Kelp Quest! Take the plunge www.botany.one/kelp-quest-t... The Seattle Aquarium needs your help for a seafloor survey #Botany #PlantScience

🍃 Modelling leaf metabolism using a charge- and proton-balanced diel flux balance analysis #model by Velayudhan Vipina, Sanu Shameer buff.ly/nKWi3x9 #PlantScience

Coming soon: X-Palm: A predictive model for oil palm production that analyzes source-sink relationships and yield periodicity (Vezy et al.) Virtual Plant Laboratory: Comprehensive software for constructing, simulating, and visualizing functional-structural plant models (Morales et al.)

Now available: 📰 PlantBiophysics.jl: a high-performance, modular software for prototyping and scaling biophysical models from leaf to canopy (Vezy et al.) 📰 ecAraCore: A temperature-aware metabolic model that simulates plant physiological responses to thermal stress (Wendering and Nikoloski) ...

Is your work accessible to everyone? 🌿💻 Submit a Methods for Plant Modelling article to assist non-modelling researchers and students use and build upon your ✅ Algorithms & software ✅ Models ✅ Frameworks, platforms, or languages Click here for more information: academic.oup.com/insilicoplan...

Well done to PhD student Connor Nehls, @ecarmosilva.bsky.social and @doug-orr.bsky.social on new work out in @jxbotany.bsky.social on Rubisco dark inhibition. See the release here by @ripeproject.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/ripepr...

Plant Hunt www.botany.one/plant-hunt-7/ 🇰🇿 Tulips of Kazakhstan #Botany #PlantScience

Pan-GLASS 2026 will bring together experts on earth system and weather research, soil and vegetation processes, surface fluxes, planetary boundary layer transport processes, clouds and precipitation, and machine learning.

2026 Pan-GLASS Conference Back to the Drawing Board: From Fundamentals to Improved Models of the Coupled Land-Atmosphere System July 6 - 9, 2026 | Stuttgart, Germany buff.ly/3qIrB3b

The New Phytologist Foundation is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Prof. Philippa Borrill. 🧵1/2

💻 🍃 Virtual world coupling with #photosynthesis evaluation for synthetic data production by @dhelmrich.bsky.social Mona Giraud, Jens Henrik Gobbert, Hanno Scharr, Morris Riedel, Ebba Pora Hvannberg, Andrea Schnepf @agrosphere-ibg-3.bsky.social buff.ly/ncZrjvV #PlantScience #CPlantBox

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com Computational and AI Applications in Photosynthesis 🌿 Ulrich Kleinekathöfer, Constructor University 🌿 Alexandra Olaya-Castro, University College London #ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍅 A Functional-Structural Plant Model for Dwarf #Tomato Ideotype Identification in Vertical Farming #horticulture by Michele Butturini, Katarína Smoleňová, Jacopo Restina, Jacob Stolz, Jorad de Vries and Leo Marcelis doi.org/10.1093/insi... #FSPM #PlantScience @wurplant.bsky.social

Plant Root Architectural Traits Mediate a Trade-Off Between Suppression and Tolerance of Competitors by Hugo Salinas, Erik J. Veneklaas, Elizabeth Trevenen, and Michael Renton buff.ly/W1AeQ9k via Ecology and Evolution #FSPM #PlantScience #RootScience

💻🌿 Call for papers is open for a special issue marking 30 years of APSIM! Edited by Dr. Alex Wu, Dr. Enli Wang, Prof. Scott Chapman, Prof. Keith Pembleton, Dr. Matthew Knowling, and Prof. Karine Chenu Learn more at buff.ly/lOemVd2 #PlantScience

#PlantScience #SoilScience #RootScience

🌡️ Review: Predicting plant thermal responses using a temperature-aware plant metabolic #model: a primer by Philipp Wendering and Zoran Nikoloski buff.ly/6SVkXf3 #PlantScience

"Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt" 💔 www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Tulipa cypria www.botany.one/tulipa-cypria/ A plant that lives in a small part of time and space. #Botany #PlantScience

Plant Hunt www.botany.one/plant-hunt-6/ 🇬🇷 A trip through some of the flora of Crete #Botany #PlantScience

Here's a lovely story on a seagrass restoration project. 💚 Happy Friday! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

by Florian Stoll, Jan Vanderborght, Patrick Duddek, Félicien Meunier @adrienheymans.bsky.social @mutezahmed.bsky.social & Andrea Carminati

New Article! Impact of root development, soil texture and length of the root hair zone on root water uptake buff.ly/WTxC0NW #PlantScience #RootScience

The Ecological Experiment 2000 Years in the Making www.botany.one/the-ecologic... Thousands of megalithic jars in Laos were carved for burial rites. Two millennia later, they're miniature ecosystems, and ecologists have started taking notes. #Botany #PlantScience

