Very grateful for being back at my PhD supervisor's group in Japan and giving my progress report. Insightful discussion and suggestions for my projects next year ☑️ Now, wish all a merry Christmas and a happy New year🎄

☀️🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🍅☀️ Heuvelink et al. examine how light intensity, photoperiod, spectrum, directionality and energy regulate whole-plant physiological processes including morphogenesis, source–sink interactions and assimilate partitioning. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Now online in its final version. Plz surf to doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

#TansleyInsight: Trehalose 6-phosphate – a central regulator at the crossroads of sugar #signalling, #metabolism, and development By Franziska Fichtner 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

HDA19-mediated deacetylation of histone H3.3 lysine 27 and 36 regulates plant sensitivity to salt stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686508v1

#IJPB event Three inspiring days at the 3rd Workshop on Carbon Allocation in Plants 🌿 Thanks to all participants and sponsors for the great discussions! 👏 Special mention to Rozenn Le Hir @catsteam.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/4dy5hHO and Wenjia Xu CHRODYNO team 👉 bit.ly/4fqSSq9 for sharing their works!

Hi all @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social members and other 🌽community folks, #MBP2026 🌱 is no open for registration. Please 🏄‍♀️ to: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

How do you detect transgenes in genome-edited crops? We tested several methods and report our findings in 2 back-to-back papers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... rdcu.be/eLgUi

Artificial Soil (ArtSoil): recreating soil conditions in synthetic plant growth media https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681539v1

Meet the 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐓𝐏𝐉-𝐏𝐒𝐍𝐀 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 🏆 This award recognizes outstanding postdocs and research scientists, with preference for early-career researchers ready to launch independent labs: 💠Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social 💠 Boaz Negin CONGRATULATIONS! @psna-official.bsky.social ⬇️

Now the typesetting of our methodology letter is completed! I am not a big fan of team Slytherin though 😂

Chamber of Secrets? Kinoshita @strnk17desejp.bsky.social & Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social present an alternative method to precisely measure CO2 assimilation rate & transpiration of #Arabidopsis leaves in whole-plant chambers Open Access🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantPhysiology #PlantScience

Evidence for rapid hydrolysis of shoot-derived sucrose using an ultrasensitive ratiometric Matryoshka-type MGlucoMeter sensor https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.27.678933v1

Celebrating the successful PhD defense of Dr Jie Shen! Thank you 🙏 to the second and third examiners @schwarzland_lab and @shuqing_xu and many congratulations, Jie !! 👏🍾 very much looking forward to seeing your amazing work published. Stay tuned! @IFink_lab @uni_muenster

I was recently interviewed by @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social for their Scientific Mobility series. I hope my 2 cents helped with your mobility ;) www.cell.com/trends/micro...

🌱 Stiill time to join us for the 3rd Workshop on Carbon Allocation in Plants — it’s going to be unforgettable! ⏳ Register before Sept 12 👉 bit.ly/4kYzzrT

It's already a week ago but I joined the International workshop of Plant Membrane Biology in Helsingør 🇩🇰. Fantastic talks about plant membrane biology and beautiful conference venues! Such a successful meeting, all thanks to the organisers 🙌

New OA Article: "Apoplastic metabolomics reveals sugars as mesophyll messengers regulating guard cell ion transport under red light" rdcu.be/eCiMg Sugars as messengers from the leaf interior enhance stomatal opening via regulation of the guard cell H+-ATPase & anion channels.

Nature research paper: Structural basis for the dynamic regulation of mTORC1 by amino acids go.nature.com/3V8r3Lw

TPS Proteins coordinate plant growth with sugar availability via the SnRK1 Kinase www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An open W2 Professorship position in Molecular Crop Improvement at my Institute @uni-muenster.de! Excellent scientific environment and great conditions for Plant Research 🔬🍅🫛🥒🌽🍓🍎🥔- now open for applications !

Your research brings together fundamental plant biology & applied research to enhance crop traits? 🌱🌾🎓🏭 Join us as professor in 'Molecular Crop Improvement' @uni-muenster.de & @fraunhofer.bsky.social Please PM if you got questions. stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

💡 Always a good time to be reminded: "if you fuse your protein of interest to GFP or EGFP to study the protein's behavior ... you are using a tag with a serious drawback." Same goes for anything that doesn't have 'm' in its name (looking at you, dTomato and StayGold)

🆕A robust technique for gas exchange measurements using petiole-cut #Arabidopsis leaves in a whole plant chamber 🆓Read it here first: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Thrilled to share our latest short technical paper in PCP! We propose an alternative leaf-level gas exchange measurement method with petiole-cut leaves and whole plant chamber, enabling the measurements even with the small Arabidopsis plants.🌱 track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Very happy to see this review by @elizavveen.bsky.social, Jesse Küpers and myself now out in Plant Cell & Environment! About how stresses impact chloroplasts, and how this can steer plant development via retrograde signaling 🌱 @pph-wur.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.15664

