(1/11) Excited to share the brand-new cell division preprint from the lab! In this manuscript, chemical biology (in a collaboration with @rnett42.bsky.social Ryan’s lab) meets the cell biology (our lab). Harmala alkaloids regulate cell division planes in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Häufige Missverständnisse über neue Züchtungstechniken (#NGT) – Prof. Alain Tissier @atissier.bsky.social klärt im Interview über die Unterschiede zwischen klassischer Züchtung und #GeneEditing auf und gibt Einblicke in die Praxis. Das ganze Interview hier: 🔗 saatgut-kann-mehr.de/2026/05/04/p...

Catalogue entries for more than 100 antibodies sold by the research services and supply company Thermo Fisher Scientific contain images that have apparently been manipulated, according to a pair of science sleuths. go.nature.com/4wX4yej

I know @bas-bargmann.bsky.social for d last ~15 yrs, but this is the first time we published a community resources article together for the greater plant bio colleagues:) Enjoy! @ncatnews.bsky.social @jxbotany.bsky.social #Plantscience, #ASPB, #Single-cell, #Genomics, #AI doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

To immediately start off, our latest preprint, "Deciphering the evolutionary origin of the stereoselectivity of short-chain dehydrogenases in the oxidation of the monoterpenol 1-borneol," is now available on bioRxiv (doi.org/10.1101/2025...)! @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social @Bernhard Loll

Latest preprint from our lab: We've studied the development and functional genomics of cannabis glandular trichomes using single cell multiomics (simultaneous gene expression and chromatin status profiling).

#natprod #PlantScience

Multiplex knockout of fruit specific biosynthetic genes (terpene synthase, P450, UGT) in tomato produces fruits depleted of carotenoid & steroidal glycoalkaloid, which could be used as a chassis to produce value-added chemicals. From: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #PlantScience #SecMet

We are excited to welcome Ketil Krabbe as a new pre-doc in our group at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. Ketil completed his master’s with Sarah O’Connor at MPI Jena (single-cell metabolomics) and a science policy internship at OPCW before joining us. Welcome, Ketil!

While we agonise about saving all the different subspecies of some bird or dolphin, entire species of plants, insects, and reptiles are being pulled back at the brink by DOC and volunteers with almost no budget. Our priorities are so out of whack. www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Das wäre wirklich ein Game Changer für den Pflanzenschutz-intensiven Kartoffelanbau. Mit Kreuzung ist es trotz großer Anstrengungen bisher nicht gelungen, wirksame genetische Resistenzen mit den Qualitätsmerkmalen einer Speisekartoffel zu kombinieren. Genau für solche Fälle gilt: #GiveGenesAChance

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

Iconic British naturalist David Attenborough, whose work has shaped science for decades, turns 100 today go.nature.com/4dbRFUB

My favorite thing he got wrong during that talk back in ?2010? or so was that "if you choose any gene in the genome and build a phylogenetic tree using it you get the same tree no matter what gene you pick, isn't that amazing!" (paraphrasing) My dude, this is simply not true. At all.

New Article: "Laminar patterning transcription factors orchestrate spatial metabolite partitioning in Capsicum fruit" rdcu.be/fg4ZY Single-cell + spatial atlas of chili pepper reveal layered tissues & transcription factor patterns for capsaicin / capsanthin synthesis. #PlantScience

Congratulations Ahmed Arafa @ahmedarafaphd.bsky.social on the publication of Chemoenzymatic Synthesis with Plant Oxidases and Metabolic Engineering Enable Rapid Access to Rare Gibberellins | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

📢Out now on bioRxiv: We used Plant STARR-seq to characterize the species- and condition-specific enhancer activity of over 350,000 sequences derived from four plant species. For more, see below and read the paper at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The preprint for some recent work of mine is live. We show that the activity and product stereochemistry of a biosynthetic enzyme can be influenced through protein-protein interactions.

How do plants respond to wounding? Well it it's not too dissimilar to how they respond to heat. We found that plants utilize the HSFA1 transcription factors to rapidly induce wound-induced regeneration genes after injury. @keikosugimoto.bsky.social @deveylderlab.bsky.social @wigge.bsky.social

Woah www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

An auxiliary protein tunes reductase activity in alkaloid biosynthesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.21.719811v1

Now online: Article by Anan Zhang, Yunfeng Luo, Qi Ding & Benke Hong Enzymatic control of enantioselective dimeric cyclotryptamine alkaloid biosynthesis in Calycanthaceae plants www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($) #Chemsky

I just published: Leave the red shirt out: Scientists, stop complicating the story Scientists are brilliant at finding details. We are less brilliant at knowing which details to shut up about. medium.com/p/leave-the-...

