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...

How can genome sequencing training foster more equitable global science? 🌍 An interview with doctoral researcher Catarina Lino on a hands-on plant genomics workshop in Zimbabwe - and what it means for North–South collaboration. 👉 tinyurl.com/9knhj92v #PlantGenomics #ScienceCollaboration #maxplanck

The formation of different types of centromere remained unclear for a long time. An international research team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social examined this phenomenon by studying two lily-like plants. All results in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️PR: tinyurl.com/bdkjxvk6 ➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/dab39e88

🍀🔬 Recent paper from Keitaro Tanoi sensei's lab at The University of Tokyo SALT OVERLY SENSITIVE 1 Na+/H+ Exchanger Operates in Mature Root Zone and Is a Major Contributor to Root Na+ Exclusion During Shoot-to-Root Na+ Recirculation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob 5 PhD positions: Molecular #PlantSci In @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social 's Int. MPI School #IMPRS together with @unipotsdam.bsky.social Start: between June and December 2026 Deadline: 10 January 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Happy to share our latest paper: The symbiosome space needs to be continuously cleared from demethylated pectins to keep rhizobia happy. Former PostDoc Chao Su took this story with him when moving back to China and finished it off. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de

Infrared radiation is an ancient pollination signal www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rooting for roots? #PlantScience Join us online for the Mini Symposium of the International Society of Root Research @rootscientists.bsky.social Register here for free: tinyurl.com/yzeddrjx Programme👇

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life 👉 buff.ly/Dpb3DuY #PlantScience

Working with an international team means being invited into new worlds — including Christmas traditions I’d never encountered before. Feeling grateful for this cultural richness. 🎄🌍 Can you guess what this is?

Researchers at the @leibnizipk.bsky.social have discovered that small proteins from the SUMO family are of particular importance for the kinetochore of the model plant Arabidopsis. Their results were published in @mplantpcom.bsky.social. ➡️PR: tinyurl.com/mv8c997u ➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/ytuzspxt

Bioengineering is so beautiful in its complete departure from any other technology humanity has ever invented. My compiler, IDE, and robotics chassis all wrapped up in goopy glooby nanomachines that undulate wetly to the rhythm of electron transport. Aqueous code. Bliss.

Group leader Frédéric Berger, at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social, joins special research area (SFB) “Meiosis” in the second funding round from the @fwf-at.bsky.social! The consortium consists of 9 research groups from the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social, @istaresearch.bsky.social, @jku.at & @embl.org.

European plant scientists welcome the EU Trilogue Provisional Agreement on New Genomic Techniques (#NGT), as EU-SAGE reports, the network representing plants scientists at 134 European plant science institutes and societies www.eu-sage.eu/news/Europea...

🌿 REVIEW 🌿 Gupta et al. provide updated insights into how nitrate reductase-mediated nitric oxide production contributes to stress adaptation, with a focus on its regulation, signaling interactions, and potential for enhancing crop resilience. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Are you interested in using synthetic approaches to promote arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis? Then our PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob W2 Professorship: Plant Physiology @rptu.bsky.social Deadline: 5 Januar 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

📣🥳 We are thrilled to share that our director, Raphaël Mercier @raphmercier.bsky.social has been awarded the VinFuture Special Prize for Innovators with Outstanding Achievements in Emerging Fields 🌱✨. Congratulations 👏👏 #plantsci #genetics 👉https://bit.ly/3MtCGLW vinfutureprize.org/laureates/pr...

Active matter physics studies living beings as open, out of equilibrium, and emergent systems. In this perspective on plant morphogenesis, we show how such features arise from the basic hydromechanics of plant tissue and how to capture them in models. 🌱💧 Preprint 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2512.05554

🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🍅 The tomato dad1 mutant lacks jasmonate biosynthesis, forming seedless fruits. Expression data shows spatiotemporal localization of jasmonate regulates fruit set primarily by modulating gibberellin metabolism - Nomura et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Out in @science.org this week: PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience #PlantSci

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob PostDoc position: Plant genomics and quantitative genetics. In @mgstetter.bsky.social’s lab @unicologne.bsky.social + @ceplas.bsky.social-member Start: a.s.a.p. Deadline: 14 December 2025 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...

New preprint from our lab: Salicylic acid- induced alkalinization of the apoplast requires TMK1 and results in growth attenuation www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Big thanks to all who contributed @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @julien-gronnier.bsky.social @kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social

This is an interesting read on the famous penicillin discovery story; by @kevinsblake.bsky.social for @asimovpress.bsky.social. Today, students are taught how to properly "sell" their results. Maybe in 100 years, this selling will result in a detective story to uncover the truth... #SciCom

I really enjoyed the opportunity to hear Mark Estelle, Maarten Koornneef & @plantevolution.bsky.social speak about their careers at the recent @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social #PlantScience Awards. As always on such occasions, I found myself looking up the old papers mentioned. I compiled them here 🧵👇

New preprint from our lab: Salicylic acid- induced alkalinization of the apoplast requires TMK1 and results in growth attenuation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Big thanks to all who contributed @julien-gronnier.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social

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