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...

pnas.org

Meet our Preprint Editors We are pleased to welcome Gwendolyn K. Kirschner @gwenkirschner.bsky.social to our first group of Preprint Editors to our editorial team, responsible for handling our 'In preprints' articles. journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pr...

🌿Join us to learn about the newly published “An introduction to the fundamentals of root systems research in cultivated plants” in @annbot.bsky.social by Dylan Jones and co-authors. 🧵 (1/10) 👉 doi.org/q9w8 @akshay-tawale.bsky.social #PlantScience #AoBpapers #Roots #CropScience #RootBiology

The Hutton COUSIN team have spent the week in Scandicci, Florence, Italy at the 2026 COUSIN AGM. We scored crop wild relatives in a very hot fields and got involved in a range of interactive workshops to push forward the COUSIN objectives 🌱 @gwenkirschner.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk

Potential unlocked: an atlas of cloned wheat genes for genome engineering and breeding 🌾 A #TansleyInsight by Abdulrahman Alhabsi, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌾🔬 NUTCRACKER orchestrates cortical cell divisions and sustains stem cell niche integrity in the rice root meristem @jxbotany.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

Schöne Idee und danke, dass wir den Auftakt bestreiten durften. Jetzt freuen wir uns auf die weiteren Folgen!

CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences@ceplas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wir starten mit Anna Backhaus vom IPK Gatersleben! @leibnizipk.bsky.social

Concluding a great #rooting2026 Thank you Sabrina, Riccardo and Raffaele (not in Pic) for perfect organisation!

🌱🧩 RESEARCH 🧩🌱 The BIRD protein NUTCRACKER is a component of the core regulatory network that controls the stem cell niche and cell division the rice root meristem - Kirschner et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

TOMORROW: SEMINAR by Vanessa Wahl‬, invited by @dejaegerlab.bsky.social and @yvdp.bsky.social. @viblifesciences.bsky.social

We’ll be heading to Cereals on 10–11 June at Diddly Squat Farm. The UK’s flagship arable event driving knowledge and innovation 🚜🌱 Come and say hi if you’re there — see you in the field! www.thecerealsevent.co.uk #cereals2026 @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social

The UK’s flagship arable event driving knowledge and innovation

Experience the ultimate event for the UK arable industry. Connect with over 450 leading suppliers showcasing the latest innovations, products, and expert advice

thecerealsevent.co.uk

Thrilled to present our latest Root2Res research on a novel methodology for simultaneous sampling of rhizosphere microbiota and root exudates from soil-grown plants @rootscientists.bsky.social @plantecohutton.bsky.social @irnasa.bsky.social @bulgarelli-d.bsky.social

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Evaluation of combined root exudate & rhizosphere microbiota sampling approaches to elucidate plant–soil–microbe interactions Escudero-Martinez et al. @carmen-escudero.bsky.social @bulgarelli-d.bsky.social @plantecohutton.bsky.social @irnasa.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ✍️ @gwenkirschner.bsky.social 🌱Hidden highways: mapping plasmodesmata in Arabidopsis roots 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70877 About Davis et al Quantification of cell-type-specific plasmodesmata distribution in ... @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social George Bassel 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70726

Hidden highways: mapping plasmodesmata in Arabidopsis roots

Click on the article title to read more.

doi.org

Thanks to @theplantjournal.bsky.social you can now enjoy a video 📺 abstract on the paper produced by our fabulous PhD students. Go an give it a 👀.

KunzLab@LMU@kunzlab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Now online in its final version. Plz surf to doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob

Thank you @sonaliroy.bsky.social for inviting me to give a talk in the Department of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering at Tennessee State University Even though it was 9pm for me, I enjoyed my time, the interesting questions and the fact that I was up on so many screens at once 😊🌾

🌱📊 RESEARCH 📊🌱 GOLVEN10 increases Medicago lateral root branch angle and reduces the gravity setpoint angle. A GWAS identified causal SNPs and that GOLVEN10 signaling interacts with ethylene to control root waving – Parmar et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Black in Plant Science Summer Studentship opportunity! Are you… in the middle of your first degree & self-identifying as Black or Black heritage? Apply for an internship on barley root angle regulation in my group @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social blackinplantscience.org/2026/02/02/b...

🚨Job Alert – Please RT! We’re looking for bright minds to join our community! We are looking for 12 postdocs and 7 PhD students! Details on all projects and application: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-... @leibnizipk.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de @unicologne.bsky.social

Only a week to go until Barley Away Days 2026! A 2- day workshop centred around the barley research at JHI / IBH to a combined internal and invited external audience. @hutton.ac.uk @scotchwhiskyswa.bsky.social @novogene-europe.bsky.social @thermofishersci.bsky.social LGC Biosearch Diageo SSCR

Excited to be looking at roots of wild barleys @plantecohutton.bsky.social

We hosted the ISRR Mini Symposium last week with 14 talks on roots from a whole range of research fields. If you want to catch up on this the link to the recording is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQqD... @rootscientists.bsky.social

'Between the Roots' ISRR Mini Symposium 2026

YouTube video by ISRR-International Society of Root Research

youtube.com

www.rootresearch.org/working-groups the #ISRR organized a minisymposium to introduce all 7 working groups that address different aspects of #rootsscience #roots #plantscience International Society of Root Research @rootscientists.bsky.social

Transposons as genetic switches for plant defense 🌿 The January 2026 @theplantjournal.bsky.social Editor’s Choice by @gwenkirschner.bsky.social shows how CRK8 expression enhances pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis; with trade-offs. Read now: www.sebiology.org/resource/jan...

January 2026 TPJ Editor choice: Transposon toggle: Flipping the switch on CRK8 expression for pathogen defense

Discover the Plant Journal editor's choice by Gwendolyn Kirschner

sebiology.org

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ✍️ @gwenkirschner.bsky.social Transposon toggle: flipping the switch on CRK8 expression for pathogen defense doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70681 Highlights Macquet et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70590

If you're interested in #PlantScience R&D work at a plant breeding company: @kwsgroup.bsky.social is hosting its annual R&D TalentCampus here in Einbeck on May 29th. More info here: www.kws.com/corp/en/care...

paper is out now in Nature Plants, here is a link: Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development. Nat. Plants (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants

Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...

doi.org

Genome editing in brown algae! 🧬🪸🌿 Now out in Cell Reports Methods! Excited to share this highly efficient, transgene-free CRISPR–Cas genome editing protocol for brown algae, requiring no cloning and no specialized equipment. doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... #CRISPR #BrownAlgae @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Tim was elected President of EPSO (European Plant Science Organisation). Join us to help the plant science voice be heard in Europe. 🌾🌿 epsoweb.org @epsoeurope.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social

The Rhizocab enables high definition imaging of the root systems. Exciting research possibilities!