1/8 🔥 New preprint dropped: Dynamic co-existence of bacteriophages and their hosts 🦠 in the Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱 phyllosphere Work led by the indomitable @sheilaroitman.bsky.social‬ #plantscience #microbiome #holobiont www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Preprint alert 🚨 (1/10) 🧵 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺: It can promote resistance, susceptibility, or restrict cell death 🤯 So what is its actual role? We show it acts as a spatial organizer of immunity across cell types 🌱🦠 #proteostasis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New #preprint 😍‼️ led by 2 incredible postdocs @ninizhani.bsky.social & Ranj Papareddy: transforming #UFMylation from a local ribosome rescue pathway to systems level regulator of mRNA splicing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short 🧵

A high-affinity split-HaloTag for live-cell protein labeling. And much more. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌸⚖️ RESEARCH ⚖️🌸 Live imaging and hormone manipulation shows how auxin–cytokinin crosstalk drives differential growth at the cellular level in the gynoecium to establish the correct geometry for carpel primordia initiation – Gómez-Felipe et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Congrats Milica @alessandrick.bsky.social & everyone @gekaragoz.bsky.social lab. Glad we could contribute to this awesome story on #UFMylation & #RQC crosstalk @embojournal.org link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cell-type-specific immune programs orchestrate spatial defense in the Arabidopsis leaf epidermis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Good article (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/b...

✨ This discovery offers a new perspective on plant productivity and could help develop crops that allocate resources more efficiently under challenging conditions. 🔗 You can read the full news here:

FERONIA regulates plant thermomorphogenesis via nuclear translocation and auxin pathway modulation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New article- we developed a strategy to fortify salads with Vitamin B12 in indoor farms. Sorry, no chronobiology in this one! A wonderful collaboration between @johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and LettUs Grow www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🌱🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬🌱 TORC1 integrates phosphorus and iron signals to regulate root architecture under stress, revealing key mechanisms of root plasticity and offering novel strategies to improve phosphorus use efficiency in crops – Choi et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

We just posted a preprint about a death mechanism that we find truly surprising. When you turn off transcription, cells die (duh!)... but did you know this happens due to loss of Pol II itself, not loss of Pol II activity!?! preprint here and a thread (1/n): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪

❗️Excited to share our new review in J Exp Bot on PELOTA and ribosome-associated quality control in plants 🌱 We explore how translation surveillance connects with RNA silencing, development, and plant immunity. Great work by PhD student Gemma Sans-Coll 👏 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

📣 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

Our beautiful work is out in Current Biology! @currentbiology.bsky.social Immune activation suppresses reproductive growth in Arabidopsis through cytokinin signaling: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

our cluster is searching for a technical assistant for supporting joint plant phenotyping experiments to be carried out at the University of Hohenheim www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Immune activation suppresses reproductive growth in Arabidopsis through cytokinin signaling www.cell.com/current-biol...

Reading one of the first publications documenting circadian rhythms in humans and it’s essentially two professors torturing an assistant prof. so i guess not much has changed in academia in 130 years 🙃

My review “Co-translational control of protein stability and quality in plants” is now online at @jxbotany.bsky.social, in which I describe how co-translational processing and ribosome-associated quality control together establish protein stability and fate early in synthesis. tinyurl.com/5dhhz9h6

RNA splicing generates a functionally specialized Rep protein isoform in geminiviruses — enabling timely control of the viral cycle. Strikingly, similar strategies might have evolved in DNA viruses infecting different kingdoms: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Spearheaded by @delphinem-p.bsky.social!

@hanhtkvu.bsky.social @embl.org & we are looking for a #postdoc to study #regeneration x #autophagy across kingdoms of life. Pls spread the word & get in touch if you are interested www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...

Cool story from @meristemania.bsky.social lab on growth-defense tradeoff at the shoot apical meristem www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Recruitment of bifunctional regulator thermospermine to methylated ribosomes directs xylem fate | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Great news: Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowships for Julia Baulies and @delyan.bsky.social funded. Looking forward to exciting work on root regeneration and TOR signaling, respectively!

Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? I’ve got an open PhD position www.photobodies.com/about-6 in the framework of the AGILE Marie Curie Doctoral Network cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026. #phd #job

Looking forward to meeting you at PEM2026 this summer, in beautiful Montpellier 🌱 Registration is open, join us! 👇🏼

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 🌱 🔬 Plasmodesmata (PD) are membrane-lined channels in cell walls 🔬 In this editorial, Brunkard & Burch-Smith shift focus from "which molecules move through PD?" to "which molecules are *prevented* from moving through PD?" 🔎 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Root growth in Arabidopsis depends on the amount of glutathione and not the glutathione redox potential academic.oup.com/jxb/article-... @jxbotany.bsky.social

Happy to share that our improved preprint Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella has been accepted for publication. Stay tuned. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

mRNA methylation at the crossroads of translation, transport, and decay in plant development and stress responses www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

Excited to share our work about autophagy and raffinose. So proud of Sahar Magen for doing a great job and grateful for all the people who helped bring this work to light. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great preprint by Liu, Blanford et al. (2025) on how trehalose 6-phosphate #T6P stimulates plant cell growth via #PlantTOR and is required for sucrose-induced TOR activation in #Arabidopsis by suppressing #SnRK1 in a dose-dependent manner, thereby mediating the antagonistic TOR–SnRK1 relationship.

Timing of transcription controls the selective translation of newly synthesized mRNAs during acute environmental stress

Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A synthetic transcription cascade enables direct in planta shoot regeneration for transgenesis and gene editing in multiple plants #resource #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Such a cool pre-print on making sentinel plants - so much potential! Bioluminescent sentinel plants enable autonomous diagnostics of viral infections www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An important connection with the plant TOR signalling pathway!

In vivo RNA structure influences the translation and stability of plant long noncoding RNAs #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Out First Release in @science.org this week: The development of a directed evolution strategy with proof of concept in plant immune protein engineering. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

FRET sensor for SA developed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/8) Could photoperiodic responses have evolved prior to the emergence of circadian clocks? nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

And now for something completely different in co-translational targeting: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Happy to share our review on the Interplay between RNA-protein interactions and RNA structures. The open access article can be accessed here: doi.org/10.1002/2211...

RNA-binding proteins orchestrating immunity in plants onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Look at this crazy thing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Restricted edition of ALS is required during co-edition in order to maintain normal tomato development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.27.672575v1

"Large-scale single-cell profiling of stem cells identifies redundant regulators of shoot development and yield trait variation" From: www.cell.com/developmenta... #PlantScience