Category: Auxin

Adriana’s phloem paper is out in Current Biology — a great capstone to years of work with the Hardtke lab in Lausanne on how sieve elements finish maturing. 10.1016/j.cub.2026.06.042

Lenka’s GH3 paper is out in Plant Physiology! She mapped how different GH3 enzymes split the job of switching auxin off, via aspartate or glutamine conjugation. 10.1093/plphys/kiag412

Mike, Nikola and Zuzka helped build a glow-in-the-dark way to watch plants fight off attackers in real time, published in Nature Communications.

We figured out why some cultured cells stop caring about auxin altogether: they just make more TIR1 receptor. Out now in New Phytologist.

Vojtěch successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, “The Evolutionary Origins of Auxin Action”! Thanks to Isabel Monte and Anthony Bishopp for travelling to Prague to serve as reviewers. Congratulations, Dr. Schmidt!

Our Chara braunii paper is out in New Phytologist — this alga turns out to have real, working PIN-type auxin transporters. 10.1111/nph.70019

Mike brought glow-in-the-dark Arabidopsis to DARK LAB for the Academy of Sciences’ open-doors festival at IEB — a bioluminescent plant that tells you how it’s feeling. More on X.

Vojta put together a phytohormone-profiling resource spanning the whole plant evolutionary tree, now out in Nature Communications. 10.1038/s41467-024-47753-z

Another one from the Lausanne collaboration: Ana Cecilia and Adriana show that forcing the auxin efflux machinery into the wrong place reroutes development. Published in The Plant Cell.