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Delfi Dorussen

@delfidorussen.bsky.social
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PhD student studying wheat genetics/genomics at the John Innes Centre | University of Cambridge and WUR graduate | I love plants 🌿👩‍🔬🌾🌺 | she/her

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I just published: Eva Sansome: papers that stand the test of time A tribute to a plant pathologist who settled the biggest argument in oomycete genetics from her kitchen in Diss, Norfolk. Given at the BSPP Early Career Plant Pathology meeting, September 2026. kamounlab.medium.com/eva-sansome-...
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Delfi Dorussen @delfidorussen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Really cool work from @maxljordan.bsky.social @s-lab.bsky.social out on bioRXiv today! Find out more about how engineering NLRs in bacteria can enhance the production of antibiotics and anti-cancer drugs 👇🧬🧫
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Emilie Knight @emilieknight.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Two great talks by members of the Borrill group at #Monogram2026 today: Miles Curl telling us about drought tolerance in wheat and @beccatesta.bsky.social investigating the role of NAC3 in senescence in wheat. Great chairing of a whole session by @amy-newell.bsky.social too! Well done all 👍🏼
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We’re back at the @dsw-isp.bsky.social annual meeting this afternoon where @emilieknight.bsky.social is presenting a promising protoplast-based method to decipher gene networks in wheat. Protoplasts are living plant, bacterial, or fungal cells that have had their rigid outer cell walls removed.
Emilie Knight, research assistant, presenting her work on a promising protoplast-based method at the DSW annual meetingTransformed wheat protoplasts expressing GFP. The lines are from the hemacytometer that the cells are in suspension on.
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
PhD student Becca @beccatesta.bsky.social is JIC’s first speaker at @dsw-isp.bsky.social annual meeting, giving a fascinating talk on genetic regulation of wheat senescence. This stage of development informs grain nutrient content, making her research important for agronomy and global health.
PhD student Becca Testa presenting her work at the DSW annual meetingSenescent wheat at the JIC field station in Bawburgh, 2025PhD student Becca Testa in the glasshouses
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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Spatial transcriptomics reveals expression gradients in developing wheat inflorescences at cellular resolution (Katie A Long , Ashleigh Lister , Maximillian R W Jones , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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Spatial transcriptomics reveals expression gradients in developing wheat inflorescences at cellular resolution
High-resolution spatial transcriptomics reveals coordinated gene expression patterns that define spikelet and floral development in wheat.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Homoeolog expression in polyploid #wheat #mutants shows limited transcriptional compensation Dorussen et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @delfidorussen.bsky.social @emilieknight.bsky.social @simmojsimmo.bsky.social @philippaborrill.bsky.social
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Philippa Borrill @philippaborrill.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The mystery of redundancy between homoeologs continues! Knocking out one homoeolog in wheat doesn't cause the other homoeologs to be upregulated... nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Great work led by @delfidorussen.bsky.social with @emilieknight.bsky.social @simmojsimmo.bsky.social
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
BLOG - Women in wheat event provides training to address gender bias in wheat research This July saw the latest #WomenInWheat event, where 25 early career women researchers attended a JIC training event focused on addressing gender bias in the UK and internationally www.jic.ac.uk/blog/women-i...
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Botany One @botany.one · 21/07/2025
Women, Plants, and the Power of a Name Researchers uncover the real women behind botanical names, turning obscure eponyms into powerful stories of recognition and representation. botany.one/2025/07/wome... #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Mary Agnes Chase looking over some plant specimens at the photographer with an expression of forbearance.
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Delfi Dorussen @delfidorussen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I'm excited to share our work investigating transcriptional compensation in polyploid wheat 🌾 It was fun to work on this project led by @philippaborrill.bsky.social and myself, with key contributions from @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social The key take-aways, a 🧵
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Marek Glombik @glombikm.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Happy to share that our study of inheritance of homoeolog expression bias in wheat biparental populations is out in @biomedcentral.bsky.social Genome Biology! 🧬 Many thanks to all co-authors and @philippaborrill.bsky.social for great leadership on the project! #PlantScience #Botany rdcu.be/eokf2
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Rapid reprogramming and stabilization of homoeolog expression bias in hexaploid wheat biparental populations
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Delfi Dorussen @delfidorussen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Very cool protocol development from Emilie in the Borrill Lab 🧪 👇
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
For #WorldTapirDay my #linocut Malayan tapirs, adult and baby. 🐡🧪 There are 4 types of tapir; this linocut is of both an adult & baby Malayan tapir. Tapirs always look very dapper, if improbable, in their black and white coat. The adults with their white saddles look like an aardvark crossed with 🧵
This linocut is of both an adult and baby Malayan tapir. The adult is facing right and is on the top of the print. It’s a heavy quadruped with a trunk. It’s black with white saddle pattern. Below is the juvenile tapir facing left. It is smaller with rounder ears and shorter trunk. It is black with a pattern of spots in stripes like a faun.

