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@gunjansharma88.bsky.social
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Plantae.org
11 days ago
Plant Science Research Weeklyโฏ--โฏโฏHooked hairs: a new cell type aiding seedling survival in common bean (Sci Adv) (Summary by Sonia Balyan)
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Hooked hairs: A new cell type aiding seedling survival in common bean | Plantae
Roots play a critical role in determining seedling resilience mechanisms to abiotic stress conditions. Despite advancements in the characterization of root systems at phenotypic and cellular levelsโฆ
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Devang Mehta๐ฑ๐งฌ
12 days ago
๐ชด๐ฆ ๐ Delighted to announce new funding from
@fwovlaanderen.bsky.social
to lead a Strategic Basic Research project worth EUR 1.7 million! VIROPROX builds on our expertise in interactomics & plant virology to find new non-insecticidal solutions to plant viruses in sugarbeet & tomato!
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
13 days ago
RAP2.3 is required for MYB51 and SIGMA3 expression during the response of Arabidopsis thaliana to multifactorial stress combination
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725943v1
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
15 days ago
AP2/ERF transcription factor RAP2.6 regulates early flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana by altering S-nitrosothiol levels and cytokinin responses
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.13.725052v1
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Aida Maric
27 days ago
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Dan Gibbs ๐ฑ๐งฌ
27 days ago
Very happy to see this new work on flooding stress memory in plants via the oxygen-sensitive polycomb protein VRN2, now online
@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
. A fantastic job led by
@aidamaric.bsky.social
,
@hartman-plantlab.com
, and collaborators! ๐ฑ ๐พ๐ฆ
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Takehiro A. Ozawa
27 days ago
Great work by Liao et al. (2026) on how the
#SnRK1
โRAP2.4hโPIP2 module regulates the energy-signaling-mediated trade-off between vegetative growth and
#hypoxia
tolerance in plants (
#Arabidopsis
and rice), offering a potential target to improve crop flood tolerance. ๐
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sjon Hartman
27 days ago
So happy and proud to share our labโs first
#plantscience
research article, revealing that angiosperms have the capacity to encode memory of flooding stress. A heroic effort by
@aidamaric.bsky.social
in collaboration with
@djgibbs.bsky.social
and others. A brief ๐งต
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.01.722198v1
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Francesco Licausi
about 1 month ago
It's finally out! With this new paper, Salma and Monica show that hypoxia-regulated ERFVIIs are not immediately destabilised during reoxygenation: they instead persist in the nucleus to control oxidative stress genes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Vinay Shukla
about 1 month ago
We're hiring! ๐ฑ The RO2T Respiration Group is looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to work on root oxygen biology! Please spread the word!
#plantscijobs
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Journal of Experimental Botany
about 1 month ago
๐พ๐งฒ RESEARCH ๐งฒ๐พ Mutating the rice Fe transporters OsVIT1 and OsVIT2 increases seed Fe levels but reduces plant tolerance to Fe excess, revealing a possible trade-off in biofortification strategies - Benato et al. ๐
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
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ลuayb รstรผn
about 2 months ago
Preprint alert ๐จ (1/10) ๐งต ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ข๐จ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฐ๐น ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ: It can promote resistance, susceptibility, or restrict cell death ๐คฏ So what is its actual role? We show it acts as a spatial organizer of immunity across cell types ๐ฑ๐ฆ
#proteostasis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Juliet Coates
4 months ago
Nice news and views article by my lovely colleagues
@gunjansharma88.bsky.social
and Akanksha Bhatnagar ๐ฑโ๏ธ๐ฅต
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Maddy Seale
4 months ago
Out First Release in
@science.org
this week: A feedback loop allows two shoot stem cell populations to respond differently to environmental conditions:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A negative feedback loop between TERMINAL FLOWER1 and LEAFY protects inflorescence indeterminacy
Inflorescences of flowering plants adopt diverse genetically programmed and environmentally tuned architectures. By contrast, continued maintenance of the stem-cell pool within the apical meristem is ...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv5429
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Vinay Shukla
4 months ago
PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share! Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? Weโre recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham. Deadline 15th February.
