Seaweed forests are widely viewed as natural climate solutions, yet warming oceans are driving their rapid decline. This Essay reveals that losses are outpacing restoration efforts by orders of magnit...

Fueled by climate change and a strengthening El Niño, record-setting marine heat waves are gripping oceans worldwide and playing havoc with sea life. Mounting evidence from recent events suggests the ...

An integrated genetic toolkit enables systematic molecular investigation of ocean diatoms, microscopic algae that contribute approximately one-fifth of glo

Application deadline January 30, 2026 or until position is filled About the lab The VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology (PSB) is a world-leading plant sc

Background The evolution of differences in gamete size and number between sexes is a cornerstone of sexual selection theories. The green macroalga Ulva, with incipient anisogamy and parthenogenetic ga...

OverviewThe group of Specialized Metabolism, led by Prof. Alain Goossens at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, and the metabolic engineering researc

Whole-genome duplications, widely observed in plant lineages, have significant evolutionary and ecological impacts. Yet, our current understanding of the direct implications of ploidy shifts on shor.....

Root hairs are tubular tip-growing extensions of root epidermal cells that enhance root surface area for water and nutrient uptake. While mechanisms governing root hair fate, polarity, and tip growth ...

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The green seaweed Ulva compressa is a promising model for functional biology. In addition to historical research on growth and development, -omics data and molecular tools for stable transformation ...

To understand the potential for seaweed as a Blue Carbon strategy, the authors quantify carbon burial under 20 globally distributed seaweed farms. They attribute an average of 1.06 ± 0.74 tCO2e ha−1 y...

Human impact has increased total nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations over reference conditions and doubled the areas affected by potentially harmful algal growth, impacting around 40% of the global...

This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...

We lack tools to edit DNA sequences at scales necessary to study 99% of the human genome that is noncoding. To address this gap, we applied CRISPR prime editing to insert recombination handles into re...

Metagenomic analyses of green seaweed microbiome show enriched metabolic modules for oxidative stress mitigation in high salinity.