Calling all Master students! We have two PhD positions open, one in molecular plant science on robustness, and one in plant cell biology of light signaling. For more details see: www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/light-sig...

The review Martin Howard and I have written on "Graded versus ON/OFF control in quantitative gene expression and epigenetic memory" is now available in The EMBO Journal DOI 10.1038/s44318-026-00750-y

please share! 🌱Application deadline is March 27 to apply for the Cold Spring Harbor Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science 3 week summer course! 🌱 It's a great time- you learn a lot and really bond with others in the course. 🌱 I was in the class of 2000! 😀 meetings.cshl.edu/alumni.aspx?...

Interested in one of the top jobs in European biology? @embo.org has opened a call for its next Director, to succeed Fiona Watt Really spectacular opportunity! Spread the word... www.embo.org/features/emb...

1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The main problem are the Scientists who continue to publish with such journals, using the lame cop-out that they need it to have a career. Nobody(!) needs a NatComs paper to have a career. They want the Nature logo on their paper to feed their ego. That's all. #scipub #scientificpublishing

If you're studying #Agriculture #PlantBreeding and would be interested in #IndustryPlacement experience, there is an opportunity at our @kwsgroup.bsky.social Breeding Station in Thriplow, Cambridgeshire: jobs.kws.com/job/Thriplow... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceUK #outdoorclassroom

Great to see this really cool story published in Nature! rdcu.be/e7UoR Parker & Wang’s commentary, “A fellowship of the rings in plant defence”, provides further insights into the elaborate structures of NLRs formed during plant immunity. rdcu.be/e7UnA @nature.com @mpipz.bsky.social

We all lose – and future generations will lose even harder – when governments cut investments in research & researchers. Or fail to increase them to the levels actually needed. 😡

Study finds no link between GMOs and health risks doi.org/10.1080/2164...

Want to image apoplastic pH in plants? 🔬 Two new papers from our team offer a full workflow plus open access analysis tools. Congrats to @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle and @lguerard.bsky.social Nature Protocols: rdcu.be/e7R2E BMC Methods: lnkd.in/dctpWJ3X Happy Imaging!

To activate plant immunity, NLR receptors such as SUMM2 form resistosome complexes, which act as Ca2+-permeable plasma-membrane channels. Work @nature shows how SUMM2 and its associates assemble into even higher-order clusters to initiate cell death. shorturl.at/653TZ plus N&V shorturl.at/vqqYg

Two papers on apoplastic pH visualisation coming out together – a nice double pack from @aroessling.bsky.social and @elkebarbez.bsky.social -> www.nature.com/articles/s41... -> link.springer.com/article/10.1... @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social

We teamed up with OpenFlower (@nickdesnoyer.bsky.social), a nonprofit creating designer flowers for art & education, to release 3 limited edition postcards! These flowers were powered by Whole Plasmid Sequencing from Plasmidsaurus. Want one? Just fill out the form! tinyurl.com/plasmidsauru...

China increases science funding again (by at least 7-% over the next 5 years) as it pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

March Issue. Read FREE:Guardians of arid lands:deep-rooted defense against desertification(see cover); Promoter/enhancer replacement by genome editing for crop improvement;Land plant evolution;Advances in plant spatial multi-omics data analysis & much more www.cell.com/trends/plant... #plantscience

New Article: "An NLR–transposase fusion gene from rye provides broadly effective resistance to stripe rust in wheat" rdcu.be/e7z39 Broad-spectrum stripe rust resistance gene Yr83 coned from rye; encodes a unique NLR–transposase fusion protein. #PlantScience

New Preprint: Alternaria atra from distinct ecological roles share functional genomic repertoires www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A while ago we sequenced A atra collected as pathogen from wild tomato. We compared this with new genomes of strains that grew endophytic in Tillandsia.

Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate it, Project Gutenberg created a new bookshelf titled Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books... #books #literature #womeninstem #womenhistoryMonth

The School of Biosciences at University of Birmingham is recruiting FIVE Assistant/Associate Profs in areas including fungal biology, plant science and bioengineering. Full details below 🍄🌾🧬🧫

This goes for Chemistry too. ***Publish in society journals*** not journals by for-profit publishers! There are so many great ACS and RSC journals. They have name recognition and they are run by actual scientists who care about publishing quality work. Even if you need OA they are way cheaper.

Another really interesting #SciHis Story by @asimovpress.bsky.social. Goes to show that there are interesting and curious stories and facts in everything - even little things like Agar that seem simple and straightforward. www.asimov.press/p/agar #ScienceHistory #MolecularBiology #Agarose #Seaweed

This should be super helpful for anybody working on #PlantCellWalls, particularly #Cellulose. A step-by-step guide for quantitative(!) live-imaging of cellulose synthesis in planta. #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #QuantitativeImaging #Bioimaging #PlantDevelopment 👇👇👇

“We can’t afford to fall behind.” MEP Jessica Polfjärd speaks with @seedworldeu.bsky.social about steering the EU’s #NGT negotiations and why science and innovation are essential for Europe to tackle food and climate challenges 👏 www.seedworld.com/europe/2026/...

