🧵 #Bacterial #Multicellularity: We discovered that Ca2+ signaling controls cellular junctions in #cyanobacteria, similar to Euks @embojournal.org A great collab. w/ @weiss-lab.bsky.social #TeamTomo @hhu.de @spp2389.bsky.social @cmfi.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The calcium-binding protein CSE links Ca2+ signaling with cell-cell communication in cyanobacteria - The EMBO Journal

Multicellular cyanobacteria have evolved sophisticated cell–cell communication machinery to exchange, synchronize, and coordinate the efforts of individual cells. Analogous to gap junctions that have ...

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Das @leibnizipk.bsky.social betreibt eine der größten Genbanken weltweit. Für unsere Gruppe "Genbankdokumentation" suchen wir einen erfahrenen Wissenschaftler (m/w/d), der uns bei der Erschließung, Aufbereitung und Auswertung von Daten unterstützt. Neugierig? ➡️Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/8ysku9k7

Assistant/Associate Professor in Climate Biophysics @ Uni Basel, CH🇨🇭 Applicants should explore fundamental molecular questions in climate-relevant fields, including biogeochemical cycles, bioenergetic energy conversion, adaptation to environmental change. biped.biozentrum.unibas.ch/application/...

Deutschland, das Land der Wissenschafts-Igel. ist schon was dran. www.zeit.de/2026/32/deut...

Deutsche Universitäten: Deutschland braucht ein Wissenschaftswunder

Universitäten müssen Neugier statt Spezialistentum belohnen. Das würde dem ganzen Land nutzen.

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Researchers led by Professor Iris Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social from the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology discovered a specific chemical mark in the ‘histone code’ of thale cress that is responsible for adaptation to salt stress. #Biology

Researchers discover a mechanism for salt tolerance in plants

Researchers led by Professor Iris Finkemeier from the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology discovered a specific chemical mark in the ‘histone code’ of thale cress that is responsible for adap...

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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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Auf dem Weg zum Gipfeltreffen

The European Parliament decided to #GiveGenesAChance! 💚🇪🇺 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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Awesome! 👏 Finally, science has convinced sufficient politicians to approve the new NGT-rules to enable CRISPR-based plant breeding! Time to celebrate!🎉🎊🥂🧬✂️🌱 www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

New genomic techniques for plants to boost innovation in sustainable agriculture | News | European Parliament

Parliament has adopted new rules facilitating access to new plants that are climate and pest resistant, give higher yields and require fewer pesticides.

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ENVI voted 56:32 in favour of the new regulation of NGTs! #GiveGenesAChance 🇪🇺

WePlanet@weplanetint.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today is a big moment for the future of European agriculture. After over two years of negotiations the EU Parliament's ENVI committee will vote on the New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) file. We've been there since the beginning advocating for NGTs to improve EU sustainability & food security.

⏳ Only 2 days left for poster abstract submissions considered for a poster talk at #BT2026, the International Conference of our @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social (DBG) 🚨 Deadline is 11 June 2026, 23:59 (CEST)

German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Abstract submission deadline extended for 2 types of posters to present your #plantsci work at our #BT2026 to an international plant science audience 📍 in Bochum, Germany 📅 6-10 Sept 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/u/BT2026ext

Es gibt nun endlich die Chance, dass zumindest ein Teil von möglichen Anwendungen von CRISPR (die "Genschere") auch bei uns in der Pflanzenzüchtung eine Rolle spielen darf. Die Antis fahren wieder auf mit Desinformationskampagnen. Unterstützt uns beim Dagegenhalten👇 act.weplanet.org/p/eu-support...

CALL ON THE EU TO SUPPORT MODERN AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

EU decisionmakers are days away from a crucial decision on the sustainability of European agriculture. Will you take a moment to call on them to support modern agricultural science?

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Please RT: Registration is ongoing for our International Symposium "Microbial Networking - from organelles to cross-kingdom communities" organized as highlight of the first funding period of CRC 1535 @mibinet.bsky.social www.sfb1535.hhu.de/internationa... @dfg.de, @hhu.de, @fz-juelich.de

After years of debate, Europe is finally close to approving New Genomic Techniques (NGTs). A vote in the European Parliament is now just weeks away. In February 2024, together with scientists across Europe, we urged MEPs to vote yes to supporting NGTs. Now we need your help to finish the job.

CALL ON THE EU TO SUPPORT MODERN AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

EU decisionmakers are days away from a crucial decision on the sustainability of European agriculture. Will you take a moment to call on them to support modern agricultural science?

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Your PhD journey starts NOW! Join our #webinar on August 7 (1-3 PM CEST) & explore #PhD opportunities at Max Planck's IMPRS in NRW, Germany! 🇩🇪 Gain insights into groundbreaking research & register here: events.gwdg.de/e/PhDatMaxPl... #MaxPlanck #Research #Germany #Science

Another #PlantScience job opening here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social! We are looking for a #Phytopathology Scientist at our station in Murcia, Spain. As I have already written in one of last posts: Our vegetable division is expanding & it's a good time to get on board! #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs

📣 📣 The Mitochondria & Chloroplasts GRC (July 26–31) is approaching fast. We are very close to our attendance target and would love to bring together the broadest possible organelle biology community. www.grc.org/mitochondria...

Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬@apmweber.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🧬⚡ Call for abstracts & participants | GRC 2026 ⚡🧬 Together with Vamsi Mootha, I’m chairing the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria & Chloroplasts (July 19 - 24, 2026). We’d love to see your application. Thread 🧵👇

So no publication fees, no conferences, no international collab, and we can terminate or reject your grant anytime for any reason. This might have some impact on how science works, folks. And maybe just maybe not a positive one.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Hurry up, if you want to present your latest #plantsci research results to an international plant science audience at #BT2026 🚨Abstract submission ends on 31st May 2026 🚨 Please remind to register first to be able to submit your abstract 📆 6-10 September 2026 📍Bochum, Germany botanik-tagung.de

The abstract submission deadline for the Botanik Tagung of the German #PlantScience Society ( @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social ) is coming up. If you want to showcase your science to the German Plant Science Community, then this is the place to be: 👇

Berit Ebert@beritebert.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Abstract deadline May 31st - register now! Join us at the Botanik-Tagung 2026 in Bochum, Germany (6–10 September 2026) for exciting science, great networking, and lively discussions across all areas of plant research with plant scientists from around the world. botanik-tagung.de

Rapid disruption of pollination function by the invasive plant Impatiens glandulifera. Read more in our society's journal #PlantBiology #PlantSci DOI: doi.org/10.1111/plb....

Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Paper out onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1438...! Can an #invasive plant disrupt #pollination in just days? Our study shows that #HimalayanBalsam reduces effective pollen transfer to the native Stachys sylvatica by 80% within 4 days. Visits are not always pollination! @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

It's out! 🥳 In situ architecture of #plasmodesmata - plant cytoplasmic bridges - by #cryoET. 📝 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 Thread: bsky.app/profile/madi... #teamtomo #proteomics #AlphaFold

In situ architecture of plasmodesmata in Physcomitrium patens resolved by cryo-electron tomography - Nature Plants

Using cryo-electron tomography, the authors reveal how plasmodesmata (plant cytoplasmic bridges) are gated by cell wall remodelling and how helical protein assemblies scaffold internal membranes, with...

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Marcel Dickmanns | 🌿❄️🔬@madic.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata. Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🧵1/n #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM

The preliminary programme of International Conference of our German Society for #PlantSci, the Botanik-Tagung, is online botanik-tagung.de/programme.html 📆 6-10 September 2026 📍Bochum, Germany Makes it easier to plan your participation. Register today! botanik-tagung.de/registration...

Strasburger was also the doctoral advisor of Friedrich Laibach, the "Father of Arabidopsis research". Laibach first encountered Arabidopsis as student in Strasburger's lab, where he found that it carried 5 pairs of chromosomes. Who knows if we would be working on Arabidopsis without Strasburger...

Marc Somssich@somssich.bsky.social · 3y ago

Laibach started work on A. thaliana in 1907, when, for his PhD-thesis, he determined the number of chromosomes in different plants he collected around his hometown Limburg, & #UniBonn, where he worked. A. thaliana only had 5 chromosomes, one of the fewest he found.

We have a winner 🏅for the @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social Eduard-Strasburger-Award. More on the awardee soon. Stay tuned

Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬@apmweber.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣Reminder: Nominations for DBG @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social Early Career Awards are open. See ➡️ www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/u/BS3awards for more information.

📣 #BT2026DBG abstract submission deadline May 31. Submit your abstracts soon! #PlantSci @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Abstract submission deadline is on 31st May 2026, if you want to present your #PlantSci research at this year’s International Conference of our German Society for Plant Sciences, the Botanik-Tagung 📆 6-10 September 2026 📍Bochum, Germany botanik-tagung.de/abstract-sub...

We are all Roger. This is a despicable attack on the very essence of what academic science is about. Reason. Humanity. International collaboration.

Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo ago

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

📢Out now on bioRxiv: We used Plant STARR-seq to characterize the species- and condition-specific enhancer activity of over 350,000 sequences derived from four plant species. For more, see below and read the paper at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Where do plant pathogen effectors come from? @mesny.bsky.social shows how fungi turned shield 🛡️ into sword ⚔️ to end up with dual-function molecules to disrupt host immunity & protective host microbiota. @ceplas.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @madfungi.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation

Fungal effectors may have evolved from ancient antimicrobials, shaping plant microbiota and immunity during infection.

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Our new paper is officially out in @newphyt.bsky.social! We disentangle how plants balance the trade-offs between rapid growth and water conservation. We found that Cape Verde Arabidopsis use a highly coordinated drought escape strategy driven by pleiotropic genes.

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The genetic basis of multi-trait drought escape in colonizing A. thaliana lineages Elfarargi et al. @ahmedelfarargi.bsky.social @ahancock.bsky.social @apmweber.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @trr341.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...