Head of the PlantLab at Scuola Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy.

Joined April 2012
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🆕 The NEW PlantLab🌱website is online! 🖥️plantlab.santannapisa.it
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"Se scomparissero le piante non avremmo problemi di ossigeno ma moriremmo di fame nell’arco di 13 anni." Pierdomenico Perata (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa). #Fisvtalk2026 #DivulgazioneScientifica #Ricercaitaliana
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The hypoxic niche enclosing the shoot apical meristem is shaped by a combination of morphological features and metabolic activity #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-plant/ful…
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Plants "talk" internally — and now we can watch it happen. MAPPI lets us track shoot-to-root Ca²⁺ signals in real time 🌱⚡ @ScienceAdvances! science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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New in Science of Plants: "Inferring hypoxia-responsive regulators of cell fate in plant meristems throughsingle-cell transcriptomics" rdcu.be/eXYvw
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Cross-kingdom RNA trafficking from bacteria to fungi enables plant protection against fungal pathogens #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-plant/ful…
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"Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher" - Nature News feature @nature nature.com/articles/d41586-0… Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can we harness them to create better crops?
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Happy to see that our lab’s open-science tool, GScholarLens has been featured by @Nature. Dalmeet Chawla (@DalmeetS) does a fantastic job highlighting how GScholarLens brings transparency to scientific metrics, helping researchers, institutions, and the community better understand research impact based on authorship. By making citation and authorship data open and traceable, the tool aims to reduce the pitfalls of metric-driven evaluation and encourage thoughtful discussion on scientific contributions. Link: nature.com/articles/d41586-0… @omics_lab @IITHyderabad @IndiaDST @ANRFIndia @Science_Cast @IndiaScienceTV @MicrobiomDigest @IRWatchdog @hapyresearchers @fake_journals @Richvn @NatureInd @AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics
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Sugarcane microRNA shy-miR164 regulates sugar metabolism through direct cleavage of the transcription factor ScNAC mRNA (Miao Wang, Ao-Mei Li, Fen Liao, Zhong-Liang Chen, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf3… @ASPB #PlantSci
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ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL 5 and miR156d orchestrate axillary meristem maturation and AHL15-mediated plant longevity (Subhash Reddy Gaddam, Ashish Sharma, Anwesha Anyatama, Prabodh Kumar Trivedi) doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf3… @ASPB #PlantSci
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Excited to share our preprint on a function of the Trp-binding pockets of plant ARGONAUTE1 — they facilitate siRNA amplification through GWs in SGS3! So many years of work, so many fantastic people involved — a privilege to work with them all! #RNAi biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Check out our step-by-step guide for producing synthetic trans-acting siRNAs (syn-tasiRNAs) for precise RNAi in plants 🌿 Nice @IBMCP team effort 💪 🔗 “Effective Gene Silencing in Plants by syn-tasiRNAs from minimal precursors” @bioprotocolbyte 👉 bio-protocol.org/e5475
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In 1992 Peter Ratcliffe received this rejection letter from Nature. His findings were not "a sufficient advance in our understanding". 27 years later he won the Nobel Prize for the same discovery. Don't lose faith in the things you believe in.
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I'm presenting at Biostimulants World Congress, to join me click here app.ingo.me/q/0esxp
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🌱💡 Did you know nuclear pores do more than let molecules in & out? Our new study shows they also act as control hubs for pri-miRNA transcription & processing! "The nuclear pore complex acts as a hub for pri-miRNA transcription and processing in plants" academic.oup.com/nar/article…
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