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Marseillais Brittanique and ๐ฟplant biologist interested in chloroplasts. Also @
[email protected]
Nice story with a striking phenotype for gun1 mutants during seedling establishment at high temperatures.
#PlantScience
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Biogenic retrograde signaling via GUN1 ensures thermotolerant chloroplast biogenesis during seedling establishment in Arabidopsis thaliana
Under heat stress, GENOMES UNCOUPLED1 (GUN1) is crucial for the formation of functional chloroplasts in seedlings under heat stress. Without GUN1, chloroplast development fails and seedlings fail to ....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jipb.70127
about 18 hours ago
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The Plant Cell
3 days ago
Domain architecture of plant eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 subunit E governs interaction with translational cis-elements to regulatepollen tube growth (Vinod Kumar , Rรฉmy Merret , Marie C Carpentier , David Honys , Said Hafidh)
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
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Domain architecture of plant eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 subunit E governs interaction with translational cis-elements to regulatepollen tube growth
Translation initiation subunit eIF3E helps balance protein production by coordinating opposing genetic cis-elements, affecting pollen tube growth and the s
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koag005
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PlantEvolution ๐ฑ๐พ
10 days ago
1/11 ๐ฅ New preprint alert ๐ฅ We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them ๐ค. Here is what we learned: โBiotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populationsโ
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Journal of Experimental Botany
12 days ago
๐๐ฑ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ๐ฑ๐ This review describes how plants safeguard plant-level homeostasis through coordinating resource uptake, developmental rate, and morphological efficiency in response to environmental and internal signal โ Earle et al. ๐
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Ivan Radin
15 days ago
Moss (Physcomitrium patens) protoplasts (wallless cells) transformed with chloroplast envelope protein tagged with mGFP (green). The chlorophyll autofluorescence is in magenta. The protrusions of the chloroplast envelope are called stromules.
#microscopymonday
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#plantcells
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#plantmicroscopy
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
17 days ago
Chloroplast ABC peptide transporters TAP1, NAP8, and ATH12 are essential for heat-induced peptide export and play a key role in thermotolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.05.709749v1
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Journal of Experimental Botany
21 days ago
๐ฃ Check out JXB's newest Special Issue ๐ฃ ๐ Issue 5 of 2026 ๐ โก๐ฟ Energy Management: Molecular Mechanisms and Signalling ๐ฟโก ๐ Guest edited by Benoรฎt Menand, Johannes Hanson & Vanessa Wahl ๐
academic.oup.com/jxb...
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience ๐งช
SEBiology
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Max Fels
about 1 month ago
The giant viruses surprised us at almost every turn of this project, but ultimately led us down a very rewarding path. Happy to share this work is now available online ๐งช
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Nature Communications
about 1 month ago
Plastids, photosynthetic organelles in plants and algae, originated from cyanobacterial endosymbiosis. Here, Shrestha et al. use metagenomics to expand plastid diversity and provide evidence for two independent origins of secondary red-algal plastids.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global metagenomics reveals plastid diversity and unexplored algal lineages - Nature Communications
Plastids, photosynthetic organelles in plants and algae, originated from cyanobacterial endosymbiosis. Here, Shrestha et al. use metagenomics to expand plastid diversity and provide evidence for two i...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68871-w
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Andreas P.M. Weber ๐พ๐ฑ๐งฌ
about 1 month ago
๐งฌโก Call for abstracts & participants | GRC 2026 โก๐งฌ Together with Vamsi Mootha, Iโm chairing the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria & Chloroplasts (July 19 - 24, 2026). Weโd love to see your application. Thread ๐งต๐
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Nice paper on photoendosymbiosis from my colleagues! Quevarac et al 2026 "Oxygen as a primary selective pressure for photosymbiosis evolution" Photosynthetic prey allow survival of Tetrahymena in anoxia while providing little or no carbon benefit
#PlantScience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
about 1 month ago
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Benoit Lacombe
about 2 months ago
Visit our Web site, register and subit your abstract for the next Plant Energy Mangement Meeting next july on Montpellier
pem26.cnrs.fr
@frannybarbs.bsky.social
@lacombeb.bsky.social
@franzificht.bsky.social
@ccf-claire.bsky.social
@msubrandizzilab.bsky.social
@hatem-rouached.bsky.social
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Rebecca Mosher
about 2 months ago
I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction.
