Back in the field: Eneza @enezer.bsky.social, Maria, and this year’s students are on Spiekeroog again in 2026, continuing to phenotype wild Arabidopsis in 2026. The dataset grows, and the story continues: Watching climate shape plants - in real time, in real environments.

Sascha Laubinger@saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to share our latest preprint. Arabidopsis thaliana has been the leading model for plant genetics - but most of what we know comes from growth chambers. Can this model also help us understand how climate shapes plants in the wild and reveal gene functions under real environmental variability?

1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Impressive work from @saschalaubinger.bsky.social and colleagues, describing molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in transcriptomes of native Arabidopsis thaliana. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This took 5 years, thousands of plants and an amazing collaborative team. Grateful to everyone who made this landscape transcriptomics approach possible and especially to @enezer.bsky.social for his incredible work and dedication.

Excited to share our latest preprint. Arabidopsis thaliana has been the leading model for plant genetics - but most of what we know comes from growth chambers. Can this model also help us understand how climate shapes plants in the wild and reveal gene functions under real environmental variability?

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in native Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.709013v1

Molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in native Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.709013v1

Professorship in plant genetics. The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See: www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

New PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...

Vanishing Virulence: Investigating pathogenicity loss in a plant pathogenic fungus (TALBOT_T26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership

What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from their host plant. Use cutting-edge…

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Form follows function – structural interplay between DCL1 and pri-miRNAs #plantscience

Form follows function – structural interplay between DCL1 and pri-miRNAs

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) guide post-transcriptional gene silencing in plants and shape developmental outcomes and environmental responses by precisely tuning gene expression. miRNAs originate from primary transcripts (pri-miRNAs) whose structural features – including internal loops, mismatches, and sequence motifs – facilitate interactions with the miRNA processing complex composed of DICER-LIKE 1 (DCL1), HYPONASTIC LEAVES 1 (HYL1), and SERRATE (SE). In vitro structural analyses of DCL1, HYL1, and SE proteins have elucidated their interactions with each other and with pri-miRNAs at unprecedented resolution. These findings highlight plant-specific processing features that are distinct from those of animals and suggest new avenues for manipulating miRNA pathways. We review recent progress in understanding the structural determinants of pri-miRNA processing, knowledge that may also be valuable for future applications in crop species through targeted genome editing.

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Our review in discusses how pri-miRNA and DCL1 structures shape plant microRNA biogenesis, and why collaboration between plant and protein scientists is key ☘️🤝

Trends in Plant Science@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Form follows function – structural interplay between DCL1 and pri-miRNAs #plantscience

New Review from our fellow @snp2prot.bsky.social members @saschalaubinger.bsky.social, Clara Schöder, Panos Kastritis and the excellent ECRs Cecille Scholl, Lars Grosch and Jana Baradei! Check it out: www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Form follows function – structural interplay between DCL1 and pri-miRNAs

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) guide post-transcriptional gene silencing in plants and shape developmental outcomes and environmental responses by precisely tuning gene expression. miRNAs originate from primary t...

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Great session with amazing talks! Using single-plant omics on naturally occurring (Wild) Arabidopsis populations is a powerful and underutilized approach for uncovering gene-phenotype relationships in an ecological context. #icar2025

The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)@tairnews.bsky.social · last yr.

Concurrent session 14: gene to phenotype prediction: Eneza Yoeli Mjema: approach: collect data from plants growing in natural habitats to find missing gene functions, use machine learning to look for gene-phenotype relationships @enezer.bsky.social #icar2025

Exciting PhD position in an amazing team - highly recommend applying.

Sascha Laubinger@saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you interested in joining our team as a PhD student to explore telescripting in crops? Apply now! Deadline: December 25th. www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Auss...