🌳 Complete workflow for detailed 3D forest reconstruction: from terrestrial laser scanning to complex 3D radiative transfer #modelling by Tomas Hanousek, Jan Novotny, Barbora Navratilova, Marian Svik, Jan Krejza, Ruzena Janoutova buff.ly/HJ3EwMh #PlantScience

By Chunxian Tang, Guiying Li, and Dengsheng Lu

Herbarium Sheets Are Holding Secrets Their Makers Never Intended www.botany.one/herbarium-sh... When you mount a plant on a sheet, you capture more than botany. A new paper reveals the unexpected historical treasures hiding in herbaria, and why closing them is a mistake. #Botany #PlantScience

Alex Bowles: on the Ordinary yet Extraordinary Life of Plants www.botany.one/alex-bowles-... Botany One interviews Dr Alexander Bowles, an evolutionary botanist interested in the processes that have driven plant and algae diversity #Botany #PlantScience

This Trans Day of Visibility, I want cis people to understand that we don't need "validation." We need *action.* Write to your representatives; call out transphobic language; write letters to the editor; campaign for gender-inclusive washrooms at your office, school, or business. *Do something.*🏳️‍⚧️

To all the parents of trans kiddos out there who are doing the good work--I see you and I love you! Thank you for everything you do to make your kids feel safe and loved. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Why Would the Plant Next Door Smell Different? www.botany.one/why-would-th... Two populations of the same plant, just 4 km apart in the Italian mountains, produce different perfumes and attract different pollinators. Why? #Botany #PlantScience

I think that says it all Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

Plant Hunt www.botany.one/plant-hunt-5/ 🇺🇸 What could be springing up in California? #Botany #PlantScience

Sudoku Garden www.botany.one/sudoku-garde... 🌱 We welcome weeds #Botany #PlantScience

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered www.theguardian.com/environment/... Check out the four-week residential program being offered - application deadline 7 April. www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/learning/cer...

@crispus-mbaluto.bsky.social, now a visiting researcher from our group, is at #Monogram2026 today! He is presenting our work on pearl millet-rice intergrafts and how they perform under extreme drought through a molecular biology lens🌾💧 #PlantScience

📣Reminder: Nominations for DBG @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social Early Career Awards are open. See ➡️ www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/u/BS3awards for more information.

Luiza Teixeira-Costa: Strange Lives of Plants and Their Human Stories www.botany.one/luiza-teixei... Botany One interviews Dr Luiza Teixeira-Costa, a Brazilian botanist working in the integration of botany and environmental humanities. #Botany #PlantScience

Postdoc job opening: Evaluation of the capacity of soil plant models to simulate carbon stock variations in permanent and temporary grasslands with Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace Click here for details: buff.ly/K1WHUFS #PlantSciJobs

What if a Flower Never Needed a Pollinator at All? www.botany.one/what-if-a-fl... New research shows that one small mountain orchid secures reproduction before its flowers even open and may fare better selfing than crossing with its neighbours. #Botany #PlantScience

Healing at What Cost? The Conservation Status of Britain’s Herbs www.botany.one/healing-at-w... Researchers reveal that while few herbal ingredients are officially endangered, most remain conservation question marks in a growing global trade. #Botany #PlantScience

Recently I've been thinking about things I could create beyond pins to fundraise for my transition. There's a limit to what I can make and store in my flat though so I'm going to be refining a few designs for products on Redbubble... Say hello to the tree identification mug!

Secrets of the Living Library www.botany.one/secrets-of-t... You can be the key to unlocking natural history #Botany #PlantScience

Chemist/physician Dr. Maud Menten co-authored the seminal paper 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘬 𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘸𝘪𝘳𝘬𝘶𝘯𝘨, 1931. This intro'd the Michaelis–Menten equation (image). It remains a cornerstone of #biochemistry, used in drug design, metabolic studies & enzyme engineering. She was born #OTD in 1879. #WomenInSTEM

In #Profile: Oula Ghannoum 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

I'll be at the Gordon Research Seminar on Salt & Water Stress www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... May 23-24. This is a pre-meeting before the GRC, specifically for students & postdocs to give talks & posters. I'll be on the mentoring panel & sharing tips on alt-ac careers (publishing). Hope to see you!

News for @iNaturalist.bsky.social Botanists. There's a webinar on identifying plants on iNaturalist on Thursday at midday NY time. This is free to anyone. If you're go to the UK branch, uk.inaturalist.org/home, you can also sign up for a webinar on how to identify Ranunculus on Monday evening.

🌱 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring root anatomy in Conium maculatum. Microscopy analyses reveal stomata on the primary roots, challenging the idea that stomata occur only on aerial organs. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

Christopher Levine: "Plant Research is Rarely Straightforward" www.botany.one/christopher-... Botany One interviews Christopher Levine, a researcher working on the effects of light on plant production in controlled environments. #Botany #PlantScience