Looking forward!

🧪🌾VACANCY - Looking for a PhD in plant/forest science? Join the @hanneletuominen.bsky.social group at UPSC & the WIFORCE Research School and investigate nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in trees! Read more and apply here👇: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 #PlantSciJobs

Today, our Director, Gwyneth Ingram, received the CNRS Silver Medal. (👇see the post below👇) This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels. 🌱Congratulations!🥂

#auxin, novel GH3 inhibitor!

Check out our latest paper. Very glad to see this one finally out. Fantastic work by @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social . Learn more about MBAP proteins and their roles in brassinosteroid signaling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔊 Don't miss this chance!🧪 There is still time to apply for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists in April 2026!🌾 Not sure yet? Check out what this year's participants said and learn more about the event: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n... ⏰ Application deadline: 11 January 2026

Ice bath before Julbord, enjoying the sun when it is still out! Perfect end of the week with this fantastic group! @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @sharmavinod.bsky.social @rahulpvnewland.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social @lorindaloi.bsky.social @loupitgreg.bsky.social

Oh Wow! Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With @umeaplantsciencecentre.se people too!

And another one: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The first author is a STARMORPH PhD student from @nowako76.bsky.social lab.

Congratulations!!

🧪🌾 @cathbell62.bsky.social works @umeauniversitet.bsky.social & @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social in France and has been instrumental to establish #INUPRAG, a collaboration between @umeaplantsciencecentre.se, @inrae-france.bsky.social & @cragenomica.bsky.social.

Great news!

New preprint from our lab: Salicylic acid- induced alkalinization of the apoplast requires TMK1 and results in growth attenuation www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Big thanks to all who contributed @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @julien-gronnier.bsky.social @kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social

🚨 FINAL CALL 🚨 🔬 🧱 The Plant Cell Wall Biology Special Issue is closing at the end of December 🧱 🔬 We're still accepting submissions! Got a manuscript? 👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

New preprint! SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation. tinyurl.com/28p7af2w

🧪🌾How do plants react so quickly to cold?❄️🧬 Researchers from UPSC & @cragenomica.bsky.social discovered a genetic strategy that keeps stress-response genes "on standby" for rapid activation. Read more below 👇 and in the article published in Molecular Plant: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I love winter mornings up North.

“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

The work of Samia Belaidi, PhD student in the team, and @bwojcikowska.bsky.social on the involvement of MP isoforms for somatic embryogenesis induction in Arabidopsis is now online! Congrats to all co-authors! Work performed @ceitec.eu with the help of @ceitec-cellimcf.bsky.social

Looking for a fantastic place for your next career step? Come to speak about your science and meet us @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Have a look at the research groups www.upsc.se/research/res... and build up your next project

📣 Finishing your PhD or recently graduated? Looking to shape your own postdoc project?🧪🌾 Join us for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists on 28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden, and network with the UPSC community! Learn more and apply: www.upsc.se/early-career... 📅 Apply by 11 Jan 2026

One of the STARMORPH group leaders on the Highly Cited Researchers 2025! Congrats @nowako76.bsky.social ! clarivate.com/highly-cited...

New OA Article: "Cambium LBDs promote radial growth by regulating PLL-mediated pectin metabolism" rdcu.be/eP4mp LBD TFs in the cambium drive radial plant growth by regulating PECTATE LYASE-LIKE (PLL) enzymes that remodel cell wall pectin, promoting cell expansion.

How fast do plants actually grow? And which growth processes matter most for organ size? We dived into 176 papers, extracted and re-analyzed the data so you don’t have to! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @newphyt.bsky.social @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social

Excited to share our pre-print on how Sphingolipid-driven interleaflet coupling orchestrates ROP6 recruitment to nanodomains upon auxin. Great job from my PhD student Matheus Montrazi, @arthur-poitout.bsky.social, @alexmartiniere.bsky.social, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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