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Merijn Kerstens

@merijnkerstens.bsky.social

PhD Candidate Cell & Developmental Biology @ Wageningen University & Research 🥕 and 🌱 architecture | Embryogenesis | Arabidopsis FTW | ☕ enthusiast

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Merijn Kerstens @merijnkerstens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happy to share our review on how PLETHORA transcription factors shape plant development, out now in Journal of Experimental Botany! academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... I am glad to be able to highlight my favourite transcription factor family!

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

PLETHORA3/7 controls cucumber shoot architecture 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Kerstens et al. @WileyPlantSci @merijnkerstens.bsky.social @violawillemsen.bsky.social

CsPLTs are expressed in cucumber root and shoot apices.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

#LatestIssue cover: Confocal #microscopy image showing DR5:3nucVenus expression in the inflorescence apical meristem of an Arabidopsis thaliana plt3 plt5 plt7 pin1-T600I mutant. Image courtesy of Kerstens and Willemsen. 📖 See @merijnkerstens.bsky.social & Willemsen et al. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

On the cover of New Phytologist volume 249, issue 1: Confocal microscopy image showing DR5:3nucVenus expression (yellow) in the inflorescence apical meristem (cyan) of an Arabidopsis thaliana plt3 plt5 plt7 pin1-T600I mutant. The DR5:3nucVenus auxin-responsive reporter highlights regions of auxin accumulation and signalling activity within the mutant inflorescence apical meristem. Image courtesy of Merijn Kerstens and Viola Willemsen.

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