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@mikellavi.bsky.social
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@syno2xis.bsky.social
When oxygen drops, plants respond in minutes 🌱
Oxford @biology.ox.ac.uk's @mikellavi.bsky.social and @syno2xis.bsky.social + Engineering Science researchers, with Prof Antonis Papachristodoulou, reveal a circuit key to plant survival.
🔗 eng.ox.ac.uk/news/without...
What features are required to shape hypoxic niches enclosing meristems? We @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social in collab @pieterverboven.bsky.social found that a combination of cuticle barrier, densely packed tissue and metabolic activity all uniquely contribute to maintain shoot apical meristem hypoxia
The big takeaway: these O2 sensing systems are functionally interchangeable across kingdoms, but they're not identical. The kinetic differences matter!
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Without oxygen, the first minutes matter 🌱
In low oxygen, eg when flooded, plants need to act quickly to survive. New research led by @mikellavi.bsky.social has revealed a molecular circuit that kicks into gear in minutes - and it can work completely independently 👇
Very happy to see this out!! Thank you all!
Check out or latest publication www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We knew PCOs & ERFVIIs regulated plant hypoxia, but this work shows they also manage the 'reoxygenation' stress.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New paper out from the Synoxys lab!
We asked an important question: what if plants sensed oxygen like animals do? what if we swapped the O2 sensing across? We built the system to find out. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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@syno2xis.bsky.social @beagiuntoli.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
Plant Energy Biology Lab
Plant Energy Biology Lab
ALT: a poster for indiana jones and the last crusade with a man in a hat
It's finally out! With this new paper, Salma and Monica show that hypoxia-regulated ERFVIIs are not immediately destabilised during reoxygenation: they instead persist in the nucleus to control oxidative stress genes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