This lino block print is printed on Japanese kozo, or mulberry paper 23.5 cm by 31.7 cm (9.25 inches by 12.5 inches).
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Delfi Dorussen @delfidorussen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I’m very happy to share the published version of our paper on the role of MET1 in wheat 🌾 🧬 It’s been really exciting to discover more about DNA methylation in wheat and it’s huge polyploid genome doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Partial redundancy buffers deleterious effects of mutating DNA methyltransferase 1-1 (MET1-1) in polyploid wheat
Varying gene dosage through mutating DNA methyltransferase 1-1 (MET1-1 ) in polyploid wheat generates quantitative changes to CG methylation without the le
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Donna Ferguson @donnalferguson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
My latest article for The Observer 😍🙏
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a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
a illustration of our standard kitchen onion, Allium cepa, from 1586. Handcolored engravinga black and white photograph of a white man in a suit, holding stalks of some plant, possibly corn or some sort of grain. Photo depicts Nikolai Vavilov (1887 - 1943)
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Delfi Dorussen @delfidorussen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
It was great fun to present some of my research into functional redundancy in wheat at the IWGSC workshop at #PAG32 😄🌾🧬
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Delfi Dorussen @delfidorussen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Some cool research I was very happy to be a part of 🌱👇
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Cristobal Uauy @cristobaluauy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
1/10 We are thrilled to share our preprint on spatial transcriptomics in wheat spikes led by the amazing @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister. We resolved expression of 200 genes to cellular resolution. Pre-print👉 tinyurl.com/c7t3kncf., @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social
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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Paleoart is better with plants 💚🌱
An extinct elephant-sized brown ground sloth Eremotherium trying to eat the pale round fruit growing on the trunk of the Cannonball tree. There are also small red flowers. The fruit and seeds may have been distributed by extinct megafauna. A small white flower with thin green leaves in front of a dark stone wall with a representation of a cave painting of a woolly rhino. The flower Silence stenophylla or Narrow-leafed Campion was reconstructed from a seed found in a ground squirrel burrow that was 32,000 years old.A grey bird sits on a branch of an extinct plant Florissantia that has green leaves and flower-like papery husks. This plant is in the Malvaceae family and lived during the Eocene 50 million years ago. The bird is a Zygodactylus and it is eating an ancient wasp Palaeovespa.A small brown pterosaur, Sibopterus,with a yellow and orange crest eating the orange seeds of an epiphydic cycad growing on the side of a tree.
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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
📢A new blog published! Using drawing as a tool for learning ✏️🌱🌵 Read more here⏩ 1url.cz/W1IU7 As a person who draws almost every day, I was surprised to discover just how effective drawing can be as a tool for learning about anything, really #GoBelowground #CloPla #rhizome #drawing #bud #clonality
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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A major conservation win! I won't try to conceal my excitement. This Hawaiian crow was BROUGHT BACK FROM EXTINCTION. Well done to everyone involved. Hawaiian crow that went extinct in the wild decades ago released on Maui www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... #crow #crows #corvids #conservation 🌎
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Hawaiian crow that went extinct in the wild decades ago released on Maui
Two female and three male alala released after years of preparation in ongoing effort to return species to its home
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Leonie Luginbuehl @lluginbuehl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Very happy to share that our latest publication on the evolution of C4 photosynthesis is out now. It was such a pleasure working with the amazing Joseph Swift, Joe Ecker, @tinaschreier.bsky.social, and @jmhibberd.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis - Nature
Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing and chromatin-accessibility analyses in rice (a C3 plant) and sorghum (a C4 plant) provide insight into how C4 photosynthesis evolved in bundle-sheath cells, revealing th...
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