Deeksha Singh
@sdeeksha1994.bsky.social
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With the 50-year rise of Arabidopsis as the most studied plant, is it time for its downfall?
Let’s investigate it’s history and outlook 🧵
Let’s investigate it’s history and outlook 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
With the 50-year rise of Arabidopsis as the most studied plant, is it time for its downfall?
Let’s investigate it’s history and outlook 🧵
Let’s investigate it’s history and outlook 🧵
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x
academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x
academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 Insulin cream offers needle-free option for diabetes
go.nature.com/4a2hruk
go.nature.com/4a2hruk
Insulin cream offers needle-free option for diabetes
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 19 November 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 Insulin cream offers needle-free option for diabetes
go.nature.com/4a2hruk
go.nature.com/4a2hruk
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🌱 EXPERT VIEW 🌱
In all land plants, small secreted peptides belonging to the CLE family move from cell to cell and activate their cognate receptors to control a plethora of developmental processes - Cornelis & Hazak
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @hazaklab.bsky.social
In all land plants, small secreted peptides belonging to the CLE family move from cell to cell and activate their cognate receptors to control a plethora of developmental processes - Cornelis & Hazak
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @hazaklab.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🌱 EXPERT VIEW 🌱
In all land plants, small secreted peptides belonging to the CLE family move from cell to cell and activate their cognate receptors to control a plethora of developmental processes - Cornelis & Hazak
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @hazaklab.bsky.social
In all land plants, small secreted peptides belonging to the CLE family move from cell to cell and activate their cognate receptors to control a plethora of developmental processes - Cornelis & Hazak
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @hazaklab.bsky.social
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences
An AINTEGUMENTA phosphoswitch controls bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth | PNAS
Plant stem cells have the remarkable ability to give rise to distinct tissues and
organs throughout development. Two concentric cylinders of active...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
How do fungi explore a root system over time?
Spatial & temporal tracking of the Nicotiana root symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi using MycoRed.
Videos, images & optimised Rhizotrons by Nicolas Garcia Hernandez @slcuplants.bsky.social
Science behind it: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Spatial & temporal tracking of the Nicotiana root symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi using MycoRed.
Videos, images & optimised Rhizotrons by Nicolas Garcia Hernandez @slcuplants.bsky.social
Science behind it: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
January 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
How do fungi explore a root system over time?
Spatial & temporal tracking of the Nicotiana root symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi using MycoRed.
Videos, images & optimised Rhizotrons by Nicolas Garcia Hernandez @slcuplants.bsky.social
Science behind it: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Spatial & temporal tracking of the Nicotiana root symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi using MycoRed.
Videos, images & optimised Rhizotrons by Nicolas Garcia Hernandez @slcuplants.bsky.social
Science behind it: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Arabidopsis..the 'Flagship Model' of the plant world..
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
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How a humble weed became a superstar of biology
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
knowmag.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Arabidopsis..the 'Flagship Model' of the plant world..
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
How a humble weed became a superstar of biology
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
knowmag.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
RSD controls symbiotic #nitrogen fixation by suppressing NIN and NLP2
Akanksha Bhardwaj, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AUGQZV...
#symbiosis #PlantScience
Akanksha Bhardwaj, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AUGQZV...
#symbiosis #PlantScience
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
RSD controls symbiotic #nitrogen fixation by suppressing NIN and NLP2
Akanksha Bhardwaj, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AUGQZV...
#symbiosis #PlantScience
Akanksha Bhardwaj, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AUGQZV...
#symbiosis #PlantScience
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
We wrote a review 📖 on hydathode immunity! Learn how bacteria exploit hydathodes to access the vasculature and open questions for future research.
📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hydathodes at the forefront of plant immunity against vascular pathogens
Hydathodes are tiny plant organs that form an interface between the leaf surface and xylem vasculature. They facilitate excretion of xylem fluid under…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
We wrote a review 📖 on hydathode immunity! Learn how bacteria exploit hydathodes to access the vasculature and open questions for future research.
📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Happy to finally see my PhD work published in @jxbotany.bsky.social. A big thanks to all the people involved in the work including my mentor @malinowskilab.bsky.social.
Feel free to delve in..
Feel free to delve in..
🌱 RESEARCH 🌱
Phloem cell proliferation in Plasmodiophora brassicae-induced clubroot galls doesn't directly depend on PEAR transcription factors, despite transcriptional up-regulation - Singh et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sdeeksha1994.bsky.social @malinowskilab.bsky.social
Phloem cell proliferation in Plasmodiophora brassicae-induced clubroot galls doesn't directly depend on PEAR transcription factors, despite transcriptional up-regulation - Singh et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sdeeksha1994.bsky.social @malinowskilab.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Happy to finally see my PhD work published in @jxbotany.bsky.social. A big thanks to all the people involved in the work including my mentor @malinowskilab.bsky.social.
