Another great collaboration with @trevormnolan.bsky.social and @nvukas.bsky.social where we give our vision on how brassinosteroid research can pave the way to precision plant engineering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Unlocking the potential of brassinosteroids: A path to precision plant engineering
Brassinosteroids are essential plant hormones that play a central role in regulating growth, development, and stress responses. Their impact on plant architecture and productivity makes them attractiv...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Another great collaboration with @trevormnolan.bsky.social and @nvukas.bsky.social where we give our vision on how brassinosteroid research can pave the way to precision plant engineering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Brassinosteroids define the stem elongation zone along the apical-basal axis to coordinate gravitropism and self-standability (Yusuke Kakei , Masaki Okumura , Chiaki Yamazaki , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Brassinosteroids define the stem elongation zone along the apical-basal axis to coordinate gravitropism and self-standability
Brassinosteroids, working with auxin, define the elongation zone of the inflorescence stem along the apical-basal axis to coordinate gravitropism and self-
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September 29, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Brassinosteroids define the stem elongation zone along the apical-basal axis to coordinate gravitropism and self-standability (Yusuke Kakei , Masaki Okumura , Chiaki Yamazaki , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
New #plantscience Review article out in this week's @science.org looking at how technological advances are informing brassinosteroid research:
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Thanks to authors
@jennyrussinova.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social @nvukas.bsky.social
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Thanks to authors
@jennyrussinova.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social @nvukas.bsky.social
Unlocking the potential of brassinosteroids: A path to precision plant engineering
Brassinosteroids are essential plant hormones that play a central role in regulating growth, development, and stress responses. Their impact on plant architecture and productivity makes them attractiv...
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
New #plantscience Review article out in this week's @science.org looking at how technological advances are informing brassinosteroid research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Thanks to authors
@jennyrussinova.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social @nvukas.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Thanks to authors
@jennyrussinova.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social @nvukas.bsky.social
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Brassinosteroids control cell proliferation in the lateral root cap of the Arabidopsis root @emboreports.org
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Brassinosteroids control cell proliferation in the lateral root cap of the Arabidopsis root @emboreports.org
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April 13, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Brassinosteroids control cell proliferation in the lateral root cap of the Arabidopsis root @emboreports.org
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Brassinosteroids control cell proliferation in the lateral root cap of the Arabidopsis root @emboreports.org
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Brassinosteroids promote pollen tube guidance by coordinating gene expression in male and female reproductive tissues
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Brassinosteroids promote pollen tube guidance by coordinating gene expression in male and female reproductive tissues
Brassinosteroids (BRs) were originally isolated from pollen grains, but their role
in plant reproduction remains a mystery. Matsuura-Tokita et al. show that biologically
active BRs are detected in rep...
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June 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Brassinosteroids promote pollen tube guidance by coordinating gene expression in male and female reproductive tissues
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📜 The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids
🧑🔬 @zivaardening.bsky.social, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, et al.
📔 Trends in Plant Science
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#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Brassinosteroids #Phytohormones
🧑🔬 @zivaardening.bsky.social, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, et al.
📔 Trends in Plant Science
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#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Brassinosteroids #Phytohormones
The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids
Brassinosteroid (BR) phytohormones operate at both the cellular and organ levels,
and impart distinct transcriptional responses in different cell types and developmental
zones, with distinct effects o...
www.cell.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:38 AM
📜 The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids
🧑🔬 @zivaardening.bsky.social, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, et al.
📔 Trends in Plant Science
🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Brassinosteroids #Phytohormones
🧑🔬 @zivaardening.bsky.social, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, et al.