shorturl.at/7Goxt
Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
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Emily Dumortier
2 months ago
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Association of Applied Biologists
2 months ago
๐๐ค๐ Speaker announcement ๐๐ค๐ Join our incredible line-up of Keynotes & Plenary Speakers at Photosynthesis 2026 in Liverpool this July! โ๏ธ Register & submit an abstract now ๐
photosynthesis2026.com
#plantscience
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#ICPR26
#photosynthesis
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Cool! ๐คฉA new biosynthetic gene cluster in Arabidopsis! ๐ฟ
#PlantScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02185-5
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A biosynthetic gene cluster for three post-chorismate pathways in Arabidopsis - Nature Plants
Peng et al. identify a class of non-aromatic, chorismate-derived compounds, abundant in the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana. These compounds are made by a biosynthetic gene cluster comprising five adjac...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02185-5
3 months ago
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Ryo Yokoyama
3 months ago
A biosynthetic gene cluster for three post-chorismate pathways in Arabidopsis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natplants.nature.com
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A biosynthetic gene cluster for three post-chorismate pathways in Arabidopsis - Nature Plants
Peng et al. identify a class of non-aromatic, chorismate-derived compounds, abundant in the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana. These compounds are made by a biosynthetic gene cluster comprising five adjac...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02185-5
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Mariana Schuster
3 months ago
Dear Plant ECRs, don't miss this wonderful opportunity!
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CNRS
3 months ago
La mรฉdaille de lโinnovation 2025 du CNRS est dรฉcernรฉe ร Alda Mari, Aziz Moqrich, Pascale Senellart et Alain Wagner. Ils illustrent la variรฉtรฉ des recherches du CNRS et le rรดle primordial que joue la recherche fondamentale dans le dรฉveloppement de technologies de rupture. ๐
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Yamuna Krishnan
3 months ago
Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because โprotons diffuse fast,โ this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. ๐งต 1/n
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New Phytologist
3 months ago
Engineering plant stress responses to combat climate change
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Commentary
by Jones highlighting the recent work by Bowerman et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A synthetic molecule can trigger chloroplast de-differentiation via SAL1 inhibition and accumulation of PAP. Nice story!
#PlantScience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
3 months ago
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Saloni
3 months ago
Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
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Etienne Bucher ๐พ๐งฌ๐ช๐บ
4 months ago
Finally! The European Union allows the use of genome editing! ๐ฑ๐พ๐ซ๐ช๐บ๐งฌ
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...
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EU einigt sich auf Lockerungen fรผr gentechnisch verรคnderte Lebensmittel
Fรผr viele gentechnisch verรคnderte Lebensmittel soll es kรผnftig keine Hinweispflicht mehr in Supermรคrkten geben. Darauf einigten sich Vertreter aus dem Europaparlament und dem Rat der EU-Lรคnder.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/gentechnik-eu-einigung-lockerung-100.html
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Katherine Denby ๐ฑ๐ฅฌ
4 months ago
Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects
@biologyatyork.bsky.social
@camplantsci.bsky.social
@slcuplants.bsky.social
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
& University of Bristol. ๐ชด ๐ฅฌ ๐ง ๐งฌ Come join this new Plant BioDesign community!
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
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Ryo Yokoyama
4 months ago
A non-canonical MPK3-ACTPK1-RbcS signalling module fine-tunes photosynthesis in rice
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A non-canonical MPK3-ACTPK1-RbcS signalling module fine-tunes photosynthesis in rice
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades orchestrate diverse physiological processes, yet their role in photosynthetic regulation has remained largely unexplored. Here, we uncovers a non-canon...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.22.689956v1
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Interesting things are happening in the dark! Salicylic acid and ROS signaling modulate hypocotyl elongation in darkness via NPR1 and EX1"
www-science-org.insb.bib.cnrs.fr/doi/full/10....
4 months ago
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bioRxivpreprint
4 months ago
Disequilibrium between chloroplast proton motive force and ATP levels in Arabidopsis
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.687978v1
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KunzLab@LMU
4 months ago
Hi EU ๐ฑ scientists, if you want to get Catch&Release ๐ฃvectors
doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
hassle-free & pay only a small handling fee, please visits the so far little known great community resource to order DNA plasmids
www.plasmids.eu
kindly hosted by
@dkfz.bsky.social
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@telemanlab.bsky.social
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The Plant Cell
4 months ago
A triose phosphate/phosphate translocator triggers antimicrobial immunity by exporting glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate from chloroplasts (Deng-Pan Zuo, Bin Wang, Yu-Zi Liu, Zheng-Song Chen, et al)
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
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A triose phosphate/phosphate translocator triggers antimicrobial immunity by exporting glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate from chloroplasts
The chloroplast transporter AtTPT exports glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate to activate plant immune responses and confer resistance against diverse pathogens, re
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf245
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Andrea Paterlini (he/him)
4 months ago
Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation. This move by
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Our preprint is finally out ๐ฟ โ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐โ Its been a journey- first spotted by Matteo Sugliani over ten years ago, carried forward by Shanna Romand, and brought to the finish line with help from many collaborators.
