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I'm quite proud of this paper by two of my collaborators, who spent several years on a very, very thorough #GeneNetwork analysis of Abscisic acid (ABA, a key signalling molecule that mediates plant responses to environmental cues, such ad #drought) in #Poplar roots.
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1012256
#PlantPhysiology #GeneTranscription #Transcriptome #GeneExpression

2-Jul-2026
Study reveals how giant #trees in #tropicalForests transport #water to their uppermost branches
The study published in #Science helps us understand the role of this little-studied type of #vegetation in #climateChange. One percent of the tallest trees store more than half of the #carbon in #tropical forest #ecosystems.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1134457

#ecology #plantPhysiology

The latest research results on stomatal dynamics from our PhD candidate (and quite proud of it :-) : the shade tolerant Fagus sylvatica , the common beech, shows more reactive stomatal responses on shade leaves than on sun leaves, suggesting an optimisation to increase CO2 uptake. The differences in stomatal dynamics were not related, as usually assumed, to differences in stomatal morphology.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ppl.70856

#AcademicChatter #PlantPhysiology #BioDiversity #Stomata #StomatalAnatomy #PlantScience #ForestEcology

@MiguelGuerreiro hello, biologists and ecologists is a very wide field. I'm rather on the plant side of things, more specifically in #ForestEcology looking at tree #PlantPhysiology and #EcoPhysiology