Rising drought risks require resilient wheat. Δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O provide powerful tools for faster, more accurate breeding under climate change. doi.org/10.3389/fsuf... @wheatinitiative.bsky.social @aafc-aac.bsky.social @plantscience.bsky.social

It's #fluorescencefriday. Have you seen the June #specialissue of #CYTOSKELETON? Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19493592... #plant

After #icar2026, the meeting returns to Madison, Wisconsin in the US for #icar2027. @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social

Community Awards #icar2026

What a hat trick! Ousmane Dembélé 🇫🇷⚽️

Keynote Root barrier formation: Walking the line between protection and exchange Niko Geldner University of Lausanne #icar2026

Closing keynote 1: Niko Geldner, Uni. Lausanne, on root barrier formation. #icar2026

Good news to share! My graduate student, @kamdiehl.bsky.social Kamryn, received Frances Chave Memorial Graduate Scholarship! Congratulations, Kamryn 🍀🔬🎉👏😊 Many more awards & fellowships are waiting for you in coming days. Fly High & Far!

Hi all! 🌱 I'm co-moderating tomorrow’s Plantae webinar with Plantae Fellows We'll be hearing from speakers across different career stages about how engaging with scientific societies can support your studies, career development, funding, and more! plantae.org/plantaeprese...

Did you know that Development publishes Techniques and Resources papers? They cover new or improved techniques, as well as new, impactful resources for #devbio. Browse a selection of these free-to-read articles in our subject collection. journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

Amazing talk by Dominique Bergmann on how stomata get their holes (pores) with cool swapping experiments that actually flip the orientation of the guard cells to create what look like butterflies 🦋! #icar2026

Ken Birnbaum kicks off the Single Cell and Spatial Biology concurrent session with a talk about ID-seq for single cell perturbations. #icar2026

Jack Xu from UC Davis uses spatial omics to zoom into inflorescence development. #icar2026

Happy to finally share that I will be starting my independent group at the @fmiscience.bsky.social in Feb 2027 in a vibrant new environment. We will use integrative in situ structural cell biology methods to investigate ciliary structure and dynamics in several model (and non-model 👀) systems!!

In our new preprint, we report how clubmoss plants use an ancient biosynthetic pathway (>300 million years old!) to make huperzine A, an alkaloid with potential as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Great work by Eric Fields and @cyhkim.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#ELMI2026 Workshop on vertical root tracking 🌱🔬 using a 63x oil objective and montage tile scan with PlantScope by @the.3i.social None of this would have been possible without the brilliant samples provided by @schneiderlab.bsky.social, Katharina Bürstenbinder and Gina Stamm – thank you!!

Also important to teach them the value of tagging plots/pots for bookkeeping purposes (maybe even the etiquette of not just grabbing someone else’s tags too)

Gearing up for Single Cell data. Ken Birnbaum is getting us oriented to the space. #icar2026

Dominique Bergmann from Stanford university on the iconic structure of guard cells and their purpose for single plants and for the planet #icar2026 @stanfordstomata.bsky.social

Day 2 kicks off! #icar2026 Plant Development plenary session

Elliot Meyerowitz kicking off #icar2026 with a look at recent work in his lab

We made it to #icar2026! Opening session is about to start. #arabidopsis

making sure my cat learns to appreciate the finer things in life, like corn

Excited to share that our work on single-nucleus RNA-seq of the shoot apical meristem — the shoot stem cell niche — has found a home. #Plantascience #scRNAseq #stemcells www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy #microscopymonday. Today we have the back cover of our latest issue of #CYTOSKELETON. Check out the entire issue here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19493592...

Send us your proposals!

🌾🌽🔬 My graduate student, @juliazheku.bsky.social Julia, is at the annual meeting of Canadian Society of Agronomy this week at University of Guelph. She is giving a talk today. If you are attending, go and find her. agronomycanada.com/next-annual-...

We are falling behind in celebrating. We had several birthdays (Julia, Kamryn, & Scottie), paper acceptance, journal cover, accepted talks, successful workshop, & manuscripts submission (also rejections) in last month We went out last Friday for Japanese food & ice cream. Thanks everyone in the lab

🔬🍀🎥 Filming crew is in the lab today. Joh is in action!

