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Postdoc in Jorge Casal's Lab 🌱🌡️🧬🔬 Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷
Avoiding the shadow: How plants perceive neighbours and reshape the crop light environment url:
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Avoiding the shadow: How plants perceive neighbours and reshape the crop light environment
Abstract. Plants in typical agricultural stands inevitably experience mutual shading. As the canopy develops, neighbour cues progressively reduce the activ
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/plphys/kiag034/8456843
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Journal of Experimental Botany
12 days ago
🔎 SPECIAL ISSUE VIEWPOINT 🔎 A variety of motifs mediate protein localization at plasmodesmata. Should they be viewed as targeting or retention signals? Barr & Tilsner explore the motifs and mechanisms underlying plasmodesmal protein localization ⚙️ 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Nick Desnoyer
26 days ago
Why I’m genetically engineering a rainbow flower… And how a Russian fairy tale inspired the idea 🧵
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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊
3 months ago
Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)
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Maite Saura
5 months ago
New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Isabel saur
3 months ago
Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started.
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Devin O’Connor
4 months ago
Hiring a
#postdoc
to join our new lab at CSU!
oconnorlab.colostate.edu
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Plantae.org
4 months ago
📅New
#PlantSciEvents
Event Added: 17th International Conference on Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants 👉https://buff.ly/W6MxzYZ
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17th International Conference on Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants
(2026) Wed 9 Sep - Fri 11 [EDT]: Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce that, after 28 years, the 17th International Conference on Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants will be held…
https://buff.ly/W6MxzYZ
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Plant Cell Atlas
5 months ago
Next Week! Register Now!
bit.ly/45zJE7V
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The Global Plant Council
5 months ago
We’re kicking off a brand-new webinar series with
@theplantjournal.bsky.social
🧬🌱 Join us into the latest breakthroughs & challenges in plant engineering research 📅 29 September 2025 ⏰ 17:00 CEST Hosted by
@katherinedenby.bsky.social
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us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026
5 months ago
🌟 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 🗣️ Excited to share the first members of our keynote lineup! 🔹 Federico Ariel 🔹 Brian Gregory 🔹 Polly Hsu
@pollyhsulab.bsky.social
🔹 Rosa Lozano-Durán
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🔹 Hervé Vaucheret More speakers and more info coming soon!
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PlantGENE
6 months ago
The event will be hosted in Zoom and attendees will be able to move between three breakout rooms. The audience will have an opportunity to ask specific questions to several expert speakers. Register here:
plantgene.sivb.org/crispr-help-...
#CRISPR
#biotechnology
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Maite Colinas
6 months ago
💯 agree. No reason to provide sugar to Arabidopsis, many reasons against.
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Proteintech
6 months ago
New workshop! Learn how to improve data quality and reproducibility of IP-MS experiments. 📅 Aug 28 🕓 9 am CDT | 3 pm BST | 4 pm CEST Don’t miss ✅ Live Q&A ✅ Certificate of attendance ✅ Free product sample Register now:
ow.ly/Wa5J50Ww4Jp
#IP
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Plant Cell Atlas
6 months ago
We are excited to announce the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images! This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET. Register Now!
bit.ly/45zJE7V
@radinbio.bsky.social
@rheelab.bsky.social
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Plant Cell Atlas
6 months ago
Members of PCA Publish A Guide to Elevate Plant Fluorescence Microscopy. Read More Here:
www.danforthcenter.org/news/global-...
