💡🔬 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 💡🔬 Neubauer et al. developed a Nostoc reporter strain enabling high-throughput quantitative monitoring of hormogonia differentiation in cyanobacteria as a response to biotic and abiotic factors. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @peterszovenyi.bsky.social

Join us for the 4th annual NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Our @JohnInnesCentre @TheSainsburyLab Friday seminar today is hosted by Hyeonmin @Hynmn_Jeong / Susana Coelho on the curious world of brown algae 👀

I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A thread 👇

🌱 RESEARCH 🌱 Mistletoe forms a strong attachment to the host already at the seedling stage by combining an interlocking mechanism with the hypocotyl, forming a bridge-like structure that strengthens the parasite–host connection - Teixeira-Costa et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

So excited to see our review on how to detect horizontal gene transfers and their impact on plant functional evolution finally published in @theplantcell.bsky.social! Great teamwork between @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social and LGDP-Perpignan 😎🥳🌱 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

A synthetic ERFVII-dependent circuit in yeast sheds light on the regulation of early hypoxic responses of plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673502v1

So very proud of my student George Greiff for winning the David Hanke Medal for the best student talk at this year’s Gatsby Plant Science network meeting in Oxford. Well deserved at the end of a busy and productive PhD 👏🏻💕.

Ok, hear me out, here's the plan:

I’m very grateful and excited to start our ARIA-funded project on redesigning plant immunity!

We've tried to gather and unite the streptophyte algae community all around the world to join forces and develop tools and methods for these critters. Learn more about it on @currentbiology.bsky.social! With @jandevries.bsky.social, @dolfweijers.bsky.social, and (many) others! tinyurl.com/29n4zwen

Nice and visual talk by Soyon Park about parasitic plant bidirectional communication with their host plant. #2025ISMPMI #parasiticplants #plantscience

🎉 Exciting news during #2025ISMPMI Our AlphaFold sensor vs helper NLR paper is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social‬! Big thanks to the reviewers for their constructive feedback 🙏 📖 Check out the peer-reviewed version here 👇 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... bsky.app/profile/yusu...

Last chance to apply for the open postdoc position in our lab!

Ordovician marine Charophyceae and insights into land plant derivations www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Have you ever wondered why virus-infected plants twist, curl, yellow, and/or stop growing? We did—you can read what we found in our latest review: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @gmvalora.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social

ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Latest #preprint from the lab @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Please welcome Nissolia brasiliensis, the new non-nodulating model legume ☘️ developped by Camille Girou in the team! Work led by Tatiana, with input from many! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?

Tweeps, please spread the word. We're still looking at recruiting a structural biologist (any level) to study plant-pathogen protein complexes especially in the context of coevolution. Direct inquiries welcome. Please include a cover letter. Applicant from US welcome? medium.com/@kamounlab/2...

Excited to host the UK NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year on Friday December the 12th. It’s a great community and these meetings are always fun and informative. Whether you’re a seasoned expert or a newbie looking to diversify your research, please consider joining us!

🌱🌻Finally out! All ICIPS PIs had their say in a seminal 31 page review on the evolution of land plant sexual reproduction. With lots of fine figures to share! Thanks to @icips.bsky.social and @dfg.de for funding our work. #PlantScienceResarch, #PlantEvoDevo rdcu.be/elOeI

Lab mice (domesticated for >100y) have kept gut bacterial strains that codiversified w/ rodents for >25My. Here, authors show genetic drift occured in the lab, leading to loss of microb diversity+more deleterious mutations, impacting microbial fitness in lab vs wt mice www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted to see our work now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social. A great place for Bostrychia to stake its claim as an emerging red algal model system. Check it out here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Convergent evolution of "smelling like rotting meat" is mediated by a 3 amino-acid chance in a conserved enzymes, just out @science.org 🔽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The second new paper from the Estelle lab out this week describes the phenotype of moss lines lacking all seven Class-A ARFs (Activating ARFs) and was lead former postdoc Carlisle Bascom, Jr. academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by Gregor Mendel more than 160 years ago https://go.nature.com/3EC3eqT

This is a wild paper. The anaerobic biochemistry is definitely worth your while (and beyond me to explain), but let me try to explain why this is also an evolutionary bombshell. This is about how nitrogen fixation evolved as we know it.

