How nature uses colour genes to keep 2 varieties of snapdragons distinct, even when they share the same habitat, is revealed by plant scientists from @istaresearch.bsky.social in Molecular Ecology (DOI: 10.1111/mec.70067)

Lindenblüten werden seit 24 Millionen Jahren von Hummeln bestäubt, zeigen Forschende der @univie.ac.at im @newphyt.bsky.social (DOI: 10.1111/nph.70531) www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...

Neues FNR-Poster: Ökosystemleistungen des Moores Moore sind wahre Multitalente in unserer Natur! Das neue Poster der Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe veranschaulicht die zehn wichtigsten Ökosystemleistungen dieser einzigartigen Lebensräume. news.fnr.de/fnr-pressemi...

1/ 🌱 When plants face stress, they often suppress growth to save resources. In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

On Wednesday

👇Is our recent effort 2 make #PMI research more reproducible. Check out this 📜 done on 3 continents🌎, by👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 in5 diff. labs, using the🌾 #brachypodium and 2 #SynComs journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/... 🧪 #PlantMicrobeInteractions #EcoFAB #PlantSci @fz-juelich.de @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @unimelb.bsky.social

Um Wälder widerstandfähiger gegen #Klimawandel und Dürren zu machen, ist es entscheidend, die richtige Kombination von Baumarten für den jeweiligen Standort auszuwählen. Das zeigt eine neue Studie unter Leitung der #UniFreiburg: ufr.link/duerreresist...

Noch nichts vor am Wochenende in #Heidelberg?

Wow!

Review: How trees 🌲🌳and #forests will respond to an increasingly unpredictable #climate with compound #droughts is summarized by a team around @chriswernerlab.bsky.social in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci #PlantSci doi.org/10.1111/plb....

What is the cost of wildfire, windthrow and bark beetles for Europe’s forestry? We estimate that disturbances reduce Europe’s forest value by €115 bn, more than doubling to €247 bn under severe climate change. Led by @johannesmohr.bsky.social, out in @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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...

Pleased to share our new article in Cell Host & Microbe, a collaboration with the group of Zhong Wei at NJAU Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnTD6t8JE...

#Landwirtschaft zwischen #öko & konventionell: NOcsPS-Anbausysteme verzichten auf chemisch-synthetischen Pflanzenschutz, sichern Erträge & fördern #Artenvielfalt. Forschung unter Leitung der #UniHohenheim geht in die nächste Phase. Pressemitteilung: t1p.de/7bze5

Join us for the 4th annual NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

📢 We’re hiring! 🌱 The @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in Potsdam is seeking a Head of Service Unit Proteomics (mass spectrometry-based proteomics). 🗓 Apply by 30.09.2025 👉 jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to [email protected]. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit: chemische und molekulare Ökologie trophischer Pflanzen-Insekten-Interaktionen. @unihohenheim.bsky.social in Stuttgart, Germany Start: 1 März 2026 Deadline: 19 Oktober 2025 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...

Jetzt online: Programm und Anmeldung zum Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation 2025. Wir freuen uns in Stuttgart auf ein Programm aus Paneldiskussionen, Kurzvorträgen aus Forschung und Praxis sowie Workshops. Schaut ins Programm & seid dabei: ℹ️ 🎫 wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/forum-wissen... #fwk25 #Wisskomm

Our review in discusses how pri-miRNA and DCL1 structures shape plant microRNA biogenesis, and why collaboration between plant and protein scientists is key ☘️🤝

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob PhD position: Signal Detection and Modification in Algal-Bacterial Interactions In Excellence Cluster @microverse.bsky.social at @uni-jena.de Start: 1 January 2026 Deadline: 5 October 2025 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Researchers report about the first measured relative water loss curves that were generated from wood sampled along the entire length of two mature conifer trees - from canopy tip to trunk's base #plantsci doi.org/10.1111/plb....

Do you know what happens when you touch a carnivorous sundew plant? If the touch is strong and large enough, a cytosolic calcium wave will spread from the site of touch throughout the whole plant, but if you only touch one tentacle (see post below), the calcium wave will be local and less intense.

