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

Over the past year, @biologyopen.bsky.social has expanded its Fast & Fair initiative to accelerate peer review. The results are impressive - take a look at their latest preprint to find out more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A bit of sudden nostalgia: the 1988 seminal paper on kinase catalytic domains in @science.org by Tony Hunter. 65 sequences aligned manually. I read it so many times. www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

So happy and proud to share our lab’s first #plantscience research article, revealing that angiosperms have the capacity to encode memory of flooding stress. A heroic effort by @aidamaric.bsky.social in collaboration with @djgibbs.bsky.social and others. A brief 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are happy and proud to share our preprint describing an Arabidopsis mutant (named loki:) that develops cell clusters when TOR is inhibited. The mutated gene codes for a component of the conserved eukaryotic RAVE complex regulating V-ATPase activity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am starting a selection of papers dealing with the plant TOR kinase on biomed.news (plus related papers) since there are not so many :). Here is a first selection: biomed.news/bims-plator/... biomed.news/bims-plator/... Enjoy!

International Saclay Plant Sciences (SPS) Symposium 2026, register now!

@scourbier.bsky.social from @uni-freiburg.de @cibss.bsky.social is one of the invited speakers of #pem26. She will give a talk on the role of TOR in shade mediated hypocotyl elongation Join us in Montpellier next july Pem26.cnrs.fr

⚖️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ⚖️ Busche et al. review dynamic regulation of plant growth and development in response to stress through the TOR signaling network, with a focus on maize development and growth–defense trade-offs in agriculture and beyond 🌽 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

📣 Check out JXB's newest Special Issue 📣 📘 Issue 5 of 2026 📘 ⚡🌿 Energy Management: Molecular Mechanisms and Signalling 🌿⚡ 📘 Guest edited by Benoît Menand, Johannes Hanson & Vanessa Wahl 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 SEBiology

🚜What are the underlying processes behind the positive effect of protein hydrolysates on growth/yield? 🌱Its clear and robust effect on Arabidopsis growth goes with changes at transcriptome & metabolite levels. https://bit.ly/4pZATMI @meyerchrisscience.bsky.social @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social

Waou… Il y a des jours où je n’ai plus les mots. À 17h, déjà 149 records de chaleur ont été battus en France, y compris dans des stations installées au XIXᵉ siècle. En FEVRIER, s'il vous plait (quel délire !), on approche les 30°C au pied des Pyrénées, plus de 25°C sur la moitié nord. 1/5

Radicle, dude! 🏄 Liu et al show that 'target of rapamycin' or TOR signaling regulates #maize radicle development by modulating starch metabolism and energy homeostasis 🌽 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Visit our Web site, register and subit your abstract for the next Plant Energy Mangement Meeting next july on Montpellier pem26.cnrs.fr @frannybarbs.bsky.social @lacombeb.bsky.social @franzificht.bsky.social @ccf-claire.bsky.social @msubrandizzilab.bsky.social @hatem-rouached.bsky.social

Houlalala le suspens est insoutenable : ce reportage va t il être anti OGM ? quand on itw - Une chercheuse qui a témoigné au procès des faucheurs volontaires en leur faveur - une ancienne ministre farouchement antiOGM - une ONG anti ogm - le Criigen (au secours) - un député PS anti ogm Suspens

Indeed a great story illustrating how the plant TOR kinase can control the balance between growth and defense against pathogens !

Thank you to @ronaldpierik.bsky.social, Liên Bach, Christian Meyer, @fabien-senechal.bsky.social and Jean Colcombet for evaluating his work!

🍄 🛠️ TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🛠️ 🍄 In this technical advance, Decouard et al. show how to identify plant metabolites in root exudates specifically produced in the presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in an aeroponic-based system. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Our preprint is finally out 🌿 “𝒑𝒑𝑮𝒑𝒑 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉-𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒅𝒐𝒑𝒔𝒊𝒔” Its been a journey- first spotted by Matteo Sugliani over ten years ago, carried forward by Shanna Romand, and brought to the finish line with help from many collaborators. #PlantScience tinyurl.com/wpf3bp25

Happy to share our latest preprint: Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella @cibss.bsky.social #Physcomitrella #moss Please check it out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So glad to share a part of the PhD work of our student Justine Broutin that is now published in Physiologia plantarum! We explored the mechanisms of biostimulation by protein hydrolysates in plants using Arabidopsis and multi level phenotyping. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/3P7572...

An important connection with the plant TOR signalling pathway!

Happy to share our News and Views published with Justine Broutin in @NaturePlants on the role of nitrate and of the NLP7 transcription factor in wheat drought recovery ! Nitrate to spark parched plants rdcu.be/eLiT1

Our new review with Benoit Menand and Jose Crespo on the emerging connections between TOR, chloroplasts and photosynthesis 😎 in plants 🌿and algae 🦠 #PlantScience url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...

Il y a une solution alternative à l’acetamipride dont bizarrement on parle peu... Pour lutter contre les virus de la betterave transmis par les pucerons il suffit de muter un ou plusieurs gènes eIF4E par édition pour obtenir des résistances efficaces et sans pesticides! (Rollwage et coll., 2024).

📅 Oct 1st, @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social will honor our dear colleague Jean-François Morot-Gaudry 🌿 📍 INRAE Versailles ⌚ From 9:30 AM 👨‍🔬 With talks by C. Masclaux, A. Limami, C. Foyer, B. Hirel & more 📝 Register: 👉 bit.ly/4kj9eUd @inrae-france.bsky.social @irhs-angers.bsky.social