1/ Preprint alert:
 🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era. ✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg knowmag.org/4hImL8e

My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting! 🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution 🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible) 📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de ⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... Do get in touch or share 😊

Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at cellular resolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685811v1

We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University: 🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured) 📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience #academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs 1/4

Researchers decoded the #pangenome of 33 oat lines, revealing their full #geneticdiversity to support breeding of more resilient, high-yield #crops in the face of #climatechange: go.tum.de/651300 📷iStock/ Evgeniy Andreev

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

Man hatte sich daran gewöhnt, dass der König seinen Untergebenen im Kindesalter die Beine brach und ihnen dann den Rest ihres Lebens Krücken verkaufte. "Es geht auch anders!" sagte der Fremde. "Dann braucht man keine Krücken!" "Er will uns die Krücken wegnehmen!" schrie das Volk und verprügelte ihn.

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...

My paper of the week!

🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.

We warmly welcome Professor @uhammes.bsky.social as the new Head of the Department of #Botany I at our university! He is investigating the proteins that help #plant #hormones reach their sites of action. We wish him every success in his research and teaching! ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Given up on the concept of being "well-rounded". I'm more like a hexagon, and depending on what side I happen to accidently roll I get work, family, exercise, hobbies or a tidy house. None can co-exist.

IN BRIEF: Metacaspase-Peps-PEPR: The three musketeers in boosting wheat resistance against Fusarium head blight (Margot Raffeiner) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

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

Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance - @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social go.nature.com/474nnA9

Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen (S Einspanier, C Tominello-Ramirez, F Delplace, R Stam) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @sev1panier

Wie Proteine in Pflanzenzellen wissen, wohin sie müssen, war lange unklar. RUB-Forschende haben nun den entscheidenden Lipid-Schalter identifiziert und damit ein zellbiologisches Rätsel gelöst.

Now with official press release. I'm very much looking forward to welcome @cbarragan.bsky.social in January www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...

A long road to the Cover of Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very excited to share that our paper "A RALF-brassinosteorid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape" is now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Enjoy reading it!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our new review in JXB: tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b @pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?

Very happy to see this work finally online! Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!

Die direkt gewählte Abgeordnete aus Berlin-Mitte, @hanna-steinmueller.de, sorgt gerade für viel Aufsehen, weil sie ihr Baby mit in den @bundestag.de genommen hat. Das zeige, dass wir über die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie reden müssten, sagt sie.

Alte Pflanze, neue Erkenntnisse: IPK Team enthüllt „Mosaik-Abstammung“ der Gerste Gerste zählt zu den ältesten Kulturpflanzen der Menschheit und wird seit mehr als 10.000 Jahren kultiviert. Lange Zeit wurde vermutet, dass sie an einem ein... weiterlesen

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

Glückwunsch an unsere Sportlerinnen und Sportler zu den Medaillen bei der Leichtathletik-WM in #Tokio! Ich bin stolz auf unser großartiges Team - ein tolles Beispiel für die Vielfalt unseres Landes!

Eine Weltklasseleistung 🥳 6,30 m übersprungen durch Armond Duplantis. Habe ich gestern live im TV gesehen, aber diese Einstellung zeigt erst richtig, was für eine Leistung es war.

Happy to share our pre-print!

🧬🌱 Excited to share our new preprint: "MoBiPlant - A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Plant Molecular Biology" 🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🔗 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/man... 1/

The discovery of genes underlying interesting traits for #PlantBreeding is one of the most important & difficult tasks here @kwsgroup.bsky.social. We are looking for a Quantitative Geneticist to help us with this! #PlantScience #PlantBreeding #PlantGenetics #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs

🧬 Preprint alert! Excited to share our latest work on the role of longitudinal gene expression dynamics in resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Check it out here 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

#2025ISMPMI 📣 In silico screening of PRR-epitope interactions is now possible! Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌱 Back to the wild! We’ve just started a field trial with Solanum chilense at the @uni-kiel.de Botanical Garden. Can’t wait to watch our wild tomatoes tackle the Northern German summer. 🍅 Stay tuned for our next field-trial updates! #SChilense #FieldTrial #PlantScience #Kiel

Really happy to see my PhD work out. Big thanks to @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social and everyone involved. I hope you enjoy reading it :)

📜 Spatial and single-cell transcriptomics capture two distinct cell states in plant immunity 🧑‍🔬 Yuzhao Hu, Raeann Schaefer, Stéphane Deschamps, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1..., #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #SpatialImmunity #PlantGenomics

📜 Cooperation between a root fungal endophyte and host-derived coumarin scopoletin mediates Arabidopsis iron nutrition 🧑‍🔬 @laravdijck.bsky.social, @parkergroup.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantMetabolites

📜 A workflow for absolute apoplastic pH assessment during live cell imaging in plant roots 🧑‍🔬 @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle, @elkebarbez.bsky.social 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImaging #PlantPhysiology #PlantDevelopment

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

Excited to share the first preprint from my lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in Potsdam! Huge thanks to @o-sulkowski.bsky.social and the whole team for their hard work and dedication. 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Listen to a new (me 🌱) and an experienced group leader (Dietmar Hutmacher) discuss interviewing and hiring new lab members.

Here's an overview Thread 🧵 on my own research while at... 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟳 - 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟱 @hhu.de with @simonrdg.bsky.social 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟲 - 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵 UniMelbourne with the ARC CoE #PlantCellWalls 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 UniMelbourne Group Leader 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 @mpipz.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social 🧵 👇

🔬🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌿🛡️ Resolving spatially distinct phytohormone response zones in Arabidopsis thaliana roots colonized by Fusarium oxysporum – Calabria et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

RSPS2025 | Finalist: Dr. Tonni Grube Andersen | Presentation: Jun 4 13:00-13:30 (GMT) | Of bricks and gateways: Rewriting the rules of root barriers | FREE to Watch the Live Streaming via YouTube (youtube.com/@molecularpl...) / WeChat (MolPlant Channel)

Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now..... tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d

📜 MIK2-clade receptor function in perception of a Fusarium-derived elicitor is conserved among different plant families 🧑‍🔬 Julian Maroschek, Ralph Hückelhoven, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #FusariumOxysporum #Fusarium

MIK2 clade receptor function in perception of a Fusarium-derived elicitor is conserved among different plant families https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.22.655486v1

🎉✨ Congratulations for the 70 newly @dfg.de -funded #ClustersOfExcellence ✨🎉 and especially for the 4 #PlantSci 🌿 🧬 🔬 🌱 🍀 clusters Those are (1/5):

Excited to share that our preprint has found a home in Science Advances. We show that intrinsically disordered regions determine the functional diversification of actin-regulatory SCAR proteins in Medicago. 🧵 1/3 www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #ScienceAdvances #PlantScience #IDRs