🔬 MSc/PhD/postdoc position available - An exciting and innovative research opportunity! 🌱 Our lab at the Institute of Plant Sciences, Volcani Institute (ARO), is seeking an outstanding MSc, PhD, or Postdoc to join a cutting-edge research project on plant development and environmental responses.

Stomatal development and function in the upper and lower leaf surfaces Hõrak @hanna-horak.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tomato drought-responsive transcription factor TINY1 suppresses embryonic growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.22.683859v1

A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676453v1

Our #research on #drought #recovery, now published with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com: Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation. doi.org/10.1038/s414... Read thread below 👇

New OA Resource: "A single-cell, spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle" rdcu.be/eBmkU An extensive single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle that represents 10 developmental time points in 6 diverse organs.

We are excited to announce the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images! This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET. Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V @radinbio.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social

Very proud to share our latest preprint: postdoc/LRSF fellow Yue Rui studies the mechanisms regulating attachment of the cell wall to the plasma membrane. The Cellulose Synthase Complex and REMORINs determine the extent of attachment and root osmotic stress tolerance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

A new preprint! Inspired by Kleiber's law, we show how growth rate scales with biomass in wheat, and how this scaling connects resource use to reproduction and grain yield in diverse environments. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 It's online (and open access) @newphyt.bsky.social 🍅 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... "Autophagy restricts tomato fruit ripening via a general role in ethylene repression" & why timing is everything... Let's dig into it 👇 #plantscience #autophagy @volcaniinstitute.bsky.social

We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095

Our lab's first review article written with @yadhusankar.bsky.social and @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social is out now in The Plant Journal! 🎉🌱 We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The first paper from my lab is now online in @ThePlantCell 🌱 doi.org/10.1093/plce... This work is dedicated to the late Prof. Joanne Chory, who profoundly shaped my journey in science and beyond. Thank you to everyone involved: Srinivas Kunta, Yardena Dahan, Shai Torgeman, @Volacninstitute.

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Great work showing the multifaceted role of FAMA regulating differentiation in stomatal and myrosin cells. Also check out my News & Views piece 📝 As a stomatal enthusiast I was especially intrigued by the potential separation of division and differentiation phenotypes 🌱🤔

In this interview, Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social talks about her research in stomatal development, her role as an Editor at Development, and how her passion for comparative biology has influenced her career: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204667

Proud to share our latest published work on moisture responsive root development-a process we call hydropatterning! We find that this process has been under differential selection during maize breeding and the gaseous hormone ethylene prevents branching in air. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

1/4 Delighted to share our latest preprint "Future heatwave conditions inhibit CO2-induced stomatal closure in wheat". We found that high CO2, high VPD heatwave treatment prevents stomatal responses to light, super-elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertiliser application. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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!

This story was only possible through true team effort. Team Kalanchoë with Xin at the forefront. @jameshartwell.bsky.social, the most generous scientist who shared resources and answered countless questions. Read about MUTE during stomatal development in Kalanchoë www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Big shout out also to our team and of course our wonderful research gardeners, in particular Jasmin Sekulovski, for the help in establishing horticultural protocols for K. laxiflora.

Big shout out to the U. Liverpool team. None of this would have been possible without the generous support and wonderful resources from @jameshartwell.bsky.social and his team - thank you all so much, you are true role models for open and collaborative science.

🌵Preprint alert 🌵 5y in the works & extremely proud of this one. Xin Cheng & @heikelindner.bsky.social established the eudicot leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora as a dev model. Like in grasses, MUTE makes Kalanchoë’s stomatal subsidiary cells! 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... BSKY-tutorial 👇