Highly recommended course for those who want to try some fancy machines.

Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS@iebcas.bsky.social · 6d ago

We're excited to invite you to our traditional two-day workshop on the newest technologies in plant light microscopy at the Imaging Facility of the Institute of Experimental Botany (IFIEB), Prague — a Node of @Czech-BioImaging and @eurobioimaging.bsky.social More info: ueb.cas.cz/cs/akce/?id=...

🚧🔬 INSIGHT 🔬🚧 "Maintenance work ahead: cellulose links cell wall construction and sucrose transport". Luis Alonso Baez discusses recent findings published in JXB by McCubbin et al. 📝 Insight: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 🔬 Research: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

PhD position available in modeling the mechanical regulation of plant development and regeneration. Apply until September 15th! careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-posi...

Cecilia Borassi@ceciborassi.bsky.social · last mo.

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

🧬 Lucie Horáková a Vojtěch Hudzieczek z Biofyzikálního ústavu AV ČR proto společně s Chmelařským institutem v Žatci zkoumají, jak při šlechtění využít editaci genomu. 🎯 Cíl? 🍺 Získat odolnější chmel a zachovat přitom jeho vlastnosti důležité pro české pivo.

📣 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

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Excited to share this story in its final form, now published in ACS Synthetic Biology. #PlantBiology #Synbio pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Engineering Auronidin Production in Marchantia polymorpha Enables a New Class of Plant-Derived Textile Pigments

Plant-derived pigments offer sustainable alternatives to synthetic colorants, yet their practical deployment in textiles is limited by restricted chemical diversity and low abundance. Liverworts represent a source of diverse chemical compounds, and the model liverworts Marchantia polymorpha are emerging as chassis for bioengineering and synthetic biology. Here, we report the biotechnological application of auronidins, a rare class of flavonoid pigments, as textile dyes. Using M. polymorpha, we engineered enhanced auronidin production through controlled expression of the R2R3-MYB transcription factor MpMYB14. We systematically benchmarked constitutive and inducible gene expression systems, including heat-shock, glucocorticoid receptor, and β-estradiol (XVE) circuits, identifying inducible strategies that decouple biomass accumulation from secondary metabolite production while achieving high pigment yields. Extracted auronidins were used to dye cotton yarn directly, demonstrating the feasibility of auronidins for textile dyeing. Our results establish M. polymorpha as a versatile plant chassis for programmable secondary metabolite production and introduce auronidins as a promising natural pigment platform for sustainable textile biotechnology.

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Facundo Romani@fromani.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Marchantia might seem an unlikely biotech crop, but it’s worth trying. In Aurore’s thesis, we pushed this concept by engineering the auronidins with MpMYB14 and using the pigments to dye cotton. It ended up giving a very unique and beautiful product. #PlantScience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Deadline extended 📢 Submit your abstract for the #PPRM2026 by July 29th! Check our fantastic lineup of invited speakers and come join us discuss all things #plant peptide receptors 🌱 Please spread the word and see you in Freising (Germany) from September 14 to 16 😊 www.events.tum.de/frontend/ind...

We are convinced we have solved the mechanism of rapid auxin response in roots. @plantmorpho.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hormone-dependent receptor docking controls calcium channel activity in plants

The phytohormone auxin is a central coordinator of plant growth and development. Besides its canonical effect on gene transcription[1][1],[2][2], auxin triggers an ultra-rapid calcium ion influx that ...

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Attention! Scientific talk: Efficient base editing and development in human embryos without chromosomal alterations. Where: Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Posluchárna C2. When: 20.07.2026 15:00. Find more about this and the other events at www.prf.jcu.cz/cz/fakulta/k...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Check out our new preprint on unusual regulation of CuZnSOD in Arabidopsis, independent of its ROS decomposing function.

Stomatal movement in Arabidopsis is driven by guard cell-localized and copper-insensitive CSD1 splice variant

Copper (Cu) is an essential micronutrient whose bioavailability is strongly affected by soil physicochemical properties. During evolution, plants have developed mechanisms to flexibly adjust their met...

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Finally out! Explore how vascular T6P modulates root growth 🌱 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Systemic and Local Regulation of Root Growth by Vascular Trehalose 6‐Phosphate is Correlated With Re‐allocation of Primary Metabolites Between Shoots and Roots

Trehalose 6-phoshpate (Tre6P) consistently regulates root growth, with high Tre6P inhibiting and low Tre6P promoting primary and lateral root growth. It does so by altering the accumulation and alloc...

