. #Botany2025 My institution (JIC in Norwich, UK) is hiring for a tenure-track Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences - see more here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... Let me know if you have questions!

Pleased to have finally got this method to work in wheat! Find out how you can identify direct targets of transcription factors in wheat using protoplasts and the TARGET method: dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro... A very useful method for our group to use! borrilllab.com

#plantbio2025 Amazing talks this morning!

Interested in how abiotic factors regulate plant #grafting? Check out our new review in Planta! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

** UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE ** Plasmodesmata Editors: Tessa Burch-Smith & Jake Brunkard Deadline: 1st Feb 2025 Manuscripts of any format welcomed, please contact the JXB office (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌱 🔗 🌿 🧪 #plantscience @pdchristine.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social (1/2)

I'm planning to attend #PlantBio2025 with a few first time US visitors. What #Milwaukee -based or nearby sites would you prioritize for a few days of fun?

Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

I'm so excited about my new #orchid. What are some tips to make sure I don't kill it?

If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂: daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co... All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too! #ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏

Amye Kenall, VP Product, Data & Analytics Hub, Digital Science, said: “Bluesky has become a favored social media channel for research communications professionals and academics. Indeed, in our own research we found over 22% of researchers were using Bluesky over any other social media channel."

When the first experiments in the lab worked! And... the data was significant. 💃💃💃#newPI

Happy Friday everyone! Here are some cool Arabidopsis mini trees🌴 Arabidopsis arenosa hypocotyls can undergo extensive secondary growth and the rosettes that develop on top make them look like palm trees 🤯I wonder if this can be engineered in thaliana..

Spending time here on the blue place has been so nice lately. 🥹

Im totally baffled and hoping the collective mind might have some ideas! 🙏

We have a crispr line w/ 5bp del and phenotype. We can see the edit in gDNA seq, but reads mapped + RT-PCR levels are normal, and the protein can be detected at (we think) full protein mass. In the OE, reads are higher but phenotype look like crispr pheno? What could be going on. Any thoughts? 🤡

TAIR is and has been an amazing indispensable website, which I still use weekly if not daily to go look up gene function or something else. 🐐 #plantscience

A fungal sRNA silences a host plant transcription factor to promote arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in @newphyt.bsky.social from Luisa Lanfranco and @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Posting again! I'm hiring a postdoc to study grafting!

OK, I’m doing this. I’m relaunching my sporadic series of threads on fun corn facts. Fun #CornFax science by me, cool logo by Andi Kur.

We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack

You end up with a lot of interesting gifts working in a Horticulture department. Here are a few of my recent favorites.

"The community mourns the passing of 𝗝𝗼𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘆, renowned scientist, beloved mentor, founding NAASC member & Arabidopsis lifetime achievement awardee" www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/... #Obituary from NAASC

Ohhhh yes ! Here’s a summary of the menu at our #PlantMicrobeJC

Another lovely run in Hangzhou

I attended my first conference since moving to China, the 8th Horticultural Society's Young Scholar Symposium. Thanks to the organizers for a chance to talk about grafting! I also ate delicious Yangzhou food. ​

The Salk Institute shared the sad news that Prof. Joanne Chory passed away yesterday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was one of the most influential biologists of our time. And this is how I will remember Joanne, expertly guiding us on where to go. Joanne, we will miss you! ❤️

I'm trying to get a head start on the content for my class next semester. Is anyone willing to share their syllabus or favorite textbooks for teaching plant cell biology (or related courses like plant physiology, anatomy, genetics)? 🥰

It's been an interesting week. 😅

I have been upgraded to the rank of Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Crop & Soil Sciences at University of Georgia. As a non-tenure-track research faculty, my new title will allow me to submit grants as the PI.

New opportunity to join our lab! I'm looking for a postdoc in spatial modeling of plant-soil feedbacks to start in Aug. To apply: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/371... Our lab: chunglab.franklinresearch.uga.edu 🌎🌾🧪

I'm super excited to have this story up on BioRxiv. The entire paper was led from start to finish by former PhD student, Hannah Thomas! @hannahraethomas.bsky.social

📜 Graft incompatibility between pepper and tomato can be attributed to genetic incompatibility between diverged immune systems 🧑‍🔬 Hannah Rae Thomas, Margaret H. Frank, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Grafting #PlantDevelopment