Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few examples... What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪 #plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience

Congrats to all!

This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you. The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇

Thrilled to be among the recipients of the SNSF Starting Grants! Congrats to all the incredible researchers funded this year. Can’t wait to keep exploring how plants grow, sense, and respond to mechanical forces. Plants and biophysics rock!🌱⚛️

Dear ENPER community, We are pleased to invite you to the next ENPER meeting, which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 26 to 28 August 2026. Link to the ENPER 2026 website: enper2026.bio21.bas.bg

Interested to learn more about Plant Biotechnology? Enroll in our one-year Subsequent Master program and enjoy a training at Europe's largest Agro-biotech campus: masterplantbiotechnology.ugent.be

My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available → authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...

Check out the ToC of our latest Special Issue about auxin in plant development. https://bit.ly/3KSt2BW All articles are free to read for 2 months. @srobertgroup.bsky.social

Huge thanks to the incredibly talented Center for Visual Arts students for transforming microscopy images into incredible works of art for Toledo CellulART! Science meets art in the most inspiring way. 🔬❤️🎨 www.toledocellulart.org #SciArt #Microscopy

And @newphyt.bsky.social continues it's great series of Profiles with this one on @pdchristine.bsky.social: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantImmunity #PlantLuminaries

'With a dream career of ‘expressing beauty with flowers’, I decided to pursue an undergraduate education in horticulture in the Netherlands. It sounded so natural, but I never knew what would happen later.' In Profile: Yuchen Long 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience 🧵👇

@marhava.bsky.social and myself have edited a special issue on Auxin for Physiologia plantarum! Have a look at the nice contributions! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

The N-terminal domain of COMPANION OF CELLULOSE SYNTHASE1 promotes microtubule array formation in Arabidopsis (Viswanathan Gurumoorthy, Alan Hicks, Sriram Tiruvadi-Krishnan, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

#IJPB takes the floor at the 4th INUPRAG Symposium. 👩‍🔬C. Bellini 👉 CATS team bit.ly/4dy5hHO 👨‍🔬N. Arnaud 👉 FTA team bit.ly/3JfhiJ9 INUPRAG is a consortium between @inrae-france.bsky.social (BAP department) @umeaplantsciencecentre.se and @cragenomica.bsky.social @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social

We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!) How do cells communicate when it's hot? Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

Fantastic UPSC cutting edge seminar by @apmahonen.bsky.social dissecting secondary growth in plants one step at the time! Such an amazing contribution to the field! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Excited to share this preprint on the microtubule severing protein Katanin, and its role in cell elongation and division in maize. First author Stephanie Martinez worked collaboratively with many folks to bring you this preprint. Check it out! 🔬🌽 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The IJPB meets the public: wonderful moments of exchange! 🤩

I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are! #plantscience 🧪 "DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."

The winners of rising stars in plant sciences 2025 #Editorial #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Only a few days left to apply! My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis. @starmorph-syg.bsky.social Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

This story blew my mind! Amazing work. Highly recommended. Congrats to all! @nikogeldner.bsky.social @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Having fun with the group for Sandeep Farewell! @sharmavinod.bsky.social @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @loupitgreg.bsky.social @sandeep18887.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Starting our first @dompsfr.bsky.social #plantscience seminar series of the academic year with a thank you by @elkebarbez.bsky.social for postdoc appreciation day, chocolates and a talk by @beritebert.bsky.social on cell walls and glycans!

Great article in Cell: Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration It's about #Arabidopsis and #auxin. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

This is epic! @officialatcc.bsky.social announced the winners of the 2025 Photo contest! They look amazing! Check the Alt text and follow the link for tons more. www.atcc.org/about-us/upc... I love this! Please reshare! #microscopy #biology #research #science #cellbiology #microbiology #biotech 🧪🧬

I’m making more cyanotypes on handmade paper with a deckle edge: Fern and wild carrot flower 🐡 minouette.etsy.com/listing/4369...

:-) @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Nice!! Congrats!

What a cool story presented by @elkebarbez.bsky.social from @uni-freiburg.de at @umeaplantsciencecentre.se !!

🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!

STARMORPH kick off went smoothly! Nice group of young scientists to work together with! Fantastic couple of days! @xanderjones.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @nowako76.bsky.social @srobertgroup.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Fun on the way!

Thrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks @zoenv.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social and the other coauthors for all the hard work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nice group effort and determination! Thanks to all involved!

Such a fun and inspiring meeting! Big thanks to the organiser team!!

STARMORPH is represented at the FASEB #PDevSRC meeting by @srobertgroup.bsky.social who has presented data from her group on apical hook development and cuticle.

Great morning session with talks on stomata @stanfordstomata.bsky.social xylem development @bertderybel.bsky.social regeneration @bas-bargmann.bsky.social and root cel elongation from Flor Ercoli #PDevSRC 🌱 🌿

Indeed very nice story and discussion with @zoenv.bsky.social from @ckirchhelle.bsky.social group. RAB-A5C is fascinating in so many ways. #PDevSRC

🌱✂️ How do plant cells decide where to divide? Our work shows that actin can override the geometric rules—guiding cells to divide in alternative orientations. #PlantScience #CellBiology #Arabidopsis @camilagoldy.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with: 1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics 2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : [email protected]. Deadline 15 sept.

New preprint from the lab. We mapped the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation and show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are excited to announce Federica Brandizzi as the next director of the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory! Brandizzi's lab has contributed many important pieces to the canon of plant research in organelle biology, biofuel research and space biology. natsci.msu.edu/news/2025/20...

We're hiring! Need a microscopy wizard to help build the world’s first synthetic plant chromosome! Bring your lights, lasers, & lens-craft to characterise new artificial chromosomes. Join our ARIA-funded project at UWA in Perth & ‪@plants4space.bsky.social‬. Apply: bit.ly/3GKSRSA

The maintenance of plant cell wall integrity involves complex molecular interactions. In this review, preetmanchanda.bsky.social summarizes the pivotal roles of RALF, LRX, and FERONIA as well as their interactions in different cell and tissue systems. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One of the key aspects influencing morphogenesis is mechanics. We mapped the mechanical properties of living roots at the tissue and cellular levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ein mobiles Beteiligungsformat überzeugt in der universitären Ausschreibung #Unicorn Fund 🦄. Aus 35 starken Ideen wurde #UniWerk als Gewinner ausgewählt. Als Teil des Freiburger Exzellenzantrags könnte es ab 2027 universitätsweit Impulse für #Innovation & #Wandel setzen. ➡️ ufr.link/unicorn-gewinner