Nobody: what is a tree, anyway? Us:  authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... (Review out today, in which we ask whether xylem disconnection arising early in wood anatomy is convergent with disconnection seen across tall plants and whether tree evolution requires disconnection given periodic drought.)

📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢 🌷✨ JXB Issue 18 of 2025 is out now ✨🌷 On the cover: A beautiful watercolour painting of a Tulip Poplar sapling by @kateplantphys.bsky.social - see Johnson et al. this issue! 🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb... #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

The cover of @jxbotany.bsky.social is my painting of Tulip Poplar, a North-American native & global street tree that was the focus of our paper visualising freezing spread & freeze-thaw embolism in leaves! A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project 🔗below @brodersenlab.bsky.social

Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!

So fun to be featured on this week’s @naturepodcast.bsky.social talking about the tree microbiome and could not be more thrilled to be following a story on rubber ducks.

Nature Podcast@naturepodcast.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This week on the pod 🔊 🦆 Researchers develop a new glue and test it on a rubber duck 🦠 The diversity of microbes within living trees go.nature.com/41tMU3B

Congrats to @jgewirtzman.bsky.social on his new paper exploring the microbiome of trees now online in Nature (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). Amazing effort to pull all this data together that highlights the distinct microbial communities in the sapwood and heartwood of different species.

A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees - Nature

Microbiome analyses of living trees show that a single tree can host approximately one trillion bacteria, with microbial communities distinctly partitioned between heartwood and sapwood and with minim...

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📢Interested in plant drought resistance and tree mortality?🌳🌿 👥Join us to explore key physiological mechanisms behind these processes! 👨‍🎓We’re seeking strong candidates to apply for a MSCA #Postdoc Fellowship in our team. 🗓️Deadline: 10 Sept 2025 → t.ly/LmD1P #PlantScience #Drought #TreeMortality

I have two open postdoc positions in my lab that include opportunities to collaborate with @alecaborsuk.bsky.social and researchers at the Salk Harnessing Plants Initiative. If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below: campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...

please share - 2 postdoc positions available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/post-... @ripeproject.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095

Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Our new paper describing a novel method for measuring plant cell turgor is now online at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We demonstrate how nucleating microbubbles inside plant cells and studying their growth and dissolution dynamics allows us to estimate turgor pressure.