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#newpaper: CYSTEINE-RICH RLK2 regulates development via callose synthase-dependent symplastic transport in Arabidopsis @academic.oup.com: cell-to-cell transport; sugar metabolism; beta-glucan; carbohydrate accumulation; symplastic loading; intercellular channels; partitioning doi.org/10.1093/plph...

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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@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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Finally out. Congratulations Adam and thanks to all collaborators! academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

RESEARCH GROUP LEADER IN PLANT BIOLOGY needed! See below! Application Deadline: 09/2026

PAPER from @vanbreusegemlab.bsky.social and @moritznowack.bsky.social in @theplantcell.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Shedding light on plant proteolysis: genetically encoded fluorescent sensors as tools for profiling protease activities

Genetically encoded FRET-based fluorescent sensors enable real-time, high-resolution visualization of protease activity and proteolytic signaling in living

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On Monday, #CSEBR organized its first minisymposium (csebr.cz/vse-cs/minis...) and presented the Jan Krekule Award (csebr.cz/vse-cs/udele...) to Jaroslav Doležel from @iebcas.bsky.social for his contributions to experimental plant biology. See you on February 8th in Brno.

Clade III HIPP genes encode plasmodesmata-targeted proteins with pleiotropic functions in regulating plant development. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.08.730823v1

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

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Making Connections...🖇️ Koh Aoki & Ayako Tsushima offer a compelling insight into interspecific secondary #plasmodesmata and their importance in establishing symplastic connections between #ParasiticPlants and their hosts #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Interspecific secondary plasmodesmata at the parasitic interface

Abstract. Obligate parasitic plants often establish symplastic connections with their hosts. This symplastic continuity is mediated by plasma membrane-line

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Dawn of a new era...🌇 Special Issue Organising Editors: Satoko Yoshida, Atsushi Okazawa, Thomas Spallek & Kaori Yoneyama introduce a comprehensive collection of 23 original articles & reviews at the forefront of #parasiticplants research Read editorial🆓 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Dawn of a new era for parasitic plant biology

Parasitic plants represent one of the most remarkable evolutionary innovations in the plant kingdom. By partially or completely abandoning an autotrophic l

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🌍 Mezinárodní vědecká komunita představila novou verzi popisu genomu huseníčku rolního (Arabidopsis thaliana), označovanou jako TAIR12. Na tomto významném projektu se podílela jediná česká vědkyně. Více: www.potravinyav21.cz/nase-vedkyne... #Strategie_AV21

📢Our bumper Special Issue on #ParasiticPlants is finally out! 👉 academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/67/4 💐Special thanks to organising editors: Satoko Yoshida, Atsushi Okazawa, Thomas Spallek, Kaori Yoneyama 🆓Read Editorial: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience @academic.oup.com @jspp-news.bsky.social

Chemical probes + imaging can reveal spatiotemporal patterns of a wide range of physico-chemical features in plants, without the need for genetic access. We reviewed what tools exist and how they can be used & engineered. Chemistry meets plant cell biology! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Chemical Probes for Functional Plant Imaging

The advent of spatial and quantitative biology has led to immense advances in understanding the complex inner workings of plants, down to the molecular scale. Functional imaging of live plants, which ...

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New OA Article: "In situ architecture of plasmodesmata in Physcomitrium resolved by cryo-electron tomography" rdcu.be/fjjiK Plasmodesmata are gated by cell wall remodelling; helical protein assemblies scaffold internal membranes; implications for molecular filtering.

Structure of chlorophyll synthase in complex with the LHC-like protein HliD https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.13.724888v1

Plasmodesmal closure triggers stress responses! Turns out cells are generally better off with connections to their neighbours. This manuscript represents a decade-long team collaboration, with heroic effort from Estee Tee to lead it over the line! #PlantScience link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Plasmodesmal closure elicits stress responses - EMBO Reports

Plant cells are connected to their neighbors via plasmodesmata facilitating the exchange of nutrients and signaling molecules. During immune responses, plasmodesmata close, but how this contributes to...

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Callose synthase remain very enigmatic proteins. Very cool work by David Usak from the group of Roman Pleskot who provide insights into CALS complexes and their regulation- thank you very much for including us doi.org/10.64898/202...