This 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)

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Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation - Nature Communications Post-drought rehydration triggers a preventive immune response in plants, revealing targets to enhance crop resilience by linking drought stress recovery with improved pathogen resistance.

Our #research on #drought #recovery, now published with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com:
Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation.
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Congratulations to the recipients of the research grants from ISF - Volcani Website 6 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...

Excited and grateful to the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) for funding my research for the next five years! www.agri.gov.il/en/congratul...

Congratulations Guy!!!

Scaling law links plant growth variation to grain yield in wheat stands Growth 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...

A 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.
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Construction of multi-targeted CRISPR libraries in tomato to overcome functional redundancy at genome-scale level - Nature Communications Genetic 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 ...

New CRISPR tools for tomato functional genomics from Eilon Shani! 🍅 🧬 ✂️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Shedding light on shade-avoidance: SIPIF8a plays a pivotal role in the tomato shade response Róisín Fattorini; Shedding light on shade-avoidance: SIPIF8a plays a pivotal role in the tomato shade response, The Plant Cell, , koaf091, https://doi.org/

Many thanks to @roisinlf.bsky.social for the excellent summary of our recent study, capturing all the key insights.
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The tomato shade response transcriptomics data is now available in the eFP browser!
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Species-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... #PlantScience

Loss of PIF7 attenuates shade and elevated temperature responses throughout the lifecycle in Pennycress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.17.643809v1

A tomato line hyposensitive to simulated proximity shade shows altered auxin-related 1 gene expression and improved fruit yield under high-density field conditions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.18.643865v1

Thank you Simon!!!

Finally, we examined the shade response across aerial organs in tomato and found that SlPIF mediates it in all tested tissues.
Thanks to Prof. Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social and his team this data will soon be available in the tomato eFP browser. bar.utoronto.ca/efp_tomato/c...

Surprisingly, we found that, unlike in Arabidopsis, the phyB-PIF module is not essential for thermomorphogenesis in mature tomato seedlings. 🌡️Instead, tomato plants evolve distinct strategies to cope with warm temperatures.

Next, Using tomato pif mutants, we reveal that SlPIF8a is the key regulator of the shade (low R/FR) response, unlike in Arabidopsis, where PIF7 dominates.

We studied the PIF gene family in tomato and uncovered both their conserved and species-specific roles in plant development.
This project began with generating marker lines for the shade response in tomato using the Arabidopsis PIL1 promoter.

Species-specific PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR utilization in the plant morphogenetic response to environmental stimuli Specific PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR members regulate shade avoidance in Arabidopsis and tomato but are not required for thermomorphogenesis-induced ste

The 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.

New 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)
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Congratulations!!! Beautiful and important work.