Florent Waltz

Our work on plant mitochondrial translation is now out in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65864-z) . Using a combination of high-resolution cryo-EM, RNA mass-spec and nanopore sequencing, we identified 19 rRNA base modifications. Along that, we uncovered a plant-specific mechanism small subunit assembly involving RsgA that prevents premature translation.