📜 Single-cell analysis identifies genes facilitating rhizobium infection in Lotus japonicus 🧑‍🔬 Manuel Frank, Lavinia Ioana Fechete, Dugald Reid, Stig Uggerhøj Andersen, et al. 📔 Nature Communications 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #Symbiosis #PlantMPMI #LotusJaponicus

I am very happy to share an article in Plant Cell & Environment interested in the roles of MDHAR in oxidative stress in #Arabidopsis. The role of the cytosolic MDAR2 is particularly intriguing. To know more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 1/2

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...

An acetyltransferase family required for biosynthesis of diverse marine carotenoids | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pnas.org

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⏳ One week left to apply! We’re hiring in Plant Ecology and Biodiversity at Leibniz University Hannover: • Senior Researcher (permanent, full-time) www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8379/ • PhD on long-term coastal vegetation change (North & Baltic Seas) www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8435

Enzymatic and followed by non-enzymatic (flavin + light) transformation of strictosamide, a key intermediate in camptothecin biosynthesis From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #SecMet

Complete biosynthesis of psychedelic tryptamines from three kingdoms in plants www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Professorship "Naturstoff- und Wirkstoffchemie". Halle, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

What a tour de-force! Amazing study completing our knowledge of nicotine biosynthesis.

Dual-Substrate Selectivity and Thermal Stability Mechanisms of a Novel Nicotiana tabacum Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

🌱 CRAG launches an international call for early‑career researchers! We invite young scientists interested in starting their independent research group at CRAG 📅 Deadline - April 26 Apply now 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/jdwzombrbd

Wir stellen ein! 🌱 Unbefristete E13 (100 %) Stelle in Pflanzenökologie & Biodiversitätsforschung an der Leibniz Universität Hannover: www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8379 Frist: 15.04.2026

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

The Leibniz University Hannover/Germany has an open position for a Professor for Molecular Phytopathology (W2TTW3)! Apply before April 27. Please forward this! Contact me for questions. See you in Hannover! 😃🎓🪴🌾🌱🌽🥬🦠🧪🧫🧬🔬🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬👍 www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/8410/ (EN) www.uni-hannover.de/de/jobs/8410/ (DE)

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...

Interesting read on a fascinating and very relevant field of research

Here's some reading to enjoy with a G&T: @oconnorlab.bsky.social spoke at an #ACSSpring2026 virtual symposium this morning about the lab's work figuring out how cinchona plants make quinine and other cinchona alkaloids. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social #chemsky cen.acs.org/biological-c...

Utilizing raw rapeseed press cake in foods: A case study on sensory quality and profile of selected bitter compounds in snack bars https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.20.712648v1

Hydroxycinnamic acid amides emerge as multifunctional molecules involved in regeneration and volatile signalling during wound responses in tomato https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.20.713112v1

Epitranscriptomic modulations optimize crop traits 📖https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.71117?af=R # Review article by Ren et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

The biosynthesis pathways of alkaloids and carotenoids in California poppy are the result of different evolutionary processes, team around Annette Becker @plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social @jlugiessen.bsky.social found out. Press release: www.uni-giessen.de/en/about/pre...

Biosynthesis of cinchona alkaloids From: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience #SpecMet

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...

This post was prompted by hearing from a former AFE who is starting their own lab, yay! If you've been in one of these mentored programs and have moved on, drop me a line and I'll update my spreadsheet. Or drop me a line just to say hi 😀.

Congratulations, @frankelab.bsky.social !

Our new paper is out in @newphyt.bsky.social

New paper online today. In it, we advocate for biodiversity in the increasingly modernized agricultural world. Smart farming could be a wonderful tool to alleviate pressure from agro-ecosystems, but, as we argue here, this will only happen if biodiversity becomes an explicit target. rdcu.be/e6zB7

We’re hiring! 🌿 Permanent E13 (100%) position in Plant Ecology & Biodiversity Research at Leibniz University Hannover. Focus: vegetation ecology, field research, quantitative skills, teaching (BSc, German required). Deadline: 15 April 2026 Details: www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8379/

🪴 🫘 🫛 Come work with us in beautiful Copenhagen! This is the erfect position for you, if you like: - natural products - working with plants - solving complex metabolism puzzles - having an applied impact shorturl.at/iIjW3

