Our latest for your summer reading list: how do plants control growth at the organ surface? So proud of @zoenv.bsky.social's magnum opus and grateful to all the other authors, including Annamaria Kiss, @nathan-german.bsky.social, and @moritznowack.bsky.social! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth-control program

Nemec-Venza et al. show how mechanical signals, such as tissue tension, can activate gene expression in epidermal cells at the surface of Arabidopsis roots. The expression of the edge-specific growth ...

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Join the team for this very cool project! Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. And since it’s a very interdisciplinary project, reposts to reach the right person (not necessarily with a plant background) are appreciated 😁

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🧪VACANCY: Computational biologist, modeller or biophysicist? Join Laura Bacete @cellwalldynamics.com and Christiane Funk in an interdisciplinary @icelabumu.bsky.social postdoctoral project exploring cell wall sensing in the microalga Chlorella vulgaris. Apply by 17 Sept👇 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

#ResultatScientifique🔎| Comment les poils racinaires savent-ils quand arrêter de grandir ? Des scientifiques révèlent le ballet cellulaire qui orchestre la fin de leur croissance🌱 ▶️ buff.ly/3P1ycff ✍️ Gilles Dupouy 📕 @theplantcell.bsky.social

Dans les poils racinaires, un ballet cellulaire orchestre la fin de la croissance

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✨ Mark your calendars! ✨ The Plant Computational Biology Workshop 🌱💻 is back—10th edition! 🎉 Sept 7–11 | Lyon, France | FREE ✓ Registration mandatory Limited to 70 researchers (spots filling fast!) Learn more & Register : pcbw.inria.fr

The pre-print week 😅!.. Second MS now on BioRxiv ▶️ genome editing of KOKOPELLI confers haploid induction capacity in not one, but TWO crops: 🌽 maize & 🍅 tomato 📖 doi.org/10.64898/202... Huge thanks to everyone involved and our collaborators: @nathaliegonzalez.bsky.social, @inrae-bfp.bsky.social

👏 Congratulations 👏 to all for this prestigious award from the French Academy of sciences !! 🎉🎉

Emmanuelle Bayer@emmanuellebayer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congrats to Gweenogan Dubois, @smokvarska-marija.bsky.social and Jessica Perez Sancho, awarded on Tuesday at the Académie des sciences for the Grandes Avancées Françaises en Biologie! Together with @yvonjaillais.bsky.social , we were proud to be with them as their research supervisors. 🎉🔬

Happy to share our protocol for imaging double fertilization in maize! 🌽🔬 📖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We hope this resource will be useful for researchers studying plant reproduction, fertilization, and early seed development.

What is an edge? Why is this geometrical domain so crucial during plant morphogenesis? Read our review, co-written with Antoine Chevalier and @ckirchhelle.bsky.social to find out! authors.elsevier.com/c/1nAnf4tPF4...

Incredibly proud of this paper showing how plants couple vesicle delivery and phragmoplast expansion during division. This project started in the lab of the great and late Ian Moore, and it was a joy to finish it with @liamelliottplants.bsky.social et al! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A Rab/Kinesin-12/kinase module couples vesicle delivery and phragmoplast dynamics during plant cell cytokinesis - The EMBO Journal

Cytokinesis is a key process in the development of multicellular organisms, through both formative and proliferative divisions. In land plants, successful cytokinesis requires precise targeting of Gol...

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How do different clonal layers interact to make a leaf flat? How do they integrate genetic and mechanical cues to achieve this remarkable feat? That is precisely what we answered through our work! Special thanks to all contributors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🌽 Save the date! Join us in Lyon, France for the 7th European Maize Meeting 📅 June 9–11, 2027 More details coming soon — stay tuned! Please share with colleagues and networks interested.

Ever wondered what makes some alleles dominant (A) and others recessive (a) ? In our new paper, we explored how a series of recently discovered "dominance modifiers", genetic elements that have long remained elusive, achieve their regulatory function. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Dominance modifiers at the Arabidopsis self-incompatibility locus retain proto-miRNA features and act through non-canonical pathways

Author summary Many plants avoid self-fertilization through a system of self-incompatibility, which allows them to recognize and reject their own pollen. In plants like those in the Arabidopsis family...

