My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available → authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...

It's time to apply for the New Phytologist #TansleyMedal for excellence in #PlantScience. Open to early career researchers with 3 to 5 years experience post-PhD. Applications close on 1 November. Don't miss out! www.newphytologist.org/grants-award... #ecrchat #phdchat

Great opportunity! Applications are open for @theplantjournal.bsky.social Fellowship scheme - provides support and mentorship for early-year PIs establishing themselves as independent group leaders. Also great chance to learn about the editorial side of #JournalPublishing #PlantScience #PeerReview

Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper. #plantscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It's hard to find the words. There won't be many people in the plant sciences community who won't feel the loss of such a generous soul and penetrating scientific mind.

makes sense....

I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs

Sharing this in case anyone else missed this in @theplantcell.bsky.social. Arabidopsis research remains essential. The phenomenal resources mean complex pathways are so much easier to understand at the genetic level, and it's a great model organism! #plantsci #plantscience 🧪🌿

Great write up of work by @anyalb.bsky.social while in my lab on the use of biomolecular condensates for metabolic engineering. Thanks @ciara-obrien.bsky.social Some incredible papers highlighted in the roundup - well worth a read

Interested in trying out life as a scientific #editor? Based in the UK? Background in #PlantScience? The @plosbiology.org crew is expanding (again!), so a place in our lovely team might be for you...

Out First Release in @science.org today, nice work finding that redox regulates multimerisation of Aux/IAA proteins during root xerobranching: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Itaconate, the poster-child for metabolic reprogramming in animal immunity, now comes out to play in plants! www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

My pick for In Other Journals this week: Sugar signaling boosts wheat yields - field trials of a trehalose-6-phosphate spray that boosts yield, probably via upregulation of starch synthesis and CO2 fixation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paper here: rdcu.be/enUzK #PlantScience

Is there anything this enzyme doesn't do?!

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞! 🌱Plant engineering: advances, bottlenecks, and promise onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... Focused Reviews & Technical Advances 🌿Plant transformation tech 🧬Gene editing & synthetic biology 🔧Emerging engineering strategies breakthroughs & challenges 🧵⬇️

Outstanding work by @anyalb.bsky.social in my lab - she targeted enzymes to synthetic biomolecular condensates in plants and showed increases in metabolic pathway activity, likely due to protection of the introduced enzymes from proteolysis #PlantScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The metabolic signal that regulates TOR is the Calvin-Benson cycle-derived metabolite DHAP. Activation of TOR by DHAP is also true in animals....

The ever fascinating phenomenon of plant thermogenesis...

Great Review on TOR signalling: A Master Regulator in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Responses #PPStasis #proteostasis #autophagy #Stressbio #Plantsci www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Hornworts reveal a spatial model for pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in land plants www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureplants.bsky.social

Lots of excellent advice in this piece. The core message - only through writing do you really think and order your thoughts into logical sense. Makes a case for not using AI for 1st draft because you bypass the thinking step www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturebiotech.bsky.social #PlantScience

If you want to find out why metabolism may look different to what you were taught, and why this matters, dip into to our review 'Non-canonical plant metabolism' www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureplants.bsky.social #PlantScience

As well as CO2 Rubisco reacts with O2: plants evolved photorespiration to deal with the consequences. It works, but synthetic biology can do better! 🔄 We used metabolic modeling to compare alternative pathways to boost crop yields 🌱 🧵 #ScienceAdvancesResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yes, that's a proteasome! Guess where it is....in the apoplast! Nice to see Richard Vierstra's work out! #PPStasis #proteostasis #proteasomes #PlantSci www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very informative talk by @katherinedenby.bsky.social, EiC of @theplantjournal.bsky.social, on scientific publishing in the #PlantSciences. #MBP2025 Her points on how to choose a journal to publish in are below. Happy to see that my favorite journals fit the bill. 👌

Reposting because I forgot to tag the #PlantScience feed. Please spread the news about this postdoc opportunity *in the UK*

www.nature.com/articles/s41... They "identified many highly conserved positions that tolerate mutation and rare mutations that improve CO2 affinity. These data indicate that non-trivial biochemical changes are readily accessible" #PlantScience

