Plant Research
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Sharing and reposting plant science research, reviews, news, and preprints. Your daily feed for the latest discoveries. Tag or DM us to amplify your work. #PlantResearch #PlantScience #PlantSci #PlantBiology
What can far-red reveal in your research? See the ONLY portable #photosynthesis system with integrated far-red control, up to 30% of PFD to recreate sunlight and understory light environments during #photosynthesis measurements more accurately. Stop by #ASHS2026 #plantscience @ashs-hort.bsky.social
RESEARCH ARTICLE Prioritizing Conservation of Trailing‐Edge Populations for Future Climate‐Resilient Forests 🔗 buff.ly/40D8kO4
We invite you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue: Proteostasis. This issue will be coordinated by two of our Academic Editors: Pedro Carvalho and Tamotsu Yoshimori. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/pr...
We're passionate about supporting healthier diets and a sustainable food future, so it was great to hear JIC's Dr Jonathan Clarke on The Naked Scientists podcast talking about 'sunshine' tomatoes that could help give us all a vitamin D boost: www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int... 🍅 ☀️
Sunshine tomatoes
A novel way to get vitamin D
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PhD position available on modeling the mechanical regulation of plant development and regeneration. A great opportunity to join the plant mechanobiology community in GreenTE! More info can be found here: green-te.nl/job/open-phd... @green-te.bsky.social @roelandmerks.bsky.social
Open PhD position: Modeling the mechanical regulation of plant development and regeneration - GreenTE
The opening is for a PhD research position within the field of mathematical or theoretical biology, computational physics, applied mathematics […]
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Fermentation, alternative proteins, food safety and more—discover how regionally grounded research is advancing solutions to global food system challenges. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3SSfday #IFTJournals #foodsky #FoodScience
📢Abstract submissions and registration are open for: 🌳Forests of the Future: Research and Forest Management in an Era of Change🌲 📍Plitvice Lakes, Croatia; 🗓️17-20 September 2026 🔗 forest-future-hub.vercel.app #ForestScience #ForestResearch #WeCantLiveWithoutForests
"Plant tissue lifespans: Solving a fundamental mystery in plant ecology". PhD opportunity for domestic (Australia/New Zealand) candidates, closes 30 September: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The July 2026 issue of Plant Physiology from ASPB @aspbofficial and Oxford University Press is now COMPLETE! Check it out here: academic.oup.com/plphys/issue... #PlantSci
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 conserved spliceosomal protein AtSF3B2 controls the floral transition by regulating transcription and splicing in Arabidopsis (Zhou Zhou , Xuan-Ru Yin , Yu-Yi Wang , Jing-Jing Ren , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
The conserved spliceosomal protein AtSF3B2 controls the floral transition by regulating transcription and splicing in Arabidopsis
A spliceosomal protein controls flowering time by coordinating gene transcription and RNA splicing of key flowering regulators through interactions with pr
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I am delighted to share our latest work on memory gene circuits for plants. This work was led by the phenomenal PhD student @patrickgong.bsky.social A lot of debugging & highlights how even simple components in synthetic biology can have unexpected properties. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
CREation of an expanded plant memory gene circuit toolkit
Genetic circuits rely on modular, well-characterized genetic parts to achieve predictable cellular behaviour. Despite their widespread adoption, biological parts are complex and when used in a new mol...
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🎉 Congratulations to 𝐃𝐫. 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐦 @cyhkim.bsky.social (Harvard University) and 𝐃𝐫. 𝐘𝐮𝐚𝐧 𝐗𝐮 (Michigan State University), winners of the 2026 𝑻𝑷𝑱–𝑷𝑺𝑵𝑨 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔! 🏆 www.psna-online.org
You won't regret clicking on this beautifully told story by @lsommer.bsky.social about the Pacific Ocean and how the Trump regime is opening some marine monuments to commercial fishing.
These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protections
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, spar...
