Ikram Blilou

The paper presents a gap-free, telomere-to-telomere genome assembly for date palm and 19 high-quality assemblies, revealing chromosomal structures and sex determination regions.

The paper investigates the interaction between the Arabidopsis RBR protein and key components of the RdDM pathway, revealing a novel mechanism for RBR's role in transcriptional gene silencing.

The paper studies root development in Ceratopteris richardii, showing the apical cell and its derivatives have high division frequency, indicating a non-quiescent organizing center in the stem cell niche.

The paper introduces a framework to simulate cortical microtubule dynamics on arbitrary 3D cell shapes, validated on spherical, cubical, and leaf pavement cells.