Progressive oxygenation of developing leaves directs morphogenesis Exciting #plantscience work by @daanweits.bsky.social @panicuccigabriele.bsky.social @syno2xis.bsky.social out now in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Progressive oxygenation of developing leaves directs morphogenesis

Oxygen availability underpins energy production in multicellular organisms, yet internal oxygen gradients arise in both plants and animals. Plants sense these variations via the plant cysteine oxidase...

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What happens to #NitrogenFixation and #MossMicrobiomes if you add #Nitrogen to boreal forest #Mosses? Do they align with their temperate counterparts? Somewhat…Read the full story here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Nitrogen deposition homogenizes moss-microbiomes and associated nitrogen fixation but with host-specific responses | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Mosses host diverse microbiomes that contribute to terrestrial N cycling through processes such as nitrogen (N) fixation. Thus, these microbial communities play important roles in nutrient-poor enviro...

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We're hiring! 🌱 The RO2T Respiration Group is looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to work on root oxygen biology! Please spread the word! #plantscijobs

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Postdoc job (to April 2029) and PhD studentship here at Nottingham with @vinayshukla.bsky.social, looking at effects of oxygen availability in roots PDRA - jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... PhD - jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #PlantSciJobs 🌱🧪🔬

via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel... Media coverage of our RAK1 story!

From flat moss to forests and flowers: New discovery may explain how plants conquered land | Københavns Universitet

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have identified a previously unknown protein that may help explain how plants managed to colonize land more than 400 million years ago. The protein was st...

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Join us at the CPSC conference in Translational Agriculture: From Model Plants to Food. Abstract deadline: End of June. www.cpsc-conference.com

#PlantSciJobs 🌱

KleineVehnLab@kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wanted: Outstanding plant scientist and fantastic colleague. If your science combines fundamental discovery with future applications, we would love to hear from you @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

We have an open-rank professorship position open @unileiden.bsky.social Institute of Biology: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan... welcome to apply! due: 7 June

Professorship Plant Ecology. Bremen, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs www.academics.de/jobs/profess...

Professorin / Professor (w/m/d) für das Fachgebiet Pflanzenökologie - Universität Bremen

Universität Bremen bietet Stelle als Professorin / Professor (w/m/d) für das Fachgebiet Pflanzenökologie in Bremen - jetzt bewerben!

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🧵 New paper alert! We've discovered RAK1—a moss protein that does something no other known protein does: it fuses MAP kinase signaling with acetyltransferase activity to control a critical developmental transition. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

An N‐acetyltransferase‐MAPK fusion protein modulates developmental reprogramming in Physcomitrium patens

We discovered a previously uncharacterized moss-specific protein, Rosetta NATD-MAPK 1 (RAK1) in Physcomitrium patens, which uniquely integrates MAP kinase (MAPK)-dependent signaling with N-acetyltra.....

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Some plants grow fast, others grow strong, now scientists know how to make them do both #plantscience @earthdotcom.bsky.social www.earth.com/news/plants-...

Some plants grow fast, others grow strong, now scientists know how to make them do both

The ability of plants to grow faster and stronger is traced to autophagy, along with key enzymes and proteins such as AFR7, NBR1, and BZR1.

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🌱 We’re hiring in Plant Biology at Penn State! The Department of Biology at Penn State University Park is searching for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor in any area of plant biology.

Now online at @natplants.nature.com ‼️ Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student @gmivienna.bsky.social & together w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short 🧵👇

Cell-type-specific autophagy in root-hair-forming cells is essential for salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana - Nature Plants

This study reveals that enhanced autophagy in root-hair-forming cells helps Arabidopsis store excess sodium, control oxidative stress and tolerate salt stress.

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I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my team to work on the interplay between endocytosis and autophagy. The 3-year project runs in collaboration with the Dagdas lab @plantophagy.bsky.social and can start asap. Interested candidates can apply via the link below. jobs.vib.be/apply/134365

Open professorship — join our Faculty of Biology and our CIBSS signaling science community

CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies@cibss.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#JobAlert The @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Developmental Biology with a focus on Signalling in Vertebrate Development. ❗Application Deadline: May 15, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/eksd

ERC penalize the applicants to reduce the number of applications while increasing the years post PhD to increase the number of applicants. There is nobody behind the wheel...

Dr Ino Agrafioti@inoagrafioti.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I don’t know if you saw the MASSIVE news announced by @erc.europa.eu today: from now on, if you get a B at step 1 you are eligible to apply at N+3(!!!) years. Say you got a B in STG2026 step 1, you thought you could apply in STG2028, but no: only in STG2029! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

jobportal.ku.dk/administrati... We are soon to be headless.... So come be our new boss in lovely Copenhagen and lead a department with research interests from genes to ecosystems, and everything alive in between.

Head of Department, Department of Biology

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We spring forward this weekend, but changing the clocks is increasingly controversial - why? #circadian #dst #springforward #chronobiology #clockchange #SciComm🧪

MATERNAL AUTOPHAGY CONTRIBUTES TO GRAIN YIELD IN MAIZE https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.30.697098v1

May their words reach politicians‘ ears…

Nature Plants@natplants.nature.com · 10mo ago

Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41... A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.

Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN - Sign the Petition! c.org/p5jy2GXHcX via @UKChange

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Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN

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Curious about my main PhD work?!🔬🌱 Please have a look on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686542v1 Connecting auxin-autophagy-development

Yasin Dagdas@plantophagy.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Cool #preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social at @frimllab.bsky.social addressing how #auxin induces #autophagy. Glad we can contribute... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you. The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇

My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉 We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Electrostatic changes enabled the diversification of an exocyst subunit via protein complex escape - Nature Plants

The evolutionary diversification of an exocyst subunit was enabled by electrostatic shifts leading to its dissociation from the ancestral complex.

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🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University: 🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured) 📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience #academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs 1/4

The University of Hamburg has opened 14 PhD positions focused on ecological and evolutionary research, including climate change impacts on aquatic populations. Details here: https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/grk2530/openpositions.html #phd

Open positions

Open positions

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Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾 jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2176440...

Assistant Professor in Austin, TX for The University of Texas at Austin

Exciting opportunity in Austin, TX for The University of Texas at Austin as a Assistant Professor

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It is out! A tandem of two papers showing TMK regulation of PIN-dependent auxin transport www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... (PIN2, Friml lab) and www.cell.com/developmenta... (PIN1, Xu lab)

ABP1/ABL3-TMK1 cell-surface auxin signaling targets PIN2-mediated auxin fluxes for root gravitropism

In gravistimulated roots, gravity perception in the columella redirects the flow of the plant hormone auxin toward the lower root side, where it inhibits cell elongation for downward root bending. Thi...

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Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p