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Posted by the Node, on 16 July 2024
Hear from three early-career researchers studying plant development. Chaired by Dominique Bergmann.Posted by the Node, on 15 February 2019
Press Release from the John Innes Centre (link) New evidence has emerged about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging ...Posted by Imtiyaz Ahmad Khanday, on 29 January 2019
The story behind our recent Nature paper ‘A male-expressed rice embryogenic trigger redirected for asexual propagation through seeds‘ For sexually reproducing organisms, the diploid life cycle starts with the fusion ...Posted by Jill Harrison, on 1 August 2018
A perspective on our recent paper ‘CLAVATA was a genetic novelty for the morphological innovation of 3D growth in land plants’1. In the 1950’s, the German botanist Walter Zimmermann ...Posted by Catarina Vicente, on 8 October 2014
There is something exciting about biologists joining forces with physicists and/or mathematicians, and finding a common language to solve biological problems that are just too complex to understand without stepping ...Posted by IRBBarcelona, on 7 February 2014
– Researchers at IRB and IBMB-CSIC, in Barcelona, and at the University of Wageningen, in the Netherlands, reveal how auxin hormone-regulated proteins activate developmental genes in plants. – Auxins are ...Posted by FASEB PlantDev, on 9 October 2013
The 13th FASEB Plant Biology Conference was held from August 11- 16, 2013, in Saxtons River, Vermont, a modest but beautiful setting. This was a special meeting, since it marked ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 19 October 2012
At the EMBO meeting last month, Jiří Friml was awarded the EMBO Gold Medal. This medal is awarded annually to a researcher under the age of forty, who has contributed ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 25 October 2011
(This interview originally appeared in Development.) The Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge is a new research institute that aims to achieve an integrated understanding of plant development. Its Associate ...Posted by Linda, on 18 January 2011
Hot off the press from the holidays is an article from PNAS that’s worth a gander if you’re into RNAi. We know RNAi associated with epigenetics is possible in the ...