So happy and proud to share our lab’s first #plantscience research article, revealing that angiosperms have the capacity to encode memory of flooding stress. A heroic effort by @aidamaric.bsky.social in collaboration with @djgibbs.bsky.social and others. A brief 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very cool work that sounds very familiar! Maybe we chose to work in the wrong species... 🌱 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New Article: "Occupancy-based mechanism is the chief mode of ROS1 function in preventing DNA hypermethylation" rdcu.be/fb7P0 ROS1 mediates DNA demethylation via a passive mechanism; ROS1 occupancy marks & regulates accessible chromatin, highlighting its diverse roles.

Spatial organization of plant defense at the infection front https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.01.715938v1

Two papers on targeted DNA methylation editing for Arabidopsis came out within a week from each other. 1. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2. academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-... #PlantSciences

Interested in plant development and/or cell walls? We (Sam Amsbury, Andrew Fleming and I) have three PhD positions at the University of Sheffield open for applications until 7th January. We offer a friendly, jointly-run lab, great facilities, an affordable city and proximity to the Peak District!

🌿 3 new PhD positions in the Ton lab @PPS_UoS. Part of the ERC project '#PlantMemo', exploring how plants remember & respond to stress. 🧬 PhD 1 (UK only)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🦠 PhD 2 (UK & EU)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🌱 PhD 3 (UK only)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhD

Really nice study on the evolutionary dynamics of TEs in maize by @jrossibarra.bsky.social and colleagues 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Interesting! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience #epigenetics

forgot to include #plantscience #plantimmunity #epigenetics !

Very excited to finally share the main findings from my PhD, now out as a preprint! We developed an epigenetic system to understand how plants remember and forget past infections - a phenomenon known as immune memory 🌱🧬🧠 Highlights below! 1/9 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... very cool work!

Plants remember stress! The PlantMemo project, led by ‪@jurriaanton.bsky.social‬, has secured an ERC Advanced Grant for an exciting project decoding how stress “memories” boost plant resilience—paving the way for hardier crops. 🔗 www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/... #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #ERC

📜 Herbivory-induced green leaf volatiles increase plant performance through jasmonate-dependent plant–soil feedbacks 🧑‍🔬 Lingfei Hu, Meng Ye, @matthiaserb.bsky.social, Jianming Xu, et al. 📔 @natplants.nature.com 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Herbivory

I'm thrilled to share that our study is now published in Cell: Extensive N4 cytosine methylation is essential for Marchantia sperm function. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... This paper confirms our 4mC discovery in Marchantia sperm and takes it much further. A thread: 0/13

‼️we are pleased to share the first work coming from my lab on biorxiv. Misregulation of the jasmonate signaling pathway leads to altered plant microbiota interaction and plant stress responses biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

does Arabidopsis thaliana cycle through generations faster in 24h light or is 16h optimal? struggling to find any papers on this .. #plantsci

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience

Very excited to share this new preprint from the lab (shorturl.at/l7lNq)! @hendersi.bsky.social si.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social

Cool work from Jacobsen and colleagues. Great to finally have published and public ROS1 Chip-Seq data ! #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Centrophilic retrotransposon integration via CENH3 chromatin in Arabidopsis from Tetsuji Kakutani & colleagues - beautiful insights into control of transposon insertion into the centromeres www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transposon-triggered epigenetic chromatin dynamics modulate EFR-related pathogen response www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A big congratulations to Dr @adamahp.bsky.social who passed his PhD viva! It was a pleasure to see Adam's excellent research accomplishments in plant epigenetic memory with @jurriaanton.bsky.social group, looking forward to reading papers from his super impressive thesis! @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

Forgot to tag #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #PhDPosition

Exciting PhD project with @jurriaanton.bsky.social, @katiefield4.bsky.social, @psaima.bsky.social, @luketdunning.bsky.social. Ecological costs and benefits of stress-induced epigenetic change in plants! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

www.nature.com/articles/s41.... It appears this hasn't circulated on Bluesky yet - still missing some people here! Such a brilliant example of transposon domestication in plants, driven by environmental stress. #plantscience