yogevborko.bsky.social @yogevborko.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Today, @VolcaniInstitute and @HUJIAgri hosted the @WolfPrize ceremony. A special moment was Sigal’s moving tribute to Joanne Chory, the 2024 Wolf Prize laureate. Though she passed away before receiving the prize, her legacy lives on. 🌱🏆 052
yogevborko.bsky.social @yogevborko.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Thrilled to share that our paper is now online in @PlantPhys 🌱 🍅 doi.org/10.1093/plph... Many thanks to all co-authors and collaborators who made this work possible!!! Also, thanks to Hannah Rae Thomas for summarizing our work here: doi.org/10.1093/plph...doi.orgPhytochrome-interacting factors integrate environmental signals to regulate tomato growth and developmentLight-responsive transcription factors mediate tomato responses to shade, shaping plant architecture and modulating fruit production and seed dormancy. 062
Reposted by @yogevborko.bsky.socialPlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 31/08/2025This paper was dedicated to the memory of the late Joanne Chory: Coincidence detection of low temperature and blue light and the control of flowering (by A. Seluzicki & J. Chory) www.nature.com/articles/s41... 03210
Reposted by @yogevborko.bsky.socialNatanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Our #research on #drought #recovery, now published with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com: Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation. doi.org/10.1038/s414... Read thread below 👇doi.orgDrought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation - Nature CommunicationsPost-drought rehydration triggers a preventive immune response in plants, revealing targets to enhance crop resilience by linking drought stress recovery with improved pathogen resistance. 88844
yogevborko.bsky.social @yogevborko.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Excited and grateful to the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) for funding my research for the next five years! www.agri.gov.il/en/congratul...agri.gov.ilCongratulations to the recipients of the research grants from ISF - Volcani Website6 ISF Winners Dr. Roni Rak‘s research project – “This research fundamentally investigates how transfer RNA (tRNA) dynamics, encompassing their expression, modifications, and codon adaptation, regulate... 040
Reposted by @yogevborko.bsky.socialGuy Golan @guy2golan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025A new preprint! Inspired by Kleiber's law, we show how growth rate scales with biomass in wheat, and how this scaling connects resource use to reproduction and grain yield in diverse environments. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgScaling law links plant growth variation to grain yield in wheat standsGrowth rate, a key trait influencing plant resource use, scales predictably with plant mass, following remarkably consistent allometric power laws shaped by biophysical constraints and natural selecti... 142
Reposted by @yogevborko.bsky.socialDior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025New CRISPR tools for tomato functional genomics from Eilon Shani! 🍅 🧬 ✂️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comConstruction of multi-targeted CRISPR libraries in tomato to overcome functional redundancy at genome-scale level - Nature CommunicationsGenetic variance is vital for breeding programs and mutant screening, yet traditional mutagenesis methods wrestle with genetic redundancy and a lack of specificity in gene targeting. Here the authors ... 05322
yogevborko.bsky.social @yogevborko.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Many thanks to @roisinlf.bsky.social for the excellent summary of our recent study, capturing all the key insights. academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...academic.oup.comShedding light on shade-avoidance: SIPIF8a plays a pivotal role in the tomato shade responseRóisín Fattorini; Shedding light on shade-avoidance: SIPIF8a plays a pivotal role in the tomato shade response, The Plant Cell, , koaf091, https://doi.org/ 020
yogevborko.bsky.social @yogevborko.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The tomato shade response transcriptomics data is now available in the eFP browser! bar.utoronto.ca/efp_tomato/c...bar.utoronto.caTomato eFP Browser 052
Reposted by @yogevborko.bsky.socialThe Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Species-specific PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR utilization in the plant morphogenetic response to environmental stimuli Srinivas Kunta, Yardena Dahan, Shai Torgeman, Joanne Chory, Yogev Burko doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantSciencedoi.org 061
Reposted by @yogevborko.bsky.socialbioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Loss of PIF7 attenuates shade and elevated temperature responses throughout the lifecycle in Pennycress www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 031
Reposted by @yogevborko.bsky.socialbioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 19/03/2025A tomato line hyposensitive to simulated proximity shade shows altered auxin-related 1 gene expression and improved fruit yield under high-density field conditions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 011
yogevborko.bsky.social @yogevborko.bsky.social · 16/03/2025The first paper from my lab is now online in @ThePlantCell 🌱 doi.org/10.1093/plce... This work is dedicated to the late Prof. Joanne Chory, who profoundly shaped my journey in science and beyond. Thank you to everyone involved: Srinivas Kunta, Yardena Dahan, Shai Torgeman, @Volacninstitute.doi.orgSpecies-specific PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR utilization in the plant morphogenetic response to environmental stimuliSpecific PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR members regulate shade avoidance in Arabidopsis and tomato but are not required for thermomorphogenesis-induced ste 3196
Reposted by @yogevborko.bsky.socialTatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 08/01/2025New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41... 23253129
