PAPER from @vanbreusegemlab.bsky.social in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Have a look at our latest review where we discuss the current knowledge on carbon transport and metabolism throughout the nodulation process. #PlantScience #Legumes #Rhizibia @psb-vib.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Unraveling carbon dynamics in legume–rhizobia symbioses: toward a single-cell resolution of symbiotic metabolism

This review explores carbon allocation and metabolism during legume nodulation, highlighting single-cell and spatial omics as emerging approaches to study

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JOB POSITION in the lab of @hildenelissen.bsky.social jobs.vib.be/j/136069/mac... @viblifesciences.bsky.social #PlantScience Please spread the news!

Machine Vision / Mechanical Engineer - VIB

Description We are looking for a highly motivated and talented machine vision / mechanical engineer to join our team at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology. The s

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This new #FreeAccess commentary explores how adaptation to cold climates indirectly drove the loss of bacterial leaf blight resistance in #rice, but rebuilding the lost immune module restores #disease resistance without #crop yield loss. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci

Breaking the growth–defense seesaw: An NLR–TF module under asymmetric selection

This Commentary highlights a study revealing that adaptation to cold climates indirectly drove the loss of bacterial blight resistance in japonica rice. Rebuilding the lost immune module restores str...

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🌱🔬VIEWPOINT 🔬🌱 The relationship between plasma membrane (PM) nanodomains and PM protein condensates within plant cells is an under-recognized but critical nexus - Wang et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...... #PlantScience 🧪

Happy to finally see this out in a peer-reviewed form 🧬🌱 Congrats to everyone who contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The dual trxG/PcG protein ULTRAPETALA1 modulates H3K27me3 and directly enhances POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2 activity for fine-tuned reproductive transitions - Nature Plants

This study reports a bivalent factor, ULTRAPETALA1, that can counteract as well as promote PRC2 activity at hundreds of developmental genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. The pro-PRC2 activity of ULTRAPETAL...

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New Publication: Decoding plants cell by cell: opportunities and challenges in single-cell and spatial biology (2026) www.tsl.ac.uk/publications...

Decoding plants cell by cell: opportunities and challenges in…

Recent advances in single-cell and spatial omics technologies are transforming plant research by enabling cell-resolved analyses of gene expression, proteomics, chromatin organization, and metabolism…

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VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group, working to understand the effects of temperature on plant reproductive development. https://okt.to/Yx9K5e Deadline - 18 August 2026 Contract - Until 7 August 2029, full-time

Research Assistant (Penfield Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Crop Genetics.

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Are PP2Cs with intrinsically disordered regions CO2 sensors that control stomatal movements? (Karnelia Paul , Mritunjay Kasera , Yohei Takahashi , Hyunhee Joo , Po-Kai Hsu , Julian I Schroeder) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Are PP2Cs with intrinsically disordered regions CO2 sensors that control stomatal movements?

A study has suggested that specific protein phosphatases are central CO2 sensors that control CO2 regulation of stomatal conductance, which could not be un

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Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

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Plant Physiology@plantphys.bsky.social · 6d ago

📣 We are now accepting applications to join the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program. These are two-year appointments, starting either in January 2027 or 2028. 👉 Learn more and apply now: blog.aspb.org/plantphys_af.... #PlantSci #PlantScience

Great to have Aki & Mina back in Norwich, with talented students and postdocs from partner labs in Japan. We enjoyed great talks and follow-up discussions this morning.

Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 2d ago

From #TSLSummer2015 @TheSainsburyLab to leading a delegation of Early Career Scientists from Japan 🇯🇵 Welcome back Aki @HiroakiAdachi3 and thank you for your dedication to mentorship 🙏

📢 Hear from the 2025 Tansley Medal Winner, @camilledelavaux.bsky.social, in the latest New Phytologist Now webinar. Join us for free at 14:30 BST (UTC+1) 4 September 2026: www.newphytologist.org/news/on-the-... #PlantScience

New Phytologist Now: On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography

Hear from the 2025 Tansley Medal Winner, Camille S. Delavaux, in the latest New Phytologist Now webinar. Join us for free at 14:30 BST (UTC+1) 4 September 2026.

