One of my favorite transposon facts. Think LTR retrotransposons are a homogeneous group? The two main kinds -- Ty1 and Ty3 -- are as evolutionary diverged as GIANT SQUID and PINE TREES.

"We found an arabidopsis mutant developing stomata on the roots!"

Not buying it? Eggcellent! What you actually see is a horn of the hornwort Anthoceros agrestis (and what you read was probably my favorite 1st April joke we did in the lab).

International Marchantia Workshop 2026

Nov. 27th – 29th, 2026
Kobe, Japan

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Botanist Marie Clark Taylor transformed plant science education, modernizing curricula, advancing microscopy, and mentoring generations of scientists at Howard University. 🔬

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Very happy this review is out 😊🌱
I've collected recent advances in transcriptional and epigenetic 🧬 Regulation of Chloroplast Biogenesis and Differentiation url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

Marchantia might seem an unlikely biotech crop, but it’s worth trying. In Aurore’s thesis, we pushed this concept by engineering the auronidins with MpMYB14 and using the pigments to dye cotton. It ended up giving a very unique and beautiful product. #PlantScience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

our hornwort paper got the cover of the @newphyt.bsky.social
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Frangedakis et al. present an improved method for generating complex CRSIPR-mediated genome modifications in Marchantia polymorpha using the tRNA-gRNA approach together with an optimized protocol for thallus transformation.

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A toolkit for cell-stage-specific gene perturbation in stomatal development

Kou et al. @onsunlau.bsky.social

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