I'm excited to share our paper on natural variation in the Arabidopsis circadian clock, published in @plantphys.bsky.social with Anna Philippova, @adaevo.bsky.social and @hikemaydon.bsky.social 🌱🕐. Thread below (🧵1/6) academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

A noncoding SNP in ELF3 alters ELF3β expression and confers adaptation of Arabidopsis to a continental climate

A naturally occurring variant in the Arabidopsis core clock gene EARLY FLOWERING 3 alters temperature responsiveness and has been selected for in regions o

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Someone in the Arabidopsis/clock community seems to deeply dislike my work on research culture. Just want to say: whoever you are, please write & debate me directly instead of cowering behind anonymous grant reviews that threaten my students’ work. (2nd year in a row)

Back in the field: Eneza @enezer.bsky.social, Maria, and this year’s students are on Spiekeroog again in 2026, continuing to phenotype wild Arabidopsis in 2026. The dataset grows, and the story continues: Watching climate shape plants - in real time, in real environments.

Sascha Laubinger@saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to share our latest preprint. Arabidopsis thaliana has been the leading model for plant genetics - but most of what we know comes from growth chambers. Can this model also help us understand how climate shapes plants in the wild and reveal gene functions under real environmental variability?

Resequencing hundreds or thousands of individuals from the same species has become routine... but processing all those genomes efficiently? Still a headache! Here's my solution that used to be lab-internal but that I am happy to share: crolllab.github.io/genomepanel_...

Home – genomepanel_nf

Nextflow pipeline for reference genome mapping, SNP calling and quality checks on large genome panels

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1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🌱 New preprint out on bioRxiv! How do plants sense seasonal changes in day length? In our new study, we profiled high resolution (2h) RNA seq time courses in tomato across three photoperiods to uncover how light duration shapes gene expression dynamics. Summary in next post...

Preprint!!!! This is the result of an ongoing collaboration between us and the genomics core to make genetics cheap and easy. A synergy between library prep and analytical approaches. This one hinges on recognizing 1. that DNA molecules are shaped by evolution and 2. we have friends everywhere.

bioRxiv Genetics@biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Life, the universe, and everything for $42: ultra-low pass sequencing of maize for genotyping, mapping, and pedigree analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.20.707111v1

Did you know that most knockouts in Arabidopsis actually do have phenotypes and aren't some redundancy situation? All you have to do is measure in multiple tissues in multiple environments and then the phenotypes show up. Redundancy was an assumption never tested.

Malate matters! Especially in tomato fruit, where malate reaches levels that would shut down “normal” metabolism. Tomato solves this with BTPC, part of a malate-insensitive Class-2 PEPC complex.

Chromosome-scale Solanum pennellii and Solanum cheesmaniae genome assemblies reveal structural variants, repeat content and recombination barriers of the tomato clade https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695418v1

Congrats to RootResponse lab members (CBGP) for this review in JXB DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraf520 how root traits, microbiome interactions, and epigenetic regulation play a role in plant heat stress resilience, stressing the need for lab approaches that closely reflect field-conditions

We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes. Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Next generation of 1001 Genomes Plus browser and data download

Please indicate all features you would like to see in a browser that displays features of completely sequenced Arabidopsis thaliana genomes

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New preprint from the lab on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! We show how SEPALLATA MADS-box genes in tomato functionally diverged to regulate inflorescence and floral organ development while maintaining redundant functions in conferring floral meristem identity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🗣️ Today, José Jiménez Gómez from @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social came to visit us in Málaga to share his research with a great talk entitled “Metabolic adaptations towards salt tolerance in Arabidopsis plants from the Cape Verde Islands” as part of our #IHSMLaMayoraSeminars series

Amazing talk by @jimenezgomez.bsky.social at @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social

IHSM La Mayora UMA-CSIC@ihsmumacsic.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🗣️ Today, José Jiménez Gómez from @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social came to visit us in Málaga to share his research with a great talk entitled “Metabolic adaptations towards salt tolerance in Arabidopsis plants from the Cape Verde Islands” as part of our #IHSMLaMayoraSeminars series

I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.

