Don't forget to submit your abstract until October 1, 2025 to join this amazing lineup of speakers at the 9th International BioBrillouin Conference from Nov 25-27 in Berlin! Looking forward to seeing you there 🤩

💡 Did you know the JXB Editorial Internships call is now open? 💡 This is the 4th round of our internship programme 🌱 Check out what past interns had to say about their experience 👩‍💻 Deadline: 30 Sept 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns?ut... #PlantScience 🧪

We are happy to present the magnum opus of Sjoerd Woudenberg, at the close of his PhD – Transgenerational inheritance of the polarity axis in a fern embryo…a thread (1/17) tinyurl.com/4y53xekv

Dual role of the receptor kinase FERONIA in regulating tissue mechanics and growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.28.672783v1

Some Impressions of the FASEB Mechanism of Plant Development - 110 attendees, two keynotes, 46 Talks & 83 posters but one passion: understand plant development 🌱🧪🔬🧑‍💻 #PDevSRC

A deep dive into the concept of model plant for you this week – and a big mention of the ‘A’ word… Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2025/08/22/w... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

From a gene’s single cell expression–through spatial localization–to novel function, and beyond! Now out @natplants.nature.com We built a comprehensive spatial-transcriptomic atlas of Arabidopsis, revealing cell-type identities across organs in unprecedented detail www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‼️Abstract submissions is open for the 9th International BioBrillouin Meeting (biobrillouin25.com) that will take place at the Max Planck Society Conference House in Berlin, Germany on the November 25-27, 2025. Deadline for abstract submission: October 1, 2025 #BioBrillouin

Excited for the @faseborg.bsky.social's upcoming #PlantDevelopment conference in Massachusetts? #PDevSRC To complement the meeting, we've curated a collection of review-type and Research Articles on this topic: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

One of the key aspects influencing morphogenesis is mechanics. We mapped the mechanical properties of living roots at the tissue and cellular levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

(1/10) I am excited to share this signature review from our lab published @jxbotany.bsky.social Congratulations to @ohazel.bsky.social and @jessicaa-orr.bsky.social (first published paper for Jessica!) Nuclear positioning and cell division site specification in plants doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

@sara-morghen.bsky.social giving a great talk about her PhD project involving ABA and mechanics at #PlantCellWallMeeting2025 in Vancouver. @hydrosensing.bsky.social

Arrived together with @sara-morghen.bsky.social to the beautiful UBC campus in Vancouver for the Plant Cell Wall Conference 2025. Ready to discuss the relation between cell walls, water sensing, abscisic acid and mechanobiology. @hydrosensing.bsky.social #plantcellwalls

Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again. They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️ Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱 @plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out! 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stomatal transpiration and rapid programmed cell death ☠️ triggered by lowered ambient humidity causes anther tissue collapse for effective pollen release ! Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Imaging of specialized plant cell walls by improved cryo-CLEM and cryo-electron tomography https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.01.657137v1

🌱🧩 How do plant cells get their shape? 🧪 Check out the new #open-access #review exploring the mechanochemical duet between auxin & the cell wall in shaping diverse plant cell types from @srobertgroup.bsky.social's Lab. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ppl.... #PlantBiology #CellShape #Auxin #Biomechanics

#PDevSRC is back for 2025! The premier platform for experts in plant developmental biology to collaborate will welcome keynotes Siobhan Brady and Niko Geldner. Check out the video and view the full agenda: buff.ly/FD5WJgb

How do parasitic plants find their prey? New study shows dodder vines use touch sensitivity and light detection to hunt victims. These master grafters even attempt to parasitize metal objects. Learn more: wp.me/pdRZhH-m3g #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

The Cell Wall Controls Stem Cell Fate in the Arabidopsis Shoot Apical Meristem https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654883v1

I had a lot of fun digging into old literature to make this timeline of Discovery & Innovation in Arabidopsis! 🌱Also includes important Community contributions- a topic that is close to my ❤️ academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

🚨Our paper is out! If you ever wonder how four-way junctions are avoided during plant cell division, some answers here 🧬🍀🔬🧪🤓 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧬🌱 EXPERT VIEW 🌱🧬 'Intrinsic cues guiding changes in division orientation in the Arabidopsis root meristem: a formative experience' - Konstantinova et al. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

It's out! Detailed transcriptome atlas of mature Arabidopsis root undergoing secondary growth. Fantastic work by Munan Lyu and Hiroyuki Iida + other lab members, wonderful collab with @bertderybel.bsky.social lab on the scRNAseq analysis. @treebiocoe.bsky.social 1/x www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you want to know how mechanical interaction between tissue layers controls the formation of complex organ shapes in plants? 🔬🌼 🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3

Thrilled and proud about our latest advancement in Brillouin microscopy - enabling true light-sheet like mechanical imaging at high throughput. Out today in @naturephotonics.bsky.social Congratulations Carlo! @carlobevilacqua.bsky.social rdcu.be/eaDiX

Answering the call of @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social, Christian Tischer, Pete Bankhead, @kbias.bsky.social @bethcimini.bsky.social My Fiji training notes are now FAIR. All online in an open format to download and use for teaching and training. All in Google Doc or PDF formats bit.ly/4hkfEBF

And.... the story is now out in PNAS, greatly improved with new data since the pre-print, so check it out and find out how ABA plays an unexpected role in root responses to salinity. @pph-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Plant cells use the pressure from their neighbours to find out how those are faring. Now a group of international scientists show that flexibility of the cells own cell wall determines the subsequent response. Read more about this study on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/01/21/f... 🧪 #PlantScience

🚨Hot off the press! With Ibrahim Cheddadi, we tackled a key challenge: building a field theory of plant morphogenesis, based on fundamental balance laws and capturing cell wall remodelling and water dynamics in tissues🌿💧Check out our paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇

Thrilled to share our work lead by Di Fino in great collaboration with @Panosmoschou,@Hamann_lab, @GreenMechanobio, @RichardSmithLab published @Dev_Cell: Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

**Announcing the 2025 JXB Editorial Interns** Vittoria Clapero @ MPIMP Potsdam-Golm Níkolas Mateus @ Uni of São Paulo @luisalonsobaez.bsky.social @ NTNU Katie Watson @ Hong Kong Uni Henry Njoku @ Uni of Ibadan Deeksha Singh @ Uni of Calif. Riverside We can't wait to start! #plantscience 🧪

REVIEW: 'Imaging the spatial distribution of structurally diverse plant hormones' - Lulu Chen et al, doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Exciting news! I've secured funding for a (at least) 2-year postdoc in my Umeå lab @UmeaPlantSci, focusing on Biophysics or (Plant) Synthetic Biology. Strong microscopy skills are a bonus. Interested? Reach out to me! Official ad out soon! #PlantSciJobs #AcademicTwitter 🌱🔬🧬

Did you ever wonder how mechanics may influence the behavior of cambium stem cells? We did. Driven by modelling done in the group of Karen Alim, we checked whether mechanical stress can explain the regularity of cell divisions during radial plant growth: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social #DataAnalysisInImaging special issue of Journal of Microscopy is out now! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652818... #ImageAnalysis #BioImageAnalysis #RMSDAIM

Plant mechanobiology and cell biology webinar, November 28th, 2024 💚🌱☘️🌾 physiologiaplantarum.org/2024/11/20/t...

Root hair looking good in the Brillouin microscopy image! Nucleus in red. Living in Norway, it kind of reminds me of a fjord landscape.

📜 Top five unanswered questions in plant cell surface research 🧑‍🔬 Herman Höfte et al. 📔 The Cell Surface 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantCellSurface

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