Noel Blanco-Touriñán
@noelponte.bsky.social
Ramón y Cajal Tenure-Track Fellow @ibmcp.bsky.social | Plant plasticity 🌱 Vascular dev 🪵 Evo-devo 🌿
Our new review is out @theplantjournal.bsky.social! Christian (@unil.bsky.social) and I dive into brassinosteroid perception specificity and the importance of BRs in shaping vascular development. @ibmcp.bsky.social @upv.es @csic.es onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Our new review is out @theplantjournal.bsky.social! Christian (@unil.bsky.social) and I dive into brassinosteroid perception specificity and the importance of BRs in shaping vascular development. @ibmcp.bsky.social @upv.es @csic.es onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our latest review, co-authored with @agustilab.bsky.social (@ibmcp.bsky.social), “Environmental regulation of plant vascular networks,” is now published in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social! Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Our latest review, co-authored with @agustilab.bsky.social (@ibmcp.bsky.social), “Environmental regulation of plant vascular networks,” is now published in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social! Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Daniel Gibbs Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs
@ University of Birmingham
sites.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
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Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
October 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
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Wonderful to see this beautiful image on the cover of Science this week highlighting a paper that uses high resolution imaging to show the spatial patterns of bacterial attraction to glutamine from roots.
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Wonderful to see this beautiful image on the cover of Science this week highlighting a paper that uses high resolution imaging to show the spatial patterns of bacterial attraction to glutamine from roots.
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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#PaperCBGP 🆕📜‼️
🌱CBGP researcher Daniel Conde joined an international study published in Genome Biology revealing new regulators of xylem development and a novel mechanism shaping vessel formation and stress adaptation
📎Full article here: doi.org/10.1186/s130...
🌱CBGP researcher Daniel Conde joined an international study published in Genome Biology revealing new regulators of xylem development and a novel mechanism shaping vessel formation and stress adaptation
📎Full article here: doi.org/10.1186/s130...
Deep tissue profiling of Populus stem at single nucleus level reveals uncharacterized cell types and cell-specific gene regulatory networks - Genome Biology
Background Single-cell genomics is revolutionizing plant developmental biology, enabling the transcriptome profiling of individual cells and their lineage relationships. However, plant cell walls poly...
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
#PaperCBGP 🆕📜‼️
🌱CBGP researcher Daniel Conde joined an international study published in Genome Biology revealing new regulators of xylem development and a novel mechanism shaping vessel formation and stress adaptation
📎Full article here: doi.org/10.1186/s130...
🌱CBGP researcher Daniel Conde joined an international study published in Genome Biology revealing new regulators of xylem development and a novel mechanism shaping vessel formation and stress adaptation
📎Full article here: doi.org/10.1186/s130...
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Our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social @anajusagasti.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social is featured today in the Sunday Post!
Thanks Sally McDonald for your piece helping to promote and communicate Scotland’s rich fossil heritage
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Thanks Sally McDonald for your piece helping to promote and communicate Scotland’s rich fossil heritage
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social @anajusagasti.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social is featured today in the Sunday Post!
Thanks Sally McDonald for your piece helping to promote and communicate Scotland’s rich fossil heritage
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Thanks Sally McDonald for your piece helping to promote and communicate Scotland’s rich fossil heritage
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)
career5.successfactors.eu
September 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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Congratulations Laura, well deserved!
I am excited to announce that I will be moving to IMB Mainz next year! The Winter call for the IPP PhD program is now open; if you are interested in maternal #mRNA regulation and #translation in early vertebrate development, please apply! Deadline: 16 October.
More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...
More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...
Laura Lorenzo Orts
IMB Mainz
www.imb.de
September 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Congratulations Laura, well deserved!
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- More than a trade-off: how growth inhibition protects plant genome integrity (Nature Comms.) @dalabadi.bsky.social @jorgehg.bsky.social @noelponte.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/261Dl25
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
More than a trade-off: how growth inhibition protects plant genome integrity | Plantae
When plants face tough times, like an invading pathogen or a sudden drought, they often make a difficult choice: pause growth to focus on survival. This phenomenon, called the growth–defense…
buff.ly
September 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- More than a trade-off: how growth inhibition protects plant genome integrity (Nature Comms.) @dalabadi.bsky.social @jorgehg.bsky.social @noelponte.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/261Dl25
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
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🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE CLOSING 🌱
🌱 Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes
Editors: Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter &
@lauraragni.bsky.social
Closing 30th Sept '25
Manuscripts welcome, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues?utm...)