There are lots of answers out there that are beautiful because the truth of the system is beautiful. If I find one of these beautiful facts, it doesn’t make me brilliant. Just right place and right time. True scientific heroes acknowledge that fact.

📋 Join us on Friday 14th for a fascinating seminar with the researcher José Jiménez Gómez (@cbgpmadrid.bsky.social, Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas). Don't miss it! 🕓 9:30 AM 📍 IHSM La Mayora Auditorium More information here! ⬇️

I’m very pleased to share our latest work, led by the talented @cbuckley.bsky.social as part of his PhD. It’s our first attempt at studying #circadian rhythms in wheat with the help of some great collaborators @jesshyles.bsky.social @adaevo.bsky.social et al. #plantsci 🌾⏰ 1/7 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

A circadian transcriptional subnetwork and EARLY FLOWERING 3 control timing of senescence and grain nutrition in bread wheat

Circadian clocks control daily and seasonal timing of physiology and development. Because of their influence on photoperiodic flowering, variants in circadian clock genes have been selected for ph...

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Save the date, 1-3 July 2026, for the XVIII Plant Molecular Biology Meeting #RBMP2026 in Bilbao. Check out the website for updates rbmp2026.com/RBMP/en/info

XVIII Meeting of Plant Molecular Biology

I am going to attend the event

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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...

Like I mentioned last week I like it when plants find a way against all odds. It is not just the perseverance and adaption. But also, that we can learn something from how those pioneering plants manage to survive against all odds. 🧵1/3 🧪 #PlantScience

Getting a little salt tolerance

Plants in a saline environment have no other choice than to adapt. Spanish and French researchers show one of those adaptions in the newly published research “Parallel evolution of salinity toleran…

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We just published our work in #ScienceAdvances "Parallel evolution of salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from Cape Verde Islands" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Short summary and credits follow:

Our story about salinity tolerance in the Cape Verde islands is out in Science Advances! @science.org. Two independent mutations in the same gene conferred salt resistance to Arabidopsis plants! Check it out here! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Parallel evolution of salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from Cape Verde Islands

Plants from the Cape Verde Islands evolved parallel mutations to protect from high salinity.

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These were my very first experiments done at @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social. I still remember the excitement of @jimenezgomez.bsky.social and me when observing the plates and the shocking phenotype! Thanks to all the authors for the work and so happy to continue working on this!

🧪Very timely, the paper from the story that @jimenezgomez.bsky.social explained us during #SEG2025 was published yesterday. Congrats to all the team and specially first co-author @laskotillean.bsky.social! Beautiful story! 🫶🏻

Silvia Manrique@tank-silvia.bsky.social · last yr.

The session started with the invited talk of #JMJimenez-Gomez from @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social. A beautiful story showcasing parallel evolution of arabidopsis populations from Cape Verde.

The quantitative effect of seed production triggers the end of flowering in tomato (María Jesús López-Martín , Cristina Ferrándiz , Concepción Gómez-Mena) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

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Our work on MYBs and WRKY regulating suberin in tomato exodermis is now out in @jxbotany.bsky.social! 🍅 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 👩‍🔬 @leonardojo.bsky.social @riannekluck.bsky.social @marianasartur.bsky.social Sara Buti, Alex Cantó-Pastor @bradylabs.bsky.social 🌱 #PlantScience

Transcription factors SlMYB41, SlMYB92 and SlWRKY71 regulate gene expression in the tomato exodermis

Abstract. Root barrier cell types, like the endodermis and exodermis, are crucial for plant acclimation to environmental stresses. Deposition of suberin, a

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Kaisa Kajala@kaisakajala.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧨Pre-print alert!🧨 We investigated the role of three TFs in tomato 🍅 exodermis suberin, and we found some MYB/WRKY antagonism! doi.org/10.1101/2024... (1/5)