Do you know how plants beat the heat? 🌱🔥 Check out these two new papers from the @casallab.bsky.social and @luciastrader.bsky.social labs! They show how plants rewire their auxin pathway to thrive under high temperatures. Big congrats to Belu et al.! @belenborniego.bsky.social 👏✨🤩

🚨📢 Excited to share our back-to-back publications in @natcomms.nature.com! 🧬🌡️ In a fantastic collaboration between @casallab.bsky.social and @luciastrader.bsky.social, we’ve showed how plants "re-tune" the auxin pathway to regulate growth in response to warmth. 🌡️🌱 🧵 rdcu.be/fayYC, rdcu.be/fay0X

Avoiding the shadow: How plants perceive neighbours and reshape the crop light environment url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

🔎 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/... #PlantScience 🧪

Why I’m genetically engineering a rainbow flower… And how a Russian fairy tale inspired the idea 🧵

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)

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...

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...

Hiring a #postdoc to join our new lab at CSU! oconnorlab.colostate.edu

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: 17th International Conference on Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants 👉https://buff.ly/W6MxzYZ #PlantScience

Next Week! Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V

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 (Editor in Chief) us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #PlantSci

🌟 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 @geminiteamlab.bsky.social 🔹 Hervé Vaucheret More speakers and more info coming soon!

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 #PlantScience

💯 agree. No reason to provide sugar to Arabidopsis, many reasons against.

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 #MassSpec #Proteintech

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

Members of PCA Publish A Guide to Elevate Plant Fluorescence Microscopy. Read More Here: www.danforthcenter.org/news/global-...

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.

🌱 Announcing our brand new webinar series all 'aabout' #plantscience & #sustainableagriculture 🌱 Starting 23rd September with talks on #CRISPR in crops from: 🌾 @sadiyehayta.bsky.social 🍓 #ECR Ryan Creeth 🥔 @annalsapplbio.bsky.social author Karam Mostafa Register for free: buff.ly/qdflQbB

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...

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!

🔥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!

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... 🧪 #PlantScience

‘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.

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: go.iu.edu/8tDD

#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

🌽 💧 SPECIAL ISSUE EXPERT VIEW 🌱 🚰 Roles of hormones in regulating root growth–water interactions – Sharma et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

one of my labmates is a genius, behold her tiny arabidopsis farm made from a 96-well plate and pcr strip lids 🤩😆

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. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📣 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.... #plantscience

REVIEW: 'Making the most of canopy light: shade avoidance under a fluctuating spectrum and irradiance' - Romina Sellaro et al., doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 🧪 #plantscience

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...

📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣 I’m very excited to announce our next JC: Matías Capella (@maticapella.bsky.social) will present his preprint on DNA methylation in thermomorphogenesis. Don't miss out!!

Plant Sci. Res. Weekly -- Abundant RNAs on the leaf surface (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA) @msr20.bsky.social @luciaborniego.bsky.social @inneslab.bsky.social @pbaldrich.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @plantteaching.bsky.social https://plantae.org/abundant-unusual-rnas-on-the-leaf-surface

🌱 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 #Microbiology #SciComm 🧪

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.

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. doi.org/g8xrjt

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 @inneslab.bsky.social www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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Oh wow! RNA coats leaves (possibly for defence)! Exciting field ahead www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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 🎉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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/... @pbaldrich.bsky.social @meghahs28.bsky.social @inneslab.bsky.social

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....