Publications

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CDCA7 facilitates MET1-mediated CG DNA methylation maintenance in centromeric heterochromatin via linker histone H1

Date: 10 December 2025

Contributors: Shuya Wang, Tong Li, Matthew Naish, Russell Chuang, Evan K. Lin, Christian Fonkalsrud, Yan He, Suhua Feng, Ian R. Henderson, Steven E. Jacobsen

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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A Role for the OsMPK6 signaling pathway in regulating rice grain size

Date: 9 December 2025

Contributors: Kumari Billakurthi

Journal: Plant Physiology

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Natural variation modifies centromere-proximal meiotic crossover frequency and segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana

Date: 8 December 2025

Contributors: Nicola Gorringe, Stephanie Topp, Robin Burn , Sota Yamaguch , Fernando A Rabana , Joiselle B Fernande , Detlef Weigel, Tetsuji Kakutan , Matthew Nais , Ian R Henderson

Journal: Genetics

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Feeding from the sun—Successes and prospects in bioengineering photosynthesis for food security

Date: 26 November 2025

Contributors: Stephen P. Long, Yu Wang, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Amanda P. Cavanagh, Martin C. Jonikas, Johannes Kromdijk, Benedict M. Long, Amy Marshall-Colón, Diwakar Shukla, Robert H. Wilson, Xin-Guang Zhu, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth

Journal: Cell Press

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Extensive photophysiological variation in wild barley is linked to environmental origin

Date: 11 November 2025

Contributors: Matthieu Breil-Aubert, Katie Shaw, Jessica Royles, Cristina R. G. Sales, Julia Walter, Georgia Taylor, Richard L. Vath, Eyal Bdolach, Lalit D. Tiwari, Jyotirmaya Mathan, Tracy Lawson, Eyal Fridman, Johannes Kromdijk, John N. Ferguson

Journal: New Phytologist

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Sub-optimal temperature leads to tighter coupling between photosynthetic electron transport and CO2 assimilation under fluctuating light in maize

Date: 11 November 2025

Contributors: Cristina R G Sales, Stéphanie Arrivault, Tomás Tonetti, Vittoria Clapero, Richard L Vath, Lucía Arce Cubas, Mark Stitt, Johannes Kromdijk

Journal: Plant Physiology

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Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at cellular resolution

Date: 2 November 2025

Contributors: Tania Chancellor, Gabriel Ferreras-Garrucho, Garo Z Akmakjian, Hector Montero, Sarah L Bowden, Matthew Hope, Emma Wallington, Samik Bhattacharya, Christian Korfhage, Julia Bailey-Serres, Uta Paszkowski

Journal: bioRxiv

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Duplicated genes find their space: Spatial transcriptomics illuminates evolutionary fates

Date: 1 November 2025

Contributors: Min-Yao Jhu, Fabian van Beveren, Bruno Guillotin

Journal: The Plant Cell

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CRISPR targeting of H3K4me3 activates gene expression and unlocks centromere-proximal crossover recombination in Arabidopsis

Date: 31 October 2025

Contributors: Jenia Binenbaum, Vanda Adamkova, Hannah Fryer, Linhao Xu, Nicola Gorringe, Piotr Włodzimierz, Robin Burns, Ashot Papikian, Steven E. Jacobsen, Ian R. Henderson, C. Jake Harris

Journal: Nature Communications

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The natural history of transposons in plant pangenomes and panepigenomes

Date: 27 October 2025

Contributors: Leandro Quadrana, Ian R. Henderson

Journal: Current Opinion in Plant Biology

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The natural history of transposons in plant pangenomes and panepigenomes

Date: 27 October 2025

Contributors: Leandro Quadrana, Ian R. Henderson

Journal: Current Opinion in Plant Biology

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Global Comparative Genomics of the Burrowing Nematode, Radopholus similis

Date: 23 October 2025

Contributors: C. L. Wram, C. Hesse, D. A. Humphreys-Pereira, P. Vieira, S. Eves-van den Akker, R. Myers, D. Coyne . P. DiGenaro, H. D. Lopez-Nicora, A. Cedeno, O. Emmanuel, K. Saikai, L. Duncan, O. Guzman, O. Adewuyi, J. Cobon, B. Chinnasri, R. Inserra, I. A. Zasada

Journal: PhytoFrontiers

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Rho GTPase overexpression impacts leaf internal architecture and mesophyll conductance in Arabidopsis

Date: 13 October 2025

Contributors: Isabella Østerlund, Silas Ørting, Alistair Leverett, Guillaume Théroux-Rancourt, Samira Ebrahimi, Yang Wang, Zoran Nikoloski, Johannes Kromdijk, Staffan Persson

Journal: New Phytologist Foundation

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Metabolite profiling reveals slow and uncoordinated adjustment of C4 photosynthesis to sudden changes in irradiance

Date: 13 October 2025

Contributors: Stéphanie Arrivault, David Barbosa Medeiros, Cristina Rodrigues Gabriel Sales, Manuela Guenther, Johannes Kromdijk, Alisdair R Fernie, Mark Stitt

Journal: Plant Physiology

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RAM1-WRI Synergy: A GRAS-AP2 Regulatory Axis for Nutrient Exchange in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

Date: 12 October 2025

Contributors: Jin-Peng Gao, Anil Kumar

Journal: Plant, Cell & Environment

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From growth potential to drought survival: a trait-and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species

Date: 6 October 2025

Contributors: Florence Volaire, Sean M Gleason, Andrea Carminati, Robert Griffin-Nolan, Maurizio Mencuccini, Karim Barkaoui, Sandra Bucci, Marc Carriquí, Aude Coupel-Ledru, Louise Comas, Alistair Leverett, Rose Marks, Jordi Martinez-Vilalta, Lucy Rowland, Jared J Stewart, Vincent Vadez

Journal: Authorea

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Arabidopsis thaliana Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channel 19 is involved in root extracellular ATP and Pep1 signalling

Date: 5 October 2025

Contributors: Youzheng Ning, Bryony C. I. C. Jacobs, Clementine Langlet, Limin Wang, Zhizhong Song, Adeeba M. Dark, Elsa Matthus, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker, Taufiq Rahman, Julia M. Davies

Journal: New Phytologist Foundation

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Integrating single-cell omic techniques to resolve the spatio-temporal complexity of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

Date: 1 October 2025

Contributors: Gabriel Ferreras-Garrucho, Tania Chancellor, Uta Paszkowski

Journal: Journal of Experimental Botany