100% this ⬇️⬇️⬇️ “if pupils avoid school… the system needs to change” - this article explains why. apple.news/AlXHDgfQLTqm...
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Fill a plant's air spaces with water and it no longer can sense the direction of light. Revelatory finding from Christian Fankhauser's lab. Power of genetics! #plantscience
Some seedlings use air shafts around their cells to refract light and sense its direction. This discovery helps answer how plants seem to know where light is coming from.
A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it.
It's out in a Plant Journal issue: regulation of moss spore germination by a DOG1-like protein. Thanks to @rensingstefan.bsky.socialonlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In analogy to water conducting cells in vascular plants' xylem, cell wall reinforcements and programmed cell death are used to facilitate water transport in Marchantia pegged rhizoids. An amazing paradigm of convergent evolution in land plants! More here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Citations are a metric subject to systemic bias. Marginalised folk are cited less.
New Article: "A designer synthetic chromosome fragment functions in moss" rdcu.be/dxdbV#PlantScience
New Physco genome. Now definitely 26 chromosomes, not 27 chromosomes Near telomere-to-telomere genome of the model plant Physcomitrium patens www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The near telomere-to-telomere genome of Physcomitrium patens reveals 26 chromosomes and new genome structures, while also identifying new telomeres, an improved chromosomal karyotype model and intrigu...
Next level synthetic biology! A designer synthetic chromosome fragment functions in moss www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genome synthesis is moving into the multicellular era. This study redesigned and replaced a 155 kb chromosomal region with synthetic sequence in the model moss Physcomitrium patens. The simplified s...