📣 We are looking for a PhD student in 2027! Interested in studying rapid evolutionary dynamics of species in changing climates? Apply to the MOI LAB by Nov 19! Flyer below & tinyurl.com/flyerphdmoilab @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

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PhD positions: Rapid evolutionary genomics in plants Moi Exposito-Alonso Lab — www.moilab.science Assistant Professor, Freeman Hrabowski Scholar HHMI · Department of Integrative Biology · Innovative G...

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What's new with TAIR12? The TAIR curatorial team is hard at work integrating the latest TAIR12 updates into the live TAIR database and toolset. 🧪 #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Arabidopsis #TAIR #TAIR12

Meet the first of our creative postdocs: “I'm Daniela Ramirez, a postdoc studying plant-bacteria interactions and fascinated by microbes living within plants. My research uses bGWAS to uncover how Pseudomonas infects and colonizes Arabidopsis thaliana.” #PAWGermany #PAW2026 #PostdocAppreciationWeek

New W2 Professorship in crop/plant sciences at the University of Bonn 🌱 We especially welcome expertise in genome engineering and pest & disease control …and interdisciplinary research bridging topics with the cluster of excellence #PhenoRob Apply by Sept 30 🔗 www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...

Wingen LU, Crosbie DB, Hu Y, et al. Towards a quantitative view of the NLR gene family evolution in the genome space. Quantitative Plant Biology. 2026;7:e17. doi.org/10.1017/qpb....

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Towards a quantitative view of the NLR gene family evolution in the genome space - Volume 7

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An embryo-derived peptide signal directs endosperm polarity in Arabidopsis

An embryo-derived peptide signal directs endosperm polarity in Arabidopsis

Angiosperm seed formation requires the coordinated development of the products of double fertilization—the embryo and the endosperm. The endosperm mediates efficient nutrient transfer from surrounding...

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Nice work by @cellsensing.bsky.social Glycan recognition by a plant damage-sensing immune receptor www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Glycan recognition by a plant damage-sensing immune receptor

Pathogens target and degrade the extracellular matrix surrounding plant cells. A central question is how cell wall-derived damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are recognized and integrated to...

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New preprint! There have been quite a few papers about RLP and RLK receptors, but none of them have a truly reproducible annotation pipeline (including my own...)... We finally made such a pipeline and look more systematically at RLPs within tomato. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

PlantLRR-PRR:A Reproducible Annotation Pipeline Reveals Contrasting Evolution of Developmental and Defense Receptor-Like Proteins in Tomato

Plants perceive external and internal signals via receptors to modulate their growth, development, and defenses. Leucine-rich-repeat receptor-like-kinase (RLKs) and receptor-like-proteins (RLPs) are t...

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The next Botanik-Tagung will take place in Göttingen, Germany, from 17th to 21st September 2028. Hope to see you all there!

Registration now open for the Non Seed Plant Meeting in Edinburgh on Dec 15. All welcome. Registration link and poster below www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-...

New Brief Communication: "Cell-based CRISPRa screen identifies a papillae-specific receptor kinase mediating broad-spectrum fungal resistance in rice" rdcu.be/ZZFv8dTuRi8a A RK that positively regulates fungal resistance via silicon-mediated physical & biochemical defences. #PlantScience

In our general assembly today Sophie de Vries introduced & launched YongDBG, the network for early career researchers (ECR) from undergraduate level to first junior group leader position for members of our DBG @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/sections/...

Please submit comments to the EU Commission’s Call for Evidence on how to implement the new rules for "Plants obtained by new genomic techniques (#NGT)". Submission deadline 28 Sept. Below what I submitted. #plantscience ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Really excited to share our new manuscript on how the #NLR protein #AfsR regulates #Streptomyces antibiotic production - and how we can use its similarity to plant NLR immune receptors to enhance this production! 📄🧵 (1/17) @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A conserved NLR activation switch governs global transcriptional control of antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces

Nucleotide-binding and oligomerization domain-like receptors (NLRs) are conserved molecular switches that regulate innate immunity across diverse domains of life. While best known for their roles in i...

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On behalf of 108 colleagues and friends from 11 countries, thrilled to share the first paper from our 100 #Diatom Genomes Project (100DGP). Just out @plosbiology.org | @norwichmicro.bsky.social | @ueaenv.bsky.social | @jgi.doe.gov doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The 100 Diatom Genomes Project

This Community Page presents the 100 Diatom Genomes Project, which aims to sequence the genomes and transcriptomes of 100 diatom species across major lineages, life forms and ecological strategies. Th...

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🌾🔥 Heat tolerance centers on protecting photosynthesis. Six domains: membranes, photosynthesis, metabolites, ROS, protein homeostasis, gene regulation An integrated framework for breeding heat-tolerant, high-yielding crops. #plantsci @wileylifesci.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Design Principles of Plant Thermotolerance: Integrating Photosynthesis, Reproduction, and Field Resilience in a Warming Climate

This paper reframes plant thermotolerance as a temporally stratified, interconnected system of physiological responses centered on preserving photosynthetic carbon gain under heat stress. Consequentl...

