Visit of Südzucker and their research station at Kirschgartshausen by a GreeenRobust delegation. A fascinating insight into agricultural realities with @pascalhunziker.bsky.social, @kjschmid.bsky.social, @thomasgreb.bsky.social and Renata Campos-Motta.

Now out! Together with Kenneth Berendzen, Yu Zhou et al., in a commendable team effort, set up a FANS-FAPS protocol for the isolation of plant Cajal bodies @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social — revealing kingdom-specific protein composition: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Proteome profiling of plant Cajal bodies uncovers kingdom-specific components

Abstract. Membraneless organelles (MLOs) in eukaryotic cells, such as the nuclear Cajal body (CB), have been notoriously difficult to biochemically isolate

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Xu Wang from Andreas Schaller’s (@as-in-hohenheim.bsky.social) group has received the Best Talk Prize at the Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting (PPRM2026) for his work on new systemins in tomato. Congratulations!

The first preprint of my lab has just come out doi.org/10.64898/202... This paper came out at the same day on the sudden passing of Prof. Meng Chen. Without his work, this paper would not have existed. He was an extremely supportive member of the plant photobiology community..

Congratulations, Juan Carlos! Fantastic to see that another GreenRobust PI secured funding from the @erc.europa.eu.

Juan Carlos De la Concepcion@delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · last mo.

Super excited of obtaining a ERCstg to support our project MORPHEUS 🎉🎉 Receiving this grant is a pivotal moment for my lab at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social as will allow to extend the scope of our research in cellular reprogramming using ribosome dormancy as entry point 😴🌱❄️🔬 @erc.europa.eu

🌱 Job alert! A PhD position starting in 2027 is available with me and Andrea Gust @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social as part of the Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de 👉 Interested? Apply now &/or share! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #PlantSciJob #PhDPosition

Weil es (uns) wichtig ist! In unserem Leitbild haben wir die Grundsätze und Werte aufgeschrieben, die uns im politischen Dialog leiten 👉 www.bdp-online.de/de/Homepage/...

📣we're hiring a PhD researcher to test whether rhizosphere microbiomes keep flowers attractive under drought 🌸 joint supervision with soil ecologist @tcamenzind.bsky.social for the ROOT2BLOOM project in @greenrobust.de apply by 30/09 tinyurl.com/root2bloom questions welcome, thanks for sharing!

📣 Job alert! 2 Positions starting 2027. PhD position with me and @bayerlab.bsky.social on Robustness of embryonic and stomatal development, part of @greenrobust.de Postdoc position on the regulation of cell state, following up on some exciting snRNAseq dat! Apply now or share! #PlantSciJob

🚜 Mehrkomponenten-Dünger für den ökologischen Pflanzenbau 👨‍🔬Forschende der Universität Tübingen und der Universität Hohenheim arbeiten an der Entwicklung eines Mehrkomponenten-Düngers für den ökologischen Pflanzenbau 🔗 uni-tuebingen.de/99projekte #Klimaschutz @eco-future.bsky.social

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob PhD candidate: Exploring the concept of disparity as an evolutionary principle of plant robustness @greenrobust.de 📍@cosheidelberg.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social Deadline: 9 October 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

New PhD opportunity with Bernd Berauer and myself within the @greenrobust.de cluster @unihohenheim.bsky.social ! 3-yr funded position to measure and model gas exchange at leaf, plant, and canopy scale. Applications can be submitted until *September 15*, at: jobs.uni-hohenheim.de/jobposting/2...

Fresh preprint online from our group! We find that stomatal maturation IS possible in the embryo, when they lack ERECTA signaling, but then still, only at the cotyledon tip. A thread. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

ERECTA signaling controls the timing of Arabidopsis Guard Cell maturation at the embryonic leaf tip

While cell identities are established early during embryogenesis, these cells remain immature until germination, and the mechanisms enforcing this developmental pause are poorly understood. Embryonic ...

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Thrilling to see that our founding GreenRobust spokesperson Rosa Lozano-Durán (@geminiteamlab.bsky.social) has been appointed as new director @mpipz.bsky.social in Cologne. Congratulations! We wish you all the best for your future endeavors in a new environment, Rosa!

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research@mpipz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...

FUNDING. We secured our first collaborative grant with @mpcontreras.bsky.social through the @greenrobust.de excellence cluster. Our project IDentity will investigate the mechanistic consequences of domain integration, a major event that reshapes function and evolution of #NLR immune receptors 🌱❄️🔬

New GreenRobust publication by the group of Eric Kemen on using machine learning to identify beneficial microbiota: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Machine learning reveals biocontrol agents shaping disease outcome in natural Arabidopsis populations - Nature Communications

Plants can recruit beneficial microbes to suppress pathogens, offering a route to rational biocontrol beyond empirical screening. Here, the authors use machine learning to identify disease-associated ...

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Sanierung des Botanischen Gartens: „Ein Schatz für die Wissenschaft“ – Arbeiten zur Erneuerung der Gebäude und Außenanlagen haben begonnen – Feierstunde markierte offiziellen Start des Bauvorhabens www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #botanischergarten

Check out our Review on #AFM in plants now on @jxbotany.bsky.social !

