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- SPOmics 2025 Days
  On June 23 and 24, 2025, the plant omics platforms on the Saclay plateau are organizing a conference dedicated to the approaches they are developing: “Les Journées des Omiques Végétales”.
  Held this year...
- New roles for MAP Kinases in nitrate perception
  Nitrate activates an MKK3-dependent MAPK module via NLP transcription factors in Arabidopsis
  As part of a collaborative study between the NUTS team from the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJPB) and STRESS...
- Happy New Year 2025
  All the teams at IPS2 wish you a very happy New Year 2025! May this new year bring you health, happiness, and success in all your personal and professional projects.
  I also hope that throughout this new...
- Tropical Christmas at IPS2
  IPS2 Christmas lunch
  Like every year, IPS2 celebrated the festive season with its traditional Christmas lunch on Tuesday December 17. It was an opportunity for all staff to get together over a convivial...
- A patho-symbiotic bacteria in legume plants
  Atypical rhizobia trigger nodulation and pathogenesis on the same legume hosts
  
  The emergence of commensalism and mutualism often derives from ancestral parasitism. However, in the case of rhizobium-legume...
- The CEP peptide-CRA2 receptor module promotes arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
  The CEP peptide-CRA2 receptor module promoting root competence for symbiotic nodulation also promotes arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
  C-terminally encoded peptides (CEPs) are small secreted signaling...
- Ensuring yield stability using parthenocarpy
  Parthenocarpy, a pollination-independent fruit set mechanism to ensure yield stability
  In a recent study, published in the journal Trends in Plant Science, scientists from the FloCad team at IPS2 provided...
- New roles for MAP Kinases in plant germination
  The MKK3 module integrates nitrate and light signals to modulate secondary dormancy in Arabidopsis thaliana
  Sarah Regnard from the Stress Signaling group at IPS2 recently published her PhD work in PNAS
- NopL interacts with symbiotic NF signaling
  The type III effector NopL interacts with GmREM1a and GmNFR5 to promote the nodulation in soybean
  
  The establishment of symbiotic interactions between leguminous plants and rhizobia requires complex cellular...
- Volatile Organic Compounds dependent rodent seed choice
  Wild rodents seed choice is relevant for sustainable agriculture
  A study published in Scientific Reports Pr. Dawei Xin (Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Chine) laboratory, in collaboration with...
- New protocols to study photorespiration
  Metaboactions contribute new protocols to the book "Photorespiration" in the Methods in Molecular Biology series
  Members of the MetaboActions team at IPS2 have contributed to the book "Photorespiration"...
- Cytokinin and miR399-dependent CRA2 signaling in nitrogen availability responses
  The Compact Root Architecture 2 systemic pathway mediates the accumulation of cytokinin and miR399 in Medicago truncatula N-satisfied plants
  
  Plants use a combination of sophisticated local and systemic...
- AN INVITED SCIENTIST AT IPS2: DR SALONI MATHUR
  Dr. Saloni Mathur, Scientist at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi India, is visiting IPS2 for two months
  The group of ‘Regulatory Non-coding RNAs’ at IPS2 is pleased to welcome...
- Transposon-induced sex transition
  Harbinger transposon insertion in ethylene signaling gene leads to emergence of new sexual forms in cucurbits
  In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, the FloCad (IPS2) team explored...
- Chromatin dynamics and maintenance of plant genome integrity
  Chromatin dynamics and nucleic acid metabolism are double-edged swords for maintaining genome integrity
  In this review article, published in the journal Nature Plants, the Chromosome Dynamics team (IPS2)...
- Theses defended at IPS2 in early 2024
  Simon Gosset
  Annotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana proteome via the analysis and prediction of its interactome
  Keywords: Protein-protein interaction, protein complex, interactome, annotation, network,...
- Sophie Piquerez, Assistant Professor at IPS2
  A new Assistant Professor in plant biology from Université Paris-Cité hired at IPS2
  
  Sophie Piquerez is Assistant Professor at Université Paris Cité since September 2023. She joined the Chromosome Dynamics...
- A new PI at IPS2
  Hannes Kollist will become the new co-head of the STRESS team in IPS2
  Since April 1st, a new Principal Investigator has joined IPS2. Hannes Kollist, who was recently recruited by the INRAE as a senior...
- Happy New Year of the Dragon!
  An event organized by the doctoral school “Plant Sciences” of the University Paris-Saclay.
  On Friday 8th of March 2024, the doctoral school “Plant Sciences” of the University Paris-Saclay organized a party...
- Differential RNA-seq analysis at a base pair-resolution
  DiffSegR: an RNA-seq data driven method for differential expression analysis using changepoint detection
  To fully understand gene regulation, it is necessary to have a thorough understanding of both the...

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SPOmics 2025 Days

New roles for MAP Kinases in nitrate perception

Happy New Year 2025

Tropical Christmas at IPS2

A patho-symbiotic bacteria in legume plants

The CEP peptide-CRA2 receptor module promotes arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

Ensuring yield stability using parthenocarpy

New roles for MAP Kinases in plant germination

NopL interacts with symbiotic NF signaling

Volatile Organic Compounds dependent rodent seed choice

New protocols to study photorespiration

Cytokinin and miR399-dependent CRA2 signaling in nitrogen availability responses

AN INVITED SCIENTIST AT IPS2: DR SALONI MATHUR

Transposon-induced sex transition

Chromatin dynamics and maintenance of plant genome integrity

Theses defended at IPS2 in early 2024

Sophie Piquerez, Assistant Professor at IPS2

A new PI at IPS2

Happy New Year of the Dragon!

Differential RNA-seq analysis at a base pair-resolution