I am so confused as to why the hands of this clock at Leeds Station have been covered up… Was it making an inflammatory gesture twice a day?? 🖕

On my way to examine a thesis at University of Nottingham… or at least, I would be, if the cattle hadn’t invaded the railway line 🤣 I didn’t cownt on being delayed…

#Auxin2022 Well this all seems very civilised, I think I can probably hack a week of this…

#Auxin2022 Oh come on Croatia, stop trying so hard.

#Auxin2022 The auxin community sets sail for Dubrovnik on the HMS Deathtrap. #GreatIdeasInScience

Get off your phone Bennett

#LongLiveAuxin

Robertas is a great mentor, does exciting science and makes a awesome potato pie! It is a win win situation! Apply.

Walking past my Faculty’s reception desk…and apparently DWARF14 is the molcule of the month for October 2022…how? who? why? I’m not complaining, just completely surprised to see this here 🤣

Massive congratulations to Dr. Catriona Walker Catriona Walker, who successfully defended her thesis this week! 🥂 And thank you to Lars Ostergaard for officiating! A very proud moment for the lab 😊

Pretty proud of this review that Mark Waters and I wrote on karrikin signaling and the (still) mysterious KAI2 ligand. 18 years after the discovery of karrikins in smoke, this field has come a long way! Final version is out now nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

FLOWERING LOCUS T mediates photo-thermal timing of inflorescence meristem arrest in Arabidopsis thaliana (Pablo González-Suárez, Catriona H Walker, Tom Bennett) buff.ly/40qxr1s Pablo González-Suárez Tom Bennett Catriona Walker ASPB #PlantSci

Just enough #fruit: understanding feedback mechanisms during sexual reproductive development bit.ly/3lZvJpe Avi Sadka, Catriona H Walker, Dor Haim & Tom Bennett Tom Bennett Catriona Walker #FloweringNewsletterReview

Just available on bioRxiv: by snRNAseq of the Arabidopsis hypocotyl we found that strigolactones modulate vessel formation and thus plant water usage. Fantastic work by Jiao Zhao, Dongbo Shi / 石 東博, @Kiara_Charlotta, Tom Bennett Lab, Kerstin Kaufmann et al biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Like a particularly grizzly bear, I’m just emerging from my now-yearly Twitter hibernation 🐻 Apparently term-time strongly inhibits my ability to communicate with the world 🤣 Plenty to catch up on…

We honestly couldn’t have done this work without these chambers Alexis Moschopoulos! Would strongly recommend them to anyone looking to accurately run experiments across a range of environmental conditions, or looking for a highly precise phenotyping set-up!

Super thrilled that we just got our latest findings published in Nature Plants.🌿☘️🌻 Structure and characterization of the plant sucrose transporter SUC1: The "❤️" of plants. link: doi.org/10.1038/s41477… and full text here ($$ open access 😅): rdcu.be/dcaW1 1/

Great to see Pablo Pablo González-Suárez featured here! Hopefully the first of many first author research papers 😁

Plant Sci. Res. Weekly -- Photo-thermally controlled regulation of FLOWERING LOCUS T at transcriptional level drives the arrest of flowering time in Arabidopsis (Plant Physiol.) Pablo González-Suárez Tom Bennett (Summ. by Idowu Arinola Obisesan, Idowu A. Obisesan) buff.ly/42UW87r

You may have wondered “What do we know about the molecular-genetic control of phloem development?”. If so, don’t ask #ChatGPT, read this #TansleyReview instead: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…