Plant Science Research Weekly --  Hooked hairs: a new cell type aiding seedling survival in common bean (Sci Adv) (Summary by Sonia Balyan) buff.ly/GdSytNx #PlantaePSRW

🪴🦠 🍅 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!

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

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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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! 🌱 🌾💦

Great work by Liao et al. (2026) on how the #SnRK1 –RAP2.4h–PIP2 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. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So happy and proud to share our lab’s 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 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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...

We're hiring! 🌱 The RO2T Respiration Group is looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to work on root oxygen biology! Please spread the word! #plantscijobs

🌾🧲 RESEARCH 🧲🌾 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. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Preprint alert 🚨 (1/10) 🧵 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺: It can promote resistance, susceptibility, or restrict cell death 🤯 So what is its actual role? We show it acts as a spatial organizer of immunity across cell types 🌱🦠 #proteostasis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Nice news and views article by my lovely colleagues @gunjansharma88.bsky.social and Akanksha Bhatnagar 🌱☀️🥵

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/... #plantscience

PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share! Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? We’re recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham. Deadline 15th February. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #plantscijobs #plantscience

NEWS & VIEWS: FAMA and bHLH090: Coordinating myrosin cell development and herbivory defense (Marcella Teixeira) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

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. I’m thrilled to share our published data from my PhD back in Aarhus! #symbiosis #juxtamembrane #ensa www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ Preprint alert:
 🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social

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/...

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...

Congratulations 🎉 @jsontgerath.bsky.social , who received this year’s 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

It was so great having you at @johninnescentre.bsky.social! Some amazing conversations on AI in writing, teaching, and the importance of plants 🌾 Grateful to be a part of the @aspbofficial.bsky.social community ❤️

#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 🌱🌊

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

#ISPLORE2025JP is over.. but not before a comedy performance and closing ceremony by the organizers Mikio Nakazono and Moto Ashikari 😆 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

@rsasidharan.bsky.social pays tribute to Rens Voesenek for his major contributions to our field and #plantscience in general. 🌱🌊 Inspiring anectdotes and life lessons from Rens, who was a mentor to many of us. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

Beautifully engaging and Ted-talk worthy lecture by the first Rens Voesenek awardee Ole Pedersen at #ISPLORE2025JP 🌱🌊 Ole contributed significantly to our community, including all his work on oxygen dynamics in plants, especially in the field (and ocean!).

Congratulations to all #ISPLORE2025JP Best Oral and Poster presentation winners. Very high quality of ECR talks this year!

Enjoyed every bit #ISPLORE2024JP

So proud of @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social for winning best oral presentation award at #ISPLORE2025JP 🥇🤗☔🌱

It’s 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! 🌱 💦 🌾 🦠 🌺 🫧 🇯🇵 #plantsci

So happy to have presented my work on the epigenetic basis of flooding tolerance in plants #ISPLORE2025JP 🌱🌊

Next @gunjansharma88.bsky.social talks about Histone demethylation on the regulation of hypoxia genes 🌱🌊 academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

The second day of #ISPLORE2025JP starts with a great overview talk by @theplantlab.bsky.social on hypoxia regulation. Hypoxia is everywhere! #plantscience 🌱🌊

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 🌱🌊 Exciting!

Jun Prof. Dr. Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com talking about VRN2-dependency in flooding stress memory at ISPLORE 2025 🌊🌱 #ISPLORE2025JP

Having a great time presenting our work at #ISPLORE2025JP, great people, great science, great food 👌🏻

The #ISPLORE2025JP audience is very happy the last talk standing between them and lunch was finished 😉 Official group photo still coming 📷

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...

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...

The speed of hypoxia: great talk by @mikellavi.bsky.social at the @isplore.bsky.social conference in Nagoya!

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 🌱🌊 www.cell.com/developmenta...

We finish this #ISPLORE2025JP session with exceptional talks by @mikellavi.bsky.social, Daai Zhang, @vinayshukla.bsky.social and Lina Zhou 🌱🌊 Check out @beagiuntoli.bsky.social's recent preprint #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We're almost there and growing in numbers.. but lost @advaitagashe.bsky.social 🤔 #ISPLORE2025JP

After a fantastic week exploring Tōkyō and Ōsaka, today it’s the Shinkansen 🚅 to Nagoya ahead of ISPLORE 2025 tomorrow 🌱 Looking forward to meeting friends and colleagues and hearing the latest in plant low oxygen and flooding research! #ISPLORE2025JP

Look out Japan, here we come! So excited for the #ISPLORE meeting in Nagoya 😁 🌿 Can't wait to hear about all the amazing low oxygen research @gunjansharma88.bsky.social @djgibbs.bsky.social

NEWS & VIEWS: Roles of TaWRKY27 in the arms race between wheat and stripe rust (Ritu Singh) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ 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

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

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...