbers of p...
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September 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We are happy to present the magnum opus of Sjoerd Woudenberg, at the close of his PhD – Transgenerational inheritance of the polarity axis in a fern embryo…a thread (1/17)
tinyurl.com/4y53xekv
tinyurl.com/4y53xekv
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What's the difference between dominance and epistasis? Two physically distinct mutations in a gene interact such that the het is identical to one of the homozygotes. If I define the gene as a locus, we call this dominance. If I define each bp as a locus, we call this epistasis.
September 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What's the difference between dominance and epistasis? Two physically distinct mutations in a gene interact such that the het is identical to one of the homozygotes. If I define the gene as a locus, we call this dominance. If I define each bp as a locus, we call this epistasis.
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📜 A workflow for absolute apoplastic pH assessment during live cell imaging in plant roots
🧑🔬 @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle, @elkebarbez.bsky.social
📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImaging #PlantPhysiology #PlantDevelopment
🧑🔬 @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle, @elkebarbez.bsky.social
📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImaging #PlantPhysiology #PlantDevelopment
A workflow for absolute apoplastic pH assessment during live cell imaging in plant roots
Apoplastic pH is a key regulator of plant development and environmental responses, influencing processes such as cell expansion, nutrient uptake, and intercellular signaling. Accurate tools for measur...
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June 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
📜 A workflow for absolute apoplastic pH assessment during live cell imaging in plant roots
🧑🔬 @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle, @elkebarbez.bsky.social
📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImaging #PlantPhysiology #PlantDevelopment
🧑🔬 @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle, @elkebarbez.bsky.social
📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImaging #PlantPhysiology #PlantDevelopment
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📜 Hormonal regulation of primary root development
🧑🔬 Michela De Nittis, Mirko De Vivo, @raffolab.bsky.social, Sabrina Sabatini
📔 @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #Phytohormones #Auxin #Cytokinin #PlantDevelopment
🧑🔬 Michela De Nittis, Mirko De Vivo, @raffolab.bsky.social, Sabrina Sabatini
📔 @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #Phytohormones #Auxin #Cytokinin #PlantDevelopment
Hormonal regulation of primary root development
Dynamic hormone networks orchestrate Arabidopsis root meristem growth. In this review,
Nittis et al. highlight recent advances in how these regulatory systems shape root
development and discuss their ...
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May 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
📜 Hormonal regulation of primary root development
🧑🔬 Michela De Nittis, Mirko De Vivo, @raffolab.bsky.social, Sabrina Sabatini
📔 @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #Phytohormones #Auxin #Cytokinin #PlantDevelopment
🧑🔬 Michela De Nittis, Mirko De Vivo, @raffolab.bsky.social, Sabrina Sabatini
📔 @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #Phytohormones #Auxin #Cytokinin #PlantDevelopment
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Now online - the Review "Plant steroids on the move: mechanisms of #brassinosteroid export" from @jennyrussinova.bsky.social and co.
#PlantHormones #ABCTransporter #ABCB19 #ABCB1
Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kx%7Ex3S6...
#PlantHormones #ABCTransporter #ABCB19 #ABCB1
Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kx%7Ex3S6...
April 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Now online - the Review "Plant steroids on the move: mechanisms of #brassinosteroid export" from @jennyrussinova.bsky.social and co.
#PlantHormones #ABCTransporter #ABCB19 #ABCB1
Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kx%7Ex3S6...
#PlantHormones #ABCTransporter #ABCB19 #ABCB1
Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kx%7Ex3S6...
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Whaouhouh! @yohannboutte.bsky.social @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social Magalie Grison!!!
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Root expansion microscopy: A robust method for super resolution imaging in Arabidopsis
Root expansion microscopy (ROOT-ExM) achieves super-resolution expansion microscopy in plants.
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April 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Whaouhouh! @yohannboutte.bsky.social @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social Magalie Grison!!!
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📜 Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent proteins for extended imaging
🧑🔬 Jihwan Lee, Shujuan Lai, François St-Pierre, et al.
📔 @naturecomms.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #Microscopy #Imaging #BiologicalImaging #BioImaging #Fluorophores #FluorescentProteins #YFP
🧑🔬 Jihwan Lee, Shujuan Lai, François St-Pierre, et al.
