Xin'Ai Zhao(赵心爱)

Excited and honored to be appointed as an Editorial Board Member of Horticultural Plant Journal (HPJ)!
Looking forward to supporting the journal’s mission to advance impactful research in horticultural science and foster global collaboration in the field.

Congratulations to the #GreenRobust team for securing @dfg.de funding for the next 7 years to investigate plant robustness! 🌱
Special thanks to our very own Rosa Lozano-Durán @geminiteamlab.bsky.social and the co-spokespersons @thomasgreb.bsky.social and @kjschmid.bsky.social. Exciting times ahead!

Hopelessly in love with the tender green of spring

Strigolactones optimise plant water usage by modulating vessel formation - Nature Communications Vessel elements arise from cambium stem cells and support plant growth by supplying water and nutrients. This study reveals that strigolactone signalling inhibits vessel formation in response to droug...

Our study on the effect of strigolactone signaling on vessel formation and water usage is now peer reviewed: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Great achievement of Jiao Zhao, Dongbo Shi, Kiara Kaeufer, and everybody involved!

Proud dad moment! Congratulations Jian Zeng for securing a professor position!

Celebrating Jian Zeng‘s professor position!

If you are interested in plant stem cell systems, meristems and development of cereals:
We are organising an international symposium on "Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems", see attached announcement. www.cscs2025.de for more details

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How science recruiters and job applicants can get on the same page Nature’s survey of hiring in science has revealed a gulf between the expectations of people looking for jobs in science and those who hire.

There’s a gulf between the expectations of people looking for jobs in science & those who hire, our survey of hiring in science shows.
In this editorial we offer ways for science recruiters & job applicants to get on the same page

🧪 #academicSky
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On the last day of the Christmas and New Year break, I completed my 8th 5km run. Bye-bye, holiday season!

Single-cell proteomics differentiates Arabidopsis root cell types https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.09.588771v1 Recently, major advances have enabled the exploration of cellular heterogeneity using single-cell pr

Single-cell proteomics differentiates Arabidopsis root cell types https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.09.588771v1

The first day of the Christmas holiday starts with a 5km run. Although my pace wasn’t particularly fast, I thoroughly enjoyed it, a great way to kick off the holiday season.

TurboCas: A method for locus-specific labeling of genomic regions and isolating their associated protein interactome Cenik et al. describe TurboCas, a single-guide-RNA-directed dCas9-miniTurbo construct that can identify chromatin-binding proteins at single loci in the mammalian genome. Labeling of the FOS promoter identifies heat shock regulators, including FUBP3. MYC promoter labeling demonstrates the super elongation complex and BRD4 as MYC regulators.

Genoproxiomics? Let's do this in plants next! 👏🙏😍

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