You may have wondered “What do we know about the molecular-genetic control of phloem development?”. If so, don’t ask #ChatGPT , read this #TansleyReview instead:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Plant Sci. Res. Weekly -- Photo-thermally controlled regulation of FLOWERING LOCUS T at transcriptional level drives the arrest of flowering time in Arabidopsis (Plant Physiol.) Pablo González-Suárez Tom Bennett (Summ. by Idowu Arinola Obisesan, Idowu A. Obisesan) buff.ly/42UW87r

Great to see Pablo Pablo González-Suárez featured here! Hopefully the first of many first author research papers 😁

Super thrilled that we just got our latest findings published in Nature Plants.🌿☘️🌻

Structure and characterization of the plant sucrose transporter SUC1: The '❤️' of plants.

link:
doi.org/10.1038/s41477…
and full text here ($$ open access 😅):
rdcu.be/dcaW1

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We honestly couldn’t have done this work without these chambers Alexis Moschopoulos! Would strongly recommend them to anyone looking to accurately run experiments across a range of environmental conditions, or looking for a highly precise phenotyping set-up!

Like a particularly grizzly bear, I’m just emerging from my now-yearly Twitter hibernation 🐻 Apparently term-time strongly inhibits my ability to communicate with the world 🤣
Plenty to catch up on…

FLOWERING LOCUS T mediates photo-thermal timing of inflorescence meristem arrest in Arabidopsis thaliana (Pablo González-Suárez, Catriona H Walker, Tom Bennett) buff.ly/40qxr1s Pablo González-Suárez Tom Bennett Catriona Walker ASPB #PlantSci

Just available on bioRxiv: by snRNAseq of the Arabidopsis hypocotyl we found that strigolactones modulate vessel formation and thus plant water usage. Fantastic work by Jiao Zhao, Dongbo Shi / 石 東博, @Kiara_Charlotta, Tom Bennett Lab, Kerstin Kaufmann et al biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just enough #fruit : understanding feedback mechanisms during sexual reproductive development bit.ly/3lZvJpe
Avi Sadka, Catriona H Walker, Dor Haim & Tom Bennett Tom Bennett Catriona Walker

#FloweringNewsletterReview

Pretty proud of this review that Mark Waters and I wrote on karrikin signaling and the (still) mysterious KAI2 ligand. 18 years after the discovery of karrikins in smoke, this field has come a long way!

Final version is out now nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Massive congratulations to Dr. Catriona Walker Catriona Walker, who successfully defended her thesis this week! 🥂 And thank you to Lars Ostergaard for officiating! A very proud moment for the lab 😊

Walking past my Faculty’s reception desk…and apparently DWARF14 is the molcule of the month for October 2022…how? who? why?

I’m not complaining, just completely surprised to see this here 🤣

Robertas is a great mentor, does exciting science and makes a awesome potato pie! It is a win win situation! Apply.

#LongLiveAuxin

Get off your phone Bennett

#Auxin2022 The auxin community sets sail for Dubrovnik on the HMS Deathtrap. #GreatIdeasInScience

#Auxin2022 Oh come on Croatia, stop trying so hard.

#Auxin2022 Well this all seems very civilised, I think I can probably hack a week of this…

On my way to examine a thesis at University of Nottingham… or at least, I would be, if the cattle hadn’t invaded the railway line 🤣

I didn’t cownt on being delayed…

I am so confused as to why the hands of this clock at Leeds Station have been covered up… Was it making an inflammatory gesture twice a day?? 🖕