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Francois Barbier @FrannyBarbs

Plant molecular physiologist @IPSiM_fr @cnrs studying how nutrients interact with hormones and control plant architecture.

Joined September 2019
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Francois Barbier@FrannyBarbs
25 Jul 2023
Discover how strigolactones play a central role in integrating metabolic and nutritional signals during the control of plant development in response to the environmentin our latest review @NaturePlants nature.com/articles/s41477-0… @FranziFichtner @cabeveridge29

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Jazmine Humphreys@JazHumphreys
Mar 16
Excited to share our new preprint! Turgor loss triggers rapid, reversible RNA isoform switching, including the splicing machinery itself. Made possible by cpam (cran.r-project.org/package=c… just accepted in NAR 🥳) Luke Yates, Jak Butler & Steve Smith @CoEPlantSuccess #plantscience

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv_plants
Mar 14
Rapid reversible RNA isoform switching during loss and recovery of turgor in Arabidopsis thaliana biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #biorxiv_plants
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PEM2026@Pem2026
Jan 28
Visit our Web site, register and subit your abstract for the next Plant Energy Mangement Meeting next july on Montpellier pem26.cnrs.fr @lacombebenoit1 @FrannyBarbs @FranziFichtner @c_cclaire @hatemrouached @msubrandizzilab
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PEM2026@Pem2026
Feb 9
Invited speakers of the next Plant Energy Mangement Meeting, 12-15 july 2026, Montpellier, France Visit our Web site, register and submit your abstract pem26.cnrs.fr @lacombebenoit1 @FrannyBarbs @FranziFichtner @c_cclaire @hatemrouached @msubrandizzilab
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The Plant Journal@ThePlantJournal
16 Dec 2025
📚New 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 🌱An emerging signaling hub: KAI2 at the nexus of phytohormone networks🌱 ✍️ By Jacob Moe-Lange and Nitzan Shabek @ShabekLab KAI2 integrates hormone networks to coordinate growth and stress responses Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70609

An emerging signaling hub: KAI2 at the nexus of phytohormone networks

KAI2 signaling has emerged as a central integrator of plant hormonal networks, coordinating growth and stress responses despite the continued mystery surrounding its endogenous ligand. This review...

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Claire Faillie 🐸@c_cclaire
11 Dec 2025
Great success for our training on Signalling, transport and membrane dynamics : motivated students and highly valued pratical work @IPSiM_fr platforms, thank you all ! #plantscience #electrophysiology @IPSiM_fr @FrannyBarbs @lacombebenoit1 @umontpellier
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Discover our little story showing that carbon availability promotes gemma cup formation via cytokinins and independently ok KAI2-dependent signalling in liverwort. This shows how important the interactions between sugars and CK are for plant development.
bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv_plants
9 Dec 2025
Carbon availability acts via cytokinins to promote gemma cup formation in Marchantia polymorpha biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #biorxiv_plants
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bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv_plants
9 Dec 2025
Carbon availability acts via cytokinins to promote gemma cup formation in Marchantia polymorpha biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #biorxiv_plants

Carbon availability acts via cytokinins to promote gemma cup formation in Marchantia polymorpha

Liverworts can clonally propagate by producing compact shoot structures called gemmae, which develop within basket-like structures known as gemma cups. It was previously reported in Marchantia...

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Ignacio Rubio Somoza@I_Rubio_Somoza
10 Dec 2025
Very happy to share our small contribution to this study in collaboration with Jazmine Humphreys and François Barbier on the role of Ck on Sugar-mediated gemma formation @biorxiv_plants biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Carbon availability acts via cytokinins to promote gemma cup formation in Marchantia polymorpha

Liverworts can clonally propagate by producing compact shoot structures called gemmae, which develop within basket-like structures known as gemma cups. It was previously reported in Marchantia...

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François-Didier Boyer@BoyerFranoisDi1
6 Dec 2025
Welcome to the "4th International Congress on #strigolactones (ICS)”, which will be held in Paris, FRANCE, from 5 to 8 October 2026. All the information available on ics2026.sciencesconf.org/
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Nitzan Shabek@ShabekLab
1 Dec 2025
An emerging signaling hub: KAI2 at the nexus of phytohormone networks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

An emerging signaling hub: KAI2 at the nexus of phytohormone networks

KAI2 signaling has emerged as a central integrator of plant hormonal networks, coordinating growth and stress responses despite the continued mystery surrounding its endogenous ligand. This review...

