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Molecular Plant Physiology, Ion Channels, Transport and Signaling
Congrats to Uli, Bjørn & team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Transport of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides by PIN-FORMED auxin transporters - Nature Plants
PIN transporters are key players in distributing phenoxyacetic acid herbicides. Mutagenesis and cryo-EM structures elucidate substrate specificity and transport mechanisms, paving the way for improved...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-01984-0
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Laura Leventhal
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Excited to share my first first-author paper! 🌱🧬 'Planting Genomes in the Wild: Arabidopsis From Genetics History to the Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics Era' with Dr. Megan Ruffely and
@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
#PlantScience
#Genomics
#Arabidopsis
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Planting Genomes in the Wild: Arabidopsis From Genetics History to the Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics Era | Annual Reviews
The genetics model system Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. lives across a vast geographic range with contrasting climates, in response to which it has evolved diverse life histories and phenotypic ada...
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-071123-095146
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Bridging the borders…
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Plasmodesmata act as unconventional membrane contact sites regulating intercellular molecular exchange in plants
Membrane contact sites (MCSs) are fundamental for intracellular communication, but their role in intercellular communication remains unexplored. We sh…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009286742401376X?dgcid=raven_sd_via_email
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Amazing! Congrats…
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The Marchantia polymorpha pangenome reveals ancient mechanisms of plant adaptation to the environment - Nature Genetics
Pangenome analyses of 133 wild accessions of the model bryophyte Marchantia polymorpha identify adaptive features and provide insights into the mechanisms of plant adaptation to the terrestrial enviro...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-02071-4
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8 months ago
Check out our new study! We show that Arabidopsis uses the EDS1-SAG101-NRG1 node to trigger rapid yet contained cell death. Key finding: NRG1C variant regulates this process by competing with functional NRG1s. Amazing collaboration between Jijie Chai and Parker Labs.
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Read for the weekend… A bi-kinase module sensitizes and potentiates plant immune signaling | Science Advances
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A bi-kinase module sensitizes and potentiates plant immune signaling
Mutual activation of a Ca2+ sensing bi-kinase module potentiates NADPH oxidase activation to facilitate systemic immunity.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt9804
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Marc Somssich
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📜 A green lifetime biosensor for calcium that remains bright over its full dynamic range 🧑🔬 Franka H van der Linden,
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@elife.bsky.social
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elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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#Microscopy
#Calcium
#Biosensor
#Bioimaging
#Fluorophores
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A green lifetime biosensor for calcium that remains bright over its full dynamic range
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Chemical genetics reveals cross-regulation of plant developmental signaling by the immune peptide-receptor pathway | Science Advances
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Chemical genetics reveals cross-regulation of plant developmental signaling by the immune peptide-receptor pathway
A small compound uncovers the MAP kinase homeostasis–based signal specificity between plant development and immunity.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads3718
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Novel insights in plant hydrotropism
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MIZ1 regulates ECA1 to generate a slow, long-distance phloem-transmitted Ca2+ signal essential for root water tracking in Arabidopsis | PNAS
Ever since Darwin postulated that the tip of the root is sensitive to moisture differences and that it “transmits an influence to the upper adjoini...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1804130115
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Leveraging light-gated channelrhodopsins for strengthening plant physiological responses: Trends in Plant Science
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Leveraging light-gated channelrhodopsins for strengthening plant physiological responses
Strengthening plant physiological traits is crucial for sustainable plant improvement. The underlying molecular mechanisms of rhodopsin-based plant improvement remain largely unknown. However, a recen...
https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/fulltext/S1360-1385%2825%2900010-X
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Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion | Science
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Calcium-dependent protein kinases CPK3/4/6/11 and 27 respond to osmotic stress and activate SnRK2s in Arabidopsis: Developmental Cell
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Calcium-dependent protein kinases CPK3/4/6/11 and 27 respond to osmotic stress and activate SnRK2s in Arabidopsis
Osmotic stress triggers the transient elevation of cytosolic Ca2+ levels and the rapid activation of SnRK2 protein kinases. Li and Hu et al. show the critical roles of CPK3/4/6/11/27 in decoding Ca2+ ...
https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807%2824%2900774-3
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Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬
9 months ago
The German Society for Plant Sciences (Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft DBG) is now on Bluesky 🌱
#PlantScience
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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
9 months ago
Sometimes the grass is indeed greener – and the sky is blue! We are ending activities on X and joining bluesky. ➡️https://go.uniwue.de/exit ➡️https://idw-online.de/de/news845520
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Charles Roussin-Léveillée
9 months ago
The Nobori Masterpiece is out! What a nice interpretation of complex datasets. Congratulations
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and from the same lab including some esteemed colleagues from Wuerzburg...
#ionchannels
involved on root
#Calcium
dependent
#ROS
signaling
#optogenetics
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Calcium-triggered apoplastic ROS bursts balance gravity and mechanical signals to navigate soil
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been implicated repeatedly in multiple signaling processes in plants but the underlying mechanisms and roles remain enigmatic. Here, we developed live imaging of apo...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.07.631646
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#ionchannels
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Armadillo Repeat Only Proteins Are Crucial for the Function of Plant CNGC Channels
Plant cells respond to a wide range of stimuli through intracellular calcium (Ca2+) signaling. Cyclic nucleotide-gated channels (CNGCs) are a major class of plant Ca2+ channels, with 20 homologs in Ar...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.06.631460
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MRC-LMB Cell Biology Division
10 months ago
40 years ago all of Genbank was published in print form by NAR. The same format today would require over 4 light seconds of shelf space. To a year of progress in 2025.
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
10 months ago
Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies. Interested in contributing? Please contact us!
#plantscience
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#SnRK1
regulates nitrate uptake
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SnRK1α1-mediated RBOH1 phosphorylation regulates reactive oxygen species to enhance tolerance to low nitrogen in tomato
A kinase and an NADPH oxidase mediate reactive oxygen species production, which enhances the expression of two nitrate transporter genes and promotes nitra
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/advance-article/doi/10.1093/plcell/koae321/7922601
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The Plant Cell
10 months ago
NEWS & VIEWS: You can have it all: How the interplay between SnRK1 and RBOH1 promotes nitrate uptake in tomato (Margot Raffeiner)
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Sjon Hartman
10 months ago
With this news in mind, I am happy to announce we are recruiting a postdoc or PhD student with expertise in Plant Microbiology. Come join us in sunny Freiburg ! Please share far and wide, thank you, and happy holidays! 🌲
#plantscience
#phd
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ
10 months ago
Great to be able to comment with Jeff Dangl on a couple of important papers published today in Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A common immune response node in diverse plants
Small molecules activate a defense mechanism shared by all flowering plants
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu4930
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News from
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Geert De Jaeger’s lab
10 months ago
Check out our latest pre-print where we used our ASP-#SPARK
#sensor
to unveil
#SnRK1's
multifaceted role during
#plant
growth and
#development
!
bit.ly/49JVZrY
Including real-time
#spatiotemporal
visualization of SnRK1 activity in a growing
#Arabidopsis
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Kierzkowski Lab
10 months ago
Do you want to know how to live-image internal floral organs with confocal microscope for up to 2 weeks? Check out our protocol:
bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...
#Arabidopsis
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KleineVehnLab
10 months ago
We are looking for a new colleague :) Please spread the word!
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Ben 🦠
10 months ago
Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice
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#CalciumSignaling
High humidity induces CNGC2- and CNGC4-mediated increases in cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations
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Annexins, Calcium Spikes, Symbiosis
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Annexin- and calcium-regulated priming of legume root cells for endosymbiotic infection
Nature Communications - This study describes ultrastructural changes and cell-specific calcium responses that accompany cytoplasmic bridge formation in legume root cells committed to symbiotic...
https://rdcu.be/d2Aye
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Tamar Haspel
11 months ago
Terrific analysis of vertical farms by
@hannahritchie.bsky.social
. It's just possible they can be profitable growing baby lettuce, but the staple crops that feed the world are WAY out of reach. Energy is the issue! (Also: solar can't do it b/c land)
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/vertical-f...
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Vertical farming: a local solution for greens, but not feeding the world any time soon
While it has lots of benefits, the economics just don't work.
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/vertical-farming
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Role of OXI1 kinase in PTI
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The OXI1 kinase regulates plant immunity by linking microbial pattern-induced ROS burst to MAPK activation
A reactive oxygen species (ROS)-activated kinase, OXI1, participates in pattern recognition receptor complexes and links microbial pattern–induced ROS burs
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/plcell/koae311/7905805
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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖
11 months ago
At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes
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Yasuhiro Kadota
11 months ago
Our paper is officially published in The Plant Cell!