🚀 Now in press at Bio-protocol! bio-protocol.org/e5634 Grounded in years of hands-on experience 👋, our protocol covers imaging cellulose synthases 🔬 from sample prep 🌱 to reproducible quantification 👩‍💻 — transferable to other fluorescent markers too ♻️. @unipotsdam.bsky.social @crc1644.bsky.social

1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨ It is my pleasure to share: "Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants" Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia doi.org/10.64898/202... #PlantScience A thread...

“it is time, finally and forever, to get rid of for-profit scientific publishers.”

Another great article by @mastroianni.bsky.social on the current #SciencePublishing system. Don't publish with for-profit publishers like Elsevier, Springer Nature, et al. It's really simple. There are so many cool #PlantScience society journals. #SciPub See also: bsky.app/profile/soms...

In a joint appointment with the University of Halle we are looking for a Department Head in Chemistry of Natural Products and Bioactives. This is a unique opportunity to work as a chemist in a plant biology institute. Interested? Apply here: berufungsportal.uni-halle.de

New from @dev-journal.bsky.social: we're launching a new initiative and hiring Preprint Editors to help navigate the growing world of preprints in developmental & stem cell biology Join our community & shape the future of research journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

I'd like to remind everyone that CAM has evolved as many if not more times than C4. There are entire biomes where CAM is dominant. If you like tequila, or pineapple, or your pretty orchid you got at the grocery store, you can thank CAM. Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk. Or CAMtalk as it were.

🚨Two fully funded PhD opportunities in Australia! Improving C4 photosynthesis in vegetation models. Supervised by Dani Way (ANU, Canberra) and myself (UTS, Sydney). 1. Lab- and field-based project at ANU – see flyer below 2. Modelling project at UTS – www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

New version of our preprint on bioRxiv about bioRxiv up. Now that’s what I call a revision – 6 years after the first version! It has new data about our progress and highlights from a massive user survey. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

😬 www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy to have this nice story out in the world ☺️ thanks to everyone involved!

➡️ It's on! Paid internship for aspiring science journalists at Nature's London office. Up to three days a week working from home. All the details are here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...

Check out our new preprint by @octaviarmn.bsky.social and @liobarueger.bsky.social in collaboration with @meikeburow.bsky.social - we investigate the spatial effect of glucosinolates on root microbiomes in Arabidopsis and Camelina! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... lots of cool stuff!

Read more about the research here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

Trait discovery is one of the most difficult parts of our work here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social. Thus, we need help: We are looking for a Scientist in #QuantitativeGenetics & #Biostatistics for Trait Discovery. This is a full time, permanent position here in Einbeck. #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs

I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate. Please RT, many thanks career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

🌍 A new study maps how the 196 UN member states regulate #NGTs. It outlines 8 differing regulatory approaches and finds that countries allowing transgenic plants are about 23% more likely to approve #GenomeEditing #CRISPR www.nature.com/articles/s44...

RNA splicing generates a functionally specialized Rep protein isoform in geminiviruses — enabling timely control of the viral cycle. Strikingly, similar strategies might have evolved in DNA viruses infecting different kingdoms: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Spearheaded by @delphinem-p.bsky.social!

Latest #Parasiticplants research from my lab, incl. newly designed metabolic indices that may be useful in other plant studies: Compartmentalisation along the stem axis of Striga and Alectra reflects distinct zones of carbohydrate acquisition and utilisation url: academic.oup.com/pcp/article/...

Announcing a Transformation Lead role (level B) at the Adelaide University node of Plant Synthetic Biology Australia (international applicants welcome)! For more information on PSBA, see plantsynbio.au More details on the position: lnkd.in/g3GZSRT8

Pests & diseases threaten yields as chemical control loses effectiveness and faces tighter regulation. 🌱 Editorial in Frontiers Plant Sci highlights how #GenomeEditing, RNAi, synthetic biology and AI help develop resistant crops & sustainable pest control 👇 www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

Out now in Annual Review of Plant Biology! 🌱 Together with colleagues from our DFG-funded CRC on “Plant Phenotypic Plasticity” (@unipotsdam.bsky.social), we outline the mechanistic & evolutionary backbone of plant plasticity. 🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @crc1644.bsky.social @dfg.de

Very nice genetic dissection of the roles of BSK kinases in brassinosteroid signaling by Wenqiang Tang's lab. bsk-u (ko for BSK1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 & 12) really looks like a bri1 null mutant and can be rescued by over-expressing BSK3. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....