Feel free to delve in..
Feel free to delve in..
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
New Article: "A mobile DELLA controls Medicago truncatula root cortex patterning to host arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" rdcu.be/eJO9O
Mobile transcriptional regulators DELLA and SHORT-ROOT control the number of root inner cortex cell layers able to host symbiotic AMF.
Mobile transcriptional regulators DELLA and SHORT-ROOT control the number of root inner cortex cell layers able to host symbiotic AMF.
October 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
New Article: "A mobile DELLA controls Medicago truncatula root cortex patterning to host arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" rdcu.be/eJO9O
Mobile transcriptional regulators DELLA and SHORT-ROOT control the number of root inner cortex cell layers able to host symbiotic AMF.
Mobile transcriptional regulators DELLA and SHORT-ROOT control the number of root inner cortex cell layers able to host symbiotic AMF.
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
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.
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
Read the paper 👉 Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...
www.science.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Read the paper 👉 Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
7. How to write consistently boring scientific literature.
“Hell – is sitting on a hot stone reading your own scientific publications”
Erik Ursin, fish biologist
Thanks @fattebertj.bsky.social
Open Access
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
“Hell – is sitting on a hot stone reading your own scientific publications”
Erik Ursin, fish biologist
Thanks @fattebertj.bsky.social
Open Access
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
December 15, 2024 at 11:22 AM
7. How to write consistently boring scientific literature.
“Hell – is sitting on a hot stone reading your own scientific publications”
Erik Ursin, fish biologist
Thanks @fattebertj.bsky.social
Open Access
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
“Hell – is sitting on a hot stone reading your own scientific publications”
Erik Ursin, fish biologist
Thanks @fattebertj.bsky.social
Open Access
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
A tiny white-petalled weed beloved of plant biologists has received a CRISPR-fueled makeover, turning it into a supersized ruby-colored bloom www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Blooms supersized - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - Blooms supersized
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September 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A tiny white-petalled weed beloved of plant biologists has received a CRISPR-fueled makeover, turning it into a supersized ruby-colored bloom www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
Please help me get a job in a different country
If universities anywhere are hiring an Evolutionary Biologist/Paleontologist please let me know! I'm on the market for Tenure Track positions!!
You can find more about my research on fish evolution here: rtfigueroa.wixsite.com/my-site
You can find more about my research on fish evolution here: rtfigueroa.wixsite.com/my-site
September 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Please help me get a job in a different country
Such a lovely title!
Fun review of Arabidopsis anti-pathogen metabolism with @somssich.bsky.social and @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social.
Started to make a complete catalogue and had to focus. Even with all this knowledge, we still haven't studied most Arabidopsis enzymes or metabolites doi.org/10.1093/plph...
Started to make a complete catalogue and had to focus. Even with all this knowledge, we still haven't studied most Arabidopsis enzymes or metabolites doi.org/10.1093/plph...
Guns in Rosettes: The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal
Arabidopsis remains one of the best studied models today and has a number of remarkable chemical defense systems which actively engage, interact and preven
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Such a lovely title!
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
Color changing flowers 🧬🎨- attempt #2
Older flowers (bottom) show dark red/ orange tints whereas young buds (top) display strong fuchsia color. Getting closer..
Older flowers (bottom) show dark red/ orange tints whereas young buds (top) display strong fuchsia color. Getting closer..
September 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Color changing flowers 🧬🎨- attempt #2
Older flowers (bottom) show dark red/ orange tints whereas young buds (top) display strong fuchsia color. Getting closer..
Older flowers (bottom) show dark red/ orange tints whereas young buds (top) display strong fuchsia color. Getting closer..
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
Looking for some clarity in the labyrinth of terms regarding lateral root initiation (priming, founder cell specification, pre-branch sites, oscillation zone, root clock,...)? Here is our new paper hopefully bringing some light in the darkness:
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
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Marker-assisted in vivo imaging reveals pre-patterning events prior to lateral root organogenesis
The branching pattern of the Arabidopsis root is established as early as in the distal tip of the primary root.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Looking for some clarity in the labyrinth of terms regarding lateral root initiation (priming, founder cell specification, pre-branch sites, oscillation zone, root clock,...)? Here is our new paper hopefully bringing some light in the darkness:
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) | 12844852
A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.
www.nature.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
🌱 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…
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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...
Reposted by Deeksha Singh
Déjà vu in clubroot resistance: same genes, new names: Trends in Genetics www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Déjà vu in clubroot resistance: same genes, new names
Despite decades of clubroot research, only three resistance (R) genes have been validated.
However, many of the ‘new’ R genes are, in fact, identical to or allelic with these
three. In this forum arti...
www.cell.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Déjà vu in clubroot resistance: same genes, new names: Trends in Genetics www.cell.com/trends/genet...