📔 Trends in Plant Science
🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Brassinosteroids #Phytohormones
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Brassinosteroids promote pollen tube guidance by coordinating gene expression in male and female reproductive tissues @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
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Brassinosteroids promote pollen tube guidance by coordinating gene expression in male and female reproductive tissues @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
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June 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Brassinosteroids promote pollen tube guidance by coordinating gene expression in male and female reproductive tissues @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
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Brassinosteroids promote pollen tube guidance by coordinating gene expression in male and female reproductive tissues @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
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In a new #ScienceReview, researchers explore how advances in single-cell analysis and developments in gene editing are paving the way for precision engineering of crop plants. https://scim.ag/43SDAYe
Unlocking the potential of brassinosteroids: A path to precision plant engineering
Brassinosteroids are essential plant hormones that play a central role in regulating growth, development, and stress responses. Their impact on plant architecture and productivity makes them attractiv...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In a new #ScienceReview, researchers explore how advances in single-cell analysis and developments in gene editing are paving the way for precision engineering of crop plants. https://scim.ag/43SDAYe
Perception of Brassinosteroids by the Extracellular Domain of the Receptor Kinase BRI1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perception of Brassinosteroids by the Extracellular Domain of the Receptor Kinase BRI1
An assay was developed to study plant receptor kinase activation and signaling mechanisms. The extracellular leucine-rich repeat (LRR) and transmembrane domains of the Arabidopsis receptor kinase BRI1...
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November 14, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Perception of Brassinosteroids by the Extracellular Domain of the Receptor Kinase BRI1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New Preprint!
We use #AFM and CarboTag-based #FLIM to describe rapid cell wall mechanisms of Phytosulfokines & Brassinosteroids and investigate how these processes are initiated on the nanoscale by using #sptPALM!
PS: This is also the main story of my PhD project😊✌🏻
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We use #AFM and CarboTag-based #FLIM to describe rapid cell wall mechanisms of Phytosulfokines & Brassinosteroids and investigate how these processes are initiated on the nanoscale by using #sptPALM!
PS: This is also the main story of my PhD project😊✌🏻
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Distinct nanoscale dynamics of growth receptor complexes link hormone perception to rapid cell wall remodeling
Cell elongation is a fundamental process allowing plants to change size and shape, a process governed by several growth promoting hormones. While hormones such as brassinosteroids (BRs) and phytosulfo...
www.biorxiv.org
September 11, 2026 at 8:27 AM
New Preprint!
We use #AFM and CarboTag-based #FLIM to describe rapid cell wall mechanisms of Phytosulfokines & Brassinosteroids and investigate how these processes are initiated on the nanoscale by using #sptPALM!
PS: This is also the main story of my PhD project😊✌🏻
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use #AFM and CarboTag-based #FLIM to describe rapid cell wall mechanisms of Phytosulfokines & Brassinosteroids and investigate how these processes are initiated on the nanoscale by using #sptPALM!
PS: This is also the main story of my PhD project😊✌🏻
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🌱Sex on Steroids…
Lima and Figueiredo explain how #Brassinosteroids could hold the key to improving crop traits and yield through their multifaceted regulation of the plant reproductive cycle (incl. fertility, hybridization barriers & seed development) 🌼🌱
📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
Lima and Figueiredo explain how #Brassinosteroids could hold the key to improving crop traits and yield through their multifaceted regulation of the plant reproductive cycle (incl. fertility, hybridization barriers & seed development) 🌼🌱
📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
Sex on Steroids: How Brassinosteroids Shape Reproductive Development in Flowering Plants
Abstract. Since the discovery of brassinolide in the pollen of rapeseed, brassinosteroids (BRs) have consistently been associated with reproductive traits.
doi.org
December 2, 2024 at 2:05 PM
🌱Sex on Steroids…
Lima and Figueiredo explain how #Brassinosteroids could hold the key to improving crop traits and yield through their multifaceted regulation of the plant reproductive cycle (incl. fertility, hybridization barriers & seed development) 🌼🌱
📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
Lima and Figueiredo explain how #Brassinosteroids could hold the key to improving crop traits and yield through their multifaceted regulation of the plant reproductive cycle (incl. fertility, hybridization barriers & seed development) 🌼🌱
📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
And we’re off!
PCP EIC Tetsuya Higashiyama and Editor @jennyrussinova.bsky.social kick-start the @oxfordunipress.bsky.social sponsored session on intercellular and inter-organismal signalling at #JSPPKanazawa2025 meeting
#PlantScience #Conference
#Brassinosteroids
PCP EIC Tetsuya Higashiyama and Editor @jennyrussinova.bsky.social kick-start the @oxfordunipress.bsky.social sponsored session on intercellular and inter-organismal signalling at #JSPPKanazawa2025 meeting
#PlantScience #Conference
#Brassinosteroids
March 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
And we’re off!
