Publications

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Panagram reveals pangenome architectures underlying trait variation in plants and animals

Date: 22 October 2026

Contributors: Katharine M Jenike, Nicole L Brown, Sam Kovaka, Delphine M Lariviere, Robin Burns, Frances L Chen, Hagai Shohat, Matthias Benoit, Tyler Collins, Rachel F Daniels, Blaine Fitzgerald, Iacopo Gentile, Anat Hendelman, Rachel A Johnston, Betty YH Huang, Alex Ostrovsky, Srividya Ramakrishnan, Katia Renault, Gina M Robitaille, James W Satterlee, Anton YH Nekrutenko, Elinor Karlsson, Zachary Lippman, Ian R Henderson, Michael C Schatz

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A broad-host-range Rhizobium rhizogenes strain enables transient expression across diverse crop species

Date: 15 October 2026

Contributors: Freddie King, Juan Carlos Lopez-Agudelo, Christopher Stephens, May Htet Aung, Tarhan Ibrahim, Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Ao Chen, Nick Eilmann, Saskia Jenkins, Cristina Vuolo, Yueh-Ning Swee, Wei-Jia Liu, Samuel Bruty, Amir Ali Toghani, Chih-Horng Kuo, Erh-Min Lai, Jiorgos Kourelis, Lida Derevnina, Chih-Hang Wu, Tolga Bozkurt

Journal: PLOS Biology

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An atlas of eukaryotic centromere architecture reveals recurrent evolutionary dynamics

Date: 23 September 2026

Contributors: Piotr Włodzimierz, Estela Perez-Roman, Jacob Gonzalez Isa, Michael Hong, Meng Zhang, Ludmila Oliveira, Katharine Jenike, Robin Burns, Pio Sierra, Matthias Heuberger, Chenxi Zhou, Sagarika Koppera, Mia Becker, Nicola Gorringe, Petr Novak, Yennifer Mata-Sucre, Giulio Formenti, Felipe Karam Teixeira, Ines Anna Drinnenberg, Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Kamil Jaron, Marcela Uilano-Silva, André Marques, Jiří Macas, Mark Blaxter, Richard Durbin, Tree of Life Consortium, Alexandros Bousios, Ian R Henderson

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An atlas of eukaryotic centromere architecture reveals recurrent evolutionary dynamics

Date: 23 September 2026

Contributors: Piotr Włodzimierz, Estela Perez-Roman, Jacob Gonzalez Isa, Michael Hong, Meng Zhang, Ludmila Oliveira, Katharine Jenike, Robin Burns, Pio Sierra, Matthias Heuberger, Chenxi Zhou, Sagarika Koppera, Mia Becker, Nicola Gorringe, Petr Novak, Yennifer Mata-Sucre, Giulio Formenti, Felipe Karam Teixeira, Ines Anna Drinnenberg, Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Kamil Jaron, Marcela Uilano-Silva, André Marques, Jiří Macas, Mark Blaxter, Richard Durbin, Tree of Life Consortium, Alexandros Bousios, Ian R Henderson

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Faster relaxation of nonphotochemical quenching in C4 than in C3 species

Date: 18 September 2026

Contributors: Lucía Arce Cubas, Asuka Nakamura, Lauana Pereira de Oliveira, Richard L Vath, R Shawn Abrahams, Julia Walter, Cristina Rodrigues Gabriel Sales, Emmanuel L Bernardo, Yuri Nakajima Munekage, Stephen P Long, Johannes Kromdijk

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

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Mutation of a stromal C-terminal threonine residue of photosystem II subunit S slows down non-photochemical quenching induction and speeds up relaxation

Date: 8 September 2026

Contributors: Weng Yik Chin, Julia Walter, Alice K J Robijns, Johannes Kromdijk

Journal: Journal of Experimental Botany

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Elevated CO2 reinforces PT11-dependent symbiotic phosphate uptake to reprogram root nutrient acquisition in rice

