Here it finally is: our protocol for boosting maize transformation. We’ve already shared it at several conferences, and it was overdue to give it its final shape and submit it. We hope it will be useful for the community! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New OA Resource: "A transcriptional atlas of early Arabidopsis seed development suggests mechanisms for inter-tissue coordination" rdcu.be/fj8H2 Single-nucleus RNAseq profiling of early Arabidopsis seed development. #PlantScience

🔬🍀🎉 I am happy and excited to share that graduate student, @ohazel.bsky.social Olivia's first author research article is published now @newphyt.bsky.social We are grateful to editor, reviewers, and @newphyt.bsky.social to help us to improve the story nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thrilled to introduce our next act 🎭 in @cp-molcell.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/science/arti... led by @glangin.bsky.social We uncover how proteotoxic stress is integrated across compartments, controlling proteasome activation ⚖️ vs photosynthesis repression 🌱 🧵(1/6) #proteostasis

#JustIn on Plantae: The Unwritten CV of a Plant Scientist. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Anastasia Kolesnikova and Charlay Wood offer a more human picture of plant science than most people ever get to see in a plant scientist's CV. buff.ly/tOdWD3v #PlantScience

Who would have thought, five years ago when I first looked at P-bodies under the microscope, that this journey would lead here. 🔬 Very happy to see this work finally out in #ScienceAdvances. Proud of this collaborative effort and grateful to everyone involved. 👏🏻🎉

humanity has always been moved forward by people who think differently www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"a three-cell rule of branching" #PlantScience L1, L2, and L3 layers of SAM in fancy language. From www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists: Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic

This week, Jana, Manuel, Ahel, and Peter participated in the Young Researchers Meeting (YRM) at the IEB 2026 conference @iebcas.bsky.social, where they presented their research.

PWO proteins are associated with PRC2 since their emergence in vascular plants 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Khan et al. @farronalab.bsky.social @saqlainh.bsky.social @WileyPlantSci

#newpaper: Combining promoter and induced intron 1 mutations of Vrn-A1a does not accelerate flowering in wheat @springernature.com: Wheat, Vernalization, Vrn-A1a, RIP3, Genome editing, Crops doi.org/10.1007/s110... @pecinka-grp.bsky.social

Our new preprint on how in plants ARGONAUT 4 controls RNA cytosine methylation (yes RNA!) which then prevents premature transcription termination #PlantScience #Epitranscriptome #siRNAs

We are thrilled to share our latest work uncovering a completely novel pathway in plants, where Pol II elongation factor SPT6L recruits AGO4 to guide mRNA methylation 🌿🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #PlantSci #Epigenetics #RNA #Preprint #epitranscriptomics

Meet Eva Dvořák Tomaštíková, of the Czech Academy of Sciences, one of the researchers behind #TAIR12, recently released on the ENA and NCBI. 🌾🧪🌱 bit.ly/4btx3HQ #TAIR #plantscience #plantbiology #Arabidopsis #cropscience

Proud and happy to have contributed to the Arabidopsis thaliana genome reannotation as the only scientist from the Czech Republic. Accurate annotation of model plants like Arabidopsis is essential for advancing plant biology, functional genomics, and future crop research. 🌿 @iebcas.bsky.social

Condensin II mediates resistance to genotoxic stress and prevents mitotic defects in Arabidopsis (Jovanka Vladejić , Klara Prochazkova , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

It was a lifetime experience to see the "northern lights" in Olomouc, especially through a microscope above an Arabidopsis root. 🌌🌱😄

Targeting redundant gene families: A multiplexed, tissue-specific CRISPR toolbox for Arabidopsis genetic screens

Lego flowers? Lego submarine? Lego Batman? Nope. The only right use for them are these special holders for barley seedlings for our new Spinning Disc Confocal Microscopy from @the.3i.social !🔬 This is just one of the many ingenious holders Peter engineered for imaging happy barley seedlings!🌾

📢 Postdoc position in plant chromatin biology 🌱 (Strasbourg) Apply before March 30 🔗 www.unistra.fr/fr/recruteme... #PlantBiology #Postdoc

Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪 Deadline: June 30, 2026 Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn... Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event) For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

ERC-funded PhD position: auxin in plant morphogenesis! Come to our team to study molecular mechanisms downstream of auxin signaling that control morphogenesis in plants! ueb.cas.cz/en/news/?id=...

Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

🔊A long time ago in a microscopic galaxy far, far away.... 🎬Episode IV - A NEW MICROSCOPE 🔬 "It is period of cellular rebellion. Arabidopsis root cells have won first victory against the dark forces of DNA damage" Thanks to @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social and new i3 spinning disk @the.3i.social

🌱 EPIPLANT is live! Registration is now open for the EPIPLANT 2026 conference (June 22–24). We look forward to welcoming you to Nantes, France for an exciting conference on the epigenetics of photosynthetic organisms! 👉 Details & registration: epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob 15 PhD positions Nuclear architecture and chromatin and advanced imaging analysis In Marie Curie Doctoral Network ‘AGILE’ positions in UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden + Czech Republic www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Combining information from these structures with functional information from #uniprot and co-evolutionary information via #alphafold we found new FANCD2 interactors that utilize the same site

#IQFPaper Guiding AlphaFold predictions with experimental knowledge to inform dynamics and interactions with VAIRO. In Protein Sci @ibmb-csic.bsky.social #universitatdebarcelona @uni-graz.at @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @pablodeolavide.upo.es #universitaetKonstanz #BioTechMedGraz #ICREA bit.ly/4aLS8wP

EPIPLANT conference 🌱 You like plants and epigenetics? Explore mechanisms of chromatin regulation & epigenetics in Nantes, France! 🎤 Great speakers + oral & poster slots from selected abstracts. 22-24 June 2026 Abstract submission deadline: 24 April 2026. epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org

🔬🍀 (1/3) My undergraduate student, Joh, is working on chromatin (magenta dots in the movie) dynamics during the altered nuclear (green) shape. Here is a beautiful movie of chromatin dynamics.

When Neanderthals and ancient modern humans interbred, the pairings were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans, according to a new Science study. This finding helps explain why Neanderthal ancestry present in most humans is unevenly distributed. https://scim.ag/4cQYpIL

Today was my last day at @agroscope.bsky.social Nyon. Although my experiment didn't work as expected, I am extremely grateful for the time I spent with Etienne @plantepigenetics.ch and the team! Luckily I also had a chance to enjoy sports. Goodbye, Mont Blanc. @pecinka-grp.bsky.social

Want to 🧪 improve research skills and boost your confidence? 🎓 get a taste of the Oxford experience? The Graduate School in @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social is offering research skills sessions for external postgraduate students in March-April (hybrid format). Apply (link below)! #Academicsky

‼️Webinar 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 🌱 Ideal for researchers and authors in plant science looking for expert guidance on getting published 🗓️March 2nd 2026 🕙 10:00 GMT Register👉 events.zoom.us/ev/Av42X5Kkj... 👇

Our postdoc Martin Kovačik received a Fulbright fellowship and is heading to the USA for 5 months at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge) with Prof Mary Gehring. Barley seeds&parental conflict mech @pecinka-grp.bsky.social @kovacik.bsky.social @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social

DNA replication globally disrupts the epigenome. But does this create a chromatin-access opportunity for TF binding to facilitate cell identity change? Now 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢-𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐂-𝐬𝐞𝐪 shows 𝘥𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘰 chromatin opening & TF binding occurs specifically post-replication, in cellular differentiation & reprogramming!

#new_paper: Condensin II mediates resistance to genotoxic stress and prevents mitotic defects in Arabidopsis @academic.oup.com doi.org/10.1093/plph...

IN BRIEF: “Two scoops, please!”: Twin cryo-EM structures of an Arabidopsis thaliana DNA methyltransferase (Jan Wilhelm Hübbers) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

!!!! PhD position!!!! #SUMO modification in plant DNA damage repair. Join our team @pecinka-grp.bsky.social and work on this cool & still understudied topic. More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT

Interested in a brief and concise overview of the Genebank at the @leibnizipk.bsky.social? Then you've come to the right place: the new Genebank film is also available in a short version! It's worth taking a look! ➡️To the film: www.youtube.com/watch

🌿 Plant Bioinformatics! 💻🧬 How do we turn massive plant data into biological insight? We cover genomics, transcriptomics, sequence analysis, phylogenetics, statistics, and reproducible research practices. Plant science is data science. 🌱 Materials: github.com/bpucker/Plan... @puckerlab.bsky.social

We posted a biorxiv preprint on structural bioinformatics, AlphaFold modeling & machine learning on predicting specificity of E3 ligase ring domains for different E2 enzymes. 1/4 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Models/data (UbiqCore website): dunbrack.fccc.edu/ubiqcore

Explore SMC mechanism and regulation at EMBO Workshop "Threads of life: SMC complexes in #chromosome structure and dynamics" in #Bengaluru, IN, 13–18 Dec 2026. Registration/Abstract submission by 1 Apr/1 May https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-smc-complexes#chromosome#Bengaluru#EMBOThreadsOfLife #genesky #EMBOevents 🧪

Latest work from our group together with @jsharbro.bsky.social This review synthesizes insights into cytonuclear incompatibility in plant hybrids and allopolyploids, highlighting maternal bias, evolutionary consequences, and applications such as cytoplasmic male sterility in seed production.

New review from P Genschik’s team in @jxbotany.bsky.social 🧬 A fresh look at the huge diversity and functions of plant F-box proteins. 👉 Open questions & new perspectives for 🌱 biology. ▶️https://academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jxb/erag074/8475508?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Need a genome sequence of your favourite plant? We laid out instructions for a complete workflow based on ONT sequencing: "Cookbook for plant genome sequences" doi.org/10.1186/s128... #Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics @puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? I’ve got an open PhD position www.photobodies.com/about-6 in the framework of the AGILE Marie Curie Doctoral Network cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026. #phd #job