Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A co-proteomic view of metabolite-specific interactions in the Botrytis cinerea-Arabidopsis pathosystem https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.05.730517v1

Evolutionary Rewiring of Root Cell-Type Nitrogen Responses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.05.730053v1

📢 new preprint! How do commensal bacteria establish themselves on plant roots despite plant immunity? We identify Cpi1, a conserved membrane-anchored protease inhibitor in Pseudomonas that promotes early root colonization and modulates microbial community assembly. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Out now in @natplants.nature.com: A cell type-specific antagonism of autophagy and age-induced programmed cell death controls root hair life span www.nature.com/articles/s41..., back to back with another story on root hair-specific autophagy by @plantophagy.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great #PlantImmunity talk by @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social on the interplay of chemical & physical root barriers to fight off fungi (with cool data from @pascal-krohn.bsky.social). Thanks to @aspbofficial.bsky.social & @plantphys.bsky.social for organizing these public #PlantScience webinars! 👍

We really enjoyed attending the 11th International Symposium on Root Development in Specchiolla, Italy earlier in May 📆 🫜🥔 To celebrate our sponsorship of the meeting, we’re assembling a virtual issue on root biology 🥕🍠 #PlantScience 🧪 #Rooting2026

Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death.

📣 Join us May 19 (1 PM UTC) for a webinar celebrating the Plant Physiology focus collection on Metabolism, featuring talks by Hiroshi Maeda, Tonni Grube Andersen, and Pengda Ma, hosted by Sibongile Mafu and moderated by Yuzhen Fan.🌱 Learn more and register👉 blog.aspb.org/plant-physio....

We are looking for a Tomato Breeder to join our Team @kwsgroup.bsky.social in Antalya, Türkiye. jobs.kws.com/job/Eski%C5%... Our Vegetable Division is expanding at the moment, and this is a good timepoint to get on board. #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJob

#PlantScienceClassics #21: MS Medium. In 1962 Toshio Murashige & Folke Skoog published their revised plant tissue culture medium @pplplantarum.bsky.social, arguably the most high-cited #PlantScience paper of all time. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 #PlantDevelopment #PlantMethods

Happy Easter!

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established? In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A thread 🧵 [1/8]

The 7th International Symposium on Plant Apoplastic Diffusion Barriers (PADiBa2026) will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland from August 31th to September 3rd 2026. We now have a website: wp.unil.ch/padiba2026/ Registrations will open on April 1st.

During secondary growth, primary protective barriers break, and a new one forms beneath: the phellem. But what triggers phellem to differentiate and become a functional barrier? Our results show it’s mechanical cues from tissue rupture 🌱 Check out our preprint 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵/1

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob

A molecular 'gatekeeper' in plants opens the door for beneficial microbes Congratulations, @ottlab.bsky.social on a great paper in Science. www.cibss.uni-freiburg.de/news/a-molec...

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 👇👇👇

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis! Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Thank you @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social @the.3i.social for this awesome demo of your spinning disc system for #rootimaging

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!

Very impressive work identifying novel BIK1 substrates (and immunity players) in Arabidopsis 🔽! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us in Toulouse !!

@deutschebahn.com it would be cool with a sticker book like in the good old days to collect all your delay reasons. - like a bingo. First full book gets to delay 3 trains of their own choice!

Interesting that a 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 mutant (𝘢𝘣𝘪𝟣-𝟣 𝘤𝘰𝘪𝟣 𝘦𝘥𝘴𝟣 𝘦𝘪𝘯𝟤 𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘩𝘋 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝟤) is less sensitive to fungal infection than a 𝘤𝘺𝘣𝟩𝟫𝘣𝟤/𝘣𝟤 mutant (Similarly, 𝘦𝘥𝘴𝟣 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝟤 is more susceptible to bacterial infection than the 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴). From @newphyt.bsky.social: shorturl.at/jYbOS #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

Job alert🚨I am advertising a 2-year postdoctoral position to work on the mathematics of plant morphogenesis @mpipz.bsky.social. Candidates with interests in mathematical modelling, mechanics, or biophysics are strongly encouraged to apply. 🌱Reposts are appreciated! jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/4...

This is a really interesting read on the history of the Journal @nature.com. Very informative. #SciPub #ScientificPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Publishing

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: Root exudates as the architects of the rhizosphere microbiome (Plant Physiol.) @cornepieterse.bsky.social @gstringlis.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/3AyltI0 #PlantaePSRW

📣 Save the date! The GfE Meeting 2026 is coming to Potsdam 🇩🇪🌱 ✨ Four outstanding keynote speakers (Hans Clevers, Isabel Fariñas, Thomas Bosch, Frank Bradke) ✨ 🏅 Celebration of the Klaus Sander, Hilde Mangold, and José Campos-Ortega Awards 🏅 👉 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...

During the spring of 2026, we will open a position as Assistant/Associate Professor in Plant Biochemistry. If you think plant terpenoid biochemistry is your thing (or you know a good candidate for this), and you want to move to the middle of France, then follow @lbvpam.bsky.social for updates.

May their words reach politicians‘ ears…

🧬 🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🍅 🧬 MYB and WRKY transcription factors collaboratively regulate suberin biosynthesis in the tomato root exodermis. Antagonistic interactions may fine-tune suberization or act as a brake on overaccumulation - Jo et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

I leveled up in German society

We are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables. This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands. jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob

FX-Cell: a method for single-cell RNA sequencing on difficult-to-digest and cryopreserved plant samples www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cracking the code of NPF transporters: function, specificity, and evolution in plants #TansleyReview by Laura Morales de Los Ríos et al. @frannybarbs.bsky.social @lacombeb.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

The view from my new office at #UZH, Switzerland ;-)

Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Why are leaf cells of so many different sizes? Our paper explores how giant cells form! We also provide automatic cell-type classification and perform statistical quantification of cell spatial organization. If interested, check it out in @plosbiology.org. Thanks Pau and @roederlab.bsky.social

Are you expecting a new age of microbiome engineering Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looking to move out of the USA and to Germany for a postdoc, as you can't conduct your work in the USA under the current political restrictions? (e.g visa issues, funding cuts, etc.) The state of Baden-Württemberg funds novel postdoc fellowships for this: www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

#plantjob If you are interested on the evolution of plant-microbe interactions and have a PhD degree obtained between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2025, come join us and apply to the "Juan de la Cierva" postdoctoral contracts!. Drop a mail with your CV + motivation letter!

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Lignin diversity helps plants thrive on land – without them, they become small, sterile plants that produce far less biomass. 🪴 This is revealed in a new study in @newphyt.bsky.social by @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social @uspoficial.bsky.social & #TUAT 👇

And @newphyt.bsky.social continues it's great series of Profiles with this one on @pdchristine.bsky.social: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantImmunity #PlantLuminaries