Harmala alkaloids regulate cell division planes in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.29.728883v1

A tonoplast cytokinin riboside transporter gates intracellular hormone availability at the plant-microbe interface https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.31.727005v1

The demonstration of a single origin for nodule evolution, with nodule engineering in a non-nodulating species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.31.728964v1

Raise your voice to #GiveGenesAChance in the EU! 💚🧬🇪🇺

New News & Views: "A sweet solution to nicotine biosynthesis" rdcu.be/fl6qg ... unexpected role for glycosylation and a highly coordinated biosynthetic system that reshapes our understanding of plant specialized metabolism. #PlantScience

Barley produces high amounts of phenylalanine- and tryptophan-derived secondary metabolites, including hydorxycinnamic acid amides as well as related hordatines in response to Fusarium Head Blight. Multiomics finds this as the most consistent response over four diverse genotypes. rdcu.be/fl4uO

Genome editing of key domestication genes overcomes self-incompatibility and bitter taste in cultivated buckwheat https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.27.728157v1

It's be an honour to write this TALE-review with my long-time friend and colleague Jan Grau 👨‍🔬📗🧑‍💻. It's about both worlds: virulence, genomics 🌾🧫🧪 & genome editing, SynBio 🧬✂️. All figures done by ourselves! Hope you like it. Please spread the news! 📰🥳 doi.org/10.1146/annu...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Plantscience #Plantsci

www.nature.com/naturecareer... Opportunity for a Professor Position at Heidelberg Biochemistry Center.

The abstract submission deadline for the Botanik Tagung of the German #PlantScience Society ( @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social ) is coming up. If you want to showcase your science to the German Plant Science Community, then this is the place to be: 👇

Hurry up, if you want to present your latest #plantsci research results to an international plant science audience at #BT2026 🚨Abstract submission ends on 31st May 2026 🚨 Please remind to register first to be able to submit your abstract 📆 6-10 September 2026 📍Bochum, Germany botanik-tagung.de

I am happy to share that the final version of our review on Metabolism, Perception, and Functions of Inositol (Pyro)Phosphates in Plants has been published. Many thanks to Ricardo Giehl @leibnizipk.bsky.social for this great collaboration - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Neofunctionalization underlies the evolutionary origin of sclareol biosynthesis in the mint family www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcomms.nature.com

If you haven't been using Bioicons, you should check it out: bioicons.com You can find so many high quality vector arts for science that is also open source/free! If you made vector arts for your papers, I urge you to contribute them on Bioicons too. I have shared several icons I made as well.

Pleased to share our full publication of our manuscript describing completion of nicotine biosynthesis in @natcomms.nature.com following our pre-print from December last year. In this work we solve the 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another paper on the biosynthesis of nicotine out, congratulations to everyone involved!

I love it when someone identifies the molecular mechanisms underlying a complex physiological phenomena like in this work, in which a single metabolite (2-naphthoic acid), a microbe, and a transporter were linked to improved soybean performance under drought. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Bei anthroposophischen Einrichtungen und Firmen wird sogar beim Schriftbild auf die Vermeidung rechter Winkel geachtet. Beispiel: Waldorfkindergarten, Weleda, Voelkel, Naturata und Demeter. Ist die Schriftart schief und krumm, ist es wohl auch die Weltsicht." (AnthroBlogger, Twitter, 2019)

Thrilled to see this finally out!! Our new work suggests #Starships helped #Colletotrichum acquire the genes needed to infect lupin. A glimpse into how fungal pathogens emerge through horizontal transfer and genome reshaping. biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Fungi #Genomics #Pathogenicity #evolution

Haplotype phased, chromosome-level genomes of tuberizing legumes: Apios americana and Apios priceana. #PlantScience From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Professorship Plant Ecology. Bremen, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs www.academics.de/jobs/profess...

Excited to have started my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social through the @dfg.de Emmy Noether program. In this project we will be looking at the mechanisms of host invasion by fungal pathogens 🍄🌱 Check it out and drop me a line if you are interested! uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

Chorismate and isochorismate turnover reveal hidden dynamics of aromatic metabolism in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.09.724013v1

Thousands of people are expected to attend a 'Standing Strong' rally against antisemitism, which will convene outside Downing Street at 1pm today in London. The Jewish News has published this joint editorial with the Jewish Chronicle ahead of the event. www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

New Article: "Water lily complete genomes illuminate the innovations of water lilies and early angiosperms" rdcu.be/fhdEb Gapless genomes for three water lily species: genetic keys to fertilization, floral colour and scent, and evolution of early flowering plants.

Call for Papers: 2027 Focus Issue on Specialized Metabolites. This focus issue aims to provide a forum to improve our understanding of plant specialized metabolism. Submission Deadline: 05/2026. academic.oup.com/plcell/pages... #plantscience

A sugar chain–dependent two-component chemical defense in Hedera helix reveals substrate-driven β-glucosidase evolution in Apiales | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pnas.org

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/...

🚨 Hurry up, if you want to save on registration fees to take part in our international conference, the Botanik-Tagung #BT2026 📍 in Bochum, Germany 📆 6 - 10 September 2026 Early bird rates end this Thursday, 30th April botanik-tagung.de/registration...

Five more days to apply! PhD position in our long-term Arctic project based at Leibniz University Hannover with fieldwork in Abisko. Focus: berries, functional traits, climate change & future food systems (with a microclimate angle). Please share: www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8...

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

@plantpostdocs.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social

Wird der Film denn dann hinterher kritisch eingeordnet? Ich finde es ehrlich gesagt hochproblematisch, im wissenschaftlichen Kontext, wo Menschen verlässliche Informationen und Einordnungen erwarten, einen Film der Verschwörungstheoretikerin Vandana Shiva zu zeigen. www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder...

📜 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)