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Global Team of Experts Publish Guide to Elevate Plant Fluorescence Microscopy - Danforth Plant Science Center
A team of expert scientists led by Kirk Czymmek, PhD, director of the Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Heather E. McFarlane, assistant professor at the Un...
https://www.danforthcenter.org/news/global-team-of-experts-publish-guide-to-elevate-plant-fluorescence-microscopy/
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
6 months ago
Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️
mpg.de/directors
- Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
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Association of Applied Biologists
6 months ago
🌱 Announcing our brand new webinar series all 'aabout'
#plantscience
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#sustainableagriculture
🌱 Starting 23rd September with talks on
#CRISPR
in crops from: 🌾
@sadiyehayta.bsky.social
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#ECR
Ryan Creeth 🥔
@annalsapplbio.bsky.social
author Karam Mostafa Register for free:
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6 months ago
Thrilled to see our review published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology! 🌱✨ With
@camilagoldy.bsky.social
, Mariana Sotelo and Virginia Barrera, we discuss how cell biology and gene regulatory networks shape root cell expansion & plasticity. 👉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Cell biology features and gene expression programs modulating cell expansion during root organ growth
Diffuse cell expansion mainly in the longitudinal axis of the organ significantly contributes to root organ growth. Root cell expansion is a diverse, …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369526625000809
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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026
7 months ago
𝐏𝐆𝐑𝐏𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 - 𝐌𝐚́𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐚 Posttranscriptional gene regulation in Plants 🌱🧬 🗺️ Beautiful city of Málaga (Spain) 🗓️ 5-7 Oct 2026 Organizers:
@manavellalab.bsky.social
@kmerchante.bsky.social
@laura-ah.bsky.social
More info: very soon!
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7 months ago
🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱 The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
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Femke de Jong
11 months ago
Instead of blocking ARF, Aux/IAA is sitting on ARF to lure TIR close, so that it produces cAMP in ARFs vicinity, where it, in an up till now unknow way, activates ARF. Read more about this study on my blog
plantenzo.net/2025/03/11/u...
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Updating our view of TIR
It turns out that the auxin receptor TIR produces the second messenger cAMP. Now researchers led by Jiří Friml show in Nature that the production of cAMP and not the degradation of Aux/IAA proteins…
https://plantenzo.net/2025/03/11/updating-our-view-of-tir/
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Chemistry World
8 months ago
‘What we do is deliver information to plants,’ so they can learn how to defend themselves from attacks, Federico Ariel, founder and chief scientific officer of Apolo Biotech, explains.
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RNA as a replacement for chemical pesticides
Argentinian start-up Apolo Biotech is teaching plants to fight infections
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/rna-as-a-replacement-for-chemical-pesticides/4021654.article?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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IU Biology
8 months ago
IU biologist Roger Innes, newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences, is advancing research on plant immune systems that could increase crop yields and reduce costs for farmers.
@inneslab.bsky.social
@msr20.bsky.social
@luciaborniego.bsky.social
Read more:
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FASEB
9 months ago
#PDevSRC
is back for 2025! The premier platform for experts in plant developmental biology to collaborate will welcome keynotes Siobhan Brady and Niko Geldner. Check out the video and view the full agenda:
buff.ly/FD5WJgb
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Journal of Experimental Botany
9 months ago
🌽 💧 SPECIAL ISSUE EXPERT VIEW 🌱 🚰 Roles of hormones in regulating root growth–water interactions – Sharma et al. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Jess Foster 🏳️🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her
about 1 year ago
one of my labmates is a genius, behold her tiny arabidopsis farm made from a 96-well plate and pcr strip lids 🤩😆
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Lucia Strader
9 months ago
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.
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Active transport enables protein condensation in cells
The force generated by active transport modulates protein condensation.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv7875
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The Plant Cell
9 months ago
📣 Join us on May 30 at 9 EDT, for a The Plant Cell panel discussion focusing on “Translational Research from Arabidopsis to Crop Plants and Beyond".🌱 👉Learn more and register at
blog.aspb.org/may-30-plant...
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Journal of Experimental Botany
11 months ago
REVIEW: 'Making the most of canopy light: shade avoidance under a fluctuating spectrum and irradiance' - Romina Sellaro et al.,
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Ari Pekka Mähönen
11 months ago
Wow, cAMP production appears to be the key for activating canonical auxin signalling, not AUX/IAA degradation! Also annoying - I need to revise quite a many teaching slides to update auxin signalling 😀
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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TIR1-produced cAMP as a second messenger in transcriptional auxin signalling - Nature
cAMP produced by the TIR1/AFB receptors of the main endogenous developmental plant hormone auxin acts as a true second messenger, revising the established paradigm of transcriptional auxin signalling.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08669-w
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Rodrigo Reis
about 1 year ago
📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣 I’m very excited to announce our next JC: Matías Capella (
@maticapella.bsky.social
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Plantae.org
about 1 year ago
Plant Sci. Res. Weekly -- Abundant RNAs on the leaf surface (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA)
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@luciaborniego.bsky.social
@inneslab.bsky.social
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(Summary by Mary Williams
@plantteaching.bsky.social
https://plantae.org/abundant-unusual-rnas-on-the-leaf-surface
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Abundant, unusual RNAs on the leaf surface | Plantae
It seems that there is no end to the surprises that RNA provides. To the old-school trio of mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA, the past 20 years have added miRNA, siRNA, tasiRNA and others, all with unique and…
https://plantae.org/abundant-unusual-rnas-on-the-leaf-surface/
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Prof Sam Illingworth
about 1 year ago
🌱 Plants Shape Their Microbiome New research shows plant leaves are coated with unique RNAs that might help control the microbes living on their surface - a potential way plants protect themselves. 🔗
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#PlantScience
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409090121
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The Daily Pub
about 1 year ago
Scientists discovered that plants can send RNA to their leaf surfaces, possibly helping control fungal infections even before the fungus breaches the plant. This suggests plants might use RNA to manage microbes living on their leaves, with a range of RNA types involved, particularly tRNAs.
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Diverse plant RNAs coat Arabidopsis leaves and are distinct from apoplastic RNAs.
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409090121
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Science X / Phys.org
about 1 year ago
RNA molecules on plant leaves may influence microbial communities, potentially affecting plant health and interactions. This discovery highlights a new aspect of plant-microbe interactions.
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New research reveals RNA on leaves may impact microbial communities
Biologists at Indiana University Bloomington have shown that the surfaces of plant leaves are coated with a diverse array of RNA molecules.
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-reveals-rna-impact-microbial-communities.html?utm_source=bsky.app&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=v2
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Meenu Singla-Rastogi
about 1 year ago
What excites us most about this discovery is that it indicates plants may control their microbiomes, in part, by regulating gene expression in microbes using cross-kingdom RNA interference, also known as RNAi -
@luciaborniego.bsky.social
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Rodrigo Reis
about 1 year ago
Oh wow! RNA coats leaves (possibly for defence)! Exciting field ahead
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Diverse plant RNAs coat Arabidopsis leaves and are distinct from apoplastic RNAs | PNAS
Transgenic expression of a double-stranded RNA in plants can induce silencing of homologous mRNAs in fungal pathogens. Although such host-induced g...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2409090121?af=R
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Megha H Sampangiramaiah
about 1 year ago
Did you know there are RNAs on leaf surface and are stable? Do check out our new publication which shares an amazing science and opens new avenues to explore more 😊. New year New hopes New enthusiasm 🎉
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Diverse plant RNAs coat Arabidopsis leaves and are distinct from apoplastic RNAs | PNAS
Transgenic expression of a double-stranded RNA in plants can induce silencing of homologous mRNAs in fungal pathogens. Although such host-induced g...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409090121
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Meenu Singla-Rastogi
about 1 year ago
What a great start to the year 2025. Just published online is our PNAS paper - Diverse plant RNAs coat Arabidopsis leaves and are distinct from apoplastic RNAs
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Diverse plant RNAs coat Arabidopsis leaves and are distinct from apoplastic RNAs | PNAS
Transgenic expression of a double-stranded RNA in plants can induce silencing of homologous mRNAs in fungal pathogens. Although such host-induced g...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409090121
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Roger Innes
about 1 year ago
Very happy to start the new year with publication of our new work on leaf surface RNA. Plant leaves secrete diverse RNAs that are surprisingly stable on their surfaces. Next question to answer: What do they do?
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
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