🔬 EXPERT VIEW 🔬 In this review, González-Suárez & Smit describe mechanisms that balance division and differentiation along cell lineages, and highlight recent works that identify factors controlling these processes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Apply if you're interested in using mathematical modelling to learn about plant development 👇 Rea is a fantastic boss and supportive mentor, can recommend 100%

📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project. This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes 📅 Closes on 10 Dec. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...

🌸 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🌸 González-Suárez et al. review how temperature regulates reproductive development in seasonal contexts, focusing on molecular factors controlling meristem transition from vegetative growth to the end of flowering 🌼 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌿 Ciara O'Brien 🌿 As a postdoctoral researcher at the John Innes Centre, Ciara's current research focuses on starch metabolism in potatoes 🥔 She's a strong advocate for early career development & has been involved in many early career initiatives in the past! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Plant Science Research Weekly -- How plant cells decide their fate: balancing growth and specialization (Journal of Experimental Botany) @likeyoda1.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan @ntnuchanlab) buff.ly/RjCQNKq #PlantaePSRW

Very happy to see our work out examining guard cell transcriptomes over the course of a slowly developing drought. Thanks to @bradylabs.bsky.social and @kaisakajala.bsky.social for the inspiration, way back in Davis in 2013! The data are available in bar.utoronto.ca/eplant & doi.org/10.1093/plce...

From October 14–15, 2025, a workshop on „Academic Career Perspectives in Germany: Junior research Groups” took place in Regensburg. 📓🔬 Coach Dr. Birte Seffert from GSO* Berlin provided tips and resources on funding opportunities, host institutions, application preparation, and networking.

Our new review just got published in JXB - together with @likeyoda1.bsky.social we discuss recent findings on mechanisms that cells use to 'decide' between dividing and differentiating in plants 🪴 tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b

I believe that with this powerful AI model, we can uncover more fascinating rules hidden within plant nucleotides. Thank the support from the @hfspo.bsky.social and @johninnescentre.bsky.social, thank for the support from Prof. @yiliangding.bsky.social. Prof Li, Prof. Zhang and other co-authors.

🌾⏳ RESEARCH 🌾⏳ Evaluation of male-sterile wheat grown under field conditions indicates that stigma longevity is not a limiting factor in hybrid seed production – Millan-Blanquez et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Yesterday, we celebrated the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium, where our PhD students (and some from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social) presented their work as chalk talks, posters and longer talks. Thanks everyone for the scientific discussions on #plantscience!

It was already known that auxins (surprise!) had a key role controlling the end of flowering, plant menopause. Now we can tell you how and where they act in the inflorescence meristem to control the process. @irenegonzlez.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4

Did you know that there is a cell cycle duration gradient in plant root meristem? New story by joining forces between Plant dynamics lab and Crisanto Gutiérrez & Bénédicte Desvoyes lab @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social #Plants #roots #cellcycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not the most cursed plant I have seen today BTW #arabidopsis #plantscience

Now what is that inflorescence meristem doing in my inflorescence meristem? 🧐 #arabidopsis #flowers #plantscience

Writing a recommendation letter for yourself

Pleased to see this out and happy to have contributed to this story during my first post-PhD adventure 🌾🌡️ Here we looked into one of wheat’s florigens (FT3) and characterised its role in temperature-regulation of floral development

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

🧪🌾NEWS - Aspen controls bud formation using light and temperature Ove Nilsson's group has now discovered how aspen trees decide between growth and winter dormancy during summer cold snaps and autumn.🌿 Curious how aspen does this? Read more here: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

While studying how plants cease flowering we wondered if determinate inflorescences might behave different. Moreover: are fleshy fruits strong sinks that starve the meristem? Arabidopsis did not have the answers, so we turned to 🍅🍅🍅, Curious?👇👇👇 academic.oup.com/plphys/article/199/1/kiaf195/8127772

REVIEW: Why GWAS models fails in identifying rare variants in crops and the potential of emerging technologies like #MachineLearning by Talissa Floriani & Alexander Lipka doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

So refreshing to hear voices of early career researchers speak up about this

Discovery happens less when you're trying to be the expert and more when you're trying to be the learner.

