📜New Issue alert: ▶️PCP Volume 66 Issue 9 (September) is out now! Research topics include gas exchange, #phytohormone action, cross-network & cross-species communications, growth regulation, and much more! Read it here now: academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/66/9

We are hiring! We are going to use some really, really cool new techniques to look at the chemical and spatial dynamics of how the plant micobiome takes shape and what it means. Join us! Apply online until 20th Oct here: www.microverse-cluster.de/files/conten...

A RALF-brassinosteroid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

Pest control... 🐛🍅 As featured on the issue cover, Sorg et al. reveal how Salicylic Acid Carboxyl Methyl Transferase -the enzyme that converts defense #phytohormone salicylic acid into volatile methyl salicylate- is induced in #tomato to deter insect pests #herbivory doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

Top-down control... Ito et al. provide evidence that shoot-derived CLE46 #peptides are able to regulate #Arabidopsis meristem activity and restrict root regeneration from leaf explants and shoots 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantRegeneration

I am happy to see this out! Plant-microbe relationship (mutualistic, commensalistic, parasitic) is not fixed, but rather dynamic, depending on the specific context. We summarize the current knowledge on this. Hope you enjoy~ www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/plan...

WRKY-ing to avoid stress... Peng et al. report that OsWRKY18 in #roots, transcriptionally regulates genes involved in #ABA signaling, osmotic adjustment, and ion homeostasis, thereby enhancing salt tolerance in #rice. 🌾🧂 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience #PlantAbioticStress

CEPR2 perceives group II CEPs to regulate cell surface receptor-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis doi.org/10.1371/jour...

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/6) Third effort from my PhD with @magiovan.bsky.social and @lorellanavazio.bsky.social, happy to see it online! We show that a symbiotic clade IV MLO (LjMLO4) regulates root development and responses to endogenous RALF34 via calcium signalling in Lotus japonicus www.biorxiv.org.

Having the gall to mimic insects... 🪳 Hirano et al. demonstrate how to artificially induce gall-like structures in host plants by applying a new insect-derived peptide in combination with #phytohormones #auxin & #cytokinin 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... 🔗 academic.oup.com/pcp/pages/re... #PlantScience

We proudly present a new preprint by Leon Pierdzig et al: Wall teichoic acids, glycopolymers specific to Gram-positive bacteria, trigger defense and cell death in Arabidopsis. Cysteine-rich RLKs act as key components in their perception. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Excited to share our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social where we describe evidence of a Jurassic nurse log from Scotland! Great work led by @anajusagasti.bsky.social Sophie Burne and @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social 🧵 👇 1/6 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#TansleyInsight: Overlooked aspects of CrRLK1L–RALF #signaling Sébastjen Schoenaers & Kris Vissenberg 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Find out more about the benefits of publishing your work with us: academic.oup.com/pcp/pages/be... #OUP @oxfordunipress.bsky.social @jspp-news.bsky.social

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

Well done, Max! Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to share this review on the diversity of resistance in Triticeae. I learned a lot writing it. Heavy lifting by Yinghui Li, Liubov Govta, and @yichangsung.bsky.social with our long-time collaborator Tzion Fahima. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Arabidospis ... the last annual MASC (Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee) report (2024-2025) is available ! – Arabidopsis, arabidopsisresearch.org/masc-publica...

New Article! Purifying recombinant proteins from Nicotiana benthamiana for structural studies

📢 We’re hiring! 🌱 The @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in Potsdam is seeking a Head of Service Unit Proteomics (mass spectrometry-based proteomics). 🗓 Apply by 30.09.2025 👉 jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

Cell wall integrity and elicitor peptide signaling modulate antimicrobial defense in Arabidopsis via jasmonic acid https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675042v1

Coping in the dark... Hida et al. isolated phosphatase mutations that caused #phototrophic– #heterotrophic switching in dark-grown #cyanobacteria; a useful approach for dissecting evolutionary steps towards loss of photosynthetic capacity in #ParasiticPlants doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Learn more about #Strigolactones in our recent special issue, guest-edited by @jspp-news.bsky.social Society President, Junko Kyozuka academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/64/9 And sign up below for Junko's upcoming talk👇 #Phytohormones #PlantEvoDevo #PlantDevelopment

Join us for the 4th annual NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

EVENT - 4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 🗓️ 12 December 2025 ⏰ From 9:30 am 📍 @theforumnorwich.bsky.social, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF For more info: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge... 💻 Register by 14 NOVEMBER 2025: forms.office.com/e/7xLvVHtbC6 @philcarella.bsky.social

Professorship Plant Genetics. Kiel, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w-2-pro...

Registration for #nonseedUK25 is officially open: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge.... If you wish to be considered for a talk, please submit your abstract by 30th October. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social for acting as local organizer this year 😃

Also interesting for #plantsci W3-Professorship: Functional Ecology @unituebingen.bsky.social Start: October 2026 Deadline: 31 October 2025 #PlantSciJob #PlantSciJobs www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Back in June at ICAR2025, @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social and I organised a Workshop, where we invited ECRs Hantao Zhang and Katarína Heldesová with travel support to co-organise. Here’s their blog post reflecting on the session & their experience—check it out! plantae.org/icar2025-wor...

Professorship Plant Genetics. Würzburg, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/univers...

Just planted in @jcellsci.bsky.social 🌳 😍 An A. thaliana mutant lacking all nine #ATG8 isoforms provides genetic evidence for functional specialization of #ATG8 in plants forest.biologists.com/landscape/?i...

Cell-type analysis is useful. Yet, much functional variation occurs 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒. ◼️ In this example, protein abundance varies over 100 fold within a cell type. youtu.be/8nhjKSTqeOs?...

Next PLANT PEPTIDE AND RECEPTOR MEETING will be in Muenchen in 2026 organized by @julien-gronnier.bsky.social and friends. #watchthisspace

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

With a little help from my friends...🌾 Adachi et al. monitored #rootmicrobiome from #rice grown in unfertilized paddy fields for >4yrs, & uncovered an important role for diazotrophic bacteria in sustaining long-term growth in the absence of external nutrients doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

W1 Tenure-Track Professor for Plant Biochemistry. Tübingen, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

I am thrilled &honoured, what a journey that was! Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors. With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)

Super proud of @zoeweeks.bsky.social and the rest of the team for this work. We were honoured to be selected as a research highlight - see our interview here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Evolutionary history of sex and accessory chromosomes in hornworts A Letter by John L. Bowman and Jonathan Levins 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

A good example that sequence conservation can sometimes be deceiving: A-ARF and B-ARF are highly homologous in the degron region, but the extent of degradation and its integration into the auxin response system have greatly diversified (7/7)

Recently, both our team and the Richardson/Estelle/Strader teams showed that ARF transcription factors are actively degraded. In this new preprint, Martijn de Roij explores the requirements and relevance of ARF degradation (1/7)

I am very excited to share my first publication from my PhD work: A FLOE-related protein regulates the two-dimensional to three-dimensional growth transition in the moss Physcomitrium patens url: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My department is hiring a Plant-Fungal Assist Prof!! As the newest #NewPI here, don't get me started on how wonderful my colleagues, how smooth my onboarding has been, how supportive the school and the department are, how nice my brand new lab is, and how convenient living in Champaign Urbana is!