Plasmodesmal closure triggers stress responses! Turns out cells are generally better off with connections to their neighbours. This manuscript represents a decade-long team collaboration, with heroic effort from Estee Tee to lead it over the line! #PlantScience link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Glad to have presented our work on the FATE project (funded by KAW) at the 11th International Symposium on Root Development, held in Italy from 4–7 May 2026. Grateful to Stéphanie, Peter, Stéphane, Ioannis, and Luciano for their support, collaboration, and contributions to this exciting work.

Our new berry boxes (v2) made by labstuce.com and @absolutemaverick.bsky.social !! Let's the fun begin!

Congratulations to all! And special congrats to Ludovic!

🌱 Big news! We received a Novo Nordisk Fonden Emerging Investigator Grant (DKK 12.5M – around €1.7M) for project DYNAMO. 5 years to understand how plant cell walls signal the growth to strength switch. So proud of the whole team. Let's go! 🧱⚡ Read more: www.cellwalldynamics.com/time-to-cele...

Now online at @natplants.nature.com ‼️ Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student @gmivienna.bsky.social & together w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short 🧵👇

Our natural variation screen for endodermal suberization identified SUBER GENE1, a new regulator of suberin via its interaction with TOPPs. Congratulations @jian-pu.bsky.social !

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🧪🌾Two great days at the UPSC Early Career Plant Scientist Symposium 2026! We welcomed four postdoc candidates for talks, matchmaking, an MSCA workshop, lab tours & career discussions, ending with a pizza & ping-pong evening. 👏Thanks to all visitors and everyone at UPSC who helped make this happen!

The young scientists are so impressive! What a nice set up to hear about their data!

Now a highlight of our symposium: quick-fire presentations from UPSC PIs! 🎤 Hear from Totte Niittylä, @srobertgroup.bsky.social, @microproteins.bsky.social, Peter Kindgren, Nathaniel Street & Leonard Blaschek — six snapshots of the cutting-edge research happening right here at UPSC 🚀 #UPSCSymposium

So nice to meet the future of plant science!

Check out our Insight on the beautiful work by Clark et al. 🌱 How can stochastic giant-cell fate lead to non-random epidermal patterns? Cell fate, endoreduplication, and growth all matter. cup.org/3QYjVm0 @roederlab.bsky.social @pauformosa.bsky.social @matmajda.bsky.social

Our new preprint! Winter-like extended cold primes plants for regeneration🌱❄️! Work by Fu-Yu Hung, now a new PI in Taiwan!

✨ Excited to share our manuscript uncovering a new target for CO2-regulation in vesicle trafficking that provides a new perspective on plant responses to #climate change. @jipb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Warm congratulations to our Editor @diorkelley.bsky.social, who has been recognised with the ASPB's Excellence in Education Award! blog.aspb.org/2026_aspb_aw...

👏So well deserved silver medal from @cnrs.fr 😍 Emmanuelle Bayer @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social from @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social is an outstanding scientist 🤓 and one of a few female role model in the plant research field 🍀 www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...

I am thrilled and beyond grateful to receive a CNRS bronze medal this year - this is an incredible honour especially for an INRAE researcher like myself! A big thanks to my amazing team and the research community @RDP for all the great science we have done together!

Nice! Congratulations to all!

#endocytosis RALF FER PI4P PI(4,5)P2 👌

#ResultatScientifique🔎| Face au stress, les plantes réorganisent rapidement leurs lipides membranaires pour nettoyer leurs cellules et relancer leur croissance 🌱 ✍️ @yvonjaillais.bsky.social 📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social ▶️ buff.ly/s2Oeymm

Published @newphyt.bsky.social. We identified peptide ligand-induced K63-linked Ub sites of ERECTA, required for endocytosis & signal attenuation for proper stomatal patterning. Congrats, all authors🌱👍 @texasscience.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New preprint 🌱 Segment plants in time-series images using foundation model SAM2 - without training a model 🪩. Magician Alex Abbey! 💡SAP works across species, scales, and even z-stacks. From single cells to whole plants→ quantitative growth & dynamics . tinyurl.com/3raedtvm @biosofttau.bsky.social

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!

