Not that this passes without being noticed: The GreenRobust cluster of excellence is officially alive since Jan 1, 2026! Looking forward to at least seven years of exciting science in the field of plant ecology, molecular biology, agriculture and the combination of all these fields. Stay tuned!

Did you ever wonder how a dividing cambium cell looks like and what determines its striking regular division? Xiomin Liu, PhD student in the lab, found out in a heroic histological approach. Fruitful collaboration with the group of Sabine Müller (@phragmoplast.bsky.social) doi.org/10.64898/202...

📣 Save the date! The GfE Meeting 2026 is coming to Potsdam 🇩🇪🌱 ✨ Four outstanding keynote speakers (Hans Clevers, Isabel Fariñas, Thomas Bosch, Frank Bradke) ✨ 🏅 Celebration of the Klaus Sander, Hilde Mangold, and José Campos-Ortega Awards 🏅 👉 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...

A very nice and skillful work by Agata Burian and colleagues characterizing the development of vascular strands around the Arabidopsis shoot apex: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today’s @cosheidelberg.bsky.social seminar is on 🍃 given by @hildenelissen.bsky.social from @psb-vib.bsky.social Really cool work all the way from mechanistic science to translation!!!

A light-induced apical auxin signalling minimum marks the site of organogenesis and de novo meristem formation in Marchantia sporelings (now peer-reviewed): authors.elsevier.com/a/1mDc83QW8S...

New preprint! SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation. tinyurl.com/28p7af2w

We’ve built this virtual plant scientist PlantScience.ai to grow alongside human researchers🌿. It thinks like an expert, cites like a scholar, and never stops learning. Come and have a chat with it! @yiliangding.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾 bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA

People: "Things used to be better." Scientist: "When did it start getting worse?" People: "When I was born." From "The illusion of moral decline" by Adam Mastroianni. shorturl.at/FFEDV

... and a scientific coordinator for experiments of the "Plant Perturbation Atlas" within our cluster www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

... a computer scientist... www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Another GreenRobust-related Job opening: The university of Hohenheim is looking for a Data Steward in Research Data Management www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Please spread - GreenRobust is advertising its first position! We are looking for an IT engineer (full time, permanent) located at @cosheidelberg.bsky.social to support our IT infrastructure and data management: adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

How meristems shape plant architecture in cereals—Cereal Stem Cell Systems (CSCS) Consortium (Thomas Dresselhaus , Martina Balboni , Lea Berg , Anika Dolata , Frank Hochholdinger , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

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...

The Cereal Stem Cell Systems Consortium published a comprehensive review in Plant Cell on how meristems shape cereal architecture. If you are not a fan of cereals except for breakfast, your teaching will still benefit from the amazing figures! ‪@cerealcell.bsky.social‬ tinyurl.com/32a74xpd

Starting the scientific program of #ICAR2025 with an amazing keynote by Jane Parker @parkergroup.bsky.social on the structural basis of plant immunity! Looking forward to 5 days of fantastic Arabidopsis and plant science at the #Bijlokesite in Ghent!

Kick off Vascular Development satellite meeting by @bertderybel.bsky.social. #icar2025

Warming up to #ICAR2025 🌱with two days of cool vascular science at our Vascular Development satellite meeting at @psb-vib.bsky.social.

The GreenRobust cluster of Excellence is now live on Bluesky @greenrobust.de Follow to be informed of the great things coming up 🌱

Since today, the GreenRobust Cluster of excellence is indeed alive: greenrobust.de! Pure joy in light of this team achievement!

Wonderful collaboration with the Wolf, Greb and Prevedel labs!

Our study on the effect of strigolactone signaling on vessel formation and water usage is now peer reviewed: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Great achievement of Jiao Zhao, Dongbo Shi, Kiara Kaeufer, and everybody involved!

If you would like to understand how difficult it is to annotate mobile mRNAs using SNPS read this. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Consider important suggestions/controls: homografts & heterografts, use barcoded reads, minimise RT-PCRs, have a reliable annotated/high quality genome sequence .. etc

**UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE** Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes Editors: Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter & @lauraragni.bsky.social Deadline: 30th Sept '25 Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌱 🌿 🧪 #plantscience (1/2)

Fantastic to see that @pascalhunziker.bsky.social, postdoc in the lab, is on his way to initiate his own research line with the help of the @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de: Exploring the potential of mashua as a sustainable staple food crop. www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-...

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...

We are excited to welcome Gilles Storelli as a new full professor at COS. Gilles' topic is physiology and symbiosis targeting the role of the microbiome of the fly gut in shaping organismal physiology.

Join us in Ghent on June 14-15 for two days of Plant Vascular Development! A satellite meeting of ICAR2025. More info and registration at web.cvent.com/event/448810... . Spread the word! #PlantScience @bertderybel.bsky.social @apmahonen.bsky.social

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Join us as a scientific programmer to advance tools for multi-omics data at Heidelberg University. Details can be found at shorturl.at/OcnOa and please spread the word!

We are proud to announce the Vascular Development 2025 meeting as a satellite to the ICAR2025 in Ghent this summer! All info via icar2025.com

Delighted to announce the 18th #FASEB Mechanisms of Plants Development will take place Aug 24-28th. ‼️ Register before June 29th → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a 🌱 🎁 Vote for the conference image by Jan 31st → tinyurl.com/2872w6vm The poster & speakers lineup will be announced in early Feb. Spread the word!

Very happy to see our work on deleterious mutations in #tomato published in @naturegenet.bsky.social 🧬🌱🍅! We identify deleterious mutations that were enriched during #domestication and apply #CRISPR to repair a mutation in cultivated tomato. #genetics #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I think this describes the essence of current challenges plant sciences are facing in a global context: translating laboratory findings to field/natural conditions.

We just completed our cluster interview at @dfgpublic.bsky.social. Exceptional team spirit and a fantastic joint achievement by everybody involved! The GreenRobust initiative in full swing.

We are very happy to welcome Yasin Dagas soon starting as a Heisenberg professor at COS. Yasin's topic is evolutionary cell biology focusing on autophagy in plants and beyond. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/research... @dfgpublic.bsky.social

Abstract Submission OPEN for #ICAR2025 International Conference on Arabidopsis Research! Topics for Concurrent and Workshop sessions published! 📅 June 16-20 Ghent 🇧🇪 🕸️ icar2025.com

The dark side of fluorescent protein tagging: the impact of protein tags on biomolecular condensation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🔬☘️ Mechanical forces instruct division plane orientation of cambium stem cells during radial growth in Arabidopsis thaliana @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Video: Cortical microtubules in cambium stem cells from hypocotyl longitudinal sections

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...

Finally out! We identified the stem cell factors (CAILs) of the vascular cambium, and a mechanism involving a ligand sequestration to position the stem cells. This work is a result of fruitful collaboration with @peteretchells.bsky.social and Tusscher labs. 🧵 1/x www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...