Cheng-Chiang Wu 吳正江

"Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher" - Nature News feature @nature nature.com/articles/d4158… Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can we harness them to create better crops?

In addition to two appetizers and two main courses, we had two yummy desserts.

We had another BioMasterChef in the course Principles of Biology @Northeastern . These talented students shared fantastic biology, culinary art, and family stories across continents and cultures.

We have made all datasets browsable with our web resource arabidopsisdevatlas.salk.edu/that empowers anyone to ask where their favorite gene is expressed at single-cell resolution without the need for computational resources or bioinformatic background. 5/n

We are thrilled to have our spatial single-cell atlas of the Arabidopsis lifecycle in @NaturePlants. It turns out that it is easy to generate aesthetic images when the spatial expression of 1,000 genes is available! 1/n @NatanellaE @nobolly @JoeEcker nature.com/articles/s4147…

Looking for a #postdoc position in evolutionary biology? Come join the Budke Lab @UTKnoxville! Read more about the lab here jmbudke.github.io & apply at this link …lq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… Please share widely. Thanks!

Recruitment, rewiring and deep conservation in flowering plant gene regulation nature.com/articles/s4147…

A roadmap to developing unified streptophyte algal model systems cell.com/current-biolog…

A Pagel '94 type correlation test with one binary trait and a second continuous character via the discretized diffusion approximation using #phytools: blog.phytools.org/2025/07/a-page….

Why do some predicted protein structures fold poorly? Benchmarking AlphaFold, ESMFold, and Boltz in maize biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_bioinfo

New Article: "Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales" rdcu.be/epLNP Evolution of leaf venation networks, from fewer, corrugated veins to high vein density and smoother loops. Herbivory as a potential driver of venation architectural changes.

Duke University is eliminating its herbarium, the second largest private collection in the western hemisphere. reddit.com/r/botany/comme…

Join us on MONDAY, May 5 for our next installment of the Plant Cell Identity Webinar! To Register: bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

About a year ago I implemented a #phytools function to fit a multi-state threshold model to comparative data using an approach based on Boucher & Démery (2016). Now I'm writing a paper about it (& other things). To find out more, this post still holds up: blog.phytools.org/2024/05/a-bit-….

New edge to canonical auxin signalling – cAMP acts as second messenger - now on @nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

#Review: Most of the world's largest flowers (genus #Rafflesia) are now on the brink of #extinction Pastor Malabrigo Jr., et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pp… #LatestIssue @thorogoodchris1 @adriane_tobias @wileyplantsci

Pannagram: unbiased pangenome alignment and the Mobilome calling biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats github.com/iganna/pannagr…

The ESR1–type-B ARR module in de novo shoot regeneration Lee et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

locuszoomr: an R package for visualising publication-ready regional gene locus plots academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats github.com/myles-lewis/lo…

A few minor (but important) updates to #phytools fitPagel for fitting a Pagel '94 correlated binary trait evolution model: blog.phytools.org/2025/01/minor-….