@VSondervan

Biology PhD @nyuniversity. NYU Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. BSc Plant Science @UMNews. #plantgenomics #evolutionarygenomics #plantbiology

 New York, New York
linkedin.com/in/veronicasondervan
Joined February 2013
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coruzzilab@coruzzilab14 Nov 2025
Thank you Seed World for this Great Article about our most recent publication! @SeedWorld_US seedworld.com/us/2025/11/13/…

Ancient Pinecone Genes Reveal a Hidden Blueprint for Stronger, Smarter Crops

A team from New York University and the New York Botanical Garden decoded the genetic story of seed evolution, uncovering 4,000 ovule genes that link ancient gymnosperms to modern crops. The findings...

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coruzzilab@coruzzilab14 Nov 2025
Thrilled to share our new Nature paper: “Developmentally regulated genes drive phylogenomic splits in ovule evolution.” The New York Plant Genomics Consortium uncovers how developmental genes shaped divergence in seeds.🌱🧬 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Developmentally regulated genes drive phylogenomic splits in ovule evolution

Nature Communications - Making use of phylogenomic and transcriptome analysis of 20 plant species, including 14 gymnosperms, Sondervan et al. uncover candidate ovule genes and find that orthologs...

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Very excited to share our recent work using gymnosperms to uncover >4k genes driving seed evolution! nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @nyuniversity @NYBG @coruzzilab @plantevode

Developmentally regulated genes drive phylogenomic splits in ovule evolution

Nature Communications - Making use of phylogenomic and transcriptome analysis of 20 plant species, including 14 gymnosperms, Sondervan et al. uncover candidate ovule genes and find that orthologs...

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bioRxiv Bioinfo@biorxiv_bioinfo16 Jul 2025
OrthoFinder: scalable phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_bioinfo

OrthoFinder: scalable phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics

Here, we present a major advance of the OrthoFinder method. This extends OrthoFinder’s high accuracy comparative genomic framework to provide substantially enhanced scalability and accuracy. Specif...

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AgriExperts@AgriExperts15 Jul 2025
Article by Liu et al Fertilization-dependent phloem end gate regulates seed size A brand-new seed nutrition system by a novel plant "gate" tissue was identified This novel plant "gate" tissue can increase seed size upto 16% #fertilization #morphology sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Jerzy H. Czembor 2022@CzemborH14 Jul 2025
➡️Blueprints for sustainable plant production through the utilization of crop wild relatives and their microbiomes 👉Nature Communications 16: 6364 (2025) ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-6… 👉 #CWR #agrobiodiversity #plantpathology #resistance #ecology #agroecosystems ➡️ #ClimateChange
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Stefan de Folter@defolter_lab14 Jul 2025
Almost lost in translation: integrated transcriptome and proteome analyses for early Arabidopsis flower development. Insight on the article by Álvarez-Urdiola et al. (2025) @JXBot academic.oup.com/jxb/article…
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bioseba 🌱@Sebastiano_N26 Jul 2024
Botanists always have funny dinners 🪴🌴🌿🌱🌵 🌾🪷🪻#IBC2024 @CeciZumajo @silvia_moschin @UCDflowerpower @VSondervan Giulia Ghirardello and @vdistilio
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bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv_plants27 Aug 2023
Phylogenetically diverse wild plant species use common biochemical strategies to thrive in the Atacama Desert biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_plants
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"What exactly are seeds, and how do they make new plants? Why do seeds grow when you plant them and not in seed packets in the store?" Find out in our new @FrontYoungMinds article! @CeciZumajo @PlantEvoDevo kids.frontiersin.org/article…

How Seeds Shape Our World

Have you eaten bread or rice recently? Or maybe something with oil in it? If you said yes, then you were likely eating foods made from seeds. Seeds are an important food source for humans and...

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peri lee@desertbotany17 Mar 2023
Scenes from conducting rare plant surveys in areas of the California desert where solar projects are either already proposed or are vulnerable to future development. Is this a landscape we want to "sacrifice"? Is it really a "green alternative" if we clearcut ecosystems?
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VenetiaJane's Garden
@VenetiaJane17 Mar 2023
“Wherever you go and whatever you do, May the luck of the Irish be there with you." - Irish blessing. Green flowers, symbols of good health and good fortune, to wish you and the Emerald Isle a very happy #StPatricksDay 2023 ☘️. #LáFéilePádraig #FlowersOnFriday.
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Raahat Kaduji 🍂@raahatkaduji21 Oct 2022
The hollow pumpkin 🎃
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Bernoid@bernoid21 Oct 2022
I drew a stick #StickOfTheWeek
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Daniel Montesinos@plant_ecology18 Oct 2022
"European empires (British, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch) structured current alien floras worldwide (...) compositional similarity is higher than expected among regions that once were occupied by the same empire." @Bernd_le_ @NatureEcoEvo nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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Dr. Aimee Schulz@aimeejschulz21 Oct 2022
Each time a member of my cohort passed their PhD candidacy exam, I made them a themed pie to celebrate. With tonight’s completion of the last pie, I thought it fitting to share the whole series of A-Exam pies!
Five different pies decorated to match the themes of my cohort’s dissertation chapters. Top left: pumpkin and breeders equation. Top right: pipette and DNA on the lattice. Center: double helix, sweet corn, and withanalides with physalis on the bottom. Bottom left: double helix, apple leaves, an apple, and New York. Bottom right: a hemp leaf with insects and outlines of different hemp architecture patterns

ALT Five different pies decorated to match the themes of my cohort’s dissertation chapters. Top left: pumpkin and breeders equation. Top right: pipette and DNA on the lattice. Center: double helix, sweet corn, and withanalides with physalis on the bottom. Bottom left: double helix, apple leaves, an apple, and New York. Bottom right: a hemp leaf with insects and outlines of different hemp architecture patterns

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Literature Bot@litscraper3 Jul 2021
More-curated data outperforms more data: treatment of cryptic and known paralogs improves phylogenomic analysis and resolves a northern Andean origin of Freziera (Pentaphylacaceae) dlvr.it/S304XD
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bioRxiv Evobio@biorxiv_evobio8 Oct 2022
Inbreeding depression in polyploid species: a meta-analysis biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio
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