Congratulations to Dr. Joerg Bohlmann of UBC's Michael Smith Laboratories on receiving the 2026 Genome BC Award for Scientific Excellence from Life Sciences BC. @genomebc.bsky.social lifesciencesbc.ca/lsbc-news/ce...

The #NEW issue of #CYTOSKELETON is now out! #SPECIALISSUE: #Plant Cytoskeleton: Discovering the #Cellular dynamicity from model #organisms to #crop plants. Huge thanks to the Guest Editors Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social and Tomokazu Kawashima! Find it: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19493592...

🔬🍀☺️ The first cover image from the lab! Yay! Jessica's image on nuclear movement in polarized root hair cell. Thanks to Julian, Tomo, & @cytoskeljournal.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute as a guest editor for plant cytoskeleton issue. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19493592...

Development publishes top-quality articles and provides classroom materials and textbook-level knowledge over years. There is an overall decline in using classic model organisms. A 2025 stat about decline in NIH R01 funding for yeast, C. elegans and Drosophila. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

June 2026 @theplantjournal.bsky.social Editor’s Choice by Brian Mooney , entitled:“Friendly fungi: Volatile compounds released during plant–fungal interaction stimulate plant growth.” is now available! Read the research highlight: www.sebiology.org/resource/jun... #PlantScience

🆕 Our #LatestIssue is online now! A Joint Special Collection with @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social: Harnessing the benefits of specimen digitisation 📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137... Highlights include: 🌱 Next-generation specimen #digitisation 🌱 #Herbarium specimen images and #AI

A single cell can encode spatial information through regionalized mRNA, and microtubules help maintain that pattern. Stentor are an amazing system, and I plan to continue decoding the rules of intracellular positional identity! Next 🛑: what is UP with the nucleus?

[1/n] Our preprint-in-progress on RNA regionalization in Stentor is no longer in progress! Now @pnas.org 🥳 Turns out a single cell isn't a homogenous soup… it has molecular geography, including things like regionalized transcription factors. Think bicoid, but in a ciliate.

🍃 Growing a flat leaf 🍃 Check out our new review to learn how plants generate, maintain, and modulate flatness. A pleasure to put this together with Alexis De Carufel, Elvis Branchini, in collaboration with Marja Timmermans 🙏 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

apply to be a postdoc in kenji's lab! he's got great neighbours (me and kota mizumoto)!

Picture from the greenhouse today Here I am testing my height against the tallest corn 🌽 plants in the greenhouse!

Genomic diversity and the domestication history of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) @pnas.org from Jonathan Wendel's lab. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... In picture: Wild (left) and domesticated cotton (right). Credit: Corrinne Grover/Iowa State University.

This is the kind of things PhD student Louis can do with @ekatrukha.bsky.social's CurveMorph: following protein movement whithin growing axons in his stunning 80-hour movies

New review on #stress_granules from my group via @jxbotany.bsky.social ☘️ @unisevilla.us.es #biomolecular_condensates 🌱 👇 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Profile of Ikram Blilou nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations to Professor Sir David Baulcombe - Regius Professor of Botany Emeritus @camplantsci.bsky.social - on his election as Master of Trinity College Cambridge. He will succeed Professor Dame Sally Davies who steps down in September. tinyurl.com/yz97jd25 🧪 @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social

A super clear protocol - thanks to the authors!

Our Academic Editor Guangshuo Ou will be attending the @embo.org @embl.org #EESMicrotubules symposium, which starts today. Guangshuo handles articles across the field of #cellbiology so reach out if you'd like to discuss a submission, or visit: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re... #freetopublish

Multi-#kinesin clusters impart mechanical stress that reveals mechanisms of #microtubule breakage in cells. From Qi Geng, Kristen Verhey @kjverhey1.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Part of our #Microtubules collection: rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #EESMicrotubules

#JobAlert The @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Plant Biotechnology. ❗Application Deadline: 10 July 2026 🔗https://kurzlinks.de/1iyt #SignalsOfLife #PlantScience #CIBSS

🎉 Happy Birthday to Barbara McClintock, GSA’s first female president (1945) and a pioneer who transformed genetics. Born June 16, 1902, her discovery of transposable elements, or “jumping genes,” reshaped our understanding of genomes and earned her the 1983 Nobel Prize. 🧬🌽