Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

"Organic food isn't pesticide-free - or better for the planet" It's nice to have such a clear statement directly in the title 👏 Interview with Ian Godwin from Queensland University, Australia for Contact Magazine. qaafi.uq.edu.au/article/2025... #PlantScience #OrganicFood #PlantNGTs #PlantGMOs

Die #DFG fördert eine nationale Servicestelle für Diamond #OpenAccess zur Erhöhung der Leistungsfähigkeit deutscher Infrastrukturen. Ziele sind gleichberechtigter Zugang zum wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesen und dessen Weiterentwicklung. Weitere Infos: ⬇️ www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Wow, that's huge. Congratulations Ute!

Die #DFG ruft zur Einreichung von Vorschlägen für eine Großgeräteinitiative im Jahr 2026 auf. Vorschläge können aus allen Bereichen der #Wissenschaft kommen. Ziel ist, besonders vielversprechender Technologie für die Forschung zugänglich zu machen. Alle Infos: ⬇️ www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Hallo Bluesky! Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!

Der DFG-Förderatlas 2024 zur öffentlich finanzierten Forschung in Deutschland ist jetzt online! Auch der #DAAD ist vertreten – mit Zahlen, die zeigen, wie internationale Hochschulkooperationen und Mobilitätsprogramme zur #Internationalisierung beitragen: ➡️ foerderatlas.dfg.de @dfgpublic.bsky.social

The team has successfully developed #rice varieties through marker-assisted backcross breeding that are #resistant to bacterial blight. They will be transferred to partners in #Madagascar and #Tanzania, where they'll be tested in the field before they are distributed to local farmers.

Dr Ibrahim Hashim from TARI in Tanzanian found that a recent BB outbreak is causing significant yield losses in Tanzania, having a massive impact on economic stability and regional nutrition. Comparable losses are estimated in Madagascar, as Dr Mathilde Hutin from @ird-fr.bsky.social reports.

The newly developed BB-resistant rice varieties are now transferred to plant breeders and researchers working locally in Madagascar and Tanzania for field testing. Afterwards these varieties could be released in the national registration processes and made available to farmers.

I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution. If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐 go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS

@plantepigenetics.ch created one go.bsky.app/HyTwdc2

This is about one particular part of doing science: reading scientific papers. My final-year undergrads found it useful. 1st year grad students might as well, even if they have already been assigned quite a few papers. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Taking a stab at a starter pack of Evolutionary Biologists — this was trickier than expected both because of the interface setup and because of the 150-person limit go.bsky.app/TUNHbNu

Forschungsfördertage – 12. & 13. Nov 2024: Einen Überblick über (inter-)nationale Förderprogramme erhalten, an einer Podiumsdiskussion mit erfolgreichen #HHU Forschungsgruppenleiter*innen teilnehmen und lernen, wie man eine Forschungsgruppe finanziert. juno.hhu.de/fft-2024

📜 CRISPR-edited crops break new ground in Africa 🧑‍🔬 Heidi Ledford 📔 @natureportfolio.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #Agriculture #Sustainability #FoodSecurity

It has been a great #PSBS24. I planned to post a bit during the Symposium - but it's been too interesting and busy to spend time on the phone! Fantastic talks from many #PlantScience -related fields 👍👌 Thanks to all attendees and supporters; @hhu.bsky.social, @ceplas.bsky.social, and the RSF. 🙏

Kelsey Picard 👩‍🔬 is a #PlantScience PhD-student in Tasmania, 🇦🇺. During her PhD she founded the non-profit #SciComm project 'Science Made Beerable' 🧪🍻. Now, this project launches its own scholarship for aspiring #BeerBrewers. What an achievement! What an inspiration! #WomeninSTEM #WomenInBeer

Did plants repurpose parts of the nuclear pore as size exclusion barriers at #Plasmodesmata? Read more in our @sympore.bsky.social preprint: #PlantScience #PlantCellBio 🧪🥦

Setting up for #PSBS24 amazing organization team!

I have updated the #PlantScience #StarterPack. You can now include 150 accounts, instead of the initial 50. I have tried to focus on active accounts. go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7

The 2nd Decennial #PlantScience & Beyond Symposium will take place in at the @hhu.bsky.social Haus der Universität, this coming Monday (30th Sep) and Tuesday (1st Oct). Amazing line-up of speakers from #Academia #SciPub #SciComm #AppliedScience #BioTech - but always plant-related. 👍

📢 Job alert! The SymPore Team @hhu.bsky.social is seeking a Project Coordinator, preferably with a background in #PlantScienceResearch and/or molecular biology. Please apply online via: karriere.hhu.de//index.php?a... #PlantSciJobs

We are looking for a TA: jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/8... English version should be online soon

The Line-up for the 2nd #PlantScience & Beyond Symposium is now complete. On September 30th and October 1st we'll have an amazing group of plant scientists and academics from adjacent fields in Düsseldorf at the Haus der Universität @hhu.bsky.social. #PSBS24

5/5 These people don't care about humans living in other parts of the world. Where there is not enough food. Children are going blind. Humans suffer from a toxic environment due to overuse of fungicides and pesticides. They don't care. Not one bit. They are safe. Their kids are safe. #PlantScience

2/5 The unknown "Activists" followed the same line that orgs like #Greenpeace and the European #GreenParty have been supporting and promoting for over 30 years now, destroying all plants that were produced by academic (non-profit / non-company) researchers with the aim to help feed the world.

1/5 Researchers in Italy conducted the country's first field trial with #GeneEdited plants. "Activists" have now destroyed the field and plants. These plants - were gene-edited (NOT transgenic) - require less fungicide application, & are thus better for the environment. #PlantScience #PlantGMOs

📜 Improving transient protein expression in agroinfiltrated Nicotiana benthamiana 🧑‍🔬 Konstantina Beritza, Emma C. Watts, Renier A. L. van der Hoorn 📔 @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMethods #Agroinfiltration #PlantTransformation

I have written a couple of threads 🧵 on "classic" #PlantScience papers. I always tag them with #PlantScienceClassics , but will also compile them here in this thread: 👇

Sad to hear Golden Rice's commercialisation has been delayed yet again, but I'm happy to learn the decision is likely to be overturned. Also it's nice the Guardian actually went and talked to scientists, rather than just Greenpeace www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📜 Plasmodesmata and intercellular molecular traffic control 🧑‍🔬 Estee E. Tee, @pdchristine.bsky.social 📔 @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🔊 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (by Tessa Burch-Smith) #️⃣ #PlantScience #Plasmodesmata #PlantSignaling

📜 Sugar transporters spatially organize microbiota colonization along the longitudinal root axis of Arabidopsis 🧑‍🔬 @elizaloopi.bsky.social, @paduba.bsky.social, @healthycrop.bsky.social, et al. 📔 Cell Host & Microbe 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

 📢 Job alert! Are you interested in #PlantScienceResearch, molecular biology and microscopy? Then send your application! We are looking for a postdoc to join our team at @hhu.bsky.social. See adverts below.   #PlantSciJobs

Fantastic news that the latest results of the Beal Seed Experiment are published. If you don't know about this experiment, I recommend you definitely check out the #ScienceVs Podcast episode on this here: gimletmedia.com/shows/scienc... #PlantScience #SeedScience #SciencePodcast #Botany

#PlantScienceClassics #1: The ABC model. 30 years ago, in 1991, plant science legends John Bowman, David Smyth and Elliott Meyerowitz published their groundbreaking paper on the ABC model in Development: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Congratulations to SYMPORE member Vicky Howe from @simonrdg.bsky.social Lab, who was selected as new Assistant Features Editor at The Plant Cell.

Leopoldina and DFG call for science-based decisions in the EU debate on new genomic techniques such as genome editing in plant breeding #breeding #plantscience #gmo #genomeediting #crispr www-leopoldina-org.translate.goog/en/presse-1/...

📜 Near-infrared imaging of phytochrome-derived autofluorescence in plant nuclei 🧑‍🔬 Akira Yoshinari & Masayoshi Nakamura et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy

Beautiful new cover of the latest Issue of Trends in #PlantScience

"Cytosolic RGG RNA-binding proteins are temperature sensitive flowering time regulators in Arabidopsis" Andrea Bleckmann & Thomas Dresselhaus et al. www.degruyter.com/document/doi... #PlantScience #FloweringTime #PlantDevelopment

Some thoughts on poster presentations (leafingthroughbiology.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/t...) and an example, from Vicky Howe. #PlantScience

"Blueprint for non-transgenic edited plants" News & Views by Jean-Luc Gallois & Fabien Nogué www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience #GeneEditing #NGTs #PlantGMO