What features are required to shape hypoxic niches enclosing meristems? We @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social in collab @pieterverboven.bsky.social found that a combination of cuticle barrier, densely packed tissue and metabolic activity all uniquely contribute to maintain shoot apical meristem hypoxia
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Join our team for a PhD -it's gonna be fun!
PhD position open in my team @uuplants.bsky.social !
Join us to investigate how sorghum roots interact with recently discovered Suberin-Inducing Microbes! More details: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Congratulations Heike! Happy for you and WOW what an exciting topic!!!!
High five Dani!!!!!!!!🎉
Delighted to be awarded NWO VIDI grant! We will study how microbes shape root cells to enhance plant stress resilience - so exciting!!!!
www.nwo.nl/en/news/149-...
Fantastic to see several plant projects granted🌽🌱
We are hiring a technician for our BarrierFates consortium! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Cortex is fantastic and can form so many diverse modifications! We've been lately thinking a lot about cortex in Poaceae and you can now read it about it!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It's alive! Our work combining experiments and computational models to show that "Root stem cell homeostasis in Arabidopsis involves cell-type specific transcription factor complexes"! Amazing collaboration with Vivien Strotmann and
@yvonnestahl.bsky.social! 🌱🌱 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
These webinars are meant to get you thinking and discussing too! We clearly have no fully baked answers to what is a cell type.
So we invite your ideas, and you can post them here: padlet.com/nolan84/what...
A little balloon came our way☺️
It will help us to test the role of Suberin-Inducing Microbes in enhancing crop stress resilience.
www.nwo.nl/en/news/gran...
Vicia lunata, a rare wildflower that grows on just a few mountain slopes in Cyprus and Turkey.
Vicia lunata is a rare wildflower that grows on just a few mountain slopes in Cyprus and Turkey. Its flowers are so bright they look as though someone coloured them in with a highlighter pen.
Over the moon with our BarrierFates consortium funded. Roots, barriers, maize, stresses -it's going to be awesome!!!
Orchid sitting on a window
Root section of an aerial root: tiny vascular bundle in the middle, lots of cortex, some velamen.
Highlight to exodermis and velamen cells staining with Fluorol Yellow (suberin)
Page from a plant anatomy textbook showing velamen, exodermis and other cell types.
Fun #MicroscopyMonday content: the aerial roots of my office orchid! Sectioned and fluorol yellow (suberin) stained by student in @dorotakawa.bsky.social lab.
I am so excited to share Dr. C Manzano’s work: she demonstrates the developmental timeline, function and genetic regulation of the polar lignin cap in the tomato root. It functions as a distinct intercellular barrier from the Casparian strip and is repressed in inner layers. rdcu.be/d10Pd
