Ever since Charles Darwin proclaimed the carnivorous Venus flytrap one of the “most wonderful” plants in the world, scientists have been trying to work out how it snaps shut so quickly on its prey. A research team has now snapped a key piece of the puzzle in place. go.nature.com/43yWTW5

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Our new paper in @plosbiology.org introduces IntAct-U-ExM enabling isoform-specific imaging of actin at nanoscale across yeast, mammalian cells & primary neurons. Fabulous work spearheaded by @anubhavdhar.bsky.social along with an amazing team! #actin #U-ExM journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Taking a moment to plan out the lift and domestication of the pVib (pJE202) luciferase operon from Vibrio harveyii into my Golden Braid parts bin. SpliceCraft has this fun "Lift Operon" function that makes primers to swap out bases; eliminate cutsites. Open source glow bug soon!

Nice work "IntAct-U-ExM enables super-resolution imaging of isoform-specific actin networks across species": dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... 👉endogenously tagged beta and gamma actin inside the nuclear compartment- how cool is that?!

The endolysosomal system in conventional and unconventional protein #secretion. A Perspective by Eloïse Néel, Marioara Chiritoiu-Butnaru, Julien Villeneuve and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Part of #Lysosomes 2026: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

Delighted to share that our new article has been published in @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social . We investigated mechanisms underlying GA-dependent #Arabidopsis stem elongation through cell growth measurements, hormone quantification, and gene expression analyses. academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-...

📢 New publication. We answered an old question in structural biology: (how) does the crystal lattice impact proteins? In particular, how does the crystal restrict the protein's dynamics? We used local probes of dynamics: the rotation of aromatic rings. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So excited to see this amazing story out!

Chloroplastic plastoglobules compartmentalize nitrogen assimilation in maize #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Stomata in motion: How #temperature shapes #guard cell function and developmental plasticity nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantSci @newphyt.bsky.social @wileylifesci.bsky.social @stomata-tweets.bsky.social @stomagenesis.bsky.social @plantcellatlas.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social

🍀🔬 The cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor KIP-RELATED PROTEIN 6 promotes stem cell death upon DNA damage in Arabidopsis roots @theplantjournal.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Just crazy ! ♥️♥️👌

The algal pyrenoid fixes ~1/3 of global carbon, relying on a unique membrane-within-condensate architecture. How is this architecture built? We discovered that the protein MITH1 draws membranes into the pyrenoid condensate by promoting wetting! 🌿💧 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A bifunctional coiled-coil protein generates the membrane-within-condensate architecture of the CO2-fixing pyrenoid @mjonikas.bsky.social lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Melatonin seed #priming: A climate-smart, green strategy to enhance #abiotic stress tolerance in plants onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantSci @jipb.bsky.social @wileylifesci.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @plantmetabolism.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social

🌱🧬Pathogens manipulate the apoplast by controlling pH, water & nutrients. Plants fight back with oxidative bursts, toxins & hydrolases. Adapted pathogens disarm these defenses & hide from detection Molecular arms race outside the cell @annualreviews.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Amazing ! What about redox gradient? @parikki.bsky.social @vanbreusegemlab.bsky.social

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

1/13 So excited to share our new preprint!! How do organelles pack together in a crowded cytoplasm? we know organelles interact via contact sites, but how does competition for space contribute to organelle morphology and interactions? @wallaceucsf.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Manipulating meiotic recombination in plants. Amazing seminar by @piotraz.bsky.social at @ceitec.eu

Last MCS seminar at @ceitec.eu by @apmahonen.bsky.social Great talk on plant vascular system differentiation! A new seminar series coming from the autumn …

#single insert transformation. The problem of multiple inserts lies in your T-DNA 😳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our beautiful special issue on plant evolution is out @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

Congrats to my former PhD student, @louisefougere.bsky.social, for getting the @sbcf.bsky.social PhD price 2026. Presented at the SBCF general assembly today 😍

Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/

Check out this cool new preprint by @willshaw.bsky.social from the Gehring and Khalil labs about the optimization of T-DNA vector backbones to achieve predictable and stable (over)expression in Arabidopsis

Very happy with today’s PhD defence by Alberto Caregnato. Amazing quantitative biochemistry, crystallography and cryoEM. Well done Alberto, it was a pleasure working with you. Big thanks to @hillerlab.bsky.social, Andreas Boland and @romanulm.bsky.social

Glycolysis Dominates Over Photorespiration in Governing Oxalate Accumulation in Rice academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... @plantphys.bsky.social

Just received the programme for the upcoming Molecular Moss Workshop in Oxford, and it looks fantastic! Kudos to the organisers @moodytomato.bsky.social @violawillemsen.bsky.social @coudertlab.bsky.social 👏

🎉🌱 Great news! We have been awarded, for the third time, the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditation 🏅 A recognition of our scientific excellence and international leadership in plant and animal genomics. 👇 Read the full news

📣#PlantBio2026 daily highlight: Phenomics, Whole Plant, Computational: Cross-scale Phenomics of Plant Function in Changing Environments Concurrent Session!🌱 plantbiology2026.eventscribe.net/index.asp #plantscience #plantsci

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It is #Microscopyfriday. Chevron barley ear tissue stoma (magenta) invaded by Fusarium culmorum hyphae (green, wheat germ agglutinin staining). Note the substomatal vesicle like fungal strcture!

This week’s Signal Edition (6/11/26) is out!🌱 👉Read more buff.ly/WAnExJO #PlantScience #PlantSci

Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging in Plants: Practical guidelines for multiplexing, label-free imaging and data analysis by Thomas Ott and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

PAPER from @danielvandamme.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Happy to share our new paper in @dev-journal.bsky.social . This project started while I was at Stanford with @stanfordstomata.bsky.social and was completed at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social by @pablidopsis.bsky.social . Find it here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Cascading functional #water balance traits enhance #wheat grain #yield under terminal #drought academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... #PlantScience #PlantSci @jxbotany.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social @wheatgh0st.bsky.social @wheatgenome.bsky.social @grainledger.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social

✍️ The @bladoux.bsky.social / @rmmege.bsky.social lab contributed to a new article 📖 @natmater.nature.com 📃 Fibronectin matrix remodelling modulates the active nematic dynamics of cancer-associated fibroblasts 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We invite you to explore this exciting new isssue from @jxbotany.bsky.social

Dr. Arturo Marí-Ordónez, duckweed and Transposons. TEs get crazy in Wolffia! Please check his rescent preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... @mangolab.bsky.social what do you think about this? @psb-vib.bsky.social @gmivienna.bsky.social

After a journey of roughly 12 years I am very happy to share with you that our manuscript on the spatiotemporal role of ethylene during nodule initiation has finally been published in @theplantcell.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Out now in @natplants.nature.com: A cell type-specific antagonism of autophagy and age-induced programmed cell death controls root hair life span www.nature.com/articles/s41..., back to back with another story on root hair-specific autophagy by @plantophagy.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TOMORROW: SEMINAR by Arturo Marí-Ordóñez from @gmivienna.bsky.social, invited by @pnovik.bsky.social and @yvdp.bsky.social. @viblifesciences.bsky.social

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Fantastic last seminar before his well deserved retirement by Philippe Reymond @unil.bsky.social on the signaling immune responses following insect cell deposition on plant leaves. A technical tour de force & exciting findings.

IN BRIEF: A multi-layered disruption: how calcium, acidification, and ROS signals converge to shut down energy metabolism in incompatible pollen (Ved Prakash) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial