PAPER from @alaingoossenspsb.bsky.social and @ivedesmet1978.bsky.social #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A sequential MAP kinase cascade regulates mechanical signalling - Nature Communications

Mechanical stimulation by touch triggers rapid and widespread changes in protein phosphorylation in plants. Here the authors identify a MAPKKK3/4/5-MKK4/5-MPK3/6 phosphorylation cascade as a key signa...

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Fascinating talk by @noxmakunga.bsky.social on biotechnology strategies to improve sustainable exploitation of South African medicinal plants at the SABPA symposium near Stellenbosch

🍅 DARWIN REVIEW 🍅 Jaryal et al. discuss the role of four stress hormones, abscisic acid, ethylene, jasmonates, and salicylic acid, in the orchestration of signaling pathways that mediate tomato resilience and metabolism 📝 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @alaingoossenspsb.bsky.social

InnCoCells: @alaingoossenspsb.bsky.social, together with 16 partners from 11 European countries, has discovered new plant-based ingredients with proven anti-inflammatory and anti-aging effects for the development of next-generation skincare products. Read it here: home.vib.be#/news/feed/e...

@sandyknapp.bsky.social opens the #SOLRUB2025 meeting talking about how wonderful are #Solanaceae species. New dating results are coming out soon. The family is older that we thought. Almost 90 MY. She closes her presentation talking about the importance of community.

A lovely joint writing effort with Robin Buell! PAPER from @alaingoossenspsb.bsky.social in @plantphys.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Plant metabolism: zoom in to the single-cell level

The numerous emerging single-cell technologies allow uncovering plant metabolism regulation at higher resolution, enabling precise pathway discovery and me

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Interested in performing a PhD on the insecticidal bitterness compounds of our national pride, chicory? Then check out these 2 positions within a joint project between ILVO, Wageningen University and my group at UGent-VIB: ilvo.vlaanderen.be/en/jobs/doct... and ilvo.vlaanderen.be/en/jobs/doct...

Curious about my PhD research @parkergroup.bsky.social? The paper is available as preprint on bioRxiv now! 🔬 The interaction between scopoletin and fungal endophyte F80 rescues plant growth under iron-limiting conditions by resolving the iron mobility bottleneck. 📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cooperation between a root fungal endophyte and host-derived coumarin scopoletin mediates Arabidopsis iron nutrition

Iron acquisition is a critical challenge for plants, especially in iron-deficient soils. Recent research underscores the importance of root-exuded coumarins in modulating the root microbiome community...

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Recruitment time! You're a junior postdoc and want to discover and produce bioactive fungal metabolites that are involved in the chemical warfare between fungi and plants? Then apply here! jobs.vib.be/j/108923/pos...

Postdoctoral Researcher - VIB

OverviewThe group of Specialized Metabolism, led by Prof. Alain Goossens at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, and the metabolic engineering researc

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TODAY: Public PhD defense of Elke Clicque from the group of @alaingoossenspsb.bsky.social. @viblifesciences.bsky.social

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Plant biologists! We need you! We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science. Please check here and shared widely: forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3... #PlantSci

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ALT: a man holding a large green leaf with the words i just love a good leaf below him

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Starter Pack for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions go.bsky.app/H3986W6 #PlantImmunity #MPMI

Numbers don't mean everything, yet, I am happy to see my name again in the 'Highly Cited Researcher 2024' list, together with that of other PIs from VIB-UGent Plant Systems biology center @psb-vib.bsky.social! Showcases the excellent work my/our researchers perform here! www.ugent.be/en/news-even...

25 Ghent University scientists are ‘Highly Cited Researcher 2024’

25 Ghent University scientists may call themselves ‘Highly Cited Researcher’ this year. The title goes to scientists who have a significant and broad impact within their field(s) of research.

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First steps on Bluesky. Let's see how much enthusiasm I can raise to send contributions to our upcoming focus issue on Metabolism in Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social