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Register !! Deadline: 14th of August 2025 🌱 Passionate About Plant Development? Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu

Very cool! On Drosophila emerging organs switching from cell division to growth during developmental transitions 🪰

Many transcription factor families have evolutionarily conserved binding motifs in plants (Sanja Zenker , Donat Wulf , Anja Meierhenrich , Prisca Viehöver , Sarah Becker , Marion Eisenhut , Ralf Stracke , Bernd Weisshaar , Andrea Bräutigam) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

"We found that TF orthologues from distant species retain nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread." From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just a few days left to apply for a PhD in our lab. Margot’s a brilliant mentor and the community in the group and in ZMBP is 10/10 ✨🪴

Cytokinin-ESR module promoting pluripotent stem cell identity in moss. From: www.cell.com/developmenta...

Thrilled to see our review published! 🌺Here we asked how temperature affects reproductive meristems across the year in seasonal climates and what that means for the final plant architecture of Arabidopsis and some of its crop relatives 🌡️

🌱🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌱🧬 Tremblay & Qüesta discuss how examining the seed-to-seedling transition can reveal how non-coding RNAs and epigenetic changes regulate transcription during developmental transitions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @jiquesta.bsky.social‬

🌼Why do summer-to-autumn-flowering Chrysanthemum cultivars bloom earlier than autumn-flowering cultivars? Read more https://bit.ly/466DpKH

As the world warms, plants in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings find ways to respond to the heat. In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. scim.ag/44cSw3Z

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Plant Com June 2025 issue online🎉Cover story: The genome of giant waterlily provides insights into the origin of angiosperms, leaf gigantism, and stamen function innovation. Image by Xiang Song. cell.com/plant-commun...

🧊 🌸 RESEARCH ❄️ ⏳ ⏰ Late flowering in chrysanthemum induced by low ambient temperature is mediated by FLOWERING LOCUS C-like - Hu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

There is an open PhD position in our group 🥳

Flowers unfold with surprising precision, despite unruly genes news.cornell.edu/stories/2025... Nice article in the Cornell Chronicle about our @natcomms.nature.com article rdcu.be/emNVQ @cornellcals.bsky.social

*Paid internship opportunity* @biologists.bsky.social is looking for a 3-month intern this summer to work across the Node, @prelights.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social If you're interested in #SciCommm & #publishing, and have the right to work in the UK, apply by 5 June 👇

The Cell Wall Controls Stem Cell Fate in the Arabidopsis Shoot Apical Meristem https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654883v1

48-Hour and 24-Hour Time-lapse Single-nucleus Transcriptomics Reveal Cell-type specific Circadian Rhythms in Arabidopsis www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience

May 18 is Fascination of Plants Day! Visit us on this occasion in the New Botanical Garden in Tübingen. There will be an exciting program for young and old! 🗓 May 18, 12:00 noon - 4:00 p.m. 📷 Neuer Botanischer Garten, Auf der Morgenstelle, Tübingen #plantday @ZMBP_Tuebingen

New webinar in collaboration with @socargfisiveg.bsky.social Title: La Matemática y las Plantas: hacia una perspectiva interdisciplinaria 🧮🌱 With Dr. Marcelo Kuperman and Dr. Diego Batlla Language: Spanish When? 15 May, 16:00 CEST Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Nitric oxide controls stomatal development and stress responses by inhibiting MPK6 phosphorylation via S-nitrosylation in Arabidopsis www.cell.com/developmenta... #plantscience

An Arabidopsis single-nucleus atlas decodes leaf senescence and nutrient allocation www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #plantscience

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData

New group pic with the bestest @likeyoda1.bsky.social @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social @yadhusankar.bsky.social

Our lab's first review article written with @yadhusankar.bsky.social and @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social is out now in The Plant Journal! 🎉🌱 We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...