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In September 2026, RDP researcher Thomas Widiez received the Early Career Research Award in Plant Reproduction. Presented by the International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction Research (IASPRR), this award recognizes researchers for work carried out during the first ten years of their careers, the originality and impact of which have left a lasting mark on research in plant reproduction. Photo credit: © IASPRR

According to a CNRS communications dated September 4, 2026. Based on a scientific paper published in Science to which the RDP contributed: “An embryo-derived peptide signal directs endosperm polarity.” Thumbnail credit: © Denis DARZACQ/CNRS Images

According to a CNRS communication dated August 19, 2026. Based on a research paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), to which the RDP contributed: “Nanoscale regulation of ROS signaling at the plasma membrane tunes the plant response to osmotic stress.” Thumbnail credit © A. Poitout

According to a communications from the CNRS dated July 16, 2026. Based on a scientific paper published in Plant Cell to which the RDP laboratory contributed: “Function behind choreography: cytoskeletal, nuclear, and mechanical dynamics drive growth transition in root hair development.” Thumbnail credit © Gaurav Singh / Gilles Dupouy

Yoan Coudert, a biologist and CNRS researcher at the RDP (Plant Reproduction and Development) laboratory, and Louise Joor, a Belgian comic book author, have published Avant les fleurs: Enquête scientifique aux origines des plantes with CNRS Éditions.

Press release – Over the course of five years, researchers sequenced 55,000 genes to produce the first rose pangenome. Coordinated by INRAE together with the ENS de Lyon, Huazhong University (Wuhan) and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Shenzhen), the work provides valuable resources for breeding high-quality roses better suited to global change. The findings were published in Nature Genetics.

According to a communication from the CNRS dated April 3, 2026. Based on a scientific paper published in Current Biology to which the RDP Laboratory (CNRS/ENS de Lyon/INRAE) contributed: “Acute Remodeling of Phosphoinositide Lipids Promotes Endocytosis Downstream of RALF/FERONIA Signaling.” Thumbnail credit: © Vincent ARONDEL/CNRS Images

According to a CNRS communication dated February 19, 2026. Based on a scientific publication in Science Advances, to which the RDP – Plant Reproduction and Development Laboratory contributed: “The actin cytoskeleton is required to maintain plant cell division orientation against cellular geometry.” Thumbnail credit: © Camila Goldy

According to a CNRS communication dated October 16, 2025. Based on a scientific publication in Current Biology to which the RDP laboratory at ENS de Lyon contributed: “Robust branch patterning in moss shoots via symplasmic auxin diffusion.” Image © Des Callaghan

According to a CNRS communication dated September 22, 2025, following a scientific publication in PLOS Computational Biology co-authored by Lucie Riglet, Christophe Godin, and Isabelle Fobis-Loisy, researchers at the RDP, ENS de Lyon, together with Catherine Quilliet and Karin John from LIPhy, Université Grenoble Alpes.

According to a CNRS communication dated September 22, 2025, based on a scientific publication in Current Biology co-authored by Yoan Coudert, CNRS researcher at the RDP, ENS de Lyon, together with Saioa Ricou-Dreneuc and Claudine Ah-Peng: “Architectural shift to epiphytism fuels exotic bryophyte invasiveness.”

Publication of the RDP in PNAS on May 30, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on July 8, 2024.

Publication of the RDP in the journal Development, on June 10, 2024.

ENS de Lyon is honored to have two of its laboratories' researchers elected new EMBO members, namely, Olivier Hamant, INRAE research director, and Teva Vernoux, CNRS research director, both biologists at the RDP.

Publication of the RDP in the journal Science Advances, on July 19, 2023. Communication of CNRS-INSB on August 28, 2023.

Among the ERC Advanced Grant 2022 grantees: TEMPO, Teva Vernoux' proposal.

Publication of the RDP in the journal The Plant Cell on February 8, 2023. Press realease of the INRAE on February 8, 2023.

The Limagrain Prize honors the career of French researchers who have carried out most of their work in the service of French agriculture.

The "Plant computational biology workshop" was held from August 29 to September 2 at the ENS of Lyon.

Publication of the RDP in the journal PNAS on May 24, 2022. CNRS-INSB communication on May 30, 2022.

Publication of RDP in Journal of cell Biology on July 29, 2021. Communication from CNRS on July 30, 2021. 

Publication of the RDP in Nature on November 18, 2020

Publication by RDP in eLife magazine on May 7, 2020.

Publication by RDP in Current Biology in April 2020.

Together with a collaborator from Kew gardens, two researchers from ENS de Lyon mobilize the plant genetics community to the political challenges associated with the social and environmental crisis, in a featured review in Trends in Plant Science.

Publication from RDP institute in the journal Current Biology on August 1, 2019.

Publication by RDP in PNAS journal on June 24, 2019.

Publication from the RDP institute in Science, on April 5, 2019.

Publication from RDP (Laboratoire Reproduction et développement des plantes) in PloS Genetics on february 8, 2019.

Publication of the RDP institute in the journal The plant cell by the American Society of Plant Biologists on September 2018.

The Prize for young researchers is awarded annually to 14 young doctors of science or medical doctors to enable them to do their postdoctoral internships in the best foreign laboratories.

"Human Frontier Science Program" Research Grants provide 3 years of support for international teams involving at least two countries. Preference is given to intercontinental collaborations. All team members are expected to broaden the character of their research compared to their ongoing research programs and interact with teams bringing expertise that is very different from their own so as to create novel approaches to problems in fundamental biology.

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