PRISM: A Plasmid-based Reporter for Intracellular Spectral Microscopy by Jonathon Nixon-Abell and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The program is now available! Register before October 1st to the International School “Multiphoton and multiharmonic microscopy for the life sciences: principles and applications” Venice, Italy - January 18 to 22, 2027. Program and registration here: www.unige.ch/multiphotonv...

I think this new tool is going to change how plant scientists look at their cells from now on! 3 colors, 1 construct: simultaneously visualize the plasma membrane, nucleus & microtubules in living plant cells. Fresh on bioRxiv 👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Everything you always wanted to know about how to study biomolecular condensates! Thanks for including us 🤗

Gutierrez-Beltran Emilio@eegutierrez.bsky.social · 3d ago

Panos, Xiaofeng, and I, together with several colleagues, have just published a practical guideline for studying biomolecular condensates in plants. Great to see this work out! 🌱 #condensates 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

grafify online: A web app for graphing and statistical analysis dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... grafifyonline.shinyapps.io/grafify/

grafify online: A web app for graphing and statistical analysis

Creating accurate graphs and performing statistical analyses can be challenging for those who lack coding experience. This Community Page introduces grafify online, a free, browser-based app for generating publication-quality graphs and performing statistical tests and post-hoc comparisons.

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☕This Review highlights advanced imaging methods and available biosensors that can be used to elucidate the composition and dynamics of membrane contact sites. 👉https://rdcu.be/4uDgJ3upkD1a www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Advanced imaging of membrane contact sites - Nature Cell Biology

The detailed study of membrane contact sites is challenging owing to their small size and highly dynamic nature. This Review highlights advanced imaging methods and available biosensors that can be us...

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Thrilled to share our latest insights into engineering nitrogen-fixing symbiosis! We sincerely appreciate the reviewers’ constructive comments and the editor’s kind guidance throughout the process. @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social

Trends in Microbiology@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social · 6d ago

Engineering nitrogen-fixing symbiosis: bridging signaling and intracellular entry

📣 #JobAlert The @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a position as Head of the Life Imaging Center (LIC) – the core facility for light microscopy. ❗ Application Deadline: 6 September, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/2126 #Biology #LightMicroscopy #Imaging

Excited to share our latest publication! 🎉 Here @sophiezoe.bsky.social reveals an early developmental time window determining initial growth direction of lateral roots. Wonderful collaboration with @wabniklab.bsky.social and @matesf.bsky.social lab www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @cibss.bsky.social

SHOOT GRAVITROPISM 9 links sensory timing to the initial lateral root growth angle | PNAS

Plants strategically respond to gravity and actively set defined growth angles. These gravitropic set-point angles (GSAs) shape the width and depth...

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🌱 Summer reading? Here's our recent @pnas.org ! doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We reveal how plasma membrane nanodomains generate localized H₂O₂ nanoenvironments during osmotic stress. The ROP6-RBOH-PIP2;7 module creates a feedforward loop that amplifies ROS signaling. #PlantBiology #CellBiology #ROS

Nanoscale regulation of ROS signaling at the plasma membrane tunes the plant response to osmotic stress | PNAS

The spatiotemporal organization of proteins and lipids within membranes is crucial for ensuring proper cellular signaling. While the segregation of...

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Very proud of this fun collaborative effort. Plant actin is highly mechanoresponsive: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... and this is not a job exclusive to microtubules as is commonly assumed! See a tutorial by lead authors @jasper-lamers.bsky.social below

Plant actin networks are rapid mechano-adaptive scaffolds

The actin cytoskeleton is among the most highly conserved eukaryotic structures. In animal cells, actin plays a key role in mechanobiology, serving as a structural scaffold that shapes cellular mechan...

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@jasper-lamers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our work on the mechanoresponsiveness of actin is out! While plant microtubules have been extensively studied for their role in mechanobiology, actin has very much been ignored. Here we show that actin responds to cellular deformations within minutes and observed it in Marchantia and Arabidopsis!

A new "Dr." on the office door. Congratulations, Dr. @seinabnoura.bsky.social 🎉🌱 A proud day for our community @dompsfr.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de

We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

Preprint! How do "friendly" rhizobia build a legume nodule? @albinteulet.bsky.social found that some may carry hidden transcription factors - proteins that mimic DNA-binding folds to enter the plant nucleus and rewrite its developmental program. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)

And today at #B2Run Freiburg the female @uni-freiburg.de team defended the the title. @katrinheer.bsky.social . It was hot but a super nice event .

