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Alessandro Alboresi 🌱 @alealbo.bsky.social · 6d

#HorizontalGeneTransfer analysis was possible thanks to this new super-pangenome, now including 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes 🌿🧬
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Mosses #PlantGenomics #Bryophytes

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics

A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

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Alessandro Alboresi 🌱 @alealbo.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone wants a NAS! 🌿🦟

Leon Dirick & Bernard Goffinet uncovered the surprising history of NAS genes shaped by horizontal gene transfer, we revealed NAS key role in Physcomitrium patens.
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
#Mosses #HorizontalGeneTransfer

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 11d

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

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JCarlos Villarreal @jcarlosvillarreal.bsky.social · 11d

a study that changes the paradigm of horizontal gene transfer across kingdoms, led by my former PhD supervisor Bernard Goffinet, congratulations to his team www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Aug 24

A study published in Nature Climate Change analyses net primary production (NPP) trends from 2003 to 2021, revealing an overall increase in planetary NPP, primarily due to terrestrial enhancements despite a decline in oceanic productivity. go.nature.com/4fP7uBA 🧪

Contrasting biological production trends over land and ocean - Nature Climate Change

The authors jointly assess the changes in land and ocean net primary production from 2003 to 2021. They show contrasting trends, with overall planetary increases (0.11 ± 0.13 PgC yr−1) driven by terrestrial enhancement and offset by oceanic decline.

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Laura Moody @moodytomato.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 To all molecular mossers 📢

The Moss Workshop will be held in (not always as sunny as this) Oxford next year (30th June until 2nd July 2026). More details will follow soon, but in the meantime please make a note of the dates 😃 👍

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · Jul 18

🔍 INSIGHT

A SynBio explosion 💥

🧬 Loh & Gunn dive into the expanding SynBio toolkit for Rubisco engineering, spotlighting key advances from Archer et al. recently published in JXB 🧪

📝 Insight: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
🔬 Research: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience @laura-gunn.bsky.social

Fig. 1. (shortened legend) - Rubisco SynBio expression systems reconstitute Rubisco biogenesis in E. coli. Several assembly factors (chaperonins and auxiliary proteins) are required during chloroplast Rubisco biogenesis to fold the Rubisco large subunit (RbcL), and assemble the Rubisco L8S8 holoenzyme (with the Rubisco small subunit; RbcS). Three chaperonin subunits (chaperonin 60ɑ, 60β, and 20) form an oligomeric cage that provides a favorable microenvironment to allow the chloroplast large subunit to fold. The auxiliary proteins [Rubisco accumulation factors 1 and 2 (Raf1, Raf2), RbcX1, RbcX2, and bundle sheath defective 2 (Bsd2)] stabilize L2 and L8 intermediate complexes. Finally, eight Rubisco small subunits assemble with the L8 complex to form the L8S8 Rubisco holoenzyme, which contains eight active sites. Co-expressing all the assembly factors with Rubisco-encoding genes in E. coli allows heterologous reconstitution of the Rubisco biogenesis pathway.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Jul 19

#TansleyReview: The challenging but unique eco-evolutionary aspects of #SphagnumMoss

@queenofpeat.bsky.social, et al. 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue

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Phil Carella @philcarella.bsky.social · Jun 30

New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

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Teva Vernoux @tevavernoux.bsky.social · Jun 25

You have always dreamed to work on mosses and on cell polarity, we have a PhD position for you at RDP in Lyon with Yoan Coudert, collaboration with @dolfweijers.bsky.social

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GAIN4CROPS @gain4crops.eu · Jun 3

International researchers advocate New Genomic Techniques in organic production with participatory governance to achieve the EU’s sustainable agriculture goals. 🇪🇺 💬

Open-access commentary at @cellpress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

The EU should allow gene editing to make organic farming more sustainable, researchers say

To achieve the European Green Deal’s goal of 25% organic agriculture by 2030, researchers argue that new genomic techniques (NGTs) should be allowed without pre-market authorization in organic a...

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Molecular Plant & Plant Communications @mplantpcom.bsky.social · May 30

ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

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Marcel Dickmanns | 🌿❄️🔬 @madic.bsky.social · Feb 19

Our methods paper made it to bioRxiv:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Full #cryoET workflows for #plant tissues. Plus some general tricks and tweaks on serial Lift-Out and cryo-FLM. 🧪🧵1/5

#teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM #CLEM

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Edward Smith @tednsmith.bsky.social · Apr 16

A big month for engineering photorespiration! More evidence that bypassing photorespiration in rice by converting glycolate to CO2 in chloroplasts can boost yields. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... More work needed to ensure gains reach the grains 🍚 but another promising step forward! 🧵

A synthetic glycolate metabolism bypass in rice chloroplasts increases photosynthesis and yield

Photorespiration consumes photosynthetically fixed carbon and reduces yields by 20%–50% in C3 crops. In an attempt to increase photosynthetic efficien…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Lee Sweetlove @leesweetlove.bsky.social · Apr 4

If you want to find out why metabolism may look different to what you were taught, and why this matters, dip into to our review 'Non-canonical plant metabolism' www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureplants.bsky.social
#PlantScience

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Alessandro Alboresi 🌱 @alealbo.bsky.social · Mar 21

New preprint on moss photoprotection from Claudia Beraldo PhD work! 🍀🌞
#Physcomitrium patens has multiple photoprotective strategies to acclimate under high & fluctuating light.
#Photosynthesis #Photoprotection @tmoro.bsky.social

shorturl.at/zc53u

Additive effects of multiple photoprotective mechanisms drive efficient photosynthesis under variable light conditions

To cope with changing external conditions, plants undergo dynamic acclimation processes that remodel their photosynthetic machinery, optimizing energy use while minimizing damage to photosystems (PS)....

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The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · Feb 25

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐏𝐉
Flavodiiron proteins in Physcomitrium patens: navigating the edge between photoprotection and efficiency
👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70052
by Traverso et al @TMorosinotto
@DiBio_UniPD
Potential drawbacks of FLV OE + hypotheses of its evolutionary loss in angiosperms

doi.org

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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · Feb 17

1/6 Super excited to share with you our work on Marchantia intra-specific diversity and pan-genomics, just out @naturegenet.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Everything on the discoveries in the thread by @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social

I want to emphasize 5 additional points:

www.nature.com

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Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · Jan 3

Two new #hornwort papers from our group out in Nature Plants @natureplants.bsky.social today - a great way to celebrate the new year! 1/4

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Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · Dec 15

Come and join us for the workshop "Plant science in the Anthropocene" (PLANT), March 24th to April 4th 2025 @ University Paris-Saclay. Deadline for applications: Dec 17, 2024

#PlantScience

SPS Saclay Plant Sciences @spsplantsciences.bsky.social · Dec 15

Workshop "Plant science in the Anthropocene" (PLANT), March 24th to April 4th 2025 @ University Paris-Saclay, deadline for applications 17th of December... THREE DAYS LEFT for applications ! eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/events/works...

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