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study the evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genomics, genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3u73csma

De novo biosynthesis of halogenated benzoxazinoids in Nicotiana benthamiana www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mammalian-like steroidogenesis in plants gives rise to endocrine-mimetic cardenolides #PlantScience #SecMet From: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

A metabolic complex of acyltransferase enzymes involved in tomato acylsugar biosynthesis academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

Revision of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification has been underway! The group is requesting community feedback until April 22nd. Here is a link to a survey to gather feedback, which includes links to the manuscript and the new classification: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our funky R-stereoselective Epi-STR is now available online and open access at its permanent home @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. 🥳 This is Clara's first first-author paper, makes me extra happy! @mpi-ce.bsky.social #PlantScience #natprod doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Hiring at IPB Halle! Department Head & Director – Chemistry of Natural Products and Bioactives. Exceptional position with outstanding support & research environment. Apply now by April 24, 2026!-> berufungsportal.uni-halle.de #NaturalProductChemistry #AcademicJobs #IPB #PlantScience

Parasitic beetles are the first animals known to imitate floral scents

Our funky R-stereoselective Epi-STR is now available online and open access at its permanent home @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. 🥳 This is Clara's first first-author paper, makes me extra happy! @mpi-ce.bsky.social #PlantScience #natprod doi.org/10.1002/anie...

#PlantScienceClassics #21: MS Medium. In 1962 Toshio Murashige & Folke Skoog published their revised plant tissue culture medium @pplplantarum.bsky.social, arguably the most high-cited #PlantScience paper of all time. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 #PlantDevelopment #PlantMethods

Interesting and important work from the @gittacoaker.bsky.social and Jie Zhu labs. There is so much to learn from spatial analyses of plant-pathogen interactions!

Job alert🚨 Postdoc (Computational Proteomics × Plant Immunity) 🌱 Join us to build a cross-species plant pan-terminome & study proteolysis in immunity with excellent collaborators: Bernhard Kuester, Mathias Wilhelm, @degradomics.bsky.social, Patrick Willems, @patrickbryant1.bsky.social Please RT 🙏

Dear Cell, is this a joke??! (Westerns in figS5) Complete biosynthesis of nicotine: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Now online! Complete biosynthesis of nicotine

Hi - we are looking for a PhD student to finish the thapsigargin biosynthesis. If you are up for some great work, then apply.

We have been cooking up this story for a while and we are excited to finally be able to share! Read on if you're interested in whole plant regeneration WITHOUT the application of hormones!

We are very close to reaching the registration cap for MECS2026. Given the strong interest, we have increased the number of participants from 100 to 120 and extended registration until April 12. Please note, however, that we can no longer accept poster submissions.

‘Resurrection plants’ bounce back after years of drought. Do they hold lessons for crops? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... It's nice to see Jill Farrant's excellent work highlighted!

📣Reminder: Nominations for DBG @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social Early Career Awards are open. See ➡️ www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/u/BS3awards for more information.

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

The fact that Americans thought Auxin was a “Hoax from Europe” rightfully got some attention in my latest #PlantScienceClassics post. But it’s actually even funnier if you learn about the context & consequence of White speaking these words to Went at the AAAS Meeting in Pittsburgh. #PlantScience 🧪 🧵

#PlantScienceClassics #20: Kinetin & Cytokinins. In 1955 Carlos Miller, Folke Skoog & co-workers describe the first #Cytokinin and its role in promoting cell division and growth promotion. #Phytohormones #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1... pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Unstructured transcription factor interactions enable emergent specificity | @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🐾We *promise* this🐾post wasn't written🐾by a cat...🤞 🐾 Banjanac et al. report🐾that iridoid diversity in🐾catmints is at least partially attributed🐾to #evolutionary gains🐾and losses of key🐾 #biosynthetic #genes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci #JIPB 🐾 #meow #OpenAccess

The process by which the cinchona tree produces quinine has been elucidated. In a new study published in @nature.com, researchers from the @oconnorlab.bsky.social and the @universityofga.bsky.social unveil the biosynthetic pathway behind this 400-year-old secret. www.ice.mpg.de/548102/PR_Ki...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... featuring Sarah O'Connor