A News & Views article featuring our recent publication🌟! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
It highlights the potential of manipulating mitochondrial inheritance for crop breeding 🌾 @natplants.nature.com
I'm also grateful to the European Research Council (ERC) Horizon 2020 programme @erc.europa.eu and the Max Planck Society for their funding support of this work.
Mitochondria can indeed be inherited from the father! 🍀
In this new study, we uncovered the molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondrial inheritance in Nicotiana tabacum. @natplants.nature.com
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It has been my privilege to lead and coordinate this work across three labs: my former postdoc lab at MPIMP @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social; my former PhD lab at CUHK; and my current group at WUR @wurplant.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
Big thanks to all the scientists who contributed to this work!
It’s also nice to see that another Review on this topic was published very recently doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... Research in this area is gaining momentum 🌱📈🥼
We're hiring a PhD candidate! 🔬
Are you fascinated by cytoplasmic genetics and eager to uncover the mechanisms underlying maternal inheritance of plastids and mitochondria?
If so, join our group and contribute to our ERC-funded research "CytoInP"!🌟
Application link: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Glad to see that our Viewpoint article is now online! doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
We highlight recent exciting advances in plastid-to-nucleus gene transfer and share our perspectives in this evolving field.
💪🙏Many thanks to Yuyang and Femke for their contributions to this work. @jxbotany.bsky.social
Kin Pan Chung
We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment.
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Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Kin Pan Chung
Our group investigates the maternal inheritance of plastid and mitochondrial genomes in plants, with the goal of uncovering the mechanisms that govern this process.
Our work is out now! (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). We discover a selective autophagy pathway that protects plants from the mess caused by RNA viruses. Intrigued? Follow the spaghetti trail for a summary of our findings🧵-->
In many algae, photosynthesis is boosted by biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms, which pack the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into liquid-like organelles called pyrenoids. Engineering C3 crops with a...