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🔬 Et si la physique contribuait à organiser le vivant sans « instruction » biologique explicite ? Les travaux de @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, médaille de bronze du @cnrs.fr, se focalisent sur les arêtes des cellules et apportent des réponses clés. 👉 Lire le portrait : buff.ly/ufeAxu5

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It's been great to virtually host Alex Eve @amjeve.uk, from the Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social today at the RDP @rdplab.bsky.social for a wonderful webinar on scientific publishing and the different forms we scientists have to contribute to a fairer system 📣

Absolutely ❤️ this slide from Olivier Hamant about the role of inefficiency in biological robustness. Thx @maizel-lab.org for bringing him to @cosheidelberg.bsky.social

I am thrilled and beyond grateful to receive a CNRS bronze medal this year - this is an incredible honour especially for an INRAE researcher like myself! A big thanks to my amazing team and the research community @RDP for all the great science we have done together!

CNRS Biologie@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#TalentsCNRS Découvrez les médaillés d'argent et de bronze 2026 de CNRS Biologie ! Félicitations aux lauréates et lauréats ! 🎉 👉 www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

#ResultatScientifique🔎| Face au stress, les plantes réorganisent rapidement leurs lipides membranaires pour nettoyer leurs cellules et relancer leur croissance 🌱 ✍️ @yvonjaillais.bsky.social 📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social ▶️ buff.ly/s2Oeymm

Les plantes activent leur « mode survie » en quelques minutes : la clé réside dans leurs lipides !

Les plantes activent en quelques minutes des mécanismes de survie face aux stress environnementaux.

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🌱 New paper from the @rdplab.bsky.social, by the team of @yvonjaillais.bsky.social ▶️Acute remodeling of phosphoinositide lipids promotes endocytosis downstream of RALF/FERONIA signaling 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... out in @currentbiology.bsky.social

Wonderful day at @ensdelyon.bsky.social today ! Biosymposium second edition with RDP, CIRI, LBMC, IGFL labs

🌿🧺 Spring picnic vibes 🌱☀️ Our @rdplab.bsky.social Lab took a break today to simply enjoy sunshine and time together.

🎉 Congrats Dr. Lucie POUPARDIN! 👏🎓 Lucie successfully defended her PhD thesis: 📖 "Biophysical study of leaves’ morphogenetic movements" 🌿✨ Jury: @robinsonsci.bsky.social , Philippe Marmottant, Evelyne Kolb, Finn Box. Supervised by Julien Derr & Mohammed Bendahmane

Great discussions today with @daanweits.bsky.social who visited our @rdplab.bsky.social in Lyon, France. Plenty of fresh ideas on plant oxygen sensing, the room definitely had good O₂ levels! 🌱🫧

The 🌽maize🌽 crew from @rdplab.bsky.social representing at the Maize Genetics Meeting in Köln 🇩🇪 Great discussions, inspiring science & valuable time with the international maize community. Proud of this team and the contributions we’re making to advance maize reproduction 🌱

Huge congratulations to Laura Gonzalez on successfully defending her PhD! 🎓✨

What a treat to see the work from Camila Goldy @camilagoldy.bsky.social et al., @rdplab.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social now published 🫶 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The actin cytoskeleton is required to maintain plant cell division orientation against cellular geometry

Actin guides plant cell division, shaping tissues in ways that defy geometric constraints.

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Two days of retreat and amazing discussions with @cosheidelberg.bsky.social ; @igflyon.bsky.social ky.social & @rdplab.bsky.social The power of science really shows when different organisms (and minds!) come together.

🎉 Huge congratulations to Clara Igisch on a brilliant PhD defense and outstanding work throughout her PhD! 🎓👏 Kudos as well to her supervisor, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social , for the great support along the way! 🌱🔬

RDP lab@rdplab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ahead of Clara Igisch’s PhD defense tomorrow, we enjoyed four excellent talks today in a 🌱 mini-symposium: @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social / @ottlab.bsky.social / @jennyrussinova.bsky.social & @structplantbio.bsky.social Great science, great stories!

Ahead of Clara Igisch’s PhD defense tomorrow, we enjoyed four excellent talks today in a 🌱 mini-symposium: @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social / @ottlab.bsky.social / @jennyrussinova.bsky.social & @structplantbio.bsky.social Great science, great stories!

Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany. Sept 23rd-25th, 2026 ~€350 all inclusive Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon. For more info, see raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

🌟 Great seminar this week at RDP lab with Artemis Perraki ( @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social , @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social) sharing her exciting science to understand how developmental and environmental pathways intersect during anther development 🌱