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/...

📖 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 📖 In this review, Wang et al. describe the protease, chaperone-like, and substrate processing working modes of plant FtsH, and summarize the role of FtsH in organelle protein homeostasis 🔄 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

New Article: "A mobile DELLA controls Medicago truncatula root cortex patterning to host arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" rdcu.be/eJO9O Mobile transcriptional regulators DELLA and SHORT-ROOT control the number of root inner cortex cell layers able to host symbiotic AMF.

Identification of a cleaved aberrant RNA associated with the initiation of transgene silencing (Marianne C Kramer, Thivanka Sandaruwan Ratnayake, Seth A Edwards, Harper L Lowrey, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

This is interesting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A SynBio explosion: a whole new world for Rubisco engineering From @laura-gunn.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Pflanzen, Forschung & ein bisschen Campusgeschichte! Gestern waren wir unterwegs auf einer kleinen Zeitreise durch die Pflanzenforschung @hhu.de . Von Gewächshausern bis zu Hightech-Gebäuden: viel hat sich getan in den letzten Jahren! Danke an alle, die mit uns auf Entdeckungstour waren! 💚

Great talk by @ecarmosilva.bsky.social on the challenges of improving rubisco efficiency for enhanced photosynthetic resilience under climate change. Fascinating insights. @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Floral snapshot, July, in case your brain is noisy and overloaded:

How do plant viruses cause symptoms? Are these developmental alterations functionally relevant? Man Gao, Enmanuel, et al. found that TYLCV does so through a host-mimicking domain in its C4 protein, co-opting a plant protein family - to attract the insect vector! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌽 💧 SPECIAL ISSUE EXPERT VIEW 🌱 🚰 Roles of hormones in regulating root growth–water interactions – Sharma et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Plant Science Research Weekly -- The elephant in the genome: cryptic infection by giant viruses (Science) @brussaard7.bsky.social (Summary by Xavier Ozowara [email protected]) buff.ly/3RGXVZr #PlantaePSRW

📣 Plant Direct is inviting applications for the role of Editor-in-Chief, now through May 31, 2025! Individuals working in any area of plant science with experience in journal publishing are encouraged to apply!🌱 Learn more👉https://buff.ly/1HWgG5k #plantscience

Plant peptide receptor meeting (PPRM2025) in now on social media. Edinburgh 8-10 September 2025. Great line up of speakers and lots of opportunities to present available. Website with more details to follow soon bsky.app/profile/pprm...

Along with every geneticist I am a total Mendel groupie and this new figure (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) that shows the chromosome location and underlying basis of his allelic pairs moves me to near-tears. Oh, to fly back in time and show this to him ...

plants.peercommunityin.org, new Peer Community In .. PLANTS !

It will take a while for upper-div Genetics textbooks to adapt, but adapt they must: the underlying basis for every single one of the trait differences Mendel studied is now known. Cue Janáček's Moravian dances in celebration! (see post below) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

3️⃣Assessment of #proline function in higher #plants under extreme #temperatures 📰 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Thanks to @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social @molplantsci.bsky.social, wiley and all authors for their support👏😍 @plantscience.bsky.social @botany.one @rgrcopeland.bsky.social

Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of my Python for Life Scientists course at Uni Bonn! 🎉 Proud to have shared coding skills with so many researchers over the years. 📂 Slides are available on GitHub: github.com/bpucker/PyBo #Python #LifeScience #OpenScience #Teaching @puckerlab.bsky.social

#PlantACT! 2025 in Madrid has officially started! Thanks to Antonio Molina for organizing and CBGP for hosting us this year

MYB74 transcription factor guides de novo specification of epidermal cells in the abscission zone of Arabidopsis www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience

Our editors write: - Cell polarity: Unequal signalling and biosynthesis in daughter cells rdcu.be/egIl5

Happy to share the publication of our recent work on the identification of CP24 as a determinant of variation in NPQ and PSII efficiency in maize 🌽☀️. This paper involved a massive team effort in the lab and collaboration with colleagues at @essexuni.bsky.social 🧬🧪 tinyurl.com/yn7hwjyk

One of the bright spots in my day is seeing the lupines pop in my garden. The Hesperoyucca flower stalk is still trying to find its way. #canativeplants

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob PhD position: systemic modulation of #maize root system architecture by seminal roots to adapt to #drought In Frank @hochholdingerf.bsky.social ‘s lab @unibonn.bsky.social www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

The March 2025 issue of Plant Physiology from @ASPB @OxUniPress is in progress! academic.oup.com/plphys/issue #PlantScience

Huge thanks to this year's wonderful organizing team: Klara (@k-lesch.bsky.social), Catarina, Laura, Anne, and Doro (@derwordo.bsky.social)!

