The SAUERKRAUT transposable element acceleratesArabidopsis floral transition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.03.715599v1

Natural variation in DXR expression is associated with apical hook bending under NaCl stress in Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.12.718021v1

New bioRxiv preprint!🌱 We found the SAUERKRAUT transposon to regulate the floral transition in a salt-dependent manner!🧂 A step toward salt-tolerant crops in a changing climate!🌞🥬 🔗 doi.org/10.64898/202... #PlantScience #SaltStress #ClimateChange @pph-wur.bsky.social @christatesterink.bsky.social

Warm temperature and mild water stress cooperatively promote root elongation: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... Led by Scott Hayes and @minnieleong.bsky.social @pph-wur.bsky.social @wurplant.bsky.social

Warm temperature and mild water stress cooperatively promote root elongation

Hayes and Leong et al. show that warm temperature and mild water stress synergistically enhance root elongation in Arabidopsis. The response is mediated by SnRK2.2/2.3 and COP1 through regulation of H...

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IPGSA 2025 is going on in BEAUTIFUL Fort Collins, Colorado, from June 29th to July 3rd. EARLY REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION deadlines due April 15th! 54 talks chosen from abstracts and 22 Travel Awards to USA and INTERNATIONAL scientists. Register and apply for awards NOW. 🌱 #plantscience

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice to understand how ABA regulates stomatal dynamics. #PhDposition www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

How do potato cultivars cope with salt stress? With Rumyana Karlova (PPH-WUR) we are glad to share that our paper investigating potato plants' response to salt stress is out www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ! with @pph-wur.bsky.social @christatesterink.bsky.social

Potato cultivars use distinct mechanisms for salt stress acclimation

Soil salinity induces osmotic stress and ion toxicity in plants, detrimentally affecting their growth. Potato (Solanum tuberosum) suffers yield reduct…

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Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Light. This Focus Issue will gather original research articles and invited reviews on mechanistic aspects of light–regulated responses. Submission Deadline: 09/2025. academic.oup.com/plphys/pages...

We've got some 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 speakers at our 75th birthday conference. Sign up now to join them in September bit.ly/JXB75 🎉 🌳 🧪 #plantscience @janelangdale.bsky.social @cristobaluauy.bsky.social @kinpanchung.bsky.social @dianebeckles.bsky.social

🚨Job alert! 🔬Postdoc in Cytoplasmic Inheritance in Plants at @w-u-r.bsky.social! 🗓 Deadline: April 7, 202 📍Start: June 1, 2025 Details: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... #Postdoc #PlantScience #WUR @erc.europa.eu @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher: ERC-funded project 'Cytoplasmic Inheritance in Plants'

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🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!

Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues as contingencies in crop engineering - Nature

Gene duplication and subsequent paralogue diversification are major obstacles to genotype-to-phenotype predictability.

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🚨 Exciting News! #ICAR2025 Preliminary Schedule with confirmed invited speakers is online 📅 🎟️ Early bird registration is open until April 20, but don't wait. Half the tickets are already gone! 📢 Abstract submission is open 🔁 Please RT & spread the word! See you at icar2025.com🌱💡

New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. Because diversity increases excellence! www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

Proud to share our latest published work on moisture responsive root development-a process we call hydropatterning! We find that this process has been under differential selection during maize breeding and the gaseous hormone ethylene prevents branching in air. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Moisture-responsive root-branching pathways identified in diverse maize breeding germplasm

Plants grow complex root systems to extract unevenly distributed resources from soils. Spatial differences in soil moisture are perceived by root tips, leading to the patterning of new root branches t...

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📜 Abscisic acid signaling gates salt-induced responses of plant roots 🧑‍🔬 Jasper Lamers, @christatesterink.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @pnas.org 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAbioticStress #PlantStress #PlantSaltStress #PlantPhysiology #Phytohormones

Abscisic acid signaling gates salt-induced responses of plant roots | PNAS

Soil salinity presents a dual challenge for plants, involving both osmotic and ionic stress. In response, plants deploy distinct yet interconnected...

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And.... the story is now out in PNAS, greatly improved with new data since the pre-print, so check it out and find out how ABA plays an unexpected role in root responses to salinity. @pph-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Abscisic acid signaling gates salt-induced responses of plant roots | PNAS

Soil salinity presents a dual challenge for plants, involving both osmotic and ionic stress. In response, plants deploy distinct yet interconnected...

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Christa Testerink@christatesterink.bsky.social · 3y ago

This all started with a classic “hey, that’s funny” observation by Jasper early in his PhD, when he found that in response to salinity in Arabidopsis roots, a specific cluster of up-regulated genes showed an opposite response to Na+-containing salts compared to osmotic stress and …. ABA.

Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Algae and Aquatic Plants. This Focus Issue welcomes the submission of research articles on photosynthetic organisms found in aquatic or semi-aquatic environments. Submission Deadline: 11/2025. https://academic.oup.com/plphys/pages/plant-physiology-call-for-paper…

REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION for the International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) 2025 Conference are now OPEN. www.ipgsa2025.org Deadline for discounted registration and abstract submission for talks is April 15 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Colorado! #plantscience

Amazing story in @nature.com by @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social Anders Meibom and others; revealing intracellular Na+ and other elements in roots and ... a new SOS1 location. Moving the field forward! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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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SOS2 phosphorylates FREE1 to regulate multi-vesicular body trafficking and vacuolar dynamics under salt stress (Guoyong Liu, Yonglun Zeng, Baiying Li, Xiangfeng Wang, Liwen Jiang, Yan Guo) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf012

We've made it, just before Christmas! 🎄🤶🏾 I'm happy to share the first >>PRE-PRINT<< of my group!😊 The first manuscript of the first PhD student! Good job Asif!🙌🏾🎉👏🏾💪🏾🤗🥳 #plantresearch #seedmaturation #seedresearch #plantevo

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 2y ago

The angiosperm seed life cycle follows a developmental reverse hourglass https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629609v1

Explore all focus issues and see the call for papers for upcoming focus issues academic.oup.com/plphys. #PlantScience

Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic

Plant Physiology is an international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, biophysics, and environmental biology of plants

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Plant Physiology regularly publishes focus issues that dive deep into key areas of plant science. From plant stress responses to metabolic regulation, these issues bring together cutting-edge research on critical topics. 📖Read the latest focus issue at academic.oup.com/plphys/issue.... 🌿

Volume 196 Issue 4 | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic

Plant Physiology is an international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, biophysics, and environmental biology of plants

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Get ready to celebrate the release of the @plantphys.bsky.social special issue on Hypoxia & Plants with this exciting seminar hosted by @aspbofficial.bsky.social @rsasidharan.bsky.social 🌾🌊 #plantscience blog.aspb.org/january-28-p...

January 28: Plant Physiology webinar, Hypoxia and Plants | Plant Science Today

Celebrating the January 2025 Focus Issue on Hypoxia and Plants Tuesday, January 28, 2025 7 AM EDT | Noon UTC | 1 PM CET | 9 PM Tokyo | About This Webinar The January 2025 Focus Issue of Plant…

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A knock-in of a 10bp heat shock promoter element in front of cell-wall-invertase genes improved heat stress response in rice and tomato!!! Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice

Lou et al. engineered source-sink relations to improve carbon partitioning by targeted insertion of heat-shock cis-elements into cell-wall-invertase genes using prime editing. This delivers climate-smart crops with higher yields under normal conditions and stable yields under heat stress in tomato and rice.

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Root depth is important 4 drought resilience & soil carbon storage. Studying it in Arabidopsis is tough due to its small roots. Enter ClearDepth: a simple, low-cost method to quantify root depth in soil. It even works for crops like rice! #PlantScience #roots onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ClearDepth: a simple, robust, and low‐cost method to assess root depth in soil

Root depth is important for plant drought tolerance and represents an avenue for carbon sequestration in deep soil layers thus helping mitigate the effects of climate change. ClearDepth offers a simp....

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Proud to share our new @plantphys.bsky.social review exploring the anatomical and molecular basis for root adaptations to the environment. Prashanth Ramachandran and Andrea Ramirez detail cell types and pathways that help plants stay resilient in a changing world. academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Rooting for survival: how plants tackle a challenging environment through a diversity of root forms and functions

Abstract. The current climate crisis has global impacts and will affect the physiology of plants across every continent. Ensuring resilience of our agricul

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www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/... My colleagues Rumyana Karlova and Leónie Bentsink are hiring! @pph-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social

PhD student MiSeed

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Reminder for the online seminar this Friday to celebrate our Focus issue on Root development. Follow these talks highlighting some of the many great papers in the issue, at breakfast time on our (Europe) side of the world. @aspbofficial.bsky.social @plantphys.bsky.social

Mary Williams @PlantTeaching@plantteaching.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've had a few questions about the Dec 6 @plantphys.bsky.social webinar on Root Development blog.aspb.org/december-6-p... It's being held at a time to accomodate the speakers, so not always convenient for participants. However, we always record webinars & post them to YouTube and blog ASAP!