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Bobby Caine

@bc247.bsky.social

Editorial Advisor at Plants, People, Planet 🌿🫂🌍. Senior Research Associate at The University of Sheffield in the Croft Lab 🍃💧📸🛰☀️🌾

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Bobby Caine@bc247.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Interested in how #wheat 🌾 might perform during future climare extremes? The @sheffielduni.bsky.social press team have covered our latest research from the @drhollycroft.bsky.social lab 👇

The University of Sheffield@sheffielduni.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🌾 Wheat provides around 20 per cent of daily calories worldwide. But a new study led by @drhollycroft.bsky.social and @bc247.bsky.social has discovered wheat crops could use considerably more water than expected during extreme future heatwaves... #cop30 Read more 👇 sheffield.ac.uk/news/wheat-c...

Andy Plackett@seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI115/r... A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social. If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂 #Plantscience #Plantscijobs

Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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Franciska de Vries 🟥@frantecol.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Long-term research carries an intrinsic paradox: its true value emerges only after decades, whereas political agendas often demand short-term results. This mismatch makes sustained monitoring one of the easiest targets when public budgets come under pressure." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Long-term research projects are essential for predicting the ecological and evolutionary responses of species to global change, yet their continuity is often threatened by uncertainties over funding. ...

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Lisa Smith@plantylisasmith.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Interested in plant development and/or cell walls? We (Sam Amsbury, Andrew Fleming and I) have three PhD positions at the University of Sheffield open for applications until 7th January. We offer a friendly, jointly-run lab, great facilities, an affordable city and proximity to the Peak District!

Details of the three PhD projects on offer: Primed for Protection: Cell Wall Modifications in Plant Defense and Long-Term Immunity, Engineering Stomata: How Shape Informs Function: and Signalling Complexes and Cell Wall Changes during Plant Reproduction
Bobby Caine@bc247.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to share details of an online seminar I'll be taking part in tomorrow where I'll discuss #stomata. This will include evolution, biotechnology and "sensing" of stomata (including drone data capture). It's an early start, from 7.30am UK time - so don't forget to grab coffee ☕️. Login details 👇

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Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) Project@ripeproject.bsky.social · last yr.

RIPE Researchers, in work done for the CABBI Project, demonstrated that increasing the Rubisco enzyme in C4 crops like sorghum and sugar cane increases photosynthesis and yield as well! Their work was published in the National Academy of Sciences proceedings.

Adapting C4 photosynthesis to atmospheric change and increasing productivity by elevating Rubisco content in sorghum and sugarcane | PNAS

Meta-analyses and theory show that with rising atmospheric [CO2], Rubisco has become the greatest limitation to light-saturated leaf CO2 assimilati...

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Andy Plackett@seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social · last yr.

It's been a long time coming but I'm very happy to share this preprint with folks. 🙂 Thanks again to the Royal Society for funding this research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Plantscience #Plantevolution #Fernbiology

Gene networks are conserved across reproductive development between the fern Ceratopteris richardii and the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana

How plants first invented seeds is a longstanding unresolved evolutionary question. Seed-bearing plants arose from within seedless vascular plants, with ferns as their closest relatives, but how the s...

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Facundo Romani@fromani.bsky.social · last yr.

Recently, two papers showed the potential of population genetics in Marchantia from @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and Dolan's lab. Here is my dispatch for Current Biology talking about them. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Population genomics: A new chapter for Marchantia biology

The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has become a powerful model organism for plant biology. Researchers are now exploring its potential as a model system for population genomics to understand natural ...

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Bobby Caine@bc247.bsky.social · last yr.

An interesting new story about MYB59 contribution to WUE at high temperature in #Arabidopsis by John Ferguson, Oliver Brendel and @ubechtold.bsky.social. #stomata #roots www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.27.640580v1

MYB59 is linked to natural variation of water use associated with warmer temperatures in Arabidopsis thaliana

Water-use contributes significantly to plant growth and productivity, yet the extent to which variation in water-use is a function of adaptive differentiation is unknown. Here, we studied natural vari...

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