Our group investigates the maternal inheritance of plastid and mitochondrial genomes in plants, with the goal of uncovering the mechanisms that govern this process.

The functioning of complex systems depends on the coordination of diverse components, often supported by regulatory structures that incur costs. In...

TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12

Auxin-dependent ARF transcription factors are subject to proteolytic degradation. Using the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, de Roij et al. show that this degradation evolved early in the ARF family, ...

Cell surface receptors perceive immunogenic elicitors, triggering downstream signalling via receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases such as BIK1. Here the authors define and use the phosphorylation motif of...

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

From tiny mosses to giant redwoods, around 450,000 species of land plants show a huge variety of forms, yet all land plants develop from stem cells in proliferative meristems. What makes a meristem? T...

We are looking for a Full Professor in the Biophysics chair group, part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

Activities Webinars ”MechanoBioTalks – Mechanics, Materials and Living Matter” is a webinar series supported by the GreenTE consortium and organized […]

Save the date! Op woensdagavond 18 februari organiseren we een verkiezingsdebat natuur en landschap in de spiksplinternieuw verbouwde Bblthk. Onder leiding van Jelle de Gruyter, Rob Janmaat en/of Simo...

Relying on infrared communication over visual color could have limited cycad evolution