My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

Serial section videography (SSV): A low-cost protocol for generating 3D reconstructions of internal plant structure New in #AppsPlantSci by Jacob Suissa & Giselle Reyes bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantanatomy #plantdevelopment #microCT #PlantScience

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

When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱

🚨 Applications are open for the 2026 JXB Editorial Internships! 🚨 🌱 Designed for ECRs, you will gain behind-the-scenes publishing experience, write commentary pieces & join the JXB Editorial Board meeting next year 👩‍💻✈️ Deadline: 30 Sept 2025 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns #PlantScience 🧪

Thrilled to have our spatial single-cell atlas of the Arabidopsis lifecycle in @NaturePlants. Turns out that its easy to make nice images when spatial expression of 1,000 genes is available! 1/n @natanellae.bsky.social @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @joeecker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌱 Xenium breaks barriers in plant spatial biology! Thick cell walls, autofluorescence & complex tissues have long challenged spatial transcriptomics. A new bioRxiv preprint shows an optimised @10xgenomics.bsky.social Xenium workflow for Medicago truncatula roots & nodules. #PlantScience #Xenium

Best practices in plant fluorescence imaging and reporting: A primer (Kirk J Czymmek , Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso , Tessa Burch-Smith , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

VACANCY Optical Microscopy Specialist Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

GROUP LEADER VACANCY JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences. If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

🌱 Thrilled to see our latest collaborative work with @jennyrussinova.bsky.social @nvukas.bsky.social published in Cell! By combining single-cell RNA-seq and live imaging, we uncovered previously hidden brassinosteroid signaling states and their role in optimizing root growth. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Congratulations to @stevenkelly.bsky.social on joining EIT Oxford as Chief Scientific Officer - Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture! 🌱🎉 Steve will continue his impactful work at Oxford biology while driving innovation in sustainable agriculture at EIT. Read more: www.eit.org/news/eit-exp...

Join us in Ghent on June 14-15 for two days of Plant Vascular Development! A satellite meeting of ICAR25 #ICAR25 More info at icar25.com Spread the word! #PlantScience

1/10 We are thrilled to share our preprint on spatial transcriptomics in wheat spikes led by the amazing @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister. We resolved expression of 200 genes to cellular resolution. Pre-print👉 tinyurl.com/c7t3kncf., @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

Do you want to know how to live-image internal floral organs with confocal microscope for up to 2 weeks? Check out our protocol: bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?... #Arabidopsis #Flower

We want you to work with us! Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences: bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Happy to share our latest publication on @newphyt.bsky.social! Big thanks to reviewers and editor, and a special shoutout to all the amazing authors involved. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KNJADW...

Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41... New from the Ecker lab in collaboration with the Hibberd lab. Congrats all!

How does MP influence PIN1 polarity? Here’s our latest preprint …… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come work with us! Please repost! We are looking for a Research Assistant to provide new insights into the holistic understanding of water use in global crop staple, rice. Apply online before Nov. 3. vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

We are embarking on an exciting journey- come work with us! We are also looking for 2 PDRAs!! vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Apply online before Nov. 5. Please RT!

Some seedlings use air shafts around their cells to refract light and sense its direction. This discovery helps answer how plants seem to know where light is coming from.

Opportunities to work in my group at the RDP laboratory. Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available. Apply to join a fantastic scientific environment in Lyon! Please forward to anyone who might be interested. www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/IMG/pdf/... www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/IMG/pdf/...

Rubisco, the enzyme which fuels life on our planet and fixes billions of tonnes CO2 each year, is notoriously inefficient. But new research reveals it isn't stuck in an evolutionary rut - it's actually improving, just at a glacial pace 👇https://bit.ly/3Ity4A8

Great collaboration between biologists and computer scientists. Need robust 3D nuclear segmentation? In deeper tissue layers with poor nuclear staining? Wide applicability? This and more in our latest paper.. bit.ly/3uG2Brd #PlantScience #PlantBiology #PlantDevelopment #PlantCellBio #PlantEvoDevo

Open postdoc with Jill Harrison at Bristol Uni to study the evolution of apical growth Deadline 15th March Come join our HFSP funded team to investigate apical growth! thenode.biologists.com/jobs/would-y...

ggPlantmap github.com/leonardojo/g... Convert Icy-traced Plant images into ggPlot Integrable with bulk or sc-RNAseq data Generate .svg for Plant eFP viewer @jxbotany.bsky.social 2024 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Women in Science: 6 Pioneers in Plant Photobiology To celebrate the “International Day of Girls and Women in Science”, Botany One highlights six exceptional female researchers who greatly contributed to shed new light on Plant Photobiology. botany.one/2024/02/wome...

Bluesky is now open to everyone — invitation codes are no longer required! bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Spatial transcriptomics reveals distinct lineage identities for major and minor vein initiation during maize leaf development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.05.578898v1

In analogy to water conducting cells in vascular plants' xylem, cell wall reinforcements and programmed cell death are used to facilitate water transport in Marchantia pegged rhizoids. An amazing paradigm of convergent evolution in land plants! More here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

ASPB wants to share and fund your plant curriculum materials! Receive up to $8500 to create and disseminate classroom activities & labs that support teaching the Principles for Teaching #plantscience. Learn more and apply by 4/8: bloome.aspb.org