Receptor kinase pathways drive formative divisions in the root
Our latest paper out now in PNAS, in a collaboration led by Zack Nimchuk’s lab at UNC Chapel Hill.
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Local auxin competition explains fragmented differentiation patterns
The bulk of Bernard’s thesis now published: “Local auxin competition explains fragmented differentiation patterns”, a study emerging from a collaboration with mathematician and theoretical biologist Kirsten ten Tusscher from Utrecht …
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Our take on our colleagues’ work:
“Dispatch” by Surbhi: “Brassinosteroids and the Intracellular Auxin Shuttle”
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Developing phloem as a brassinosteroid-dependent organizer of plant organ formation
Finally out: meticulous work by Moritz and Surbhi, demonstrating the local and systemic effects of brassinosteroid perception in the developing phloem of Arabidopsis.
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Of Muffins and Donuts.
Our latest study in the developmental cell biology of phloem sieve element differentiation is out now! Maybe the experimentally most elaborate paper we have published to date, in Developmental Cell. …
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Latest Research out in Development
“Conditional effects of the epigenetic regulator JUMONJI 14 in Arabidopsis root growth”. Our modest contribution to the field of epigenetics. Note: JUMONJI has nothing to do with JUMANJI.
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Drilling down on OPS function
New research from our lab in collaboration with Ruediger Simon’s group at Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany, suggests that the enigmatic OPS protein interferes with CLE45 signaling by directly disturbing the …
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Brachypodium continues to surprise.
A first chapter of Alja’s Ph.D. thesis: “Broad spectrum developmental role of Brachypodium AUX1”. And some counter-intuitive phenotypes in the Bdaux1 mutant, like surprisingly long roots.
Brachypodium continues to surprise. Read More“Sieve of hearts” – the follow up to the “Ode to the tracheary elements” unearthed.
Gymnosperms, angiosperms, sieve cells, sieve elements….what the heck? No more confusion, as of 2018, every lab member has to learn this 2nd splendid proto-limerick by heart, in addition to the “Ode to …
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6 years in the making.
The culmination of persistent, patient, phantastic collaboration with the labs of Claus Schwechheimer and Uli Hammes at the Technical University of Munich. It allowed us to pin down the nearly …
6 years in the making. Read More