The sky’s the limit for biodiversity research! 🌳☀️ Join iDiv on Bluesky and stay informed about new research, upcoming events, and #iDiv initiatives, including sDiv, the #InsideBiodiversity podcast, and the yDiv Graduate School.

Dark diversity reveals global impoverishment of natural vegetation, more than 200 scientists show in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantsci

SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH: 'Growth conditions trigger genotype-specific metabolic responses that affect the nutritional quality of kale cultivars' - Hirofumi Ishihara et al, doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 🧪 #plantscience 🥬 ☀️ 🧫

#PlantBio2025 brings together members of the plant science community to acquire knowledge, build networks and grow skills necessary to advance the plant sciences and their careers.🌱 👉 Learn more and register now! 👀 plantbiology.aspb.org/program-over.... #plantscience

📜 Quantifying plant biology with fluorescent biosensors 🧑‍🔬 @botanicaljim.bsky.social, @maxjosse.bsky.social, Bijun Tang, @xanderjones.bsky.social 📔 @annualreviews.bsky.social 🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #Biosensors #PlantSensors

New OA Letter: "Septoria tritici blotch resistance gene Stb15 encodes a lectin receptor-like kinase" rdcu.be/ed0YU The 3 Stb genes, effective against different pathogen isolates, encode diverse RLKs with extracellular domains potentially involved in sugar binding.

“Japanese Knotweed invasion genomics: what we know and future directions” by Christina Richards @drclrichards.bsky.social Insights into genomic strategies against invasive species. #InvasionGenomics #PlantInvasion #TRR341 #DFG

Spatial ploidy inference using quantitative imaging, our new collaborative work in the Polyploidy Integration & Innovative Institute, with the @roederlab.bsky.social and the Fox lab. Try our pipeline with your images! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣Join this month's @aspb-pui.bsky.social virtual networking session on March 21 from 4-5 PM Eastern!🌱 Join the Zoom meeting here: spelman.zoom.us/j/9245181381... Meeting ID: 924 5181 381 Passcode: 720470

DBG members are invited to push the career of ERCs by nominating them for DBG’s Best Paper Prize. Award given for an outstanding #PlantSci paper resulting from a Master or PhD thesis. Details www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us-...

Past and current @jonathandgjones.bsky.social lab members celebrating his impressive Wolf Prize in Agriculture award!

Here is our latest study @newphyt.bsky.social , led by @fabianvanbeveren.bsky.social and Yvet Boele! Our first dive into ectomycorrhizae! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Do you want to learn about the convergent evolution of ECM? Have a look at the thread prepared by Fabian🔽

🍾Big Congratulations to my dear colleague Uli Schaffrath @rwth.bsky.social and collaborators! Beautiful work showing that plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved enzymatic effectors www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantSci #effectors #immunity #MolPlantPhys

Decoupling the pleiotropic effects of VRT-A2 during reproductive development enhances wheat grain length and weight (Jing Liu, Chaoqun Dong, Xiangqing Liu, Jinquan Guo, Lingling Chai, Weilong Guo, Zhongfu Ni, Qixin Sun, Jie Liu) doi.org/10.1093/plce... @ASPB #PlantScience

IN BRIEF: Melatonin a day: Mitigates saline-alkali stress away! (Meenu Singla-Rastogi) doi.org/10.1093/plce... @ASPB #PlantScience

Why too much nitrogen is not good for plants

📜 A widespread plant defense compound disarms bacterial type III injectisome assembly 🧑‍🔬 Pei Miao, Haijun Wang, Wei Wang, Jian-Min Zhou, Xiaoguang Lei, et al. 📔 @science.org 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

The parsley genome assembly and DNA methylome shed light on apigenin biosynthesis in the Apiaceae (Hui Liu, Jia-Qi Zhang, Chen Chen, Ya-Hui Wang, Zhi-Sheng Xu, Qin-Zheng Zhao, Jian Zhang, Jia-Yu Xue, Ai-Sheng Xiong) doi.org/10.1093/plph... @ASPB #PlantScience

Congratulations @maudbernoux.bsky.social Heloise et al. !

Krokusse haben 6 Blütenblätter. Und was zeigt meine Tochter mir? 🙄 Gibt es dazu eigentlich schon eine wissenschaftliche Publikation? 🧐 Neues Forschungsprojekt??? 🤨

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob Technische Assistenz: Herbarium Haussknecht in Jena 📍 @sgn.one 📆 Start: zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt 📆 Deadline: 28 März 2025 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...