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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨

🌿🟡 Sulfur Signaling 🟡 🌿

📝 Edited by Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi

📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025

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Oliver Berkowitz @oliverberkowitz.bsky.social · 4d

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Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher

Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?

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Ksenia Krasileva @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social · 5d

🚀 New preprint!
We introduce K-PROB, a k-mer–based Bayesian framework that mines pangenomic promoter and expression diversity to predict cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression variation in crops 🌽🌱
🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684862v1
#Genomics #GeneRegulation #Maize #Soybean

Natural variation in regulatory code revealed through Bayesian analysis of plant pan-genomes and pan-transcriptomes

Understanding the genetic code of cis-regulatory elements (CREs) is essential for engineering gene expression and modulating agronomic traits in crops. In plants, CREs underlying rapid evolution of ge...

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Oliver Berkowitz @oliverberkowitz.bsky.social · 4d

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A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat - Nature

A pangenome of oat, assembled from 33 wild and domesticated oat lines, sheds light on the evolution and genetic diversity of this cereal crop and will aid genomics-assisted breeding to improve product...

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Oliver Berkowitz @oliverberkowitz.bsky.social · 11d

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Are these the happiest PhD students in the world?

Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey — but are these nations really the best places to do a doctorate?

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Oliver Berkowitz @oliverberkowitz.bsky.social · 11d

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Time-resolved fluorescent proteins expand fluorescent microscopy in temporal and spectral domains

Fluorescence microscopy has been widely applied in the life sciences. While intensity as a steady-state signal is widely used, the time-resolved (tr) …

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Oliver Berkowitz @oliverberkowitz.bsky.social · 15d

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The RLI1-OsPUB77-OsBZR3 module mediates the crosstalk between phosphate starvation and brassinosteroid signaling pathways to shape rice shoot architecture

Plant architecture is a critical agronomic trait directly affecting planting density and crop yield. Phosphate starvation in rice (Oryza sativa) leads…

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Oliver Berkowitz @oliverberkowitz.bsky.social · 15d

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H2O2-mediated oxidation of PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE2 promotes adaptation to low phosphate in rice - Nature Communications

Phosphorus is an essential plant nutrient. Here Meng et al. show that low phosphorus availability stimulates hydrogen peroxide production which in turn promotes the oligomerization, nuclear translocat...

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Oliver Berkowitz @oliverberkowitz.bsky.social · 15d

Engineering crop flower morphology facilitates robotization of cross-pollination and speed breeding: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Engineering crop flower morphology facilitates robotization of cross-pollination and speed breeding

A genome editing and AI-driven robotic system that overcomes floral barriers to facilitate automated hybrid breeding in tomato and soybean.

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Oliver Berkowitz @oliverberkowitz.bsky.social · 20d

Tripping stones / Stolpersteine in Rome

Oliver Berkowitz @oliverberkowitz.bsky.social · 20d

So after not getting into St Peter's yesterday, the Pope came to us today with his motorcade. Really, was him inside. Funnily, he rides in a Jeep, his police escort has Maseratis.