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🔬🌱 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🌱🔬 Rodríguez et al. 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 they are regulated. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Check out our🆕 #OpenAccess review on how #melatonin seed #priming strengthens plant #resilience against #abiotic stresses. We discuss emerging #molecular insights and future #breeding strategies toward designing next-generation, stress-smart #crops 🪴🌾🧬 🖇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology@jipb.bsky.social · 3d ago

This new #JIPB #OpenAccess #review explores how #melatonin seed priming enhances abiotic stress tolerance and proposes an integrative roadmap of advanced molecular and breeding tools to design next-gen, stress-smart #plants. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci #CropSci

A nice review on #MossMonday: Bryophytes in heavy metal-polluted environments: trait-based sensitivity, tolerance mechanisms, biomonitoring applications, and restoration potential www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

Frontiers | Bryophytes in heavy metal-polluted environments: trait-based sensitivity, tolerance mechanisms, biomonitoring applications, and restoration potential

Heavy metal contamination remains a persistent environmental challenge due to its non-degradable nature, long residence time, and cumulative ecological impac...

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Life moves pretty fast

Ever had issues with contamination in #Marchantia or #liverwort tissue culture? We've developed a protocol that is simple and low-effort (albeit slow) to get rid of fungi and bacteria: dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro.... Work led by Isaac Coven and supported by Chetan Pandey, myself & @dromius.bsky.social.

🛡️ INSIGHT 🛡️ "The organization of acylsugar biosynthetic enzymes: what is next for metabolic efficiency in plant defense?" Seimandi & Figueroa discusses recent findings published in JXB by Dwivedi et al. 📝 Insight: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 🔬 Research: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

A new issue of CSH Protocols is out! @cshlpress.bsky.social The cover image highlights the work by Pierce, Hostetler, & @erinsparks.bsky.social, who describe a protocol for quantifying individual root mechanics in maize using a three-point bend test 🌽 ⬇️Links below

A starch sheath surrounds many pyrenoids to enhance CO2 fixation, but how the sheath is shaped was unknown. We discovered that the starch-branching enzyme SBE1 promotes lateral growth of starch to shape the sheath! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Engineering principles in plant metabolism: integrating control, mechanics, and transport under dynamic environments academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... @plantphys.bsky.social

Engineering principles in plant metabolism: integrating control, mechanics, and transport under dynamic environments

Abstract. Plant responses to dynamic environmental conditions remain challenging to describe within a unified mechanistic framework. This is largely becaus

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From #TSLSummer2015 @TheSainsburyLab to leading a delegation of Early Career Scientists from Japan 🇯🇵 Welcome back Aki @HiroakiAdachi3 and thank you for your dedication to mentorship 🙏

🌱🔗 RESEARCH 🔗🌱 Contreras Delgado et al. show that several symbiosis signalling genes play roles in regulating salt-stress responses and that the CCaMK–IPD3 signalling module acts as a key regulator of salt–symbiosis signalling crosstalk 🧂 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Happy to share the final version of our study on the evolution of chromatin states across eukaryotes, out today in @natgenet.nature.com Led by @crisnava.bsky.social and @seanamontgomery.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some highlights below

Diversity and evolution of chromatin regulatory states across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics

This study introduces iChIP2, a low-input chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing method that profiles histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) simultaneously across diverse eukar...

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The Week in Botany August 3, 2026 www.botany.one/the-week-in-... Photosynthesis hidden in hornworts, who works to sustain the Amazon rainforest and why plants aren't passive. #Botany #PlantScience

The Week in Botany August 3, 2026

Photosynthesis hidden in hornworts, who works to sustain the Amazon rainforest and why plants aren't passive.

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Many years ago, my lab helped to discover YUCCAs. Later, Jia-Wei Wang in the lab sussed out the role of miR156s in a range of developmental processes. And now YUCCA and miR156 reappear as partners in this beautiful paper from the Lenhard lab! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience

Check out our recent paper where we shed light on the AMF-tomato symbiosis. @bertderybel.bsky.social @vandepoelelab.bsky.social @vibtechnologies.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Decoding stage-specific symbiotic programs in the Rhizophagus irregularis-tomato interaction using single-nucleus transcriptomics

Stuer et al. use single-nucleus RNA-seq to resolve stage-specific transcriptional programs during arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization of tomato roots. Their analysis identifies candidate transcription...

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PAPER from @ivedesmet1978.bsky.social in @pnas.org #PlantScience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The TaMYB55–TaSnRK1α1–TabZIP9 module confers heat stress tolerance in wheat | PNAS

Heat stress poses a severe threat to global crop yields and food security. Here, we demonstrate that TaSnRK1α1, the α-catalytic subunit of sucrose ...

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It took a while, but our wheat phosphoproteome along a temperature gradient is finally out. Great collaboration with US colleagues and most of the work done by Cassio. track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Large-scale comparative wheat phosphoproteome profiling reveals temperature-associated molecular signatures in wheat

A framework enables identification of protein phosphorylation sites associated with varying temperature sensitivities in wheat.

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