#PlantScience
tinyurl.com/wpf3bp25
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Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) signalling promotes high-light tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) is a hyperphosphorylated nucleotide originally discovered in prokaryotes and found in the chloroplasts of plants and algae. In plants, ppGpp signalling plays a role as...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.06.686924v1
4 months ago
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5 months ago
The Spirogyra genome: signatures of shared and divergent division and differentiation
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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The Spirogyra genome: signatures of shared and divergent division and differentiation
Zygnematophytes came as unexpected closest algal relatives to land plants because of their simple body plans, raising questions about the morphogenetic toolkit that was present in the last common ance...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.09.681428
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
5 months ago
Chloroplast- and Mitochondrion-Specific Random C-to-T Mutagenesis for Forward Genetics of Organelle Genomes
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.01.685978v1
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A nice study showing the role of the chloroplast cysteine-synthase-complex as a hub that promotes ABA-induced stomatal closure and drought resistance.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The plastid cysteine synthase complex regulates ABA biosynthesis and stomatal closure in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications
Cysteine supply is crucial for ABA biosynthesis in plants. Here, the authors report that chloroplast cysteine synthase complex regulates stomatal closure by integrating different stress signals via dy...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64705-3
5 months ago
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Dan Gibbs ๐ฑ๐งฌ
5 months ago
We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details! Lab website:
sites.google.com/site/danielg...
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Daniel Gibbs Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs @ University of Birmingham
https://sites.google.com/site/danielgibbslab/
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
5 months ago
The first photosynthetic mutant in diatoms targets the subunit ฮณ of plastidial ATP synthase and reveals a key role of thylakoid electrochemical proton gradient in photosynthesis regulation and heterotrophic metabolism.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.10.681070v1
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Journal of Experimental Botany
5 months ago
๐ฑ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ๐ฑ Jeran et al discuss the trafficking of plastid-targeted proteins, focusing on regulatory bottlenecks and mislocalization. PSBO, a PSII subunit, may link proplastid-to-chloroplast differentiation with plastid quality control ๐ฌ ๐
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Ryo Yokoyama
6 months ago
Light-mediated balances and trade-offs in plant energy and resource management
academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
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Light-mediated balances and trade-offs in plant energy and resource management
Abstract. Light is a central environmental signal that coordinates plant development, metabolism, and stress responses. By integrating external cues with i
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/doi/10.1093/jxb/eraf439/8271910
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6 months ago
A long road to the Cover of Science!
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Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu4235
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Discovery of a chromatin-associated complex (CACG) of ~16 proteins that negatively regulates the expression of nutrient-starvation-induced gene. CACG is of course controlled by TOR!
#PlantScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nutrient-driven TOR signalling controls a chromatin-associated complex for orchestrating plant growth and stress tolerance - Nature Plants
A chromatin-associated complex, which is dynamically regulated by TOR kinase at the translational level, functions to suppress the transcription of stress-responsive genes marked by histone acetylation, thereby coordinating plant growth and stress tolerance.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02107-5
6 months ago
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๐ New paper: A massive photosystem Iโfucoxanthin chlorophyll supercomplex has been discovered in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi. ๐๐ฑ
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Cascales Lab
6 months ago
We will have soon an Open position for a PhD thesis position to work on bacterial secretion systems ! Stay tuned !!
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Cascales Lab
6 months ago
Open position !! Either at the Engineer or post-doctoral level, to work on filamentous phages. Collaboration between Laetitia Houot's group and Thierry Doan
@thicoz.bsky.social
. To apply at the E level:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
To apply at the post-doc level:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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PM Delaux
6 months ago
A milestone for plant genomics just out
@natgenet.nature.com
130 bryophyte genomes!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02325-9
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Marc Somssich
6 months ago
'How to be a scientist in a post-journal world'
@pracheeac.bsky.social
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@mbeisen.bsky.social
beautifully explain how a post-Journal world would look, work, & why it would indeed be a better world. ๐
#ScientificPublishing
#SciPub
#AcademicPublishing
#Preprints
#OpenScience
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How to be a scientist in a post-journal world
When we created this site to write about things in science that need to be fixed, we chose not to start with publishing, even though it has been our preoccupation for decades.
https://thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-scientist-in-a-post-journal
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6 months ago
Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)
https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%5fns=job%5flisting&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB%5fSEARCH&rcm%5fsite%5flocale=en%5fUS&career_job_req_id=22484&selected_lang=en_US&jobAlertController_jobAlertId=&jobAlertController_jobAlertName=&browserTimeZone=Europe/Zurich&_s.crb=kX%2flqloffOMPUSNmJBKig4RwtuZbfADI8MRbx13TBC8%3d
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Thomas Lin Pedersen
6 months ago
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major
#ggplot2
release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts
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ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09/ggplot2-4-0-0/
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Wolfgang Drรถge-Laser
7 months ago
Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Wรผrzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
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Fascinating study on the regulation of chloroplast protein accumulation via the coordination of chloroplastic translation and cytosolic transcription during dark-light transitions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Synchronization between chloroplastic and cytosolic protein synthesis for photosynthesis complex assembly
Through symbiosis, subunits of chloroplastic complexes are encoded in distinct genomes in the nucleus and organelles. For plant cells to maintain the stoichiometry of subunits and respond to environme...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.03.592458v3.full
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