New #preprint 😍‼️ led by 2 incredible postdocs @ninizhani.bsky.social & Ranj Papareddy: transforming #UFMylation from a local ribosome rescue pathway to systems level regulator of mRNA splicing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short 🧵

#PlantJob Are you looking for a place to start your independent group and develop all the amazing ideas you have in mind?, consider this to join us @cragenomica.bsky.social www.cragenomica.es/events/sympo...

Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established? In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A thread 🧵 [1/8]

Want to image apoplastic pH in plants? 🔬 Two new papers from our team offer a full workflow plus open access analysis tools. Congrats to @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle and @lguerard.bsky.social Nature Protocols: rdcu.be/e7R2E BMC Methods: lnkd.in/dctpWJ3X Happy Imaging!

New #Sci #Job ! Together with six other PI’s we are looking for two PhD students and a Postdoc for our LEAP project, which is part of @greenrobust.de backend.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/documents...

Very excited that our review on carbon allocation to axial sink organs is published. Super writing experience and discussions with Anil and @bjazminrh.bsky.social, thank you both for your great work and ideas!

Attending #RBMP2026 in beautiful Bilbao next July? Participate in AR(t)RBMP 🌱🎨📷🔬🧬 Prepare your best artwork, pictures, drawings, videos, & artistic visions #PlantScience 🏆 The most outstanding pieces will receive an award! More info below & at: rbmp2026.com/RBMP/en/info

please share! 🌱Application deadline is March 27 to apply for the Cold Spring Harbor Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science 3 week summer course! 🌱 It's a great time- you learn a lot and really bond with others in the course. 🌱 I was in the class of 2000! 😀 meetings.cshl.edu/alumni.aspx?...

After a long journey, our new paper is out! 🌱 In this study, Tiina and colleagues show that cambium activation in the Arabidopsis root is triggered by the induction of auxin, cytokinin, and TDIF peptide signalling. 🧵1/x doi.org/10.1093/plce...

1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

ViroiDoc MSCA Doctoral Network announces workshop: What: Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper When: Thursday, 2 April 2026, 9:30–12:30 CET Where: online, Webex This event in English is open free of charge. Registration will open soon. www.viroidoc.eu/b/dont-peris...

EMBO-FEBS Lecture Course – Membranes in Organelle Biogenesis 📍 Spetses, Greece | 🗓️ 10–16 May 2026 A week with leading experts on organelle biology, membranes, lipids, and dynamics. ⏰ Deadline: 1 March 2026 🔗 Info: network.febs.org/videos/membr... 📝 Register: spetses2026.sites.uu.nl

PhDs apply to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course Frontiers & Techniques in Plant Science. 1 month of hands-on training with leading experts. A unique opportunity to explore cutting-edge plant science methods and build your network. 🌱 meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu... Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.

WIND1 controls cell fate transition through coordinately integrating histone acetylation and deacetylation-mediated transcriptional reprogramming during somatic embryogenesis #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Latest from our lab! Detailed and committed work by Jennifer combined with Hiro's special skills👌. Wonderful collaboration with @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab (Damien and Etienne) and @jalonsos.bsky.social 👇

During secondary growth, primary protective barriers break, and a new one forms beneath: the phellem. But what triggers phellem to differentiate and become a functional barrier? Our results show it’s mechanical cues from tissue rupture 🌱 Check out our preprint 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵/1

RRTF1 promotes touch-responses in Arabidopsis shoots independent of jasmonic acid https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.08.710212v1

New biosensor alert! 🧪 mStayGold(J)-based calcium ion and pH biosensors are now on bioRxiv. Excited to see how they fare in real applications! Reach out if you'd like to give them a whirl. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢We are excited to announce the Cambridge Morphogenesis Symposium - a full day event at SLCU @slcuplants.bsky.social (and virtually) on 5 June 2026! 🎉Come celebrate the 5th anniversary of the seminar series! 🚩Register & submit abstracts by 3 April! Check out the details: t.ly/YYM3u Please repost!🙏

The Jo Lab website is up! thejolab.org I expect to announce 1 PhD position and 1 Postdoc position in the spring of 2026 (April-May). Stay tuned!

Petunia hybrida has been bred into an incredible diversity of colors and patterns. Most arise from mutations in the anthocyanin pathway or post-transcriptional gene silencing that turns pigment genes on and off 🧬🎨

🌱 From UC Davis: Scientists mapped the augmin complex that organizes plant cell skeletons, offering clues for cancer research and new ways to shape crop growth. (Jawdat Al-Bassam, Bo Liu) ▶️ www.ucdavis.edu/news/plant-c... #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Cells

Moss (Physcomitrium patens) protoplasts (wallless cells) transformed with chloroplast envelope protein tagged with mGFP (green). The chlorophyll autofluorescence is in magenta. The protrusions of the chloroplast envelope are called stromules. #microscopymonday, #plantcells, #plantmicroscopy, #moss

Very excited to announce that we are hiring for three faculty positions at @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social: A/Prof Plant Science, A/Prof Animal Biology and Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management. Please do get in touch to chat. Links below:

If you have the opportunity, apply for the TSL @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Summer Conference. An intense week with top experts in plant-microbe interactions. What you can learn here in a week would normally take months (or longer)!!! @kamounlab.bsky.social 🦠🔬🌱 www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...

Integration of environmental information in plants @mb-mueller.bsky.social, Xueying Chen, Casey S. Philbin, Christopher S. Jeffrey and André Kessler nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BD2JY2... #PlantScience #ecology

🌱 Join us tomorrow for the seminar "Bud dormancy: a plant strategy for resilience and survival" by Pilar Cubas (@pilarcubas.bsky.social) from Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (@cnb-csic.bsky.social) at 12:00h! 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/otzkhogzlb

💬 “The symposium has always been a space for early career researchers to present early work, and for people to present preliminary findings." Early-bird tickets and abstract submissions are currently open to join our #SingleCell and #Spatial Symposium in July. 👉 buff.ly/2KvQ3Zv 💻🧬

REVIEW from @moritznowack.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...

📚𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 🍅 RALF peptides & CrRLK1L receptors shape fruit ripening Read how these networks coordinate cell wall remodeling, hormones, and pathogen susceptibility ➡️ biotech opportunities ✍️Montano et al @veroglez.bsky.social @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70766

📚𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 How do plants move hormones? 🌱 This review synthesizes hormone transporters across five protein superfamilies, linking structure to mechanism, specificity, and regulation ✍️Amsinck, Benhammouche et al @bjornppedersen.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70762

One of the biggest challenges in microbial biotechnology? Unlocking the potential of non-model microbes and synthetic communities! Glad to share our review @sonjablasche.bsky.social @simonemozzachiodi.bsky.social @kiranrpatil.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social🧵(1/7) doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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...

#JobAlert #PhD 🌱 We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers. We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition. Interested? Please get in touch for more information!

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=...

What features are required to shape hypoxic niches enclosing meristems? We @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social in collab @pieterverboven.bsky.social found that a combination of cuticle barrier, densely packed tissue and metabolic activity all uniquely contribute to maintain shoot apical meristem hypoxia

Plant root architecture shapes underground resource-use strategies Cristian D. Torres, Pirén López-Alaniz, Amaru Magnin and Javier G. Puntieri nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/E8FH7W... #PlantScience

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob

#FERONIA kinase and PP2A antagonistically regulate #salt tolerance in #Arabidopsis www.cell.com/current-biol... #PlantScience #StressBiology @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @plantgenomes.bsky.social @plantredox.bsky.social @plantbiotech.bsky.social @agu-scicomm.bsky.social

Mechanical coordination of counter-gradient growth maintains organ curvature in the apical hook www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #plantscience

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you! 1/n

First first-author pub mugs for Jodi and Clarice!! I’m so lucky to have awesome grad students 🤓💚🌽

Very happy about this nice piece of work by @eugeniapitsili.bsky.social on developmentally controlled cell death in plants @dev-journal.bsky.social‬ ! Special thanks also to @ingridtsang.bsky.social for a terrific editorial job bringing out the best of this manuscript!! doi.org/10.1242/dev....

We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment. (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

In this Primer, @eugeniapitsili.bsky.social and @moritznowack.bsky.social discuss the cellular and molecular frameworks governing the initiation and execution of programmed cell death in plants: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Last day to apply!

🌳💧 RESEARCH 💧🌳 Induced plasmolysis of vessel-associated parenchyma cells in poplar stems increases xylem vulnerability to embolism, suggesting that turgor maintenance might be important for xylem hydraulic integrity – Tomasella et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

What to learn more about the enigmatic organism Prototaxites?? Have a read of our new Quick Guide in @currentbiology.bsky.social It includes another great palaeo-reconstruction of the Rhynie ecosystem from @matt-humpage.bsky.social