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The leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase QSK1 regulates PRR-RBOHD complexes targeted by the bacterial effector HopF2Pto
A bacterial effector exploits a plant receptor kinase, a component of immune receptor complexes, and reduces immune receptor accumulation to desensitize pl
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article-abstract/36/12/4932/7828328?utm_source=etoc&utm_campaign=plcell&utm_medium=email
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Alex Webb Lab
11 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am amazed at this achievement. This is done using fairly off the shelf components. 🧪
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Ångström-resolution fluorescence microscopy - Nature
The authors introduce a single-molecule DNA-barcoding method, resolution enhancement by sequential imaging, that improves the resolution of fluorescence microscopy down to the Ångström scale using off...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05925-9
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PM Delaux
11 months ago
Just out
@natureplants.bsky.social
A first dive into the nutrient stress response in streptophyte algae with Klebsormidum transcriptomic changes in response to N / P / Suc variations Marchantia responds in a different way, regulated by a limited set of "master" TFs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Co-option of plant gene regulatory network in nutrient responses during terrestrialization - Nature Plants
The first land plant faced environmental challenges during terrestrial colonization. This study shows how the co-option of gene regulatory networks contributes to nutrient responses, facilitating the ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-024-01851-4
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Yvon Jaillais
11 months ago
With Marie Cecile Caillaud and Isabelle Fobis-Loisy, we are organizing a concurrent session at ICAR next year
#ICAR2025
(Gent, Belgium June 16-20 2025). - How do cells talk to each other? New frontiers in cell-to-cell communication
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Concurrent Sessions. - International Conference on Arabidopsis Research: ICAR2025
https://web.cvent.com/event/4488106e-d2ff-46ac-b6c7-986d68a05129/websitePage:74fe10c3-6547-4894-95cd-2124eee733fa
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Wow!! Congrats.
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Today we had the pleasure to be entertained by Bill Martin about the possible origins of life! It was simply great. Thanks Bill!
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Alex Costa
11 months ago
Hello dear...I am also here...let's start with this: Check out this timelapse of growing Arabidopsis leaves expressing a Calcium sensor. Nature's signal in motion! 🌱
#PlantScience
#CalciumSignaling
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Nature Plants
11 months ago
New Article: "The complete genome assembly of Nicotiana benthamiana reveals the genetic and epigenetic landscape of centromeres"
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...revealing the structure, epigenetic landscape and evolutionary dynamics of its centromeres following allotetraploidization.
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Nature Plants
11 months ago
New Article: "ABA-activated low-nanomolar Ca2+–CPK signalling controls root cap cycle plasticity and stress adaptation"
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An ultrasensitive biosensor shows how spatiotemporal Ca2+ dynamics modulate the root cap cycle in adaptation to stress through ABA–Ca2+–CPK signalling.
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A dual role for SnRK1: a constitutive one, tightly linked to meristematic and vascular tissues, and a dynamic one, steering growth according to energy and nutrient availability.
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Spatiotemporal visualization of SnRK1 activity unveils its multifaceted role during plant growth and development
Plants are able to endure fluctuating environments through complex signaling networks, meticulously balancing growth decisions based on internal and external cues. Central to these networks, Sucrose n...
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5290460/latest
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How the bundle sheath acquires this alternate identity that allows efficient photosynthesis.
#PlantScience
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Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis - Nature
Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing and chromatin-accessibility analyses in rice (a C3 plant) and sorghum (a C4 plant) provide insight into how C4 photosynthesis evolved in bundle-sheath cells, revealing th...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08204-3
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FPbase
11 months ago
Hello friends! We’re here to celebrate and share all things fluorescent. Tag us as you share findings related to the use or publication of FPs and other probes
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Altmetric
11 months ago
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky
#HigherEd
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Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/intent-links
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Frank Menke
11 months ago
📣 PhD opportunity at
@thesainsburylab.bsky.social
Norwich, UK. "Investigating host penetration by the rice blast fungus" with Dr Frank Menke and Nick Talbot
@FrankMenke.bsky.social
@talbotlabtsl.bsky.social
Apply before 25 Nov 2024! ⬇️
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Stephan Wenkel
11 months ago
Postdoc Opportunity in Plant Development! Join the ERC Synergy project RESYDE exploring symmetry breaking in flowers to uncover the evolution of floral architectures. We're seeking talented postdocs to reshape plant development! Please get in touch if interested.
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