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
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🌱 Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes
Editors: Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter &
@lauraragni.bsky.social
Closing 30th Sept '25
Manuscripts welcome, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues?utm...)
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
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September 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE CLOSING 🌱
🌱 Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes
Editors: Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter &
@lauraragni.bsky.social
Closing 30th Sept '25
Manuscripts welcome, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues?utm...)
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
(1/2)
🌱 Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes
Editors: Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter &
@lauraragni.bsky.social
Closing 30th Sept '25
Manuscripts welcome, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues?utm...)
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
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🌱 What happens when lateral root primordia (LRPs) fail to emerge?
Using our new lineage tracing tool LRTracker, Xin discovered that arrested LRPs don’t just disappear—they gradually switch fate and become part of the cambium, contributing to secondary growth.1/x
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Using our new lineage tracing tool LRTracker, Xin discovered that arrested LRPs don’t just disappear—they gradually switch fate and become part of the cambium, contributing to secondary growth.1/x
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hormonal regulation of cell fate plasticity of xylem-pole-pericycle lineage in Arabidopsis roots
In Arabidopsis roots, xylem-pole-pericycle (XPP) cells exhibit dual cell fates by contributing to both lateral root (LR) and cambium formation. Despit…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🌱 What happens when lateral root primordia (LRPs) fail to emerge?
Using our new lineage tracing tool LRTracker, Xin discovered that arrested LRPs don’t just disappear—they gradually switch fate and become part of the cambium, contributing to secondary growth.1/x
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Using our new lineage tracing tool LRTracker, Xin discovered that arrested LRPs don’t just disappear—they gradually switch fate and become part of the cambium, contributing to secondary growth.1/x
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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It was already known that auxins (surprise!) had a key role controlling the end of flowering, plant menopause. Now we can tell you how and where they act in the inflorescence meristem to control the process.
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4
Local regulation of auxin-related pathways in the shoot apical meristem plays a major role during proliferative arrest
González-Cuadra et al. show that repression of auxin-related pathways locally in the
SAM is key in the control of proliferative arrest. FRUITFULL regulates these pathways
to promote meristem arrest. B...
www.cell.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It was already known that auxins (surprise!) had a key role controlling the end of flowering, plant menopause. Now we can tell you how and where they act in the inflorescence meristem to control the process.
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4
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New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC!
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
September 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC!
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
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So happy to share the outcome of an incredible team effort! In this paper we present an Atlas describing how SUMO-PTM components coordinate stress responses in Arabidopsis root cells. Huge congratulations to everyone involved! Amazing work all around! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Elucidating tissue and subcellular specificity of the entire SUMO network reveals how stress responses are fine-tuned in a eukaryote
A spatial map of an entire protein modification system reveals tissue and subcellular diversification of SUMO components.
www.science.org
August 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
So happy to share the outcome of an incredible team effort! In this paper we present an Atlas describing how SUMO-PTM components coordinate stress responses in Arabidopsis root cells. Huge congratulations to everyone involved! Amazing work all around! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Time flies when you are having fun. In 2016 we wrote a review marking 10 years of TDIF-PXY. Group members Qing and Agnieszka wrote an update, out today in @newphyt.bsky.social. Do have a read. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An updated history of TDIF‐PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning
Non-cell autonomous signalling is a mechanism by which stem cells are maintained across the tree of life. In plants, many stem cell populations are regulated by peptide ligands related to CLAVATA3, w...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Time flies when you are having fun. In 2016 we wrote a review marking 10 years of TDIF-PXY. Group members Qing and Agnieszka wrote an update, out today in @newphyt.bsky.social. Do have a read. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery!
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery
A cross-species single-cell atlas highlights a core subset of cell-type foundational
genes associated with major vascular plant cell types, enabling the identification
of hidden cell types and the dev...
www.cell.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery!
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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🌱 Our Perspective just published in Plant Hormones!
We explore the opportunities & challenges of applying AI to plant hormone research, highlighting its potential for agriculture and the next phase of the Green Revolution.
#AI #MachineLearning #PlantHormones 1/2
Read more:
We explore the opportunities & challenges of applying AI to plant hormone research, highlighting its potential for agriculture and the next phase of the Green Revolution.
#AI #MachineLearning #PlantHormones 1/2
Read more:
When AI meets hormones: opportunities and challenges of AI for advancements in plant hormone research and agriculture
<p>Advancements in plant hormone research have significantly deepened our understanding of their roles in plant physiology. However, there are still knowledge gaps in the complex regulatory networks t...
www.maxapress.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🌱 Our Perspective just published in Plant Hormones!