📢New BE-paper out on cost-effective #conservation of multiple goals in #grasslands. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... Permanent grasslands are key for #biodiversity but face rising threats. Traditional #conservation looked at species counts, but resilience, #ecosystem services & interactions matter too. 🌐

New Article! Purifying recombinant proteins from Nicotiana benthamiana for structural studies

What are the recipes of #plants to permanently settle + invade foreign countries? That is found out by plant scientists from @uni-konstanz.de in @natcomms.nature.com DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63293-6. #invasive plants #plantsci

Out today: New nucleus-encoded component of the endosymbiont division machinery identified in the trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei. Congrats @anaymaurya.bsky.social and @rudycadenabioevo.bsky.social!!!🎉🎉🎉 1/2 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Also interesting for #plantsci W3-Professorship: Functional Ecology @unituebingen.bsky.social Start: October 2026 Deadline: 31 October 2025 #PlantSciJob #PlantSciJobs www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

In der PhänoSphäre des @leibnizipk.bsky.social kann schon heute das "Feld der Zukunft" simuliert werden kann. Grund genug auch für @zeitonline.bsky.social diese weltweit einmalige Anlage vorzustellen. www.zeit.de/wissen/umwel...

New #SNP2Prot publication 📢 Sense and sensitivity - decoding calcium signalling across cellular, autocrine, paracrine and endocrine pathways in plant resilience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ipbhalle.bsky.social

New paper! Want to measure #mountain #microclimate during wintertime but loggers keep breaking? Here's an easy, cost-effective method to help loggers survive snow & visits by curious animals🏔️❄️🦌🌡️💧 Nicely led by Raphael von Büren & @mizeh.bsky.social. 📄 doi.org/10.1111/jvs.... @slfdavos.bsky.social

Climate change threatens marine and coastal ecosystems in the #Mediterranean region. A recent study led by GEOMAR investigated how strongly marine and coastal ecosystems in the Mediterranean are already at risk, even under comparatively moderate additional warming. 🔗 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...

Ausstellung „BananaRama – Eine Forschungsreise zur #Banane“ Einblicke - von Labor bis Acker - in Biologie & Vielfalt - neue Sorten - bis #Landwirtschaft - etc. noch bis 21. Sept. @unibonn.bsky.social #Bonn www.botgart.uni-bonn.de/de/ihr-besuc...

Super excited and honoured to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for CooPAIRation! How do plant immune receptors work together to trigger an immune response? Can we modulate immune responses for disease resistance? We will tackle these questions in CooPAIRation Positions to be announced soon!

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob #PlantSci W3 University Professorship Plant Genetics @uni-wuerzburg.de Deadline: 13 October 2025 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

#Funding another deadline alert Bewerbungsende: 16. September 2025

Ausbremsen durch Überregulation oder sinnvoll nutzen für eine nachhaltige Landwirtschaft? In der EU wird bald über neue genomische Techniken (NGT) in der Pflanzenzüchtung entschieden. Alles Wichtige dazu von @martinreich.bsky.social bei @libmod.de libmod.de/wer-hat-angs...

I am thrilled &honoured, what a journey that was! Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors. With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)

Approching deadline alert

We are deeply saddened by the news that Andrew D. Hanson (@adhansonlab.bsky.social) is no longer with us. He was an exceptional scientist, mentor, and leader in multiple fields. He constantly reminded us that over-promising would backfire. Rest in peace, Andrew.

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob 5 PhD positions in Plant Sciences Graduate School "From Molecules to Systems" @lifescimunich.bsky.social Start: in 2026 Deadline: 24 October 2025 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Fun fact I learned yesterday: Many cigarettes contain GM tobacco. Because this is no food or feed the European regulations don’t apply. 🌱🚬🧬

Since beginning of this month, Prof. Julia Bechteler @juliabechteler.bsky.social ‬ leads the new working group “ecology and evolution of #moss” @sgn.one institute for plant biodiversity (SIP) @uni-jena.de‬. This is the first professorship for mosses in Germany. www.senckenberg.de/de/pressemel...

Job Coordinator position: Science Communication #SciComm In Excellence Cluster @ceplas.bsky.social "SMART Plants for Tomorrow’s Needs" @hhu.de ‬ www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Scholarly articles posted on Bluesky ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform X. Study – not jet peer reviewd - finds as reported by @theguardian.com ‬ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🚨Upcoming virtual hands-on workshop on Ecological Graph Theory, organised by our postdoc Ata Kalirad for the Methods in Ecology and Evolution and the British Ecological Society. 🗓️ Date: 25 September 🕐 Time: 10am BST 💻 Location: Zoom 📝 Register here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mee-...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob PhD position: Tree-Microbe Interactions Deadline already at 7 September 2025 In @cullah.bsky.social 's new Forest Phytopathobiomes Lab @uni-goettingen.de www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

#PlantSci New type of transport protein discovered by @franzikuhnert.bsky.social and the @weberlab.bsky.social team: How amino acids are transported in plants in @natplants.nature.com

Six years ago, I started at the MPIPZ with a head full of ideas. What a journey. I’m thrilled to share that, from Jan 2026, I will be moving to Zurich as a chaired associate professor at the University of Zurich. A new chapter, and plenty of roots still to grow. Can’t wait for the adventure ahead!