Date: 1 September 2026

Contributors: Chai Hao Chiu, Mette Grønlund, Thomas Christian de Bang, Stephanie Watts-Williams, Fang Song, Krystyna Anna Kelly, Iver Jakobsen, Uta Paszkowski

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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3D printing and deep learning enable holistic and dynamic analyses of tens of thousands of parasites infecting hundreds of genotypes

Date: 18 August 2026

Contributors: Siyuan Wei, Jie Zhou, Olaf Prosper Kranse, Unnati Sonawala, Gang Sun, Ziyang He, Beatrice Senatori, Clement Pellegrin, Andrea Díaz-Tendero Bravo, Roberta Healey, Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, Vincent C T Hanlon, George Harpum, Tithira Wijayathilake, Adela Gaja Jezierska-Suwinska, Anika Damm, Kerry VerMeulen, Thomas Baum, Lida Derevnina, Ji Zhou Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

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First report of Meloidogyne fallax parasitising coriander in the United Kingdom

Date: 16 August 2026

Contributors: Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, Unnati Sonawala, Lida Derevnina, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

Journal: Plant Disease

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CRISPR-mediated centromere fission generates neo-chromosomes with distorted meiotic inheritance in Arabidopsis

Date: 24 July 2026

Contributors: Robin Burns, Terezie Mandáková, Chris Morgan, Stephanie Topp, Nicola Gorringe, Tong Li, Katharine Jenike, Piotr Wlodzimierz, Matthew Naish, Martin A. Lysak, Ian R. Henderson

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A transcription factor-pair work in concert to regulate gene expression across the life cycle of the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus

Date: 29 June 2026

Contributors: Madalena Mendonça, Anika Damm, Chongjing Xia, Cláudia S. L. Vicente, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker, Margarida Espada

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Brassinosteroid signalling suppresses chlorophyll biosynthesis via BGH2-GLK modules to ensure proper cotyledon greening during de-etiolation

Date: 29 June 2026

Contributors: Ryo Tachibana, Rino Akema, Ayumi Yamagami, Takuya Miyakawa, Julian M Hibberd, Ryouichi Tanaka, Takeshi Nakano

Journal: Plant and Cell Physiology,

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4D spatial transcriptomics reveals nodule identity emerges through stacked parallel developmental programs

Date: 24 June 2026

Contributors: Min-Yao Jhu, Jo Heffer, Chongjing Xia, Thiago Alexandre Moraes, Claire M. Mulvey, Dario Bressan, Chen Liu, Jin-Peng Gao, Philip Poole, Katharina Schiessl, Giles E. D. Oldroyd

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Antagonistic action of a nuclear hormone receptor pair coordinates a switch from lytic to biotrophic effector production in a plant-parasitic nematode

Date: 12 June 2026

Contributors: Anika Damm, Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, Anna Dickinson, Priya Desikan, Alexis L. Sperling, George Harpum, Paul Brett, Beth Molloy, Clement Pellegrin, Chongjing Xia, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

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Better late than never: the impact of hatching time on Heterodera schachtii parasitism

Date: 2 June 2026

Contributors: Mason Rugen-Hankey, Priya Desikan, George Harpum, Chongjing Xia, Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, Unnati Sonawala, Lida Derevnina, Beth Molloy, Anika Damm, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

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Kinetic parameter prediction using neural networks identifies limitations to C4 photosynthesis

Date: 28 May 2026

Contributors: Philipp Wendering, John Ferguson, Rudan Xu, Johannes Kromdijk, Zoran Nikoloski

Journal: New Phytologist

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Cross-kingdom communication between plants and parasitic nematodes

Date: 14 May 2026

Contributors: Christopher A. Bell, Lida Derevnina, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

Journal: New Phytologist Foundation

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Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at cellular resolution

Date: 11 May 2026

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

Journal: The Plant Cell