A guide to understanding and measuring photosynthetic induction: considerations and recommendations nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @newphyt.bsky.social

Biomolecular condensates are critical for organizing cellular contents, but most studies focus on phase separation driven by salt, pH, or temperature. But what if intracellular movement also matters? Here, we explore motility-induced condensation in the cell. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Preprint from @dfg.de #GoPMF. All 🌱 scientists love to get their hands on pure protein, quickly produced in 🪴. However, purification can take too long, involve many steps or requires pricey reagents. @lmumuenchen.bsky.social , we established Catch & Release. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The TAIR12 genome reannotation has FINALLY been submitted to GenBank. Now we await review and approval. Stay tuned for updates, hopefully within the next month. Thank you to everyone that made this project possible. @labschneeberger.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @sigmafacto.bsky.social

Professor Hitoshi Sakakibara from Nagoya University has been at the forefront of research on plant hormones such as cytokinin. His flexible research approach combines genetics with chemical analysis, leading to significant breakthroughs. bit.ly/4lOJqBp

The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning. 👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV

🔥🔥🔥 How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Outstanding work by @anyalb.bsky.social in my lab - she targeted enzymes to synthetic biomolecular condensates in plants and showed increases in metabolic pathway activity, likely due to protection of the introduced enzymes from proteolysis #PlantScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

[Campus Stories] Meet a doctoral student researching circadian clocks at Nagoya University's Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences. Discover her academic journey, future aspirations, and advice for fellow students in the following interview: bit.ly/4lME61w

Monitoring subcellular NADP redox state with NAPstar biosensors @riemerlab.bsky.social @morganlab-saarland.bsky.social @jan-oleniemeier.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Construction is almost complete on Common Nexus (ComoNe), the newest building on the Higashiyama Campus! Scheduled to open summer 2025, the green roof and multi-purpose interior were designed as spaces of exploration for all, not just students and faculty at Nagoya University and Gifu University.

Visit our new website! www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp/frommer-yosh...

RIPE team members have developed an R package for curve fitting that enables users to build analysis pipelines for fitting photosynthetic gas exchange data. Read more about PhotoGEA in @PlantCell&Environment: doi.org/10.1111/pce....

Looking for a postdoc : stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/f... To study cell-to-cell signaling in tomato roots using genome editing, transcriptomics, imaging in a great scientific environment in Münster 🇩🇪🌱🍅

Happy to have attended the 66th JSPP annual meeting for the last three days in Kanazawa, Japan! I was really glad to see many familiar faces for the first time in a while 😄 Enjoyed great and broad range of plant physiology!🌱

Very happy that our story on dormancy control by DOG1-PP2C is now published in Science Advances. We found that DOG1 prevents the activation of AFPs by AHG1. This is the result of a great team effort led by Guillaume Née. Summary of key findings below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org

Finally out! Delighted to share our latest paper investigating the PM H+-ATPase activation-driven transcriptome changes in green seedlings, which comes from third chapter of my PhD thesis. Hope you also will find something interesting 😄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Save the date! The website for our #plantscience conference on hypoxia and flooding from September 22-26 in Nagoya, Japan, is now live. Registration opens soon (April, 2025). We hope to see you there 🌾🌊. For more info, check: sites.google.com/view/isplore...

A part of the remaining project on the shikimate pathway is out in Plant Direct - Arabidopsis 3-Deoxy-d-Arabino-Heptulosonate 7-Phosphate Synthases of the Shikimate Pathway Display Both Manganese- and Cobalt-Dependent Activities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @plantdirectj.bsky.social

Evidence for Peroxisomal Redundancy among the Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydrogenase Isoforms of Arabidopsis thaliana academic.oup.com/pcp/article/... @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social

RESEARCH: 'In vivo biosensing of subcellular pyruvate pools reveals photosynthesis-dependent metabolite dynamics in Nicotiana benthamiana' - Jan Multhoff et al, doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

** UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE ** Plant Energy Management Editors: Benoît Menand, Johannes Hanson & Vanessa Wahl Deadline: 30th April '25 Manuscripts of any format welcomed, please contact the JXB office (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌍 🔋 🏭 🌱 ⚡ 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social (1/2)

Professional societies for #PlantScience on Bluesky🌱 Professional societies facilitate networking, provide access to the latest research and professional development opportunities, organize conferences or workshops, and often shape policies that impact the scientific community. go.bsky.app/QxxL9Zo

Short visit to Wageningen University & Research! Beautiful and huge campus with state-of-the-art facilities for plant research. Thanks Kohzuma-san @kohzuma.bsky.social for the guide!