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Luca Argirò

@Luca_Argiro

IMPRS PhD student @mpipz_cologne, Tsiantis lab | Geneticist, Developmental and Molecular Biologist, in love with 🌱🌿 | @SapienzaRoma and @ssas_sapienza Alumnus

Joined September 2020
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Our new research work is out over the summer break @JXBot 🌱!! Special thanks to Florian Frugier and all the co-authors, it was great working with all of you! And grateful to @IPS2ParisSaclay, @SPS_Plant_Sci and @ssas_sapienza for this amazing journey. academic.oup.com/jxb/advance…

The Compact Root Architecture 2 systemic pathway is required for the repression of cytokinins and...

Cytokinins and the phosphate-related microRNA miR399 accumulate in plants at N satiety in a CRA2 pathway-dependent manner, and systemically inhibit symbiot

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André Marques@marques_et_alSep 16
Out today in Nature: sex without crossovers. Rhynchospora tenuis makes pollen, fertilises and sets seed, yet 0 crossovers in 10,997 pollen nuclei. Chromosome drive and ~87% seed abortion rebuild the mother's genotype, so the offspring are clones. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-1…
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André Marques (@marques_et_al) profile pictureAndré Marques@marques_et_alJan 27
A new extreme of meiotic evolution: ✔️ no crossovers ✔️ no gene conversion ✔️ normal meiosis & fertility Sex mimics clonality without becoming asexual, in the holocentric multicellular eukaryote 𝘙𝘩𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘴. more about it: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Nature Plants@NaturePlantsMay 6
New Article: "Water lily complete genomes illuminate the innovations of water lilies and early angiosperms" rdcu.be/fhdEb Gapless genomes for three water lily species: genetic keys to fertilization, floral colour and scent, and evolution of early flowering plants.
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Yasin Dagdas@PlantoPhagyMay 6
Now online @NaturePlants‼️Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student & with @MoritzNowack lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan nature.com/articles/s41477-0… nature.com/articles/s41477-0… A short 🧵👇
Cell-type-specific autophagy in root-hair-forming cells is essential for salt stress tolerance in...

Cell-type-specific autophagy in root-hair-forming cells is essential for salt stress tolerance in...

Nature Plants - This study reveals that enhanced autophagy in root-hair-forming cells helps Arabidopsis store excess sodium, control oxidative stress and tolerate salt stress.

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📣Paper alert! Excited to share a new paper @PNASNews from the Tsiantis lab @mpipz_cologne and colleagues on how enhancer evolution shapes leaf diversity. 🌱🌿Congratulations! 👏🥳Read more👉bit.ly/4583PdR #plants #Evolution pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
Diversity through repression

Diversity through repression

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Yasin Dagdas@PlantoPhagy1 Dec 2025
Are you interested in #evolution of #receptor networks, selective #autophagy or #proteostasis, please have a look at our new story: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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The main work from my PhD is now out in @Dev_Cell @CellPressNews !!! We hope this resource will springboard the discovery of new exciting biology in the plant autophagy field 🌱
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Are you interested in #evolution of #receptor networks, selective #autophagy or #proteostasis, please have a look at our new story: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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New OA Article: "A single-cell rice atlas integrates multi-species data to reveal cis-regulatory evolution" rdcu.be/eHce3 Chromatin accessibility in rice & related grasses: how regulatory DNA elements evolve across cell types & species; identifying potential silencers.
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New Article: "A cytokinin response maximum induces and activates bifacial stem cells for radial growth" rdcu.be/eBbtc Initiation of radial growth, during which a transient cytokinin response maximum transforms dormant procambial cells into bifacial stem cells.
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Our new work uncovering how WIND1 promotes somatic embryogenesis as a bifunctional chromatin regulator!!! We knew WIND1 promotes new fate acquisition and now we show WIND1 also helps repressing existing identity!
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WIND1 controls cell fate transition through histone acetylation and deacetylation during somatic embryogenesis biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_plants
WIND1 controls cell fate transition through histone acetylation and deacetylation during somatic...

WIND1 controls cell fate transition through histone acetylation and deacetylation during somatic...

Regeneration involves large-scale transcriptional reprogramming to drive cell identity transitions. These transcriptional changes are tightly coupled with chromatin remodelling but molecular mechan...

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Only 5 days to go! The Vienna BioCenter PostDoc Program (VIP³) is closing soon. Don’t miss your chance to apply for one of 16 fully-funded postdoctoral positions in a leading interdisciplinary research hub. Apply here: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs… #VBCPostDoc
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Submitted and out as preprint: A Plausible Model of Phyllotaxis Patterning from a Single Apical Cell. 🪴🌱 Including 3D cell analysis & modeling #MorphoGraphX #MorphoDynamX #Physcomitrella #Phyllotaxis @RoederLab @RichardSmithLab dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5374…
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Happy to share our new work on the exciting genomes of carnivorous sundews! Exciting findings, incl. different centromere organisations and all kinds of weird polyploids giving rise to these mysterious plants! Great word led by my postdoc @1192Laura in collab with @plantgenomes
Victor A. Albert (@plantgenomes) profile pictureVictor A. Albert@plantgenomes28 Jul 2025
Our #Drosera (carnivorous #sundew) #genome work published on bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… All coauthors listed in bioRxiv PDF. #Venusflytrap and #Nepenthes in there too, plus first genomes of African carnivore #Triphyophyllum and secondarily noncarnivorous #Ancistrocladus.
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Yan Ma@TerezaYan21 Jul 2025
First Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogrammin... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre jic.ac.uk/vacancies/group-le…
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Thrilled that Patrick Cramer @mpgpresident was elected a Foreign Member @royalsociety, here at today's event! 🥳Congratulations also to Max Planck appointees Miltos Tsiantis @mpipz_cologne , elected as Fellow, Detlef Lohse & Claudia Felser @mpi_CPfS - science is international!😊
Newly elected to the Royal Society: Max Planck President Patrick Cramer; Miltos Tsiantis, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research; External Scientific Member Detlef Lohse, and Claudia Felser, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.

ALT Newly elected to the Royal Society: Max Planck President Patrick Cramer; Miltos Tsiantis, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research; External Scientific Member Detlef Lohse, and Claudia Felser, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.

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📢We are #hiring! 📢Please RT! @mpipz_cologne has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity. Apply now! 👉bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantscience
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📣We are thrilled for our director Miltos Tsiantis who has just been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant @ERC_Research for his project ‘CLONAL’ to study the development and diversity of root suckers. Congratulations! 👏🥳Read more: bit.ly/43KuvBe #ERCAdG
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📣 Good news today for 255 outstanding research leaders who have been offered ERC Advanced Grants. The new funding, worth nearly €652 million, is part of the 🇪🇺EU’s #HorizonEurope programme. Read more 👉 europa.eu/!TkwhWc #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @EUScienceInnov
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📣📣Paper Alert. New paper out @Nature by the group of @marques_et_al from @mpipz_cologne and colleagues on the role of centromeres in pentaploid dogroses. 🥳🥳🎉Congratulations 👏👏 To learn more👉bit.ly/3GbcLpC #plantscience
DRIVE TO SURVIVE: The seemingly impossible reproduction of dogroses hinges on a centromere trick

DRIVE TO SURVIVE: The seemingly impossible reproduction of dogroses hinges on a centromere trick

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Nature research paper: Bimodal centromeres in pentaploid dogroses shed light on their unique meiosis go.nature.com/4naBMSw
Bimodal centromeres in pentaploid dogroses shed light on their unique meiosis

Bimodal centromeres in pentaploid dogroses shed light on their unique meiosis

Nature - Insights into the dogrose genome and centromeres explain their ability to achieve stable sexual reproduction.

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Time for another paper from our lab! This time about endodermal passage cells! You can read the digest on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/tonnigrubea… Link to paper is here: cell.com/cell-reports/fullte…
MYB68 regulates radial endodermal differentiation and suberin patterning

MYB68 regulates radial endodermal differentiation and suberin patterning

In this study, Kraska et al. identify MYB68 as a novel regulator of endodermal suberization, linked to the formation of distinct identities in the xylem-pole-associated endodermis. The research...

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🌿🌱We are thrilled to share that Prof. Miltos Tsiantis @mpipz_cologne has been elected as Fellow of the @royalsociety in recognition to his work on plant organ development. 👏👏Huge congratulations! 🥳🎉 👉mpipz.mpg.de/5687512/tsianti… royalsociety.org/news/2025/0…
Congratulations to Miltos Tsiantis who is among the new Fellows elected to join the UK’s Royal...

Congratulations to Miltos Tsiantis who is among the new Fellows elected to join the UK’s Royal...

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