Kyle Swentowsky, Ph.D.
@KSwentowsky
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CSHL Post-Doc in Dave Jackson's lab. I am studying the developmental genetics of perenniality in grasses, primarily maize
Long Beach, NY
Joined March 2017
RT @NaturePlants: New Brief Communication: "Haploid male fertility is restored by parallel spindle genes in Arabidopsis thaliana" https://t….
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RT @biorxiv_plants: Sugar signaling modulates SHOOT MERISTEMLESS expression and meristem function in Arabidopsis #….
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RT @PlantPhys: Interspecies transfer of RAMOSA1 orthologs and promoter cis sequences impacts maize inflorescence architecture (Josh Strable….
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RT @sci_plant: Evaluation of genome and base editing tools in maize protoplasts . .#plantsci ♻️ .
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RT @MaizeMeristem: Please retweet: Open postdoc position in our lab to characterize the role of plasmodesmata in plant development, focusin….
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RT @jrossibarra: Nice to see this out! A fun collaboration with Jianbing Yan and @NingYang9, led by the inimitable Lu Chen. We prsent reseq….
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RT @HirapiSci: My Perspective just out🌺(. Based on recent studies on CLE genes in Marchantia and Arabidopsis, I pr….
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Nature Plants - CLE peptides control stem-cell activity in meristems. Recent studies in Marchantia and Arabidopsis support the idea that an ancestral function of CLE peptides was to promote stem...
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RT @CSHL: Corn season is here! Prof @MaizeMeristem work to improve those plans. Learn how he and his colleagues are finding ways to increas….
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ow do you make better corn? Climate change is causing longer droughts, more intense heat, and unpredictable storms that drastically change local environments. At the same time, the human population...
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RT @MunenoriKitaga1: Our new short paper came out👍. The mystery of KNOTTED1 localization in meristem; does KNOTTED1 mRNA traffics to L1 or….
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Multicellular organisms use transcripts and proteins as signaling molecules for cell-to-cell communication. Maize KNOTTED1 (KN1) was the first homeodomain transcription factor identified in plants,...
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RT @ThePlantCell: IN BRIEF: Nurturing the next generation: the role of DNA methylation in imprinting and genome stability in maize - Sara….
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Very happy to finally share our work in mapping and characterizing mdr1, a mutation identified by Jerry Kermicle ~50 years ago!.
The maize gene maternal derepression of r1 encodes a DNA glycosylase that demethylates DNA and reduces siRNA expression in the endosperm #PlantSci
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RT @ThePlantCell: The July 2022 issue of The Plant Cell is now online. Read this very special Focus Issue on Plant Genetics: Celebrating G….
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RT @jrossibarra: Largest set of teosinte sequence data now released, including every species in the genus. From collaboration with Lu Chen,….
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RT @sshadan: PIN proteins control cellular export of the plant hormone auxin. Online @nature, researchers present cryo-EM structures of PIN….
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Nature - Structural and biophysical analysis of the Arabidopsis thaliana auxin transporter PIN8 reveal that PIN transporters export auxin using an elevator mechanism.
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RT @ThePlantCell: IN BRIEF: Terminator: Maize KIL1 terminates fertility by inducing silk senescence (Maryam Rahmati Ishka) @laurenspauwels….
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RT @Rainmaker1973: Jerry Glover shows a perennial wheatgrass plant's long roots which grow deeper than annual plants' roots. Using perennia….
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RT @Joesophila: Hey all, it's out! .Check out some gnarly phenotypes 😎.
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Plant shoots grow from stem cells within shoot apical meristems (SAMs), which produce lateral organs while maintaining the stem cell pool. In the m...
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RT @CSHL: Professor and @HHMI Investigator Zachary Lippman (@cshlplants) and colleagues at @BTIscience found that changing a gene that incr….
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When plant geneticists find a gene that improves crop yields, they want to try to insert that same change into other crops. But Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor and HHMI Investigator Zachary...
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RT @NaturePlants: March issue online: olive use by first humans, N fixation optimal temperatures, hermaphroditism in persimmon, micronutrie….
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RT @MaizeGDB: The abstract book for the 64th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting is now online (#MGM2022): . https://t.co/….
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