Luiselotte Rausch@luiselotterausch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Now in @jxbotany.bsky.social ! Check out our opinion piece on Atomic Force Microscopy #afm in Plant Biomechanic Research: A powerful tool that needs careful handling, interpretation & more research! @Klaus Harter, @moscabiomeclab.bsky.social at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Thanks to all the speakers and participants in the "Plant Robustness from molecules to ecosystems" session at the #SEB2026 conference! Exciting science and great discussions sponsored by @theplantjournal.bsky.social and our Excellence Cluster @greenrobust.de 🌱 with @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social

Kasper van Gelderen@kaspervangelderen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very happy with our @greenrobust.de @isabelmonte.bsky.social Plant Robustness session at the @sebiology.bsky.social conference. Excellent talks by @hildenelissen.bsky.social, Marcel Quint, @rsasidharan.bsky.social and Amy Austin. Great fishbowl discussion on plant robustness! Thanks PlantJ

Very happy with our @greenrobust.de @isabelmonte.bsky.social Plant Robustness session at the @sebiology.bsky.social conference. Excellent talks by @hildenelissen.bsky.social, Marcel Quint, @rsasidharan.bsky.social and Amy Austin. Great fishbowl discussion on plant robustness! Thanks PlantJ

How plant stem cells are kept robust summarized by GreenRobust PIs Jan Lohmann (@meristemania.bsky.social) and Thomas Greb (@thomasgreb.bsky.social). Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Plant stem cell systems: Robust by design

Plants maintain active stem cell populations throughout their lives, yet these systems are remarkably resilient to genetic, environmental, and mechani…

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JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc position to work on plant robustness in an interdisciplinary project. Great for somebody with experience who can take a central role, coordinate experiments and co-supervise students, and contribute conceptually. @greenrobust.de @unituebingen.bsky.social Please re-post.

Today marks a major milestone for my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We got our first member! I am really excited to welcome @d-moser.bsky.social. She will bring her expertise in cryo-ET data processing to solve the mechanisms of plant invasion by fungal pathogens 🧊🔬🌾🍄 Follow her and stay tuned!

Durchbruch für die Pflanzenforschung in Europa: Die DFG begrüßt die Zustimmung des EU-Parlaments zur neuen Verordnung zu Züchtungstechniken, für dessen wissenschaftsbasierte Differenzierung sich die Senatskommission für Grundsatzfragen der Genforschung über Jahre eingesetzt hat: sohub.io/csi8

Neue Züchtungstechniken bei Pflanzen: DFG begrüßt Zustimmung des EU-Parlaments zu neuer Verordnung

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A highly significant step for European plant sciences: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/pres...

Neue genomische Techniken für Innovationen in nachhaltiger Landwirtschaft | Aktuelles | Europäisches Parlament

Das Parlament nahm heute neue Vorschriften an, die den Zugang zu neuen, klima- und schädlingsresistenten Pflanzen erleichtern.

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Happy to share our new paper in @dev-journal.bsky.social . This project started while I was at Stanford with @stanfordstomata.bsky.social and was completed at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social by @pablidopsis.bsky.social . Find it here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Targets of SPEECHLESS and FAMA control guard cell division and expansion in the late stomatal lineage

Highlighted Article: In Arabidopsis stomatal cells, SPEECHLESS persists into maturing guard cells where its balance with FAMA is essential for guard cell development. Transcriptomic and genetic analys...

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A GreenRobust-associated project on the cover of Genome Biology and Evolution!

Genome Biology and Evolution@genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tropaeolum tuberosum is a tuber-forming crop native to the Andes, but remains an underutilized and little-known species - Ruiz-Mateus et al. now assemble a highly complete genome of this species as a foundational resource. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag115 📷 Pascal Hunziker #genome #evolution

New paper from the Yasin Dagdas (@plantophagy.bsky.social) group, this time in @science.org, on how plant cells cope with viral infection and how selective autophagy delays cell death to give plants a chance to survive. Chapeau and congratulations to all the authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Selective autophagy fine-tunes plant immunity to promote cell survival during viral infection

RNA viruses co-opt host endomembranes to form replication complexes, often triggering cellular stress and immune responses. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana activates selective autophagy to res...

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Berlin: Verleihung der Humboldt-Professur in Strukturbiologie an Sebastian Deindl 👏 durch Bundesforschungsministerin Dorothee Bär (links) und Robert Schlögl, Präsident der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/… @humboldt-foundation.de

NEW PAPER: this review by @chemodiversity.bsky.social, introduces the concept of a chemodiversity landscape, and compiles evidence for emergent properties arising from the mixing of chemical blends from different sources with consequences for ecological functions.

Robin Heinen@robinheinennl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

An exciting day today. Our work, co-led by @mhanusch.bsky.social and @thomasdussarrat.bsky.social was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. In this review, we explore the concept of chemodiversity and what role it could play for ecological functions at landscape-level. doi.org/10.1038/s415...