Western University and the Department of Microbiology & Immunology has posted a new tenure-track position in the area of neuroinfectious diseases. The description and application information can be found here: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

A pair of chitosan receptors confer broad-spectrum fungal resistance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A pair of chitosan receptors confer broad-spectrum fungal resistance

Chitosan, a major fungal cell wall component, activates plant immunity, yet the underlying perception mechanism remains unknown. In this study, we identified OsFID1, an apoplast-localized DUF26 domain...

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🌱 How do plants read chitin length? The receptor CHIP13 works like a molecular measuring tape. What began 13 years ago with a recalcitrant protein is now in @science.org. Thanks to all my co-authors and colleagues! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Great opportunity. I absolutely loved my visit there — great people and good science and a cool town. And if this wimpy southern Californian enjoyed Helsinki in January you can hack it no problem.

Tanja Pyhäjärvi@pyhatanja.bsky.social · 2w ago

University of Helsinki is hiring tenure track Assistant/Associate Professors. A main theme is Future Food and candidates with plant and crop breeding and genomics profile are encouraged to apply. Please share to potential candidates! The call closes November 16th. www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...

In which I lay out why Minister Quinn's decision to suspend all private institutions from OSAP is a desperate effort to distract attention from the fact that it is now clear that he lied about the reasons for the February OSAP cuts (and he knew he was lying). Those cuts need to be reversed. Now.

The Contemptible OSAP Cover-Up | HESA

If you have been paying only casual attention to the Ontario Student Assistance file over the past few months and seen headlines like this one from July, where the province suspended several private c...

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I know we are busy but I hope you can join us this November at @uqtr.bsky.social for the Eastern Regional Meeting of the @cspbscbv.bsky.social. A great opportunity for students to present their research, practice oral presentations, and get awards 💚 event.fourwaves.com/fr/cspb-erm2...

Canadian Society of Plant Biologists - Eastern Regional Meeting 2026

Participez à Canadian Society of Plant Biologists - Eastern Regional Meeting 2026, 27 au 28 novembre 2026. En savoir plus sur Fourwaves.

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VACANCY: Computational Biologist / Bioinformatician TSL is searching for a dynamic, motivated individual to work in an exciting bioinformatics/computational biology/data science focussed team. Apply before 2 Nov 2026 buff.ly/MXkLT6X

Computational Biologist/Bioinformatician

Provide expertise, tools, infrastructure, and analysis that underpins TSL's high impact science.

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Come join my department at McMaster! We are searching for a Plant Biology professor! Please share widely! www.academicwork.ca/jobs/tenure-...

Faculty position at the University of Toronto 👇 jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Our Special Issue on receptor-ligand interactions is now online! Thanks to all the authors for sharing their knowledge and views! Huge thanks to @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social @veroglez.bsky.social and @isabelmonte.bsky.social for great collaboration: ) @theplantjournal.bsky.social for the venue!

The Plant Journal@theplantjournal.bsky.social · 4w ago

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐎𝐑-𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 🌱 Edited by @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social @veroglez.bsky.social @isabelmonte.bsky.social @elwirasmakowska.bsky.social 📖 Read the Editorial 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71135 🔎 Explore the complete Special Issue 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Great to see this published! A little paper backstory: was reading about interesting outbreaks during COVID-related shutdowns and happened across some cool work by Emmanuel Wicker et al., who first documented this outbreak and made a collection with fantastic metadata 1/9

Paul Rainey@paulbrainey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A beautiful piece of detective work by @honour.bsky.social + colleagues revealing the origins of Ralstonia disease of bananas on Martinique. As so often, ICEs (ICERs!) prove to be extraordinary capacitors for evolutionary change. Evolution for evolution's sake 🤔 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

I am proud to share my No-AI-assisted perspective review "Plant Peptide Hormones: Three Decades of Discovery and Emerging Paradigms" for the Centennial issue of @plantphys.bsky.social 🌱🍅. It's OA, so everyone can access! 1/ academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Check out the BAR's Single Cell Data Portal at bar.utoronto.ca/single_cell_..., in beta. There's a curated list of scRNA-seq datasets with viewer links, our own CellxGene instance for exploring 14 datasets from 6 papers, and a new tool, SUPeR Viewer! Thanks to PCA and C-SPIRIT for input.

Complementary "CTNIP-SCREW-DEP/HSL3-NUT-DEPR" reads: 10.1016/j.molp.2025.10.005 (wheat) and 10.1016/j.xplc.2026.102074

Nature Plants@natplants.nature.com · last mo.