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Good team effort to put this together with the HoNuDe team (Hormones, Nutrients and Development).
Benoit Lacombe@lacombebenoit1
25 Nov 2025
Tansley review: Functional characterization of NRT1/PTR FAMILY transporters: looking for a needle in a haystack Morales de Los Rios, @FrannyBarbs @c_cclaire @IPSiM_fr @CNRS @CNRSbiologie @INRAE_France @INRAE_DPT_BAP @InstitutAgroMtp @umontpellier @NewPhyt nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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Benoit Lacombe@lacombebenoit1
25 Nov 2025
Tansley review: Functional characterization of NRT1/PTR FAMILY transporters: looking for a needle in a haystack Morales de Los Rios, @FrannyBarbs @c_cclaire @IPSiM_fr @CNRS @CNRSbiologie @INRAE_France @INRAE_DPT_BAP @InstitutAgroMtp @umontpellier @NewPhyt nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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Really proud to share this review with my new team. We started off making an excel file with all the NPF substrates for ourselves and decided to turn ot into something useful for the community. It also contains some methods and an evolutionary perspective.
New Phytologist@NewPhyt
25 Nov 2025
Functional characterization of NRT1/PTR FAMILY transporters: looking for a needle in a haystack nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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New Phytologist@NewPhyt
9 Nov 2025
#TansleyInsight: Trehalose 6-phosphate – a central regulator at the crossroads of sugar #signalling, #metabolism, and development By Franziska Fichtner 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/… #LatestIssue
Fig. 3 Intracellular localization of proteins involved in trehalose 6-phosphate (Tre6P) biosynthesis and signalling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

ALT Fig. 3 Intracellular localization of proteins involved in trehalose 6-phosphate (Tre6P) biosynthesis and signalling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

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New Phytologist@NewPhyt
28 Oct 2025
HOS1 modulates SnRK1 stability to promote nitrate‐driven root development in Arabidopsis nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…

HOS1 modulates SnRK1 stability to promote nitrate‐driven root development in Arabidopsis

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LATERAL SUPPRESSOR is so critical for the establishment of shoot architecture in flowering plants. Apparently this seems to be the case for distant cousin groups of land plants.
New Phytologist@NewPhyt
6 Jan 2025
Physcomitrium LAS genes regulate formative cell divisions to establish germ cell lineages Horiuchi et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
Involvement of Physcomitrium patens LATERAL SUPPRESSOR genes in antheridium and archegonium development of Physcomitrium patens.

ALT Involvement of Physcomitrium patens LATERAL SUPPRESSOR genes in antheridium and archegonium development of Physcomitrium patens.

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New Phytologist@NewPhyt
8 Dec 2024
#TansleyInsight: Multifaceted roles of TCP #transcription #factors in fate determination Yutao Wang, Yu Cao and Genji Qin 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/… #LatestIssue @wileyplantsci
TEOSINTE BRANCHED 1/CYCLOIDEA/PROLIFERATING CELL FACTOR (TCP) transcription factors regulate fate determination at different levels.

ALT TEOSINTE BRANCHED 1/CYCLOIDEA/PROLIFERATING CELL FACTOR (TCP) transcription factors regulate fate determination at different levels.
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Torii Lab@Stomata_Tweets
25 Nov 2024
Congratulations, Hongwei Hou & the team for this beautiful story of the genomic basis of environmental adaptation of an amphibious plant, Hygrophila difformis, and for the beautiful cover @PlantCellEnvir onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Fun times!
Claire Faillie 🐸@c_cclaire
25 Nov 2024
IPSiM Thematic school on Signalling, transport and membrane dynamics for Master 2 students from Montpellier University #iontransport #electrophysiology #plantinflux @IPSiM_fr @SRuffel @FrannyBarbs @lacombebenoit1 @umontpellier
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patrick_laufs@PatrickLaufs
13 Sep 2024
So happy to see this out. Many thanks to the colleagues at @LIPME_Toulouse for involving us in this! Nice contribution from the chemistry platform @ijpb_fr too and many others.
The Plant Journal@ThePlantJournal
11 Sep 2024
#EarlyViewAlert👁‍🗨OriginalArticle: Hydatodes, vascular discontinuities at leaf margins of all vascular plants, are sites of auxin accumulation and active nutrient scavenging🌱doi.org/10.1111/tpj.17014 @LIPME_Toulouse @CNRS @wileyplantsci @SEBiology
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