It's out! 🥳 In situ architecture of #plasmodesmata - plant cytoplasmic bridges - by #cryoET. 📝 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 Thread: bsky.app/profile/madi... #teamtomo #proteomics #AlphaFold

In situ architecture of plasmodesmata in Physcomitrium patens resolved by cryo-electron tomography - Nature Plants

Using cryo-electron tomography, the authors reveal how plasmodesmata (plant cytoplasmic bridges) are gated by cell wall remodelling and how helical protein assemblies scaffold internal membranes, with...

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Marcel Dickmanns | 🌿❄️🔬@madic.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata. Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🧵1/n #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM

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...

When I served on NIH review panels, I always thought: We need more *not so good* #plantscience proposals! The plant proposals were on average so much better than the rest, but as a 🌱 biologist, it was difficult to convince the other panel members that 🌱 scientists all punched above their weight.

ERC SYNERGY Project HYDROSENSING@hydrosensing.bsky.social · 2y ago

During the Q&A session, EPSO encouraged plant scientists to apply for ERC grants. 🌱 The challenge? It’s a matter of numbers - there just aren’t enough applications coming from plant science! Do you have a great #PlantScience idea and a team ready to see it through? Don’t wait -just go for it!