An oxygen-sensing Polycomb-group protein encodes flooding stress memory in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.01.722198v1

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...

Is this the end of science as we know it? mikhoelias.substack.com/p/how-ai-bre...

For those who missed this at the other place: open.substack.com/pub/mikhoeli...

University of Nottingham set to cut 600 jobs in major cost-cutting move #Nottinghamshire #Notts

N-terminal cysteine dependent proteolysis of RGS4/5 is not sensitive to physiological oxidative stress | Preprint by Ya-Min Tian, Haeun Kim, Peter Ratcliffe & Thomas Keeley @ox.ac.uk @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social #N-degron #cysteine www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We knew PCOs & ERFVIIs regulated plant hypoxia, but this work shows they also manage the 'reoxygenation' stress. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @uni-muenster.de

🎉 Thrilled - our new Nature Chemistry paper identifying H3K9acOH, a new histone PTM formed by JmjC oxygenase KDM3A - revealing an O2‑dependent PTM in chromatin regulation. Congrats to CRUK KDM team in the Kawamura & Schofield groups & thanks to our amazing collaborators! 📄 rdcu.be/fdx4f #Epigenetics

Generation of Brassica napus with enhanced Sclerotinia sclerotiorum resistance through CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated inhibition of the PROTEOLYSIS6 N‐degron pathway Lin et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The N-degron pathways move from basic to applied science. This pathway will prove to be of key importance for agricultural improvement. Very happy to have been a part of this work led by Chen Lin and colleagues. #plantscience #nendrule #hypoxia nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo

New publication from Markus Wirtz and colleagues on N-terminal protein acetylation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌱 CRAG launches an international call for early‑career researchers! We invite young scientists interested in starting their independent research group at CRAG 📅 Deadline - April 26 Apply now 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/jdwzombrbd

Proteostasis UK Logo Competition Design our new logo and win registration, UK‑based travel, and accommodation to attend the UK Proteostasis Meeting 2026, 20–21 July at The Francis Crick Institute, London. See here for more information: proteostasisuk.co.uk/calls/proteo... Deadline: 1st May 2026

I am definitely where I belong! So proud of me right now 🥰 and grateful of my support system in this team 🥂!

Finally officially out!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We moved the main oxygen sensing machinery from plants to yeast and we learned a few things!

What features are required to shape hypoxic niches enclosing meristems? We @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social in collab @pieterverboven.bsky.social found that a combination of cuticle barrier, densely packed tissue and metabolic activity all uniquely contribute to maintain shoot apical meristem hypoxia

Marsh Clubmoss rediscovered in Dunbartonshire by @bsbiscotland.bsky.social of @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Asgard #archaea: have we found our microbial ancestors? New review (also for newcomers to the field!) by Christa Schleper and Thiago Rodrigues-Oliveira link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Freshly online 🗞️ In Vivo Monitoring of Energy Metabolism with Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors 🌱🔋🌈🔬 @jan-oleniemeier.bsky.social @morganlab-saarland.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Back to crossing, this time with the horrible mutant nia1 nia2 #arabidopsis #genetics #plantscience

I'd like to remind everyone that CAM has evolved as many if not more times than C4. There are entire biomes where CAM is dominant. If you like tequila, or pineapple, or your pretty orchid you got at the grocery store, you can thank CAM. Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk. Or CAMtalk as it were.

Rewiring an E3 #ligase enhances #cold resilience and #phosphate use in #maize www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience #SciComm @nature.com @natcellbio.nature.com @maizesausage.bsky.social @plantnerd.bsky.social @jchrispires.bsky.social @mrillig.bsky.social @nmouquet.bsky.social

Switching on and off the #hypoxic response in #plants academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... #PlantScience #SciComm @jxbotany.bsky.social @olmiemma.bsky.social @theplantlab.bsky.social @isplore.bsky.social @n-end-rules.bsky.social @hartman-plantlab.com @plantstress.bsky.social @plantredox.bsky.social

Switching on and off the hypoxic response in plants url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

Feeling blue? Find out more about the dark side of phototropin signalling 😀 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

One as Head of Plant Science at Leeds The new Plant Sciences page is now live and linked to from the FBS Research and Innovation homepage - interested in joining or collaborating? Learn about the research and opportunities by visiting this website! biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/plant-sciences

Happy to see our review online in @jxbotany.bsky.social 🌱 In this work, we provide an overview of the molecular mechanisms plants use to survive under low oxygen stress and during recovery after reoxygenation 🌊 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

My review “Co-translational control of protein stability and quality in plants” is now online at @jxbotany.bsky.social, in which I describe how co-translational processing and ribosome-associated quality control together establish protein stability and fate early in synthesis. tinyurl.com/5dhhz9h6

I completely agree. However, I’ve found that several Chinese researchers publishing impactful work recently haven't responded to my invitations. If you have other recommendations—perhaps colleagues who are particularly active—please let me know!

Protein event of the year - sign up today! See you at beautiful Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo for the FEBS 2026 Protein Termini Workshop. #ProteinTermini #Proteostasis #ProteinModifications #StructuralBiology #PalazzoDeiNormanni #Palermo2026 proteintermini.org/meeting/

8 days left to register | 28 invited speakers | Keynotes from F. Ulrich Hartl, Roland Beckmann and Michael Rapé | #chaperones #degradation #ubiquitin #cryoEM #acetylation #lipidation #ribosomes #proteins proteintermini.org/meeting/

Join us in Palermo! FEBS Workshop Protein Termini 2026: the power of protein termini across bacteria, plants, and animals—from ribosome biology to proteostasis and applications. Deadline: 3 March 2026 proteintermini.org/meeting #ProteinTermini #Proteostasis #FEBS #EMBO @iubmb.bsky.social

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller? Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase. 1/n

Sad to say that after 14 years of service the vseed server vseed.nottingham.ac.uk will soon be retired. Do not despair our community resource for seed germination network analysis is still available at netvis.ico2s.org/dev/seednet/#/ thanks to Professor Natalio Krasnogor at Newcastle University

Surprisingly: "Conditional stability of HY5 through the ATE N-degron pathway regulates environmental responses in Arabidopsis thaliana". The shining bounds of N-degron pathway influence expands! @charlene-kunaka.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Conditional stability of HY5 through the ATE N-degron pathway regulates environmental responses in Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.10.705009v1

Are you, or do you know someone that is excited to do a PhD in plant biology. We are happy to offer a position to explore physiology, gene regulatory networks and wild species. Come join our team in a stimulating scientific environment at the University of Groningen! werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/phd...

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Discrete and cell-specific hypoxic responses in Arabidopsis roots resolved by single-nuclei transcriptomics Hill et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Last X-Mas, the ribosome gave you methionine, but the very next day, MetAP took it away. This year, to save histones from tears, NatD gives you an acetyl group. ⭐️ Explore our latest paper with the Deuerling lab @uni-konstanz.de and Shu-ou Chan lab @caltech.edu! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So happy to see this work finally online! In this Research Review, I discuss the emerging roles of H3K27me3 writers (the enzymes that lay it down) and erasers (the enzymes that remove it) in controlling plant adaptation 🌿🌡️❄️🦠 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

UKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...

What a terrible terrible idea

Lovely new review on H3K27me3 dynamics and potential functions in #plantscience by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We’ve made some new tools to manipulate N-recognins. Check them out in our preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just registered for FEBS advanced workshop Protein termini 2026 in Palermo #proteintermini2026 (?) Looking forward to a great meeting. @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social www.conferencecentral.org/webpage/view...