📔 @naturecomms.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #Microscopy #Imaging #BiologicalImaging #BioImaging #Fluorophores #FluorescentProteins #YFP
Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent proteins for extended imaging - Nature Communications
Yellow fluorescent proteins (YFPs) photobleach rapidly, restricting microscopy experiments. Here, the authors report mGold2s and mGold2t, YFPs that extend imaging durations up to 25 times longer than ...
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April 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
📜 Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent proteins for extended imaging
🧑🔬 Jihwan Lee, Shujuan Lai, François St-Pierre, et al.
📔 @naturecomms.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #Microscopy #Imaging #BiologicalImaging #BioImaging #Fluorophores #FluorescentProteins #YFP
🧑🔬 Jihwan Lee, Shujuan Lai, François St-Pierre, et al.
📔 @naturecomms.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #Microscopy #Imaging #BiologicalImaging #BioImaging #Fluorophores #FluorescentProteins #YFP
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Our latest preprint…Adrien Franchet, Yuhong Jin et al @crick.ac.uk show that circulating glutamine drives brain sparing during nutrient restriction. Great collab with labs of Yaël Grosjean and Ian Gilmore.
#metabolism #Drosophila #neuralstemcells
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#metabolism #Drosophila #neuralstemcells
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Our latest preprint…Adrien Franchet, Yuhong Jin et al @crick.ac.uk show that circulating glutamine drives brain sparing during nutrient restriction. Great collab with labs of Yaël Grosjean and Ian Gilmore.
#metabolism #Drosophila #neuralstemcells
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#metabolism #Drosophila #neuralstemcells
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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📜 Quantifying plant biology with fluorescent biosensors
🧑🔬 @botanicaljim.bsky.social, @maxjosse.bsky.social, Bijun Tang, @xanderjones.bsky.social
📔 @annualreviews.bsky.social
🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #Biosensors #PlantSensors
🧑🔬 @botanicaljim.bsky.social, @maxjosse.bsky.social, Bijun Tang, @xanderjones.bsky.social
📔 @annualreviews.bsky.social
🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #Biosensors #PlantSensors
Quantifying Plant Biology with Fluorescent Biosensors | Annual Reviews
Plant biology is undergoing a spatial omics revolution, but these approaches are limited to snapshots of a plant's state. Direct, genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors complement the omics a...
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April 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
📜 Quantifying plant biology with fluorescent biosensors
🧑🔬 @botanicaljim.bsky.social, @maxjosse.bsky.social, Bijun Tang, @xanderjones.bsky.social
📔 @annualreviews.bsky.social
🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #Biosensors #PlantSensors
🧑🔬 @botanicaljim.bsky.social, @maxjosse.bsky.social, Bijun Tang, @xanderjones.bsky.social
📔 @annualreviews.bsky.social
🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #Biosensors #PlantSensors
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Our lab's first review article written with @yadhusankar.bsky.social and @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social is out now in The Plant Journal! 🎉🌱
We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A space for time. Exploring temporal regulation of plant development across spatial scales
Developmental timing in plants is tightly regulated at the whole-organism scale, from germination to flowering. Less is known about when and how local transitions are temporally regulated. Not every ...
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April 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Our lab's first review article written with @yadhusankar.bsky.social and @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social is out now in The Plant Journal! 🎉🌱
We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Do you want to study roots? We released RhizoVision Explorer 3 years ago and now have 12,500+ downloads. RVE is free, open-source software for analyzing root images. The website covers common reproducible imaging approaches. Feel free to ask any questions! Version 2 coming!
www.rhizovision.com
www.rhizovision.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Do you want to study roots? We released RhizoVision Explorer 3 years ago and now have 12,500+ downloads. RVE is free, open-source software for analyzing root images. The website covers common reproducible imaging approaches. Feel free to ask any questions! Version 2 coming!
www.rhizovision.com
www.rhizovision.com
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𝗦𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 22, 2024 at 11:10 AM
𝗦𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Do you want to know how to live-image internal floral organs with confocal microscope for up to 2 weeks?
Check out our protocol:
bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...
#Arabidopsis #Flower
Check out our protocol:
bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...
#Arabidopsis #Flower
December 18, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Do you want to know how to live-image internal floral organs with confocal microscope for up to 2 weeks?
Check out our protocol:
bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...
#Arabidopsis #Flower
Check out our protocol:
bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...
#Arabidopsis #Flower