Veröffentlichung in Nature Communications: Das Institut für Botanik der #LUH hat entdeckt, wann und wo Pflanzen Chloroplasten aufbauen, in denen die Photosynthese abläuft. http://go.lu-h.de/KQETC

German academia has become increasingly neoliberalized – unnecessary hurdles, especially in the social sciences and the humanities, mainly related to precarious jobs and the endless funding rounds by @dfg.de, are disincentivizing autonomous thinking, thorough analysis, and staying humane. 1/3

Gestern hab ich bekannt gegeben, dass ich spätestens 2028 aus der Wissenschaft aussteigen werd — darüber schreibt @evamurasov.bsky.social nun im @tagesspiegel.de. Zig Kommentare & Nachrichten zeigen mir: Sehr viele Wissenschaftler_innen hadern. Bedingungen müssen dringend besser werden! #IchBinHanna

A red/blue optoswitch for temporal control of chloroplast transcription and biogenesis in Arabidopsis www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcomms.nature.com

As promised - here is more information on our Assistent/Associtate Professor position in Plant Biochemistry @lbvpam.bsky.social - please share. lbvpam.univ-st-etienne.fr/en/join-us/c...

Excited to share our latest work posted on bioRxiv!: Enhanced phenylalanine biosynthesis amplifies light-stress-driven phenylpropanoid production in Arabidopsis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Interesting paper: Metabolic enzyme PAL can go into the nucleus in response to high product build up and sequester an activating TF of the pathway, thus acting as a feedback inhibition loop. From: www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

I'm super happy to share my new preprint reporting a study in collaboration with the Seebeck (Basel) and Sasso (Leipzig) labs: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We discovered that ovothiol A, a thiohistidine, is a major antioxidant in the green alga Chlamydomonas. (1/4)

BackBone Builder (B3): A modular Golden Gate standard with a compatible Agrobacterium parts library https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.15.705982v1

Marchantia might seem an unlikely biotech crop, but it’s worth trying. In Aurore’s thesis, we pushed this concept by engineering the auronidins with MpMYB14 and using the pigments to dye cotton. It ended up giving a very unique and beautiful product. #PlantScience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

In our latest preprint we report the unexpected discovery of Epi-STR, an R-stereoselective ortholog of the S-selective canonical Strictosidine synthases (STRs). Found in the rather obscure plant Pogonopus specious. This work was led by my stellar student Clara Morweiser! #natprod #PlantScience

The cooperation between DFG and #TWAS allows to invite researchers in early career phases #ECR from various countries outside Europe to an institution in Germany for a 3-month research and collaboration stay. Full information on requirements, deadlines and info sessions: www.dfg.de/en/news/news...

Independent mutations in a MYB TF reduce lignin/fiber development and reduce pod shattering. From: www.cell.com/molecular-pl... #PlantScience

A MYB TF activates glycoalkaloid biosynthesis in potato tubers, whose expression appeared to be selected against during potato domestication. From: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience

#Trigger Warnung #Content Note #TW #CN #Antisemitismus #Anthroposophie Eine Sammlung von antisemitischen und antijudaistischen Aussagen des Waldorfschule-Gründers Rudolf Steiner findet ihr hier. Zum Zwecke der Dokumentation - ich teile die antisemitischen Ansichten dahinter ausdrücklich NICHT!

Trust in the University of Copenhagen #UCPH as an employer has been undermined, says Sergey Rosbakh @srosbakh.bsky.social after mass layoffs at the Faculty of Science: »I’m almost ashamed to admit it, but I felt relieved to be on my way out«. uniavisen.dk/en/layoffs-s...

Overexpression of TRYPTOPHAN DECARBOXYLASE from Aegilops variabilis enhances flavonoid biosynthesis and germination in wheat academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... @plantphys.bsky.social

💥Leak💥 „In der Polizei Berlin werden keine Schmerzgriffe ausgebildet“, behauptete die Berliner Polizeipräsidentin. Wir veröffentlichen jetzt ein Handbuch, das belegt: Berliner Polizeikräfte lernen, wie sie Demonstrierenden möglichst effektiv Schmerzen zufügen können. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...