( to the tune of the England song) "They are rowing home, they are rowing. Norway's going home.... ". Very exciting
Alex Webb Lab
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Plant circadian biology at Department of Plant Sciences University of Cambridge.
Photosynthesis as a therapeutic tool. Perhaps plant biology can now have medical level funding? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 #plants #plantscience
Transplanting light-dependent reactions for mammalian eye photosynthesis
Mammalian eyes are exposed to visible light but cannot perform photosynthesis. Here, we show that introducing a nanoscale, structurally and functional…
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Sitting in an olive garden in Cambridge UK. How things have changed
More exciting #chronoculture. Rice EMF3 Alleles Adjust Flower Opening Time to Enhance the Seed Setting Rate Under High Temperature Stress - Ishizaki - Plant Biotechnology Journal share.google/NijSc8kuiVA0.... This is real world impact of #circadian #plant #science 🧪
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Excellent. Circadian resonance increases lettuce yield academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... #PlantScience #Plants #Circadian #Chronoculture
Matching Circadian Rhythms to Light-Dark Cycles Increases Lettuce Yield by 29% in Vertical Farms Without Additional Energy Input
Abstract. Most cultivated lettuce varieties have 27-hour circadian clocks resulting from domestication-driven selection for delayed bolting yet are grown u
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We have been cooking up this story for a while and we are excited to finally be able to share! Read on if you're interested in whole plant regeneration WITHOUT the application of hormones!
A break from science and teaching. The wonderful Raye. I haven't been this excited for an album release since I was about 15. open.spotify.com/album/3ZN01x...
THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.
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Amazing! Huge congratulations to Richard Dekeya from the lab for successfully defending his PhD thesis, and @alexwebblab.bsky.social and Barrie Wilkinson for examining #chronobiology
How does wheat tell time?🌾🕰️ New model by @abhibiotech.bsky.social with @alexwebblab.bsky.social & James Locke reveals the flexibility of plant circadian clocks. Unlike Arabidopsis, wheat ELF3 peaks at dawn, model suggests TOC1 repression drives this shift doi.org/10.1098/rsif... @royalsociety.org
#Monogram2026 Session 6 - From Meristem to Harvest: Building the Plant Big session seeing us through to lunch, featuring not one but two Keynotes! 🕐 Alex Webb @alexwebblab.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social 🌾 Sarah McKim @intbarleyhub.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk
That moment in an online grant application form where you discover there is another page of questions that you have not noticed in the 209 previous times that you have accessed the form 🧪
I think this is a very interesting paper that adds significant understanding in plant water relations.
Maddy Seale@maddyseale.bsky.social · 6mo agoOut in @science.org this week. Soils drive convergence in the regulation of vascular tension in land plants. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience #ecophysiology
Out in @science.org this week: A decline in epigenetic silencing of TEs in older plant organs but not in the shoot meristem. TCX5 and TCX6 help regulate DNA methylation in this context. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience
Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs
Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...
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Out in @science.org this week. Soils drive convergence in the regulation of vascular tension in land plants. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience #ecophysiology
Soils drive convergence in the regulation of vascular tension in land plants
Terrestrial vascular plants operate under negative water potential, which results in hydraulic tension in the vascular system. Vascular tension varies with transpiration and soil drying and is regulat...
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Job opportunity! Research Assistant / Research Associate in Molecular Physiology Fixed term Closes on Wednesday 28 January 2026 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... #PlantSci #PlantSciJobs
This is a very special paper for me. I had the idea of combining transcription factor binding with chromatin in 2016/8. It took some time, but thanks to Fred and Vikas, we can finally share the story in @plos.org Genetics looking at chromatin states in Arabidopsis and Marchantia. #PlantScience
Chromatin state architecture governs transcription factor accessibility across plant genomes
Author summary In eukaryotes, DNA is tightly associated with histone proteins. Histone covalent modifications and histones isoforms, also called histone variants provide most of the complexity of chro...
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📢 Save the date! 49th New Phytologist Symposium: Biological timing in photosynthetic organisms 📅 24–27 May 2027 📍 @johninnescentre.bsky.social, Norwich, UK www.newphytologist.org/events/49-nps #PlantScience #photoperiodism #chronobiology
Biological timing in photosynthetic organisms
The meeting will focus on fundamental advances in photoperiodism, phenology and chronobiology of photosynthetic organisms.
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Our model of wheat circadian clock based on our finding that orthlogues of ELF3 (Arabidopsis evening complex gene) peak at dawn in the cereals. TOC1 repression of ELF3 explains the different behaviours of Arabidopsis & wheat circadian clocks doi.org/10.1098/rsif... #plantresearch 🧪
Data-driven mathematical modelling explains altered timing of EARLY FLOWERING 3 in the wheat circadian oscillator
Abstract. Circadian rhythms are endogenous 24 h cycles that allow organisms to anticipate daily environmental changes. In plants, circadian timing is maint
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In hydrozoan #jellyfish, the timing of gamete release is often coordinated by light. Ezio Rosato explores a @plosbiology.org study that elucidates a novel, endogenous clock-based mechanism that governs #egg release in a new species of jellyfish 🧪 Paper: plos.io/4btAwpY Primer: plos.io/49eTOya
Look who is adorning the shopping centre in Cambridge. @camplantsci.bsky.social very own Nicola Patron #plants
New Year. New Office 365. The horrible Co-pilot icon that was present in the bottom right all office documents in December has disappeared from the Office app on my PC in 2026. Things are looking up, perhaps I was not alone in finding it an annoying distraction? Or temporary respite? @microsoft.com
At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year. So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)
co-pilot = clippy. I really do not want a brightly coloured icon right in my line of sight whilst trying to read and write a Word document. There menu bar is where to put icons. #Microsoft #Office365 @microsoft.com
JOB ALERT - Join us as a lecturer/senior lecturer in plant-microbe interactions in the School of Biological Sciences at Waipapa Taumata Rau The University of Auckland. Applications close 31st January 🌱🧪 jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Plant-Microbe Interactions - School of Biological Sciences
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the leading science faculty in New Zealand and one of...
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Junior Professorship Plastid Homöostasis. Kaiserslautern, Germany. #plantscijob #PlantSciJobs www.academics.de/jobs/w1-juni...
W1-Juniorprofessur für Plastidäre Homöostase (m/w/d) - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) bietet Stelle als W1-Juniorprofessur für Plastidäre Homöostase (m/w/d) in Kaiserslautern - jetzt bewerben!
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Professorship Plant Physiology. Kaiserslautern, Germany. #PlantSciJobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...
W2-Professur für Pflanzenphysiologie (m/w/d) - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) bietet Stelle als W2-Professur für Pflanzenphysiologie (m/w/d) in Kaiserslautern - jetzt bewerben!
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Professorship for Functional and 3D Modeling of Plants. Bonn, Germany. #PlantSciJobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...
W3 Professorship for Functional and 3D Modeling of Plants - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät bietet Stelle als W3 Professorship for Functional and 3D Modeling of Plants in Bonn - jetzt bewerben!
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Professorship Stress resilience of plants. Aachen, Germany. #PlantSciJobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w3-univ...
W3-Universitätsprofessur Stressresilienz von Pflanzen - RWTH Aachen University
RWTH Aachen University bietet Stelle als W3-Universitätsprofessur Stressresilienz von Pflanzen in Aachen - jetzt bewerben!
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