Theses defended in late 2025 or early 2026 ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience

Ancient WIP transcription factors regulate auxin-dependent development in the moss Physcomitrium patens. Their conserved function reveals an ancestral genetic toolkit that has shaped land plant evolution for over 450 million years. ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience

Have a look at the new study from the F. Frugier’s SILEG & M. Benhamed’s ChromD teams published in Plant Communications, on 3D genome reorganization during symbiotic nodulation www.cell.com/plant-commun... #PlantScience

Have a look at our review “Bridging paradoxes in recombination at NLR cluster: A structural genomics perspective” out in Current Opinion in Plant Biology doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

Excited to share our paper “The I gene defines a dynamic NLR cluster conferring broad potyvirus resistance in common bean” out in @natcomms.nature.com Huge structural variation at NLR cluster and insertion of a transposable element in the I gene leading to a natural I mutant doi.org/10.1038/s414...

The I gene defines a dynamic NLR cluster conferring broad potyvirus resistance in common bean - Nature Communications

Potyviruses seriously affect common bean production worldwide. Here, the authors combine genome assembly and characterization of loss-of-function mutants to reveal a dynamic NLR cluster conferring dur...

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Enhancing apple disease resistance using magnetic nanoparticles carrying artificial miRNAs that suppress a tRNA-derived small RNA targeting a disease-resistant gene #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

PlantscRNAdb 4.0: Improved marker identification and annotation under a cell type uniformity for plants #resource #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

🧬 EXPERT VIEW 🧬 In this review, Lee & Seo highlight the hierarchical organization of plant genomes, emphasizing recent advances in understanding local chromatin structures shaped by cohesins and gene borders as fundamental structural units. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬 In this review, Lee & Seo highlight the hierarchical organization of plant genomes, emphasizing recent advances in understanding local chromatin structures shaped by cohesins and gene borders as fundamental structural units. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Meet the volunteer researchers behind #TAIR12... beginning with Emmanuel Boutet of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Please join us in expressing gratitude to everyone who contributed to this new annotation. #plantbiology #plantscience #TAIR #Arabidopsis bit.ly/4p6FagQ

Meet the volunteer researchers behind TAIR12: Emmanuel Boutet, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics - Phoenix Bioinformatics

Over the past two years TAIR has led a community effort to reannotate the Arabidopsis thaliana genome with support from scientists like Emmanuel Boutet, a plant biocurator for the Swiss Institute of B...

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AI based framework for RNA modif detection using nanopore #RNAbiology

SWARM: A Single-Molecule Workflow for High-Precision Profiling of RNA Modifications

Nanopore direct RNA sequencing promises to decode the epitranscriptome by detecting multiple modifications on individual RNA molecules, but its potential for biological discovery is hampered by high f...

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📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: SPS Summer School 2026 - "Plant single cell RNAseq workshop: From current technologies to data analyses" 👉 buff.ly/cCZZ5kq #PlantScience

SPS Summer School 2026 - "Plant single cell RNAseq workshop: From current technologies to data analyses"

(2026) Sun 28 Jun, 2:00 PM - Fri 3 Jul, 6:00 PM [CEST]: This Summer school is organized by the Saclay Plant Sciences (SPS) network, one of the largest European plant sciences communities. scRNAseq…

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📢 Online event: International Society of Root Research - Mini Symposium — Wed 28 Jan 2026, 10:00–17:00 UK (12:00–18:30 UTC). Talks + discussion for anyone into root research & related topics. @rootscientists.bsky.social @rootarchitecture.bsky.social #roots #RootResearch #PlantScience #Rhizosphere

It's our birthday! Twenty-five years ago, in December 2000, the Arabidopsis thaliana genome was published and #TAIR was born. Now, we're preparing for the release of #TAIR12 early in the new year. What a long way we've come! bit.ly/3KDJciT #plantbiology #plantscience #genomics #Arabidopsis

Get ready: TAIR12 is coming - Phoenix Bioinformatics

More than two years ago, TAIR took the lead in a volunteer-driven project to reannotate the Arabidopsis thaliana genome

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🎉 Congratulations to Leandro Quadrana (@leandroquadrana), @CNRS researcher at @IPS2ParisSaclay, for obtaining the prestigious #ERCCoG HosTEome! #ERC #Genomics #Research #AIinBiology #CNRS #UniversitéParisSaclay #PlantScience ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...

In vivo RNA structure influences the translation and stability of plant long noncoding RNAs #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

A telomere-to-telomere reference genome assembly of tomato cultivar Heinz 1706 #correspondence #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Registrations are open for the Summer School "Saclay Plant Science" (SPS) 2026 on Plant Single Cell at Versailles ! ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience

A review from F. Frugier' team aiming at identifying the common molecular mechanisms associated to the different beneficial plant-microbe symbiotic and endophytic interactions ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience

Welcome and congratulations to Bruno Guillotin on joining IPS2 as a permanent researcher! May the spirit of science always be with you and inspire your future discoveries. #PlantScience ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...

9 international PhD students, 17 partners, 1 goal: coordinated by Université Paris-Saclay, the HeatDDR Doctoral Network is training the next generation of plant scientists to boost crop resilience to heat and climate change 🌱🔥 ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience

plantiSMASH 2.0: improvements to detection, annotation, and prioritization of plant biosynthetic gene clusters https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.683968v1

From non-coding to chromatin regulators: VIVIpary and the rise of lncRNAs in plant biology #spotlight #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Long noncoding RNAs as molecular architects: Shaping plant functions and physiological plasticity #review #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Interested in #lncRNA and #ArtificiaIntelligence? In the frame of our recently founded French-Korean bilateral project DHARP, we are recruiting a post-doc in bioinformatics and artificial intelligence in our team at @ips2parissaclay.bsky.social Application limit: 01/12/2025

New academic year and we are lucky to host two new PhD students in our group at @ips2parissaclay.bsky.social. Welcome Laura and Valentin! funrna.org/post/2025-10...

Have a look to the new study from the Frugier team at IPS2, about the sTDIF signaling peptide that modulates the root stele diameter and primary metabolism to accommodate symbiotic nodulation. ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience

Check out the open access paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A single-cell, spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle - Nature Plants

This study presents an extensive single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle that represents ten distinct developmental time points inclusive of six diverse organs.

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Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The histone variant H3.14 is an early player in the abiotic stress response of Arabidopsis. #PlantScience 🌾🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The histone variant H3.14 is an early player in the abiotic stress response of Arabidopsis

The combinatorial changes in DNA methylation, post-translational histone modifications, and histone variants underlie the complexity of chromatin stru…

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