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#plantscijobs
#plantscience
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Plant Physiology
4 months ago
NEWS & VIEWS: FAMA and bHLH090: Coordinating myrosin cell development and herbivory defense (Marcella Teixeira)
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
#PlantScience
@aspbofficial
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Magda_Tsitsikli
7 months ago
How does a single plant cell tell symbiont from pathogen? We show that the Symbiotic Determinant 1 of NFR1 evolved to facilitate nitrogen-fixing symbiotic signalling. Iโm thrilled to share our published data from my PhD back in Aarhus!
#symbiosis
#juxtamembrane
#ensa
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Two residues reprogram immunity receptors for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis - Nature
An investigation of plant receptor-like kinases identifies regions of these proteins that control whether immune or symbiotic signalling pathways are activated, with minimal changes to specific r...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09696-3
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Michael Raissig
7 months ago
1/ Preprint alert:โจ ๐พ The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolutionโจ ๐
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leafโfrom the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues.
@cerealcell.bsky.social
@lbmountain.bsky.social
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New Phytologist
7 months ago
Improving the representation of plant water stress and water use in Earth System Models Dukes et al.
@dukesjeff.bsky.social
@changliao.bsky.social
@richphillipslab.bsky.social
@scottmcadam.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Dan Gibbs ๐ฑ๐งฌ
8 months ago
We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details! Lab website:
sites.google.com/site/danielg...
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Daniel Gibbs Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs @ University of Birmingham
https://sites.google.com/site/danielgibbslab/
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
8 months ago
Congratulations ๐
@jsontgerath.bsky.social
, who received this yearโs award for the best plant science master thesis
@uni-freiburg.de
Today, all our representatives at other Universities were asked to find the best theses at their universities
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Ciara OโBrien
8 months ago
It was so great having you at
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
! Some amazing conversations on AI in writing, teaching, and the importance of plants ๐พ Grateful to be a part of the
@aspbofficial.bsky.social
community โค๏ธ
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Gunjan Sharma
International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
8 months ago
#ThrowbackThursday
to last week Thursday at
#ISPLORE2025JP
where we took a group picture of our fantastic community. Missing those conferences vibes? Scroll back through the
#ISPLORE2025JP
hashtag for some of the best moments ๐ฑ๐
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Vinay Shukla
8 months ago
Huge thanks to the ISPLORE community for this award! Beyond the inspiring science in last few days, this is extra fuel to keep driving our low Oxygen research forward. Phenomenal work by the organizers at Nagoya University. See you in the UK for the next one!
#ISPLORE2025JP
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
8 months ago
#ISPLORE2025JP
is over.. but not before a comedy performance and closing ceremony by the organizers Mikio Nakazono and Moto Ashikari ๐ Thanks so much to all organisers and sponsors for making this edition possible. It was truly amazing! Next edition reveal by
@djgibbs.bsky.social
:
#ISPLORE2028UK
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
8 months ago
@rsasidharan.bsky.social
pays tribute to Rens Voesenek for his major contributions to our field and
#plantscience
in general. ๐ฑ๐ Inspiring anectdotes and life lessons from Rens, who was a mentor to many of us.
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
8 months ago
Beautifully engaging and Ted-talk worthy lecture by the first Rens Voesenek awardee Ole Pedersen at
#ISPLORE2025JP
๐ฑ๐ Ole contributed significantly to our community, including all his work on oxygen dynamics in plants, especially in the field (and ocean!).
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
8 months ago
Congratulations to all
#ISPLORE2025JP
Best Oral and Poster presentation winners. Very high quality of ECR talks this year!
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Enjoyed every bit
#ISPLORE2024JP
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8 months ago
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Sjon Hartman
8 months ago
So proud of
@rimchaudhury15.bsky.social
for winning best oral presentation award at
#ISPLORE2025JP
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Dan Gibbs ๐ฑ๐งฌ
8 months ago
Itโs been a great opportunity for our lab to deliver four talks on different aspects of plant hypoxia and flooding research at
#ISPLORE2025JN
! Well done
@linazhou.bsky.social
@gunjansharma88.bsky.social
&
@drosborneplantsci.bsky.social
for the great presentations! ๐ฑ ๐ฆ ๐พ ๐ฆ ๐บ ๐ซง ๐ฏ๐ต
#plantsci
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So happy to have presented my work on the epigenetic basis of flooding tolerance in plants
#ISPLORE2025JP
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8 months ago
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
8 months ago
Next
@gunjansharma88.bsky.social
talks about Histone demethylation on the regulation of hypoxia genes ๐ฑ๐
academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
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Primed to persevere: Hypoxia regulation from epigenome to protein accumulation in plants
Abstract. Plant cells regularly encounter hypoxia (low-oxygen conditions) as part of normal growth and development, or in response to environmental stresse
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/197/1/kiae584/7853041
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
8 months ago
The second day of
#ISPLORE2025JP
starts with a great overview talk by
@theplantlab.bsky.social
on hypoxia regulation. Hypoxia is everywhere!