PCP EIC Tetsuya Higashiyama and Editor @jennyrussinova.bsky.social kick-start the @oxfordunipress.bsky.social sponsored session on intercellular and inter-organismal signalling at #JSPPKanazawa2025 meeting
#PlantScience #Conference
#Brassinosteroids
PCP EIC Tetsuya Higashiyama and Editor @jennyrussinova.bsky.social kick-start the @oxfordunipress.bsky.social sponsored session on intercellular and inter-organismal signalling at #JSPPKanazawa2025 meeting
#PlantScience #Conference
#Brassinosteroids
New OA Article: "Brassinosteroids promote sugar synthesis by inhibiting BIN2 phosphorylation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase" rdcu.be/Q5Fqmnw1EPna
BRs were found to relieve BIN2-mediated inhibition of PCK1, a key enzyme in gluconeogenesis and photosynthesis. #PlantScience
BRs were found to relieve BIN2-mediated inhibition of PCK1, a key enzyme in gluconeogenesis and photosynthesis. #PlantScience
August 31, 2026 at 12:09 PM
New OA Article: "Brassinosteroids promote sugar synthesis by inhibiting BIN2 phosphorylation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase" rdcu.be/Q5Fqmnw1EPna
BRs were found to relieve BIN2-mediated inhibition of PCK1, a key enzyme in gluconeogenesis and photosynthesis. #PlantScience
BRs were found to relieve BIN2-mediated inhibition of PCK1, a key enzyme in gluconeogenesis and photosynthesis. #PlantScience
A mechanistic framework for the recognition of chemically diverse brassinosteroids by BRI1-family receptor kinases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.08.669299v1
August 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A mechanistic framework for the recognition of chemically diverse brassinosteroids by BRI1-family receptor kinases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.08.669299v1
A mechanistic framework for the recognition of chemically diverse brassinosteroids by BRI1-family receptor kinases
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A mechanistic framework for the recognition of chemically diverse brassinosteroids by BRI1-family receptor kinases
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are chemically diverse plant steroid hormones produced via a branched biosynthetic pathway. The potent BR brassinolide is sensed by the membrane receptor kinase BRI1 and a SERK ...
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August 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A mechanistic framework for the recognition of chemically diverse brassinosteroids by BRI1-family receptor kinases
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brassinosteroids promote sugar synthesis by inhibiting BIN2 phosphorylation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.22.683954v1
October 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Brassinosteroids promote sugar synthesis by inhibiting BIN2 phosphorylation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.22.683954v1
Now online!
The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids
We review how recent discoveries in the field of brassinosteroid signaling provide new insights into its role in shaping organ growth across cell layers #plantscience
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids
We review how recent discoveries in the field of brassinosteroid signaling provide new insights into its role in shaping organ growth across cell layers #plantscience
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids
Brassinosteroid (BR) phytohormones operate at both the cellular and organ levels,
and impart distinct transcriptional responses in different cell types and developmental
zones, with distinct effects o...
www.cell.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Now online!
The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids
We review how recent discoveries in the field of brassinosteroid signaling provide new insights into its role in shaping organ growth across cell layers #plantscience
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids
We review how recent discoveries in the field of brassinosteroid signaling provide new insights into its role in shaping organ growth across cell layers #plantscience
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
Our new year starts of course with new preprint on brassinosteroid signaling tinyurl.com/nhzcfkxd. We re-analyzed the function of Kelch phosphatases, which were previously characterized as protein tyrosine phosphatases that dephosphorylate the critical pTyr200 in the GSK3 kinase BIN2. (1/6)
Plant Kelch phosphatases are Ser/Thr phosphatases involved in cell cycle regulation
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are plant steroid hormones sensed at the cell surface by the membrane receptor kinase BRI1. Activation of BRI1 leads to the dephosphorylation of BZR1/BES1 transcription factors ...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Our new year starts of course with new preprint on brassinosteroid signaling tinyurl.com/nhzcfkxd. We re-analyzed the function of Kelch phosphatases, which were previously characterized as protein tyrosine phosphatases that dephosphorylate the critical pTyr200 in the GSK3 kinase BIN2. (1/6)
New OA Article: "A mechanistic framework for the recognition of chemically diverse brassinosteroids by BRI1-family receptor kinases" rdcu.be/fBLmi
The ligand-binding spectrum of the four brassinosteroid receptors in the model plant Arabidopsis is investigated.