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Beautiful! @keikoutorii.bsky.social and co! Comparative proteomic profiling of receptor kinase signaling reveals key trafficking components enforcing plant stomatal development | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬 doi.org/10.1126/scia... Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯

Our latest review on pavement cell shape acquisition is on line! Work from @lorindaloi.bsky.social @sharmavinod.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu Kempe fondation Vetenskapsrådet (VR) MSCA www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In french: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2hH...

Women in plant science around the world #plantscience

Bumping this and flagging some corny folks - anyone know the best place for PH207 seeds (and if there are RILs or NILs)? @jefowlerjr.bsky.social @jrossibarra.bsky.social @carolynplants.bsky.social @maizegdb.bsky.social @maizezynskihi.bsky.social

📣 Call for abstracts from global #plantsci community working on plant development! ⏰ Abstracts close in 7 days (due Monday 30 March) Registration fees due later (15 June) Register at: www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la...

LETTER: SCARECROW functions in root radial patterning in rice to organize multiple cortical cell layers (Jingxia Li , Shoya Minami , Katsutoshi Tsuda , Takaki Yamauchi) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

The lab of @elkebarbez.bsky.social strikes again 👇 Cell wall charge acts as a tunable electrostatic gate controlling iron availability in roots. Really nice work linking extracellular physics with nutrient homeostasis.

The 7th International Symposium on Plant Apoplastic Diffusion Barriers (PADiBa2026) will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland from August 31th to September 3rd 2026. We now have a website: wp.unil.ch/padiba2026/ Registrations will open on April 1st.

FATE annual in person meeting! This time in Umeå! Nice day of interdisciplinary science! @stephanevrg.bsky.social @lorindaloi.bsky.social @pmarhavy.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social @uu.se @umeaplantsciencecentre.se @liu.se

After a long journey, our new paper is out! 🌱 In this study, Tiina and colleagues show that cambium activation in the Arabidopsis root is triggered by the induction of auxin, cytokinin, and TDIF peptide signalling. 🧵1/x doi.org/10.1093/plce...

During secondary growth, primary protective barriers break, and a new one forms beneath: the phellem. But what triggers phellem to differentiate and become a functional barrier? Our results show it’s mechanical cues from tissue rupture 🌱 Check out our preprint 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵/1

#Ligand-binding site predictor 😎 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Want to image apoplastic pH in plants? 🔬 Two new papers from our team offer a full workflow plus open access analysis tools. Congrats to @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle and @lguerard.bsky.social Nature Protocols: rdcu.be/e7R2E BMC Methods: lnkd.in/dctpWJ3X Happy Imaging!

Register Now! #SLS26 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium | 22-24 Sept 2026 | Cambridge, UK Theme - Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis! If you are into Plant Development - join us! In-person + livestream Limited fee waivers www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls

🪴Postdoc position - UT Austin, TX, USA - Developmental Mechanisms of Adaptation to Underwater Environment/Genome Editing🪴 Do you love amphibious/aquatic plants? Then consider applying to the position! See the attached ads. utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

Fantastic paper! ‪@roederlab.bsky.social‬ @soestrauss.bsky.social

I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate. Please RT, many thanks career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Leaf pavement cells may look simple, yet their shapes encode developmental history & environmental response. @srobertgroup.bsky.social show that a MYB transcription factor contributes to fine-tuning this process in aspen. #preprint #preLight by Jeny Jose ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/a...

Students out there, I have a PhD project cutting across biology, material science and biomedicine that requires a highly capable, diverse and brave applicant. if you think this is for you please Apply using the link below. All details in the website!! Project: eb4bm.org/project/engi...

Our preprint was highlighted in prelights, selected by the biological community: prelights.biologists.com/highlights/a... Thanks for that! @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Discrete and cell-specific hypoxic responses in #Arabidopsis #roots resolved by single-nuclei transcriptomics A #CommunityResource by Hill et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue