The high #biomass and #lipid content of the Tribonema minus (Tm) #alga make it a promising candidate for #biofuel production. This analysis of TmPS1-LHC reveals unique #evolutionary and #molecular secrets! doi.org/10.1111/jipb... #PlantScience

Hoping some #PlantScience ECRs represent here!

⏱️🌾 INSIGHT ⏱️🌾 ⏱️🌾 Time to spare: inefficiencies in wheat hybrid seed production are not due to stigma longevity – Daniel Koenig's commentary on new research from Millan-Blanquez et al. 📝 Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 🔬 Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

A final micrograph for today showing mycelium of an Epibryon sp. fungus inside liverwort cells. Most cells are infected but some in the lower part of the photo are healthy, as evidenced by the absence of hyphae and the presence of oil bodies.

#PlantScience and #TESky!

I've shared the full study previously but here's a more user-friendly summary of research from Montreal, busting the myth that bike lanes remove space for cars. One for our more #CarBrain infected councillors in #HaliSky via @ca.theconversation.com theconversation.com/montreals-bi...

#OurNewPreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social published with @isemevol.bsky.social Interactions between a spider mite and a virus revealed via effects on their host plant🍅. #PlantPathology #PlantVirology #tomato #TSWV (tomato spotted wilt virus) #TetranychusUrticae 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Young maritime pine trees retain a memory of early temperature conditions through epigenetic changes; marks persist for up to 2 years post-germination. Discovery shows how trees could be conditioned to adapt to climate change. buff.ly/40hLTKy... via @inrae-france.bsky.social

📢Speaker Announcement: CARGO Movement 🧾Panel: The Journey of Plants through Black Botanist CARGO is a not for profit organisation founded in 2016 by creative director Charles Golding and Poet Lawrence Hoo. Learn more about CARGO Movement and register here: buff.ly/jWhjAei

The theme of the 2026 #Soybean Breeders Workshop 🌱🧬is: Abiotic Stress. Topics include: - abiotic stress resistance breeding methods - physiology of stress tolerance - developments in high-throughput phenotyping technology - and more Registration opens soon. #plantscience #plantbreeding

A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com 130 bryophyte genomes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"PhD Position – Plant-Microbe Interactions at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=phd_9-22-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

For a long time, the question was could all plant cells develop into embryo’s. Now a group of researchers show that only specific cells have this possibility. Read in my latest blog how they found this out plantenzo.net/2025/09/23/p... plantenzo.substack.com/p/potential-... 🧪 #PlantScience

Do you work on... 🌿 Pre/post-harvest efficiency 🌦️ Water, energy & labour-saving strategies ♻️ Circularity & climate-smart practices ? 👉 Join us at 'Resource Efficiency in Horticulture' on 6th November Submit your abstract by 3rd October! 🔗 cvent.me/DMwPzZ #plantscience #horticulture

⏰ Just two months left to submit a paper for our special issue: Legumes in Science and Practice Find out more 🔗 buff.ly/XnwK4fY #plantscience

Ok who summoned the djinn on the northwest side of Chicago yesterday?

Thinking about a career in #architecture or #design? Meet reps from 40+ colleges & universities at the FREE Chicago Architecture + Design College Day! 🗓️ Sept 27, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Harold Washington College 🔗 Register: buff.ly/evaEKUq #Architecture #Design #FutureArchitects #Chicago

🧬🌿 axiomFP.py a software for visual ploidy and quality assessment of Axiom SNP array data doi.org/10.1093/insi... #genotyping #PlantScience

Found the most adorable tiny crimped gill mushrooms. Each one is only about a centimetre in diametre. We've had a ton of rain this fall, so the fungi are thriving right now. 🌿

Chicago peeps, @sarahbecan.bsky.social is giving a comics and recipes workshop at the Logan Square branch of the Chicago Public Library! I'm signed up but there are 41 more spots available. I'm going to cartoon my recipe for spoon noodles. chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/68c84...

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#Viewpoint: Exploring the importance of aromatic #plants' extrafloral volatiles for #pollinator attraction Kantsa et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Men gotta fix men. Men gotta stop being so fragile and develop themselves from the inside out. Very simple rules. Treat women as people instead of tools to a comfortable existence or advancement

Brit! Call me a basic bitch, but I love this reading. www.mobydickbigread.com/chapter-58-b...

📢Speaker Announcement: Jade Bleau 🧾Panel: The Journey of Plants through Black Botanist Jade Bleau, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Dundee/James Hutton Institute. Learn more about Jade and register here: buff.ly/jWhjAei

Emerging from the #soil: a new beginning 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by Xingxing Fan & Dongqing Xu on this article by Ravindran et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.

Hello! We are currently hiring for two post-doc positions on projects related to plant natural products, enzymes, and developing new systems to make useful small molecules. More details on our website: lichmanlab.weebly.com/post-docs.html

The most dangerous thing those swimmers did today was (if they did) driving to the event. The river isn't perfect, but it's definitely not going to hurt you! This graph is from their website, and shows it's well within healthy guidelines. Source: www.chicagoriverswim.org/Race/Chicago...

Let me bring you along for today's Sunday obsession: trying to determine the original owner of this unusual house at 76th & East End in South Shore. It appears to predate its brick bungalow neighbors by about 50 years, it's substantial in size, and there's very little info about it online.

Oops, the best I could do this week was this charming bryophyte on a fencepost near Kilmarnock. #WildflowerHour.

Re-upping this: For those of you having new students in the lab, I have curated a YouTube playlist on molecular biology: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... I usually have my students watch it before I show them how to do it in the lab.

A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Trying a new tea shop! Not sure who recommended this when I complained about lines at another tea shop but this place is not crowded and the owner is very kind!

Humans have long used salicylic acid to relieve pain and inflammation, #plants produce it to defend against #pathogens. But how? Yan Li and Jie Luo explore its #biosynthesis from phenylalanine in a new #FreeAccess #JIPB commentary! 🔓 ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/jipb... #PlantScience

Another great dead wood story! Some very cool #PlantScience describing a nurse log (dead tree that supports the growth of young trees) from the Jurassic.

Hawaiian caper, maiapilo, is beneficial for reducing erosion and attracting pollinators but is threatened by invasive exotic plants, predation from introduced species, and habitat loss. Learn about new research on maiapilo seed germination doi.org/10.21273/HOR... #plantscience

A molecular-resolution look into the near-native architecture of the spinach chloroplast🌱. This one was a long time in the oven, but we're happy to finally share our "version of record". What long-standing debates did we settle? Check back for a short thread🧵 on Monday. #TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪🧶🧬🔬🌾

If you’re also (or primarily) getting your books from Marvel Unlimited, now is an excellent time to start going back to the shops. At least in Chicago, many of them are a lifeblood of counterculture and more-often-than-you’d-guess: Radical safe spaces for BIPOC and LGBTQ folks. We CANNOT lose them.

#BookSky, please tell me A Psalm for the Wild Built keeps being this good—because I’m only on page 33 and I am verklempt

Without a D&C in 2003 I would be dead #AbortionIsHealthcare

Look who I found in the volunteer dill in the traffic circle!

#TansleyInsight: Cellular view of #metabolism: metabolic biomolecular condensates Evan Saldivar, Sterling Field & Seung Rhee 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Jimmy Kimmel's show involves comedy and satire. It is not news. It is not meant to inform the public about a newsworthy event. No FCC rules were violated. The FCC has no business threatening broadcasters or censoring speech it does not like.

Chicago's local Nexstar station is: WGN Television 2501 West Bradley Place Chicago, Illinois 60618 773-528-2311 Steps 2-4 are up to you.

Was just thinking of this as I was bending over weeding the traffic circle—if anyone sees a meme of my fat ass, give it a like!

Notes package with the usual help from readers and those who know. There's an insect theme of sorts. Chicago outdoors: Big blue catfish, a walkingstick and a question on a walking leaf chicago.suntimes.com/outdoors/202...

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

#TansleyInsight: Overlooked aspects of CrRLK1L–RALF #signaling Sébastjen Schoenaers & Kris Vissenberg 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience