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defolter-lab.bsky.social
Professor at UGA-Cinvestav, plant functional genomics, flower and fruit development, EiC Planta (Springer), 🇳🇱 in 🇲🇽
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Very happy that one of our first tomato stories is out 🍅 by Eduardo Martinez-Estrada. Conserved and novel roles of the bHLH transcription factor SPATULA in tomato. academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Deadline extension for abstract submission (now until Jan 31) to the international meeting "Evolution of Plant Reproduction" organized by dfg-icips.org in Berlin (March 25-28, 2025) with a great line-up of speakers: dfg-icips.org/berlin2025/ and hurry up to register! #PlantScience #PlantEvodevo

Repairing a deleterious domestication variant in a floral regulator gene of tomato by base editing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you want to know how to live-image internal floral organs with confocal microscope for up to 2 weeks? Check out our protocol: bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?... #Arabidopsis #Flower

Beautiful Brassicaceae fruit-shape diversity. And here we tell you (part of) how it’s done! rdcu.be/d3i8x What a great collab it’s been! Thanks Yang Dong, @matmajda.bsky.social, Richard Smith and entire team. @natureplants.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

STM is involved in fruit shape determination in Brassicaceae: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MorphoGraphX

The email announcement of International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) Conference in 2025 in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA is just out! Please spread the word of what will be a very exciting conference in a beautiful place. #IPGSA2025

This started as an “easy” project to start practicing with Boolean models in a system apparently well known, but life is full of surprises… it has been fun! www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/20/2927