The final version of our study on SERK-BIR module in Marchantia is out. Congratulations Cate and many thanks to collaborators! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have identified a fungal transcription factor, CtBOT6, as a key regulator of the diverse lifestyles exhibited by the root-associated endophyte Colletotrichum tofieldiae along the mutualism–parasitism continuum. Congratulation on @rujimatsu.bsky.social‬! www.cell.com/current-biol...

I am very happy to see this story published! This was a wonderful collaboration between the @mestelle.bsky.social lab (@ucsandiego.bsky.social) on the moss side, Annis Richardson’s lab on the maize side, and @luciastrader.bsky.social lab’s help throughout. #plantscience #auxin

Final version of our preprint on ARF degradation now online @natplants.nature.com. Great job by PhD student Martijn de Roij in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social with @jorgehg.bsky.social and JW Borst. Great to see this appear along @mjprigge.bsky.social paper!!! rdcu.be/ehkTn

Our newest preprint combines maize & moss genetics in a convergently evolving story about a deeply conserved mechanism regulating auxin response in land plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #plantscience #Phytohormones #PlantEvoDevo

For #NationalPetDay, we wanted to give a big shout out to two paw-some animal friends who make #LifeAtJIC that little bit more special 🌟🐾 Rex is our resident JIC #science #cat, but if you’re more of a #dog lover, our colleagues also enjoy regular visitors from Pets As Therapy, such as Snoopy here!

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

🎉 Excited to share that our work is now published in PLOS Genetics @plos.org! The helper NLR NRC3 evolved to evade inhibition by the cyst nematode effector SS15 over 19 million years ago. Check out the peer-reviewed version of our preprint: 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Insights into convergent evolution of cosexuality in liverworts from the Marchantia quadrata genome

[🚨Pre-print alert🚨] Excited to share our findings on the enigmatic ericoid mycorrhizal symbiosis. 🔴For the first time we provide evidence that ericoid mycorrhizae evolved from ancestral arbuscular mycorrhizae through the co-option nutrient-dependent regulation 👇! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants Very happy to share the published version of our work on natural Marchantia-Pseudomonas interactions. Out now in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Really excited to say that my lab's paper on color transitions in Mimulus sect. Erythranthe is out! We found that some traits demonstrate evolutionary convergence in phenotype & genotype, while others are divergent, & that - as Bob Vickery found - bees prefer yellow! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔗 Preprint alert: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 New insights into plant immunity: using ferns to understand evolution! 🌱✨🌿 Excited to share my first (but not last) published research at @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social. A THREAD … [1/9]

Since I've been working on some lycopsids recently, here's a diagram I made several years ago for a blog post I never got around to finishing. So, here you go; enjoy some lycopodiophyte anatomy! #FossilFriday #plants #botany #sciart #FernAllyFriday #lycopod #paleobotany #paleontology

Wonderful to have Rosa Lozano-Durán @GeminiTeamLab University of Tübingen, back in Norwich but now giving a Friday seminar rather than sitting in the audience 😎 #CelebratingAlumni @TheSainsburyLab @JohnInnesCentre   “Hostile takeover - viral strategies to hijack a plant”

TULIP International Summer School 2025 "Biological interactions from genes to ecosystems" 🗓️ From June 21 to 27 🏔️at Germ, French Pyrénées Registration OPEN ✅ www.labex-tulip.fr/eng/news/tul... Open to PhD students, masters students and postdocs.

Extremely thrilled to share that our @annualreviews.bsky.social went online. We discuss advancements in the field and why streptophyte algae are not only evolutionary giants but offer unique opportunities for plant science. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @watertoland.bsky.social

JIC Friday seminar by @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social

Really pleased to transition from 2024 to 2025 with Tatiana Vernie's work on the evolution of the common symbiosis pathway published @pnas.org 🔽 We finally demonstrate that ☘️ have maintained a genetic pathway to engage with🍄for half a billion years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very happy to share the final version of our work on the evolution of broad host virulence in Pseudomonas out now @cellhostmicrobe It’s just in time for the holidays 🎄🦠 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Fay-Wei Li starts his talk with 6 cool facts about hornworts #nonseedUK24 👍