#PlantScience
The ligand-binding spectrum of the four brassinosteroid receptors in the model plant Arabidopsis is investigated.
#PlantScience
August 24, 2026 at 3:08 PM
New OA Article: "A mechanistic framework for the recognition of chemically diverse brassinosteroids by BRI1-family receptor kinases" rdcu.be/fBLmi
The ligand-binding spectrum of the four brassinosteroid receptors in the model plant Arabidopsis is investigated.
#PlantScience
The ligand-binding spectrum of the four brassinosteroid receptors in the model plant Arabidopsis is investigated.
#PlantScience
🌱🧬Brassinosteroids promote sugar synthesis by activating PCK1 via dephosphorylation. BIN2 kinase phosphorylates PCK1, inhibiting it. BRs lift this brake, boosting gluconeogenesis and photosynthesis
A hormone–metabolism link with growth implications. #plantscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A hormone–metabolism link with growth implications. #plantscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brassinosteroids promote sugar synthesis by inhibiting BIN2 phosphorylation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase - Nature Plants
Whether growth-promoting hormones boost sugar synthesis has remained unclear. Brassinosteroids were found to do so by relieving BIN2-mediated inhibition of PCK1, a key enzyme in gluconeogenesis and ph...
www.nature.com
September 2, 2026 at 8:55 AM
🌱🧬Brassinosteroids promote sugar synthesis by activating PCK1 via dephosphorylation. BIN2 kinase phosphorylates PCK1, inhibiting it. BRs lift this brake, boosting gluconeogenesis and photosynthesis
A hormone–metabolism link with growth implications. #plantscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A hormone–metabolism link with growth implications. #plantscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@jennyrussinova.bsky.social gives a great overview of the work going on in her group at @psb-vib.bsky.social , looking at how brassinosteroids control growth. She covers a vast array of topics, from BR transport, synthesis and to concentration maintenance in the root.
#plantresearch26
#plantresearch26
September 18, 2026 at 10:23 AM
@jennyrussinova.bsky.social gives a great overview of the work going on in her group at @psb-vib.bsky.social , looking at how brassinosteroids control growth. She covers a vast array of topics, from BR transport, synthesis and to concentration maintenance in the root.
#plantresearch26
#plantresearch26
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Brassinosteroids positively regulate growth through asymmetrical division (Cell) @trevormnolan.bsky.social @jennyrussinova.bsky.social @nvukas.bsky.social (Summary by Elise Krespan) buff.ly/CTlYB1T
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
Brassinosteroids positively regulate growth through asymmetrical division | Plantae
Brassinosteroids are plant hormones that play important roles in cell proliferation and expansion, but it is still unclear exactly what those roles are. Vukasinovic and colleagues show…
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April 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Brassinosteroids positively regulate growth through asymmetrical division (Cell) @trevormnolan.bsky.social @jennyrussinova.bsky.social @nvukas.bsky.social (Summary by Elise Krespan) buff.ly/CTlYB1T
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
Plants grow stronger under pressure 🌱💪
Weight-induced stress causes stems to widen and grow more vascular bundles. This response is driven by BRs & strigolactones via key signaling genes, boosting seed yield.
📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70329
Lorena Raminger et al. IAL-Conicet
@pilarcubas.bsky.social
Weight-induced stress causes stems to widen and grow more vascular bundles. This response is driven by BRs & strigolactones via key signaling genes, boosting seed yield.
📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70329
Lorena Raminger et al. IAL-Conicet
@pilarcubas.bsky.social
Interplay of brassinosteroids, strigolactones, and CLE44 in modulating Arabidopsis stem architecture in response to mechanical stress
The combined mechanical stress of weight and bending induces morphophysiological changes in the plant stem, such as widening and an increase in the number of vascular bundles. Brassinosteroids and st...
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Plants grow stronger under pressure 🌱💪
Weight-induced stress causes stems to widen and grow more vascular bundles. This response is driven by BRs & strigolactones via key signaling genes, boosting seed yield.
📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70329
Lorena Raminger et al. IAL-Conicet
@pilarcubas.bsky.social
Weight-induced stress causes stems to widen and grow more vascular bundles. This response is driven by BRs & strigolactones via key signaling genes, boosting seed yield.
📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70329
Lorena Raminger et al. IAL-Conicet
@pilarcubas.bsky.social