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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...

🌱 Researchers at TUM, including Brigitte Poppenberger, professor of horticultural #biotechnology, discovered a mechanism by which plant #SteroidHormones can inhibit immune responses, freeing resources for growth: go.tum.de/634309 #PlantScience 📷️A.Heddergott

New Mechanism of Plant Immune Defense Discovered

TUM researchers in Freising are discovering how steroid hormones regulate plant immunity—leading to high-yielding, disease-resistant crops.

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New preprint online! We sequenced several hundred Zymoseptoria isolates from different fields through a field epidemic to ask what really drives short-term evolution. Fungicide selection or seasonal epidemic progression? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Standing genetic variation buffers field populations of Zymoseptoria tritici against seasonal and fungicide selection

### Competing Interest Statement AT was funded by BASF under a formal scientific collaboration agreement. BASF did not exert control over the data collection, analysis, or interpretation of results. ...

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We are very much looking forward to listen to the latest #plantsci results presented next week in the following 8 plenary sessions, at our #BT2026: Dominique Bergmann, @stanfordstomata.bsky.social (Stanford University, USA): Flipping the script: Generating stomatal form in Arabidopsis leaves 🧵1/9

🧬🌿 Why sequence an entire ecosystem? No species exists in isolation. Plants, animals, fungi and microbes are connected through complex ecological networks. Sequencing across ecosystems can help us understand not just what lives there — but how life works together. #Genomics #Biodiversity

Design Principles of Plant #Thermotolerance: Integrating #Photosynthesis, #Reproduction, and #Field Resilience in a Warming #Climate onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @plant-sci.bsky.social @plantresearch.bsky.social @plantbasednews.bsky.social @plantbiology.bsky.social

The mRNA covalent modification dihydrouridine regulates transcript turnover and photosynthetic capacity during plant abiotic stress (Li’ang Yu , Giovanni Melandri , Anna C Nelson Dittrich , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

The mRNA covalent modification dihydrouridine regulates transcript turnover and photosynthetic capacity during plant abiotic stress

Plants use a deeply conserved chemical modification, dihydrouridine, to mark mRNAs for rapid degradation, particularly under abiotic stressors such as heat

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Atypical immunity induced by extracellular water in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Atypical immunity induced by extracellular water in plants

Microbial pathogens require nutrients and water to support their growth and proliferation. Pathogen-mediated resource acquisition is orchestrated by the secretion of virulence factors that have evolve...

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New Article: "Evolutionary tuning of the molecular charge state of UBP24 shapes responses to high temperature" rdcu.be/fCfWE A conserved heat-adaptation mechanism in plants and yeast. Elevated temperatures increase protein negative charges, stabilizing key proteins. #PlantScience

Can the pretrained transformer-based architecture TabPFN predict plant organismal complexity based on their complement of transcription factors? Yes it can: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Happy to hear your thoughts! @dvarshney.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Prediction of plant organismal complexity based on transcription factor annotation: an AI approach

How morphological complexity evolves is still enigmatic. While there is evidence in algae and plants as well as animals that diversification of the repertoire of transcription factors (TF) is causativ...

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📣 Job alert! PhD position on Regulation of Pattern Scaling in Plant Stem Cell Niches in Marja Timmermans's lab and co-supervised by @cecilialaram.bsky.social The project is part of the @cerealcell.bsky.social consortium. The position is available from October 1st Apply now or share it! #PlantSciJob

NEWS - Arabidopsis research community makes lifetime award to JIC group leader Congratulations to Prof. Dame Caroline Dean FRS 👏 https://okt.to/ZkcYx7 @North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee

Arabidopsis research community makes lifetime award to John Innes Centre group leader | John Innes Centre

Professor Dame Caroline Dean FRS has been given a lifetime achievement award by the international Arabidopsis research community...

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I am super excited to finally share our article on the identification of AvrWTK4, the first wheat powdery mildew Avr recognised by a tandem kinase protein thanks to an integrated HMA-like domain 🍄🌾 check it out! ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

An HMA-like integrated domain in the wheat tandem kinase WTK4 recognises an RNase-like pathogen effector - Nature Communications

The wheat powdery mildew avirulence effector AvrWTK4 is recognised by the integrated HMA-like domain of the tandem kinase resistance protein WTK4. Wheat powdery mildew evades from WTK4-mediated recogn...

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Finally online! It took ut 9 yars from formulating the hypothesis to actually finalizing the last experiments... but there it is!

Mélanie Rich 🌱🍄@melaniekrich.bsky.social · last mo.

New preprint alert! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... The conclusion of a long-lasting obsession about lipids, plant terrestrialization and the origin of plant symbioses 1/7 🧵 @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social @katharinamel1.bsky.social @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social