Ashley Pridgeon

Integration of light quality signals regulates ABA abundance and stomatal movements during seedling establishment Obtaining sufficient light for photosynthesis and avoiding desiccation are two key challenges faced by seedlings during early establishment. Perception of light quality via specialised photoreceptor...

Really happy to see our paper about seedlings, stomata, and light signals is now online!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Here it is! Epidermal cells in the root can figure out if they are covered by the root cap or not using mechanical signals! Thanks to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social Annamaria Kiss and all the others!

🌿Today we had the pleasure of hearing fascinating talks from the Plant Sciences community at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social – impressive research & great updates from across the labs!
Ending the symposium on the roof terrace was perfect.

Thanks to organisers @martinadeangelis.bsky.social & Tadd! 👏

Diversification of CLE expression patterns and nonmeristematic roles for CLAVATA receptor‐like kinases in a moss The CLAVATA pathway controls meristematic cell proliferation and multiple nonmeristematic processes in Arabidopsis development. While CLAVATA ancestrally regulates meristematic proliferation in nons.....

It is out! CLAVATA in moss: not only meristems! Big thanks to @jillharrison.bsky.social , @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social and @newphyt.bsky.social

TODAY is DEADLINE DAY for abstract submissions for talks and posters at SEB 2025! @casparchater.bsky.social and I have a great lineup of Keynote speakers in our #stomata session including SEB president @proftlawson.bsky.social. Please spread the word!

1/4 Delighted to share our latest preprint "Future heatwave conditions inhibit CO2-induced stomatal closure in wheat". We found that high CO2, high VPD heatwave treatment prevents stomatal responses to light, super-elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertiliser application. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#CitizenScience embedded into Borderlands 3, a popular video game. Here, it was used to crowdsource the alignment of 1M 16S rRNA sequences from human microbiome studies. The resulting multiple sequence alignments are better than state-of-the-art computational methods.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A grey coloured Arabidopsis leaf epidermis, with black cell walls. Each cells has a colourful blobs - a nuclear localised fluorescent ABA sensor, with warm colours indicating high concentrations, and cooler colours indicating lower concentrations.

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the dynamic leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice. #PhDposition

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...