Oliver Berkowitz

Paradigm shift

OsWRI1a coordinates systemic growth responses to nitrogen availability in rice Nitrogen (N) deficiency–induced increases in the root-to-shoot biomass ratio in plants are adaptive in nature but suboptimal for agriculture. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms governing this dev...

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SCALPEL: A pipeline for processing large-scale spatial transcriptomics data

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As a genomics journal, is converting a 10 MB Supplemental Table from Excel to PDF state-of-the-art ? Good luck to the reviewers sorting through 14,000 pages....

CAN1-mediated autophagosome size regulation fine-tunes phosphate starvation tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.12.705259v1

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Metabolism, Perception, and Functions of Inositol (Pyro)Phosphates in Plants Inositol phosphates and pyrophosphates are small, water-soluble molecules involved in a range of physiological processes across eukaryotic organisms, including plants. Over the past two decades, signi...

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Recent major changes to TAIR: updates to the database, website, and Arabidopsis genome Abstract. The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) is the primary knowledgebase for Arabidopsis thaliana, providing curated genetics and genomics data,

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Just awesome.

Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...

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Looks like 25 years ago 😉

Phosphorus acquisition and pathogen defense: synergies versus trade-offs During their life cycle, plants encounter simultaneous biotic and abiotic stresses. A low availability of inorganic phosphorus (P) commonly limits plant growth in natural and agricultural ecosystems. ...

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Genetic improvement of nitrogen- and phosphorus-use efficiency in crops: Old goals with new aspirations This review synthesizes recent genetic advances in crop nitrogen- and phosphorus-use efficiency (NUE and PUE), highlighting key genes and their natural variations that underpin adaptation to soil cond...

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Sending two PhD students into the world. Well done Viet D Nguyen and Benjamin Wee

A Single-Cell-Resolution Spatial Transcriptomic Atlas Decodes Wheat Spike Development and Yield Potential Summary: This study presents a comprehensive single-cell resolution spatial transcriptomic atlas of wheat spike development across five key developmental stages. By resolving cell-type-specific phytoh...

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We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.

Explains how I feel... 😄
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Trying to submit a paper:
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Step 2: Please upload Supp Tables in Excel 2000 format... 😱

Thanks for covering our paper on Cannabis cultivation and chemotype variation

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Function and regulatory mechanism of HvSPX4 in maintaining phosphate homeostasis in barley A 50-bp insertion in the promoter region of HvSPX4 enhances its expression and is associated with reduced plant growth in a natural barley population under

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Activation of alternative oxidase ensures carbon supply for ethylene and carotenoid biosynthesis during tomato fruit ripening The alternative oxidase pathway is post-translationally activated at the onset of climacteric ripening for promoting carbon mobilization toward ethylene an

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Helixer: ab initio prediction of primary eukaryotic gene models combining deep learning and a hidden Markov model - Nature Methods By leveraging both deep learning and hidden Markov models, Helixer achieves broad taxonomic coverage for ab initio gene annotation of eukaryotic genomes from fungi, plants, vertebrates and invertebrat...

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Stolle done

CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...

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PlantCV v4: Image analysis software for high-throughput plant phenotyping PlantCV is an open-source Python project aimed at developing tools to address a range of image-based, plant phenotyping questions. PlantCV has been used for more than 10 years to automate trait collec...

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The future role of regional research infrastructures and networks toward the global plant phenotyping community Regional plant phenotyping research infrastructures and networks hold unique positions. Stronger collaboration between them can provide added benefits to a global community. A concept for a “global .....

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SlMIPS2, a myo-inositol phosphate synthase, regulates phosphate homeostasis by influencing SlPHL1 and SlSPX2 levels in tomato seedlings In tomato the myo -inositol phosphate synthase gene SlMIPS2 is sharply induced early in phosphate starvation, and SlMIPS2 regulates cellular InsP6 levels a

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Postdomestication selection of MKK3 shaped seed dormancy and end-use traits in barley Anthropogenic selection of grain traits such as dormancy has shaped the developmental trajectories of crops. In cereals, shortening dormancy provides rapid and even post-harvest germination, but incre...

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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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Phosphorus availability controls flowering time through subcellular reprogramming of bGLU25 and GRP7 in Arabidopsis Cho et al. reveal that low phosphorus triggers bGLU25 to move from the ER to the cytosol, where it interacts with GRP7 via AtJAC1. This interaction increases FLC expression, delaying flowering and hig...

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