@FrannyBarbs

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

 Montpellier, France
Joined September 2019
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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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Lovely review
Nitzan Shabek@ShabekLabAug 20
🔥check out our latest. From signalling to catabolism: terminal tails in plant hormone regulation. Hormone catabolism is no passive cleanup, but a highly regulated process, exemplified by strigolactone & salicylic acid deactivation & structural plasticity. academic.oup.com/jxb/article…

From signalling to catabolism: terminal tails in plant hormone regulation

Hormone catabolism is emerging as an active layer of plant signalling, with strigolactone and salicylic acid pathways showing how terminal protein regions

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Torii Lab@Stomata_TweetsAug 13
Amphibious plant, H. difformis, reprograms C3 to potential C4 photosynthesis underwater, highlighting its amazing plasticity of carbon assimilation machineries for aquatic environment. Congrats, Hongwei & the team🥳🌿🐸! academic.oup.com/hr/advance-…
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New Phytologist@NewPhytAug 7
#TansleyReview: The evolutionary origins of streptophyte multicellularity de Vries et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/… #LatestIssue #PlantScience
Fig. 1 Phylogeny of streptophytes and the deep origin of branching filamentous growth.

ALT Fig. 1 Phylogeny of streptophytes and the deep origin of branching filamentous growth.

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Jazmine Humphreys@JazHumphreysMar 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_plantsMar 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@Pem2026Jan 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@Pem2026Feb 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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📚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_cclaire11 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_plants9 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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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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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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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@ShabekLab1 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@lacombebenoit125 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@lacombebenoit125 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@NewPhyt25 Nov 2025
Functional characterization of NRT1/PTR FAMILY transporters: looking for a needle in a haystack nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…

Functional characterization of NRT1/PTR FAMILY transporters: looking for a needle in a haystack

NRT1/PTR FAMILY (NPF) transporters play crucial roles in plant physiology and development due to their involvement in nitrogen nutrition and their ability to transport multiple signaling molecules...

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New Phytologist@NewPhyt9 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@NewPhyt28 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@NewPhyt6 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@NewPhyt8 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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