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Rowan Mitchell

@rowanacm.bsky.social

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Plant scientist, computational biologist

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

🌾 Grass leaves are the photosynthetic powerhouses of human civilisation. @lbmountain.bsky.social's transcriptomic atlas of nearly 70,000 cells from shoot apex to mature leaf follows the genetic programs that form a grass leaf 🧬 paper doi.org/10.1093/plce... expression browser shiny.ips.unibe.ch

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Rowan Mitchell @rowanacm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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Rowan Mitchell @rowanacm.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Grasses dominate Earth and feed humanity. I’m writing Planet Grass a book about how this plant family reshaped the planet. Please let me know about any new good research! #plantscience #plantevolution #ecology #botany

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Rowan Mitchell @rowanacm.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

First identification of a wheat allele conferring high dietary fibre content. Gives an easy way to improve healthiness of bread. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience 🧪

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A High Soluble‐Fibre Allele in Wheat Encodes a Defective Cell Wall Peroxidase Responsible for Dimerization of Ferulate Moieties on Arabinoxylan

Increasing dietary fibre (DF) intake is an important target to improve health. An attractive strategy for this is to increase DF in wheat which is derived principally from the endosperm cell wall pol...

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Rowan Mitchell @rowanacm.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The evolutionary success of grasses transformed planet earth and underpins agriculture. My new analysis doi.org/10.1093/bioa... looked for protein-coding genes responsible for this success and found 4,609 putative universal genes with lineage specific functions . #plantscience #plantevolution

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Identification of universal grass genes and estimates of their monocot- / commelinid- /grass-specificity

AbstractMotivation. Where experiments identify sets of grass genes of unknown function, for example underlying a QTL or co-expressed in a transcriptome, it

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