📜 Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots 🧑‍🔬 Michelle Gallei, Sven Truckenbrodt, Johann G. Danzl, et al. 📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantSuperRes

#PlantScience Research Weekly, Jan 7, 2025 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Focus Issue: Hypoxia and Plants; Special Issue: Parasitic Plants; Unlocking photosynthetic efficiency through BOOSTER; A “GAME” changer in specialized metabolism; A fresh starch: Granule morphologies in potato tuber (1/2)

this is a really great conference for early career scientists. Recommended...

1/10 We are thrilled to share our preprint on spatial transcriptomics in wheat spikes led by the amazing @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister. We resolved expression of 200 genes to cellular resolution. Pre-print👉 tinyurl.com/c7t3kncf., @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social

England doesn’t have enough houses, but we also don’t have enough Nature. What are we going to do about it? Some thoughts from Natural England, kindly published by Green Alliance. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/01/08/w...

I'm sure the devil will be in the detail, but this looks like a potential game changer for agricultural nitrogen fertilisation...

"Guard cells count the number of unitary cytosolic Ca2+ signals to regulate stomatal dynamics" 🤯

sound advice from @jennifermach.bsky.social please pay attention all you writers out there!! No acronyms that don't save a word. No acronyms for terms not used more than 3 times. And really, just cut out the acronyms, they just make text harder to read and understand..

Researchers have streamlined methods to study chloroplast & mitochondrial impacts on photosynthesis. Plants currently capture only ~1% of solar energy; optimized genetics could increase this sixfold. globalplantcouncil.org/hidden-dna-i... #PlantScience

💻🌾 A kinetic #model of #rice grain filling by Tian-Gen Chang, Zhong-Wei Wei, Zai Shi, Yi Xiao, Honglong Zhao, Shuo-Qi Chang, Mingnan Qu, Qingfeng Song, Faming Chen, Fenfen Miao, Xin-Guang Zhu https://buff.ly/3P8cJ3D#PlantScience 🧪 #photosynthesis #nitrogen #carbon #yield

How the bundle sheath acquires this alternate identity that allows efficient photosynthesis. #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This short editorial (just over a page) in @natureplants.bsky.social is an invaluable guide to the latest techniques in proteomics and other technologies for figuring out gene function. Well worth a read. #PlantScience

In our latest paper in PNAS, we ask: How can scientific progress be accelerated to meet the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene? We point to significant barriers in forecasting & prediction efforts for the biosphere 🧵👇 🧪🌎🦋 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene

A week left to apply! 🚨 I’m looking for a research technician to join us @oxfordbiology.bsky.social and to help set up an efficient transformation pipeline in the C4 species Gynandropsis gynandra. Come work with us on leaf anatomy and photosynthesis! 🌱🪴 Find out more 👇 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Please RT‼️ Mendel Early Career Symposium (focused on #ECRs, friendly, affordable, small-sized, & in Vienna) registration deadline is fast approaching. Please spread the word and register! events.vbc.ac.at/gmi_events/m...

Very nice work by Liam Elliott et.al. from the Kirchhelle lab on the role of cell edges in the control of plant growth and morphogenesis. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience #plantdevelopment #plantbiology 🌾🧪

The early spring flowers are beginning to appear in Oxfordshire, hurrah!

Occasionally my lab does cell biology! This is the PhD work of Andras Sandor...

📢🚨We are hiring a new Biology Department Head at the University of Oregon! Applicants with a strong record of mentoring and inclusive leadership are encouraged to apply. Please share and repost, initial deadline is coming up (Feb. 12). More information below: careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

Fill a plant's air spaces with water and it no longer can sense the direction of light. Revelatory finding from Christian Fankhauser's lab. Power of genetics! #plantscience

Moss evolution. A lecture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYo...

Timely piece that punctures some of the AI hoopla... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

reposting to add the correct link: t.co/MoVK647S29