Happy to see the next GRC in Salt and Water stress 🌱💧in Plants will be organized in Europe-Switzerland 🇨🇭! Great meeting and Great Community- now open for applications to participate @bradylabs.bsky.social !

Interested in doing a postdoc on fundamental problems in plant biology? Apply for our Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology. Due 12/4/25: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/13/applications-for-simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology-now-open/ #biology #lifesciences

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...

A matter of life and death... ☠️🧬 Sakil et al. review the physiological role of autophagic cell death in plants incl. its contribution to stress response & developmental processes, and discuss the mechanisms underlying such processes #PlantScience #PlantAutophagy 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

We wrote a review 📖 on hydathode immunity! Learn how bacteria exploit hydathodes to access the vasculature and open questions for future research. 📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱 Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!

Das Archäologische Museum der Universität Münster besitzt durch private Schenkungen zahlreiche Münzen aus Sizilien. Die Sonderausstellung „Sizilien – Insel der Arethusa“ präsentiert ab dem 8. November (Samstag) erstmals die numismatischen Schätze.

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...

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

My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available → authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...

Our Mini-review is out now! Here we collect recent findings of RALF peptide functions, adress their (potential) roles in plant-microbe interactions and discuss the resulting emerging questions. Pls share! dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

By the @cellsensing.bsky.social and Zipfel labs: The plant receptor kinase HSL3 senses a cyclic, disulfide-bond stabilized peptide phytocytokine. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌱 RESEARCH 🌱 Phloem cell proliferation in Plasmodiophora brassicae-induced clubroot galls doesn't directly depend on PEAR transcription factors, despite transcriptional up-regulation - Singh et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @sdeeksha1994.bsky.social @malinowskilab.bsky.social

🔬🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🔬 Continuous cell proliferation and de novo meristem formation drive clone-forming growth and prolonged longevity in epiphytic fern gametophytes - Wu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Strigolactones: Biosynthesis, transport, perception and signal transduction #review #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

ISTA @istaresearch.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track staff scientist in Computational Structural Biology, to develop tools for cryo-EM, cryo-ET, structural prediction methods and protein interaction analysis! Please spread the word! ista.ac.at/en/job/tenur...

Engineering the C-tail of the versatile Arabidopsis immune receptor RLP23 enhances pathogen resistance in rice and poplar! Congrats to Andrea Gust and her group at #ZMBP 👏👏👏 #MPMI #EvoMPMI #plantsci

Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!

Function and regulatory mechanism of HvSPX4 in maintaining phosphate homeostasis in barley (Junhao Zhang, Yichen Zhou, Yunqian Zhang, Huifang Zhao, Qiyu Liang, Yunfeng Xu, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

🍅🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌱🍅 Resistance against bacterial wilt in tomato is linked to variety-specific proteomic changes; the CAPE1 peptide restricts Ralstonia solancearum growth in planta - Zhang et al. 🦠🍅 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @bactodeath.bsky.social

A small peptide APP3-14 disrupts pathogen-insect mutualism via modulating plant MYC2-mediated olfactory defense #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Recognition of a phytocytokine by the DEPR1-SERK2 receptor complex confers multi-pathogen resistance in wheat #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

🌱 📖 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 📖 🌱 Qi et al. address current challenges in revealing protease roles in biological processes and present systematic methodologies for identifying bona fide protease–substrate pairs in plants 🔬 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @simonstael.bsky.social

Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie... Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...

NEWS & VIEWS: Barley roots require HvGLU3 for cellulose biosynthesis (Blanca Jazmin Reyes-Hernández) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Site-specific and efficient RNA editing is achieved with a CasRx editor go.nature.com/4dFun7P rdcu.be/eJI3u

Functional conservation and divergence of the WOX gene family in regulating meristem activity: From Arabidopsis to crops (Fei Du, Zihan Chang, Xiuying Kong, Lanqin Xia, Wenbin Zhou, Thomas Laux, Lichao Zhang) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

New Article: "A mobile DELLA controls Medicago truncatula root cortex patterning to host arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" rdcu.be/eJO9O Mobile transcriptional regulators DELLA and SHORT-ROOT control the number of root inner cortex cell layers able to host symbiotic AMF.

~12 years after we coined it EPP1 with @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social one afternoon when we were postdoc with @jeanmichelane.bsky.social! Congrats @melaniekrich.bsky.social @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social et al. for the hard work! EPP1 is the fourth member of the Common Symbiosis Pathway 🍄🌱!

The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

My department (Biological Sciences) at the University of Delaware is looking for a new tenure track assistant professor with a research focus on biomolecular sensing broadly. 🧪#molbiol #microsky careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...

UNC Chapel Hill is hiring an Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Per Jeff Dangl MPMI candidates are also highly desired in the search. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences. Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions. apply.interfolio.com/175001

Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Early Land Plant Evolution – Phylogenetics, Paleobotany, and Evo-devo Physiology. Submission Deadline: 03/2026. academic.oup.com/plphys/pages... #plantscience

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

CEPR2 perceives group II CEPs to regulate cell surface receptor-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Well done, Max! Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Come and join us in our new home - great colleagues and brand new facilities

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

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Paper alert🚨 Label your protein of interest and localize it in cryoET 👁️❄️ Genetically encoded FerriTag as a specific label for cryo-electron tomography: Structure www.cell.com/structure/fu...

That’s a wrap for #PPRM2025. Great science, wonderful community and amazing location. Glad it all went smoothly and big thanks to @jackrhodes.bsky.social and @draegermarkus.bsky.social for helping organize the meeting.

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Delving into the cell wall signaling with Thorsten Hamann @pprm2025.bsky.social 🤩

Frank @frankmenke.bsky.social opens the PPRM2025. Exciting program ahead!