#plantscience
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
8 months ago
In the last session before lunch we have
@n-end-rules.bsky.social
open the Hypoxia sensing and signalling session describing a novel oxygen sensing substrate ๐ฑ๐ Exciting!
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Rim Chaudhury
8 months ago
Jun Prof. Dr. Sjon Hartman
@hartman-plantlab.com
talking about VRN2-dependency in flooding stress memory at ISPLORE 2025 ๐๐ฑ
#ISPLORE2025JP
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Sjon Hartman
8 months ago
Having a great time presenting our work at
#ISPLORE2025JP
, great people, great science, great food ๐๐ป
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
8 months ago
The
#ISPLORE2025JP
audience is very happy the last talk standing between them and lunch was finished ๐ Official group photo still coming ๐ท
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Daan Weits
8 months ago
Coming to you live from
#ISPLORE2025JP
Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Thomas Arnesen
8 months ago
Developing leaves form a spatiotemporal oxygen gradient that is sensed through the oxygen sensing machinery and directs morphogenesis | New preprint from
@daanweits.bsky.social
and
@syno2xis.bsky.social
labs
#N-degron
#Cysteine
#hypoxia
@ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pierdomenico Perata
8 months ago
The speed of hypoxia: great talk by
@mikellavi.bsky.social
at the
@isplore.bsky.social
conference in Nagoya!
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
8 months ago
After the lunch break, the hypoxia signalling session continues with talks of
@djgibbs.bsky.social
and Peter Geigenberger, check out Dan's recent paper!
#ISPLORE2025JP
๐ฑ๐
www.cell.com/developmenta...
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research
8 months ago
We finish this
#ISPLORE2025JP
session with exceptional talks by
@mikellavi.bsky.social
, Daai Zhang,
@vinayshukla.bsky.social
and Lina Zhou ๐ฑ๐ Check out
@beagiuntoli.bsky.social
's recent preprint
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sjon Hartman
8 months ago
We're almost there and growing in numbers.. but lost
@advaitagashe.bsky.social
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#ISPLORE2025JP
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Dan Gibbs ๐ฑ๐งฌ
8 months ago
After a fantastic week exploring Tลkyล and ลsaka, today itโs the Shinkansen ๐ to Nagoya ahead of ISPLORE 2025 tomorrow ๐ฑ Looking forward to meeting friends and colleagues and hearing the latest in plant low oxygen and flooding research!
#ISPLORE2025JP
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Rory Osborne
8 months ago
Look out Japan, here we come! So excited for the
#ISPLORE
meeting in Nagoya ๐ ๐ฟ Can't wait to hear about all the amazing low oxygen research
@gunjansharma88.bsky.social
@djgibbs.bsky.social
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Plant Physiology
9 months ago
NEWS & VIEWS: Roles of TaWRKY27 in the arms race between wheat and stripe rust (Ritu Singh)
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
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Roles of TaWRKY27 in the arms race between wheat and stripe rust
Plants and pathogens are engaged in a continuous arms race, with each adopting strategies to outcompete the other. To defend against pathogens, plants have
https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf259
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Vinay Shukla
9 months ago
Honoured & excited that โBreathing Undergroundโ has been funded by the ERC! This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground?
@erc.europa.eu
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Plant Physiology
9 months ago
NEWS & VIEWS: Splice it right: the role of PRP21 in regulating seed germination responses to ABA (Nilesh D Gawande)
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
#PlantScience
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Sjon Hartman
9 months ago
Happy to see our latest
#plantscience
review by
@aidamaric.bsky.social
,
@advaitagashe.bsky.social
and Johanna onlinr! We describe how epigenetic mechanisms control ethylene signal generation and progression, and how ethylene in turn modulates chromatin.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ethylene signal integration through epigenetic mechanisms in plants
Ethylene is an essential phytohormone that controls a plethora of plant developmental and stress responses. Accordingly, ethylene signal generation anโฆ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369526625000949?via%3Dihub
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