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We are delighted to announce the upcoming Gatersleben Research Conference “Genes, Chromosomes, and Genomes in Plants”, organized in partnership with the GPZ groups ‘Cytogenetics’ and ‘Genome Analysis’. When? November 3–5, 2027 Where? @leibnizipk.bsky.social, Germany Stay tuned for further updates!
Mutating 6 genes to change one Petunia species into another: Reconstruction of speciation by modification of major-effect genes in Petunia: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Reconstruction of speciation by modification of major-effect genes in Petunia
By modifying six genes in the hawkmoth-pollinated Petunia axillaris, Lüthi and Chopy et al. reconstructed the evolutionary shift to bee-pollinated P. secreta. The engineered mimic is indistinguishable...
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🔬 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🔬 Tietz et al. provide optimized workflows for establishing Rhizobium rhizogenes-mediated transgenic or CRISPR-edited hairy root cultures for grapevine species, with protocols that can be adapted for other plant species 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
The main reason for developing our El Niño prediction capabilities is to mitigate its severe negative consequences.
El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year
UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity
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For all the fans of Australia’s amazingly diverse native wildflowers, vote now for your favourite 🌿🌸🌺 #ozflora #wildoz #abc #scienceweek #nativeplants #bloomscrolling www.abc.net.au/news/science...
These 10 Aussie wildflowers have superpowers. Pick your favourite
Move over waratahs and banksias! These 10 flowers from the unsung understorey are not just pretty faces, they have surprising tricks up their sleeves.
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Out in @natplants.nature.com, mapping of brassinosteroid chemical features required for (1) receptor binding, (2) ligand positioning and (3) co-receptor recruitment. Fantastic work by Alberto Caregnato & @hmchen93.bsky.social and our friends in Olomouc. Funding:@snf-fns.ch -> doi.org/10.1038/s414...
👁🗨 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 The immunity paradox: how do plants survive without adaptive immunity? ✍️ Peter Balint-Kurti @ncstate.bsky.social 🌱🦠 A fresh perspective on plant immunity, highlighting quantitative resistance and tolerance beyond pathogen recognition 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71080
The immunity paradox: how do plants survive without adaptive immunity?
A perspective on plant immunity is proposed that differs from the prevalent view that centers on resistance based on receptors that recognize the pathogen. In this perspective, mechanisms of quantita....
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PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs
Curious to hear what people think about this concept and how it could be applied...
New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 22h agoOperationalizing soil persistence in #soil and ecosystem #ecology @mrillig.bsky.social, Laurent Philippot and Johannes Lehmann nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience
I am wondering how many totally different versions of soil there were right at the beginning of terrestrial ecosystems, well before the arrival of land plants.
🍬SWEET but not defenceless... @abhimanyujogawat.bsky.social et al. uncover a role for the #Arabidopsis SWEET12 sugar transporter in symbiosis, where it is essential for balancing fungal colonization & host defence for optimal plant growth Editor's Choice🆓 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience
"Grocers are already bringing in more products from abroad because of the poor conditions at home" But the time is coming - soon - when countries will hold onto their own And the UK imports getting on for half its food www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farmers warn shoppers face smaller and more expensive vegetables due to hot weather
This year's harvest could be the worst on record due to the exceptionally dry spring and summer.
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Rewired meristem regulation drives morphological evolution of the one-leaf developmental system in Monophyllaea glabra https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.05.742951v1
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌲🌿🍃🖌🐡 Looking for a holiday book read? Reviews of 3 on the more dangerous side of plants, imaginary or real, for the beach, meadow or woodland! Full review at QR code or botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/ Reviews by Catherine Martinez, regular reviewer at The Thymes. #BUC2026
New Publication: The Arabidopsis SPFH protein HIR2 modulates receptor signaling and plasma membrane organization (2026) www.tsl.ac.uk/publications...
The Arabidopsis SPFH protein HIR2 modulates receptor signaling and…
Plant plasma membrane proteins are organized into distinct domains; however, the principles that govern this spatial organization are not fully understood. HYPERSENSITIVE-INDUCED REACTION (HIR)…
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