"How SCREW finds its NUT" rdcu.be/k8vBj18vix9a A News & Views on 3 complementary structural studies published together about SCREW/CTNIP–NUT/HSL3 signalling: rdcu.be/AY11kgcFgTia rdcu.be/S6g7YM6WPjTa rdcu.be/16bsh4fYzpna

Come to @romtoronto.bsky.social and EEB in Toronto! ROM is seeking entomologist/arachnologist curator who would also be faculty in EEB at UofT royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/mdMTpA...

Curator of Insects & Arachnids - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page

Apply to Curator of Insects & Arachnids at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.

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Two back-to-back publications about transcriptional regulations of SA-mediated activation of plant immunity from Nin Zheng’s lab and Yuelin Zhang’s lab www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transcriptional activation of plant immunity by salicylic acid - Nature

A mechanistic basis for how the hormone salicylic acid promotes transcriptional activation during plant immune responses is described.

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🌱We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics @irbv.bsky.social If you are passionate about genetics, molecular biology, or imaging, this is your chance to join a community of researchers working on plant development, cell biology, evolution, ecology, and biodiversity. 👇

Diverse phytocytokines derived from conserved subtilase scaffolds co-evolved with clustered receptors to confer defence responses in legumes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Diverse phytocytokines derived from conserved subtilase scaffolds co-evolved with clustered receptors to confer defence responses in legumes - Nature Plants

This study identifies SubPEP variants in soybean that confer tissue-specific immunity via GmSubPEP Receptors. Their precursor genes and receptor genes are colocalized in genomic clusters, revealing th...

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Structural basis of HSL3/NUT receptor kinase-mediated recognition of a disulfide-constrained phytocytokine #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Who's in control?🧬 Espinoza-López et al. show that a long-non-coding RNA (TALIR) located upstream of TATA-binding protein 2 (TBP2) gene regulates miR396 and miR156 activity in #Arabidopsis, to ultimately control leaf growth 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

A synteny conserved TATA binding protein 2-associated long intergenic non-coding RNA influences leaf development and ABA response in Arabidopsis thaliana

Abstract. Long non-coding RNAs are molecules with regulatory potential that are involved in many biological processes in plants. Despite their significant

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Very interesting preprint describing the Col-0 genetic and epigenetic family tree from labs across the world! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Genetic and epigenetic divergence among Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 laboratory lineages since the 1950s

The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana has been a workhorse of plant biology since the 1950s, when the Columbia-0 (Col-0) accession was widely adopted by the research community as a reference genotype. ...

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🌱🤝 EDITOR'S CHOICE 🤝🌱 ESCAPE 1/PERK13 is a receptor-like kinase that enables Arabidopsis to detect neighboring species through the activation of specific genetic pathways - Libourel et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Concurrent session submissions for the 2027 IS-MPMI Congress in Jeju (July 18-22) are now open! Contribute to the dynamic scientific program and engage the international plant–microbe interactions community in Jeju, South Korea. Apply by 25 Sept. ismpmi.org/announcement...

FERONIA and ANJEA do not have a conserved role in self-incompatible Arabidopsis for self-pollen rejection. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.07.743519v1

🍅From Plant, Cell and Environment: Tomato roots concentrate immune responses in developing tissues, pointing to a potential way to boost disease resistance while limiting growth tradeoffs. (Danielle M. Stevens, Gitta Coaker) ▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #PlantPathology

Congratulations to the 2026 CD Nelson Awardee Dr Heather McFarlane. This award is given annually to a researcher within ten years of their first independent researcher position and for outstanding research contributions to plant biology. 🎉 #CSPB #SCBV

Out in @natplants.nature.com, mapping of brassinosteroid chemical features required for (1) receptor binding, (2) ligand positioning and (3) co-receptor recruitment. Fantastic work by Alberto Caregnato & @hmchen93.bsky.social and our friends in Olomouc. Funding:@snf-fns.ch -> doi.org/10.1038/s414...

🧬🌱SuB3 is a simple, rapid & cost-effective protocol for nuclear-cytoplasmic fractionation from plant tissues—without protoplast isolation. Works for RNA & protein from the same sample A tool for studying subcellular gene expression systems in plant molecular biology academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...

SuB3: a simple nuclear–cytoplasmic subcellular fractionation protocol for localization studies of nucleic acids and proteins in plants

We present SuB3, a simple, fast, and inexpensive method to separate nuclear and cytoplasmic contents of plant cells to study where genes are active and how

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A lettuce receptor-like kinase recognizes the highly conserved heptapeptide motif within microbial Nep1-like proteins | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...