Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!

@zeineradam.bsky.social et al. proposed CYSTEINE-RICH RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN KINASE2 as negative regulator of CALS1 and CALS3 regulating source to sink transport, which impacts plant growth and development. @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social @rople.bsky.social @mwrzaczek.bsky.social #CSEBR

CYSTEINE-RICH RLK2 regulates development via callose synthase-dependent symplastic transport in Arabidopsis

Abstract. CYSTEINE-RICH RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN KINASEs (CRKs) play an important role in plant development and stress responses. One of the best described me

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Damage limitation... van Wüllen et al. @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social explore the role of #phytohormones during the various stages of parasitism, expose knowledge gaps in the field, & propose novel strategies to help limit agricultural damage by parasitic plants doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

I am organizing a concurrent session “Cellular reprogramming and organ regeneration” at #ICAR2026 together with @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social! Submit your abstract by Feb 22 (for oral) and share your exciting science with us🌿 icar2026.sg

We’re hiring! 🌱 Open positions in my lab for candidates interested in cambium development in Arabidopsis, hybrid aspen, or silver birch. Apply now! Please repost! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology

Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology

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“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Only a few days left to apply! My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis. @starmorph-syg.bsky.social Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

Plants are constantly under attack in nature But what determines whether they choose to defend themselves or heal their tissue? Charles Melnyk is conducting groundbreaking molecular research to understand their strategies #research #science #plantscience @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social shorturl.at/1jZ5W

Fight or heal – how do plants know what is best for them? | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

Plants are constantly under attack in nature. But what determines whether they choose to defend themselves or heal their tissue? Charles Melnyk is conducting groundbreaking molecular research to under...

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Our new paper is out! 1/14 How does an organ rebuild its shape after injury? It's not just about making new cells, but aligning them in the right direction — like bricks shaping a structure. We show that it's all driven by Cell Geometry! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Wound repair in plants guided by cell geometry

Mathew et al. show that growth conflicts reshape cells after injury, forming rhomboidal geometries that trigger diagonal divisions. This reorients cell files to restore tapered morphology. A two-step ...

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Plant Science Research Weekly -- The hidden power of water in plant regeneration (Nature Plants) @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/9quikax #PlantaePSRW

The hidden power of water in plant regeneration | Plantae

Plants are renowned for their remarkable ability to regenerate tissues and organs. Two typical regeneration pathways—de novo root regeneration (DNRR) and wound-induced callus (WIC) formation—enable…

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Plant Science Research Weekly: July 18, 2025 plantae.org/plant-scienc... (3/3) The hidden power of water in plant regeneration; ; Unusual cell death pathway in maize endosperm; Herbivore bites promote plant growth in the succeeding year. @matthiaserb.bsky.social @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social

Please spread the word: Position in plant development @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Looking forward to having a new colleague! www.upsc.se/jobs/6590-as...

How do plants decide the fate of a wound and what to regenerate? Water availability! Abdul Kareem and colleagues show that regeneration outcomes after tissue cutting are controlled by water. A 🧵/n 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Water availability positions auxin response maxima to determine plant regeneration fates - Nature Plants

This study reveals that water availability at the wound determines plant regeneration outcomes. High water availability induces root regeneration whereas low water availability triggers callus formati...

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Beautiful work showing opposing gradients of gases activates regeneration in wounded Arabidopsis roots. Congrats to all authors! Some interesting future questions raised regarding aerial tissues and non-Arabidopsis. How do they activate regeneration? Next big questions for the field.

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How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to all winners and finalists for their amazing science and excellent talks! I'm very pleased to be part of this group of scientists, and thankful to @mplantpcom.bsky.social for this award!

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New! The winners of Rising Stars in Plant Sciences 2025 (RSPS2025) come out. Congratulations to Dr. Tonni Grube Andersen, Dr. Charles Melnyk, Dr. Li Wan, Dr. Bing Wang, and Dr. Zhen Yan!🎇🎇🎇

Just like in Fashion - trends are also returning in #PlantScience. ATM, Grafting is coming back! Two recent reviews were dedicated to it: First, Augstein & @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Then, @fritz-kragler.bsky.social & Bock: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally! Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus

Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...

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Great paper by the group of lab alumnus Changzheng Xu on auxin regulation of fiber development in poplar. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The auxin–PLETHORA 5 module regulates wood fibre development in Populus tomentosa - Nature Plants

The study reveals that PLETHORA 5, a transcription factor activated by auxin signalling in the vascular cambium, regulates cell expansion and cell wall thickening of fibres by directly repressing SND1...

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Please check out our Commentary on the recent PNAS paper from the @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social lab about systemic signals in Phtheirospermum japonicum: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long! www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.

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A PhD position is available in my group @_SLU. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden to work on plant regeneration and graft hybrid formation! Details below. Please share! #plantscijobs #PlantScience

🌱 When a root cell undergoes symmetric division, are the daughter cells actually identical? By combining live-cell imaging and scRNAseq we discovered a new cell state with uneven BR activity. Read our full paper in Cell: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... @nvukas.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social

Please repost: BBSRC funded PhD opportunity. Please get in touch for further project info. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Investigation of genes regulating the intercalary meristem in barley at Durham University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Investigation of genes regulating the intercalary meristem in barley at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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We are hiring! Are you interested in lateral root development and the cellular processes that accommodate these newly formed organs? If yes, apply! We are recruiting a Post-doc (from May 2025) and a PhD student (from September 2025). www.unine.ch/lbmc/jobs/

"A long-distance inhibitory system regulates haustoria numbers in parasitic plants", our work is now out in @pnas.org. We propose that parasitic plants count their infection numbers, and dynamically regulate new infections in response. Read all about it: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Now out, our work describing a long-distance inhibitory system regulating haustoria numbers in parasitic plants. @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social A thread... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our review on using grafting to engineer plants is out! Have a look in Plant Journal 👇

The Plant Journal@theplantjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰📚 Modern and historical uses of plant grafting to engineer development, stress tolerance, chimeras, and hybrids 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70057 by Frauke Augstein & @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social @SLU Grafting advances+techniques+applications+ phenotypic improvements

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Seeking 4 Postdocs & 1 PhD to join €10 million multi-institution ERC Research #RESYDE project. Help unravel the complex processes of symmetry breaking in plant development using flowers as a model system. ℹ️ www2.hu-berlin.de/resyde/ Please share! #plantscijobs #PlantScience

Very proud and happy to have contributed to this amazing story led by @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com 🧪

Elemental cryo-imaging reveals SOS1-dependent vacuolar sodium accumulation - Nature

This study demonstrates that cryo nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (CryoNanoSIMS) enables direct multi-elemental imaging at subcellular resolution of macro- and micronutrients or trace elemen...

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Please spread the word, PhD position in our group! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Join us in Ghent on June 14-15 for two days of Plant Vascular Development! A satellite meeting of ICAR25 #ICAR25 More info at icar25.com Spread the word! #PlantScience