#TansleyInsight: AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs: from transcription factors to auxin effectors Dipp-Álvarez & Hernández-García 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @jorgehg.bsky.social

Two back-to-back publications about transcriptional regulations of SA-mediated activation of plant immunity from Nin Zheng’s lab and Yuelin Zhang’s lab www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transcriptional activation of plant immunity by salicylic acid - Nature

A mechanistic basis for how the hormone salicylic acid promotes transcriptional activation during plant immune responses is described.

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New lab preprint in which we study the molecular bases of zinc-based immunity in Arabidopsis thaliana: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... Co-led with Lucía Jordá (CBGP), in partnership with other labs in Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Germany, France, and Switzerland.

Molecular dissection of zinc-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis thaliana

Zinc is an essential micronutrient at low concentrations, yet it becomes toxic at slightly higher ones. This is exploited by plants as an effective defensive strategy. However, the molecular component...

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#Spirogyra genome paper now available @theplantcell.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project! @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌱🧬 ARFs are ancient DNA-binding proteins that predate auxin. Signaling evolved by linking them to a degradation-based system, adding responsiveness while keeping core function. A model for how plant networks evolve. #plantscience @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs: from transcription factors to auxin effectors

Molecular evolution of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR (ARF) effector function.

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🌱 We are hiring! I’m looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the Julian Lab at BOKU University Vienna as part of our FWF ASTRA-funded VITAL project. 🔬 Plant cell biology & vacuolar remodeling 📅 2 years, starting early 2027 ⏳ Apply by 30 September

It took some time, but we are thrilled to present the first major outcome of our @erc.europa.eu ERC DIRNDL AdG project: Evgeniya Pukhovaya @epukh.bsky.social and others in our team describe the discovery of a mechanism for polar protein targeting in plants (1/13) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Systematic proteomics identifies a conserved mechanism for polar targeting of plant cortical proteins

Multicellular development is tightly coupled to the polarization of individual cells, which partitions polar proteins along the cell cortex and can control asymmetric cell division, anisotropic growth...

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Please check out our latest preprint from the team @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and many more! Happy to have contributed to this really cool story!

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · last mo.

A single genetic innovation at the origin of plant terrestrialization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.14.744897v1

Auxin Response Factors: from transcription factors to auxin effectors 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #TansleyInsight by Dipp-Álvarez and @jorgehg.bsky.social @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) Auxin Response Factors: from transcription factors to auxin effectors nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

(🧵 5/7) Melissa is a plant biotechnologist and postdoctoral researcher in the Plant Development Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, where she studies how intrinsically disordered regions in Auxin Response Factors (ARFs) define and promote nuclear condensation.

Our latest views on deep ARF evolution are finally out in New Phytologist! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs: from transcription factors to auxin effectors

Molecular evolution of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR (ARF) effector function.

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#TansleyReview: The evolutionary origins of streptophyte multicellularity de Vries et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @jandevries.bsky.social @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social

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

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Botany One@botany.one · 2mo ago

Teaching Fellow in Plant Molecular Sciences // Durham University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSK470/t... Applications are invited for a Teaching Fellow with a particular emphasis on Plant Protein Modifications. The appointed fellow will report directly to Professor Ari Sadanandom. #BotanyJobs

As proud Silver Sponsors of #PRGP2026 on post-transcriptional gene regulation in plants, we'd like to let you know that the abstract submission deadline is coming up––August 5th! Learn more here: malaga-en.congresoseci.com/pgrp2026/index #PlantScience #GeneRegulation @pgrp2026.bsky.social

Happy to be at my first #ASPB meeting in Ottawa. If you’re interested in #evolution & phenolics in the closest algal relatives of land #plants, come to my poster #100-042 today from 5:30 pm to 6:15 pm and tomorrow (Monday) from 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm #PlantBio2026 #algae

🚨 Master's internship available at our lab. Join us to investigate the phenotypic plasticity and life cycles of several #ichthyosporean species using cell biology & microscopy. Interested? Get in touch with Vika Shabardina or DM us. Link: www.ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us...

Open calls - Institut de Biologia Evolutiva - CSIC UPF - UPF

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For those of you attending #RBMP2026 this week, don't miss PRI faculty member @hatem-rouached.bsky.social's keynote talk on Thursday, "Decoding Nutrient Cues in Plant Developmental Decisions." Learn more at: rbmp2026.com/RBMP/en/info #PlantScience

Hatem Rouached@hatem-rouached.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to be a keynote speaker at the XVIII Meeting of Plant Molecular Biology (#RBMP2026), taking place July 1–3, 2026, in beautiful Bilbao, Spain! Looking forward to stimulating discussions, and to connecting with colleagues and friends in the plant science community.

Photosynthesis, photorespiration and C4-CAM switch talk by Ivan Reyna-Llorens #RBMP2026

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!

Updated @theplantjournal.bsky.social guidelines: avoid the use of terms such as “basal”, “early diverging lineage”, “primitive”, “ancestral plant”, “lower and higher plants” [..] recommends the use of specific terms such as “bryophytes”, “vascular plants” [..] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

OrthoFinder v3: a tool for phylogenetic orthology inference with boosted accuracy and scalability for massive datasets. @lauriebelch.bsky.social @stevenkelly.bsky.social @jonathancholmes.bsky.social @yiliu88.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OrthoFinder: improved phylogenetic orthology inference with enhanced accuracy and scalability - Nature Methods

The updated OrthoFinder v3 software boosts accuracy and scalability in phylogenetic orthology inference with massive and diverse datasets.

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Cool special issue on plant evolution just dropped at @currentbiology.bsky.social our 2 cents: Fruits of tons of fun discussions with the one and only Susana Coelho: www.cell.com/current-biol... Reflections on evolution of auxin response with @jorgehg.bsky.social : www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our beautiful special issue on plant evolution is out @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

Excited to have started my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social through the @dfg.de Emmy Noether program. In this project we will be looking at the mechanisms of host invasion by fungal pathogens 🍄🌱 Check it out and drop me a line if you are interested! uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft@dfg.de · 5mo ago

Good News!📢 Die DFG hat vom 1. Januar bis 31. März 2026 insgesamt 43 Wissenschaftler*innen in die Programme der #Einzelförderung aufgenommen. Mehr zu den Projekten, Personen und ihren Einrichtungen: ➡️ www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

This. Is. A. Must. Read. 🤯 Very impressive work by @jorgehg.bsky.social @dolfweijers.bsky.social and team explaining A-ARF mode of action and it's evolution.

Dolf Weijers@dolfweijers.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are very happy and proud to present a study led by @jorgehg.bsky.social (now PI in Madrid – keep an eye on him!) in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social. In this work, we discover how auxin-regulated ARF transcription factors learned to activate transcription. A 🧵…(1/17) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are very happy and proud to present a study led by @jorgehg.bsky.social (now PI in Madrid – keep an eye on him!) in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social. In this work, we discover how auxin-regulated ARF transcription factors learned to activate transcription. A 🧵…(1/17) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

In need of algal culture media to grow them all? Find them here: www.sciepublish.com/article/pii/...

Three New Synthetic Algal Culture Media to Grow Them All †

Three new synthetic algal culture media are described that have been used to cultivate ~12,000 diverse strains of (micro)algae, one culture medium for marine and brackish-water algae (ASP-MEL (Artific...

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1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨ It is my pleasure to share: "Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants" Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia doi.org/10.64898/202... #PlantScience A thread...