Weibing Yang
Plant development & cell biology researcher, stem cells, cell division, cell wall, water response...
Group leader at CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science(CEMPS) and CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS)
- Reposted by Weibing YangExcited to share our latest review on hydrosignaling: moisture-dependent molecular pathways that help plants grow towards water. Insightful review of the literature and discussion of moisture sensing mechanisms by Will Dwyer and @hhtormar.bsky.social. Enjoy! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?: www.cell.com/current-biol... - Reposted by Weibing Yang🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making! 🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans. Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation? @cellpress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Weibing YangAt the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year. So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)
- Reposted by Weibing YangCongratulations to researchers from the CAS-JIC-TSL Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS) who have revealed a novel mechanism that controls plant stem cell dynamics through precise spatial patterning of cell wall modification.
- Reposted by Weibing YangDid you ever wonder how a dividing cambium cell looks like and what determines its striking regular division? Xiomin Liu, PhD student in the lab, found out in a heroic histological approach. Fruitful collaboration with the group of Sabine Müller (@phragmoplast.bsky.social) doi.org/10.64898/202...
- Reposted by Weibing YangI’m very happy to share that next year I’m launching the Meristem Hydraulics Group. We will be at the @umeaplantsciencecentre.se (Sweden) & the University of Helsinki (Finland) @helsinki.fi Here is a brief description of our research interests: www.upsc.se/juan_alonso_... #PlantSciences
- Reposted by Weibing YangI had a great time writing this dispatch @currentbiology.bsky.social about Jacob Suissa's recent paper on the link between fern phyllotaxis and vascular architecture. "Evo–devo: Ferns flourished due to developmental covariance between leaves and vasculature" authors.elsevier.com/a/1mH793QW8S...
- Thrilled to have our paper out in @science.org. Cell division guides plant cell wall formation. Does the reverse hold? We show that bimodal pectin methylesterification, via PME5 mRNA nuclear sequestration, influences plant cell division and cell plate orientation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- About a decade ago we began to look at the walls of stem cells by systematically analysing the expression patterns of glycosyltransferase (GTs) genes and polysaccharide composition in the shoot apical meristem (SAM） (www.cell.com/current-biol....
- Recently we showed that CSLD5 proteins, together with CESAs, rapidly accumulate at the cell division plane, contributing to robust wall synthesis and cell plate formation (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
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View full threadThank you to all authors and collaborators on this project. This work would not have been possible without your hard work, insights, and fantastic teamwork.
- Reposted by Weibing YangOut in @science.org this week: PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience #PlantSci
