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Sexual Plant Reproduction and Development Laboratory 🌱 PI: Sílvia Coimbra @scoimbra_silvia 🌸 Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto 🔬@laqv_requimte

 Porto, Portugal
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Joined September 2020
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🥳We are happy to announce that IASPRR is from now on also in #LinkedIn !! 🌱🧬🔬🌸. Follow us to: 🔸Advertise your open positions 👉#PlantReproJobs 🔸Keep updated in our field of research 👉#PlantReproSci 🔸Share news or events from your lab 👉 #PlantReproInn 🔸And much more!
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We also announced Prof. Sílvia Coimbra (@spredlab @UPorto ) as the new Vice-president of our society, and we thank past President David Honys (@DavidHonys ) and welcome Prof. Li-Jia Qu (@PKU1898 @CAS__Science ) as the new President of our society. Congratulations!👏👏 #ICSPR2026
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⭐️ Today we celebrate #Women in #Science ⭐️ 📢 Women in #LAQV: your curious minds, rigorous methods and bold questions advance knowledge, mentor future scientists and make #innovation happen❗️ 👉 Break barriers to #gender #equality in our society! @IUPAC #GWB2026 @FCTNOVA
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SPReD Lab@spredlabFeb 3
🧬 New preprint out on bioRxiv! 🌸 🌱 A new piece in the puzzle of cell wall signaling, AGPs, calcium dynamics, and plant reproduction. 📄 Preprint available on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #PlantReproduction #CellWallBiology #AGPs #CalciumSignaling #Arabidopsis
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Hello #CellWallers! Ready to come back to Porto? 🇵🇹 ⏰ Abstract submission deadline: Feb 16 Don’t miss it! We’re excited to host the Cell Wall community once again! 🔗 cellwall2026.org/ #PlantCellWalls #PlantScience
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📢 @fct_pt opens the 2025 call for R&D Projects in all Scientific Fields 📅 November 27, 2025, to March 11, 2026 💰 104 million Euros 📌More details here: fct.pt/en/candidaturas-ao-co…
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August meant a lot of collecting rice pistils from field grown plants 🌾 #PrOryza #riceflower #fieldtrials
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🚨 Crise alimentar em níveis recorde! Em 2024 quase 300 milhões de pessoas em 53 países sofreram fome aguda e 1,9 milhão ficaram em situação catastrófica. Os extremos climáticos é um dos fatores que agravam a crise. 👉shorturl.at/f84Wn #Fome #SegurançaAlimentar

Fome aguda atinge recorde em 2024: quase 300 milhões em situação crítica - CiB

Em 2024, mais de 295 milhões de pessoas em 53 países enfrentaram níveis agudos de insegurança alimentar — um aumento de quase 14 milhões face ao ano anterior —, com 1,9 milhão em situação catastróf...

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Reino Unido aprovou nova lei para regular plantas editadas geneticamente com CRISPR 🧬. A medida visa impulsionar a inovação agroalimentar, segurança alimentar e sustentabilidade. Entra em vigor em 2025. 🌱 shorturl.at/PTeND #CRISPR #Biotecnologia #AlimentosDoFuturo #UK

NTG | Reino Unido aprova lei que regula plantas melhoradas com técnicas de edição genética - CiB

A nova legislação britânica sobre melhoramento genético de precisão em plantas entra em vigor em 2025 e pretende impulsionar a inovação agroalimentar, reforçar a segurança alimentar e alinhar o país...

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Excited to share new protocols from @defolter_lab! 🍅 CRISPR tomato transformation 🧬 miRNA promoter analysis 🌿 Arabidopsis protoplast isolation 🌸 Confocal imaging of gynoecium Check them out in the book! 🚀 Link: link.springer.com/book/10.10…

Plant MicroRNAs

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🍀🎉😊❤️🙏 I am so grateful and proud to be working with Catherine, Joanna, Adrienne and Nan to create the Arabidopsis timeline! Such a landmark project, published @ThePlantCell & initiated by NAASC @NAASC_NA_ICAR
NAASC & North American ICAR@NAASC_NA_ICAR16 May 2025
I had a lot of fun digging into old literature to make this timeline of Discovery & Innovation in Arabidopsis! 🌱Also includes important Arabidopsis Community contributions- a topic close to my ❤️ @aribidopsis @RoederLab academic.oup.com/plcell/adva…

A timeline of discovery and innovation in Arabidopsis

To celebrate this Focus Issue on Translational Research from Arabidopsis to Crop Plants and Beyond, we present a timeline highlighting some of the exceptio

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Fertilization-dependent phloem end gate regulates seed size: Current Biology cell.com/current-biology/ful…

Fertilization-dependent phloem end gate regulates seed size

Liu et al. identify a fertilization-dependent “gate,” a new plant tissue located at the ovule, which is open when a plant fertilizes and stays closed when a plant fails fertilization, having an...

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Johns Hopkins & Cold Spring Harbor scientists use CGISPR to boost tomato & eggplant size, enhancing flavor and yields. technologynetworks.com/appli…

CRISPR Advances Unlock Genes for Bigger, Tastier Tomatoes and Eggplants

Johns Hopkins and Cold Spring Harbor researchers discovered genes controlling fruit size in tomatoes and eggplants. Using CRISPR gene editing, they modified key genes to grow larger fruits.

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🌱✨ So proud to see the first steps of the #PrOryza project in action! I'm excited to collaborate with such a passionate team! #PlantScience #HeatStress #Innovation @FundlaCaixaPT @fct_pt
Tiago Filipe Lourenço@TFSLourenco21 Jan 2025
How does heat stress🏜 affects rice🌾🌾🌾 fertilization? First samples collected in our participation in the #PrOryza project (funded by #LaCaixa ) @greenit_bio4sus @spredlab
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A 4.ª edição do EUGLOH Plant Science Meeting chega à FCUP nos dias 21 e 22 de novembro! Organizado pelo Mestrado em Biologia Funcional e Biotecnologia das Plantas, o evento explora o futuro da ciência das plantas. 🌿 👉 Participação gratuita. noticias.up.pt/fcup/eventos/…
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A #FCUP lidera um projeto que pretende contribuir para o desenvolvimento de uma variedade de  arroz “português” mais resistente ao calor e às alterações climáticas. 🌾 tvi.iol.pt/noticias/arroz/al…

Investigadores querem tornar arroz português mais resistente às alterações climáticas

Ao longo do projeto, os investigadores vão estudar as variedades de arroz comercialmente importantes em Portugal

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Application of genome editing in plant reproductive biology: recent advances and challenges link.springer.com/article/10…

Application of genome editing in plant reproductive biology: recent advances and challenges

Plant Reproduction - This comprehensive review underscores the application of genome editing in plant reproductive biology, including recent advances and challenges associated with it. Genome...

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We continue with Sílvia Coimbra @scoimbra_silvia @spredlab and why AGP-Ca2+ binding is essential for pollen development and pollen tube growth 🌱 #ICSPR2024
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SPReD Lab retweeted
ENPER2024@ENPER20246 Jun 2024
🌿Exciting news! Welcome to the official X account for the 24th European Network of Plant Endomembrane Research (ENPER) meeting! 🌱 Join us in beautiful Porto, Portugal, from September 5-7, 2024🌍 📢Stay tuned for updates! #ENPER2024 #PlantEndomembraneResearch #YoungResearchers
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Confused about terms like pollen vigour and viability? So were we. So we sorted it out and provide an overview of relevant testing assays in the context of heat and other stress affecting pollen performance. doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae067 #thermotolerance #plantreproduction @iasprr
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