Bringing together science & art, @manuelthery.bsky.social & the CytoMorpho lab describe their project on how cells adapt their shape to their environment using the Musée d’Orsay as their template! The full performance was presented over two nights at the museum earlier this year. #sciart #cellbio

Living Architectures - FocalPlane

Living Architectures - Case studies

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Rhizobial auxin activates transcription factors to orchestrate YUC2-dependent auxin biosynthesis for soybean nodule development

Rhizobial auxin activates transcription factors to orchestrate YUC2-dependent auxin biosynthesis for soybean nodule development

Establishing the symbiosis between legumes and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia requires the precise modulation of auxin levels. However, our understanding of the regulatory roles of auxins, particularly rhizobia-derived auxins, remains limited. Our study reveals that the auxin biosynthesis gene YUC2a is essential for the spatiotemporal control of nodule development in soybean (Glycine max). This process is orchestrated by 3 transcription factors: Nuclear Factor-YA9 (NF-YA9), Lateral Organ Boundaries Domain 41 (LBD41), and Nodule Inception 1a (NIN1a). In the early stages of nodulation, rhizobial auxin stimulates NF-YA9 expression, NF-YA9 then activates YUC2a expression in the cortical cell layer, establishing optimal auxin levels for nodule initiation. In the middle stages, rhizobial auxin elevates LBD41 expression, and LBD41 suppresses YUC2a to control auxin levels, ensuring proper rhizobia colonization. In the late stages, rhizobial auxin inhibits NIN1a expression, which increases YUC2a expression in nitrogen-fixing symbiosomes, fine-tuning optimal auxin levels for nodule maturation. Disruption of YUC2a and its homologs impairs cell division in nodule primordia, reducing nodule density and nitrogen fixation capacity. Conversely, cortex-specific overexpression of YUC2a promotes nodule formation but inhibits rhizobia colonization. This dynamic auxin regulation optimizes nodule development in soybean, revealing rhizobia-derived auxin's critical role in nitrogen-fixing symbiosis.

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1/ Excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint! "4D spatial transcriptomics reveals nodule identity emerges through stacked parallel developmental programs" 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202... Using Xenium, we generated a 4D (3D space + time) atlas of nodule development in Medicago truncatula.

Fabulous film about @jenmcgaley.bsky.social's work in the @paszkowskilab.bsky.social. Jen has captured arbuscular mycorrhiza in motion for the first time. Find out more 👉https://tinyurl.com/yc2brzcu 🧪 @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social

University of Cambridge@cam.ac.uk · 2mo ago

What if one organism could copy itself and merge with others, weaving vast living networks? Meet the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi 🦠 Cambridge researcher Dr Jennifer McGaley from @camplantsci has filmed these fungi in action for the very first time. Find out more 👉 https://bit.ly/4ghAynD

I've got something to "TORC" about! 😅 After 4 years building this project at @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social, I'm so excited to share that my first independent preprint is now online! ✨ I hope you like it: doi.org/10.64898/202... A short thread... 🧵 #PlantSci #PlantScience

The TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN (TOR) kinase controls shade-mediated hypocotyl elongation responses in Arabidopsis.

Plants perceive neighboring vegetation through an enrichment of far-red light (shade) in the environment. These changes in light quality trigger molecular and physiological responses aimed at outgrowi...

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🎨 Nature's been painting with betaxanthins and betacyanins all along — now you can too! Thanks to @kamounlab.bsky.social, AMBER and GOLD add new colors to the palette of pigmentation genes for plant research, education, and floral design. Find the plasmids here: www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

Nick Desnoyer@nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Genes for genetic painting in flowers now available on Addgene!: addgene.org/browse/artic...

A new documentary on scientific approaches to replace industrial nitrogen fertilizers is now online @artefr.bsky.social (only in DE/FR). Among them is our and @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social's work @ensa-research.bsky.social further supported by @cibss.bsky.social. www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...

Dünger der Zukunft: Die Stickstoff-Revolution - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Ohne künstlichen Stickstoffdünger wären die hohen Erträge der industriellen Landwirtschaft undenkbar. Doch der intensive Einsatz schädigt das Klima. Weltweit wird nach klimafreundlichen Alternativen g...

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Congratulations @chenluliu.bsky.social and @aroessling.bsky.social !!!

Leon-Samuel Icking@lsi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social quality remains phenomenal, unsurprisingly #CellWall2026

@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social quality remains phenomenal, unsurprisingly #CellWall2026

🥉 Third Prize Winner! 🥉 Congrats to PhD student @anthonyrabate.bsky.social (Université Lyon 1) for this stunning shot, "A tulip field in the drosophila testis"! 🌷 These are young elongating spermatids captured via expansion microscopy. 🔬✨ #FluorescenceFriday #Cilia2027

😎 to have this out! --> stay tuned, this is a series about 📊#dataviz for #science 🧪

Nature Methods@natmethods.nature.com · 3mo ago

We are very excited to bring back our popular Points of View column, written by @helenajambor.bsky.social! Check out her first column in our July issue about the usage of color scales in scientific figures. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After a journey of roughly 12 years I am very happy to share with you that our manuscript on the spatiotemporal role of ethylene during nodule initiation has finally been published in @theplantcell.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Ethylene Biosynthesis Shape Infection and Nodule Initiation in Medicago Truncatula

Spatially reprogramming of the expression of ACS genes in Medicago truncatula coordinate localized changes in ethylene levels and response across root tiss

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So happy and proud to share our lab’s first #plantscience research article, revealing that angiosperms have the capacity to encode memory of flooding stress. A heroic effort by @aidamaric.bsky.social in collaboration with @djgibbs.bsky.social and others. A brief 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Amazing! This report suggests that a gall aphid injects into their plant host an enzyme that manipulates auxin levels in the host and thereby induces galls. #plantscience #plantsci www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...