We explore the opportunities & challenges of applying AI to plant hormone research, highlighting its potential for agriculture and the next phase of the Green Revolution.
#AI #MachineLearning #PlantHormones 1/2
Read more:
We explore the opportunities & challenges of applying AI to plant hormone research, highlighting its potential for agriculture and the next phase of the Green Revolution.
#AI #MachineLearning #PlantHormones 1/2
Read more:
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Hey all!
We have been awarded a Spanish national grant to keep researching. Best of all is we have a full PhD contract assigned. We are looking for candidates interested in molecular biology and evolution of (plant) transcription factors, please spread the word!!
Check our web for more information.
We have been awarded a Spanish national grant to keep researching. Best of all is we have a full PhD contract assigned. We are looking for candidates interested in molecular biology and evolution of (plant) transcription factors, please spread the word!!
Check our web for more information.
August 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Hey all!
We have been awarded a Spanish national grant to keep researching. Best of all is we have a full PhD contract assigned. We are looking for candidates interested in molecular biology and evolution of (plant) transcription factors, please spread the word!!
Check our web for more information.
We have been awarded a Spanish national grant to keep researching. Best of all is we have a full PhD contract assigned. We are looking for candidates interested in molecular biology and evolution of (plant) transcription factors, please spread the word!!
Check our web for more information.
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Lo mataron hace cuatro años al grito de maricon. Se llamaba Samuel Luiz y su nombre resonará para siempre en nuestros corazones mientras seguimos luchando contra el odio que quiere aniquilarnos. Hoy el orgullo es más necesario que nunca. Por él y por el futuro que le robaron. 💪🏻🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
July 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Lo mataron hace cuatro años al grito de maricon. Se llamaba Samuel Luiz y su nombre resonará para siempre en nuestros corazones mientras seguimos luchando contra el odio que quiere aniquilarnos. Hoy el orgullo es más necesario que nunca. Por él y por el futuro que le robaron. 💪🏻🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Impressive work by @apmahonen.bsky.social and colleagues @nature.com!
How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion - Nature
A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Impressive work by @apmahonen.bsky.social and colleagues @nature.com!
Feeling incredibly proud of Antonio Serrano @ibmcp.bsky.social — thank you for bringing me on board! Growth arrest is a DNA damage protection strategy in Arabidopsis @jorgehg.bsky.social @dalabadi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Growth arrest is a DNA damage protection strategy in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications
This study demonstrates that growth arrest under stress in Arabidopsis protects meristem cells from DNA damage, challenging the idea that it is merely due to energy trade-offs and highlighting its rol...
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Feeling incredibly proud of Antonio Serrano @ibmcp.bsky.social — thank you for bringing me on board! Growth arrest is a DNA damage protection strategy in Arabidopsis @jorgehg.bsky.social @dalabadi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy to be part of this beautiful work by @eleazarrodriguez.bsky.social and colleagues, highlighting a novel role of BZR1 in pluripotency acquisition and callus development. @emboreports.org Congrats Thomas & Elise!
Our latest artic, in which we address the differential contribution of BZR1 and BES1 to callus formation is out:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
BZR1 promotes pluripotency acquisition and callus development through direct regulation of ARF7 and ARF19 | EMBO reports
imageimageBZR1 enhances callus formation by directly activating ARF7 and ARF19, key pluripotency regulators. Gain-of-function mutants alter callus formation, while
disruption of ARF7 and ARF19 abrogat...
www.embopress.org
June 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Happy to be part of this beautiful work by @eleazarrodriguez.bsky.social and colleagues, highlighting a novel role of BZR1 in pluripotency acquisition and callus development. @emboreports.org Congrats Thomas & Elise!
I'm deeply honoured to be selected as the Best Young European Scientist by the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB) at #PBE2025! 🌱
Huge thanks to @jxbotany.bsky.social for supporting early-career researchers, and to my incredible PhD and postdoc supervisors and collaborators!
Huge thanks to @jxbotany.bsky.social for supporting early-career researchers, and to my incredible PhD and postdoc supervisors and collaborators!
June 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I'm deeply honoured to be selected as the Best Young European Scientist by the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB) at #PBE2025! 🌱
Huge thanks to @jxbotany.bsky.social for supporting early-career researchers, and to my incredible PhD and postdoc supervisors and collaborators!
Huge thanks to @jxbotany.bsky.social for supporting early-career researchers, and to my incredible PhD and postdoc supervisors and collaborators!