We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

The evolutionary origins of #streptophyte multicellularity #TansleyReview by Tatyana Darienko, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jandevries.bsky.social @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social Summary also available in German. #PlantScience

We are very happy to announce that following an open call at the beginning of the year, we have welcomed 44 new Associate Editors to Methods in Ecology and Evolution, spanning 16 different countries! 🌍 Read the blog post below to find out more about our new editors👇

Welcoming new Associate Editors to Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Following an open call for applicants at the beginning of 2026, we are pleased to welcome 44 new Associate Editors to Methods in Ecology and Evolution. The researchers joining us span 18 different …

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Just a few days left to submit a proposal for our latest special feature! 🌍 🧪 Deadline for proposals is the 10th July, and paper submission will be due in February 2027⏰️ Find out more and submit a proposal 👇 buff.ly/AP33DCC

🌱 We are very thrilled to announce our Invited Speakers for this year's MAdLand Meeting. Join us in Göttingen, Germany, from September 29 to October 2, 2026, if you are interested in #plantsci & #evolution, and (re-)connect with an amazing scientific community. Register here: madland-meeting.de

Don't forget to submit a proposal for our latest special feature 👉 Time-dependency in Micro- and Macroevolutionary Rates 🌍 🧪 Deadline for proposals is the 10th July, and paper submission will be due in February 2027⏰️ Find out more and submit a proposal 👇 buff.ly/2yt4RLt

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...

When a protist engulfed a cynaobacterium, Earth changed forever! @jandevries.bsky.social, @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social, @heche.bsky.social & colleagues review the origins and evolution of archaeoplastids, the lineage that arose from this event, including plants & co www.cell.com/current-biol...

Very excited to be presenting at @official-smbe.bsky.social in Copenhagen. I'll be talking about evolutionarily conserved mechanisms in UV acclimation in the context of plant terrestrialization. Looking forward to connecting with other researchers interested in #evolution. #SMBE2026

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#SMBE2026 S17: Unicellular organisms in major evolutionary transitions 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 1:20pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

Happy to be part of the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social on #plant #evolution with @jandevries.bsky.social @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social @heche.bsky.social! Check out our review on the evolution of Archaeplastida:

Phylogenomic frameworks from deep archaeplastid evolution to embryophyte diversification

Baştürk et al. review the major progress that has been made in our understanding of Archaeplastida, the primary plastid-bearing photosynthetic eukaryotes that include the land plants, highlighting lon...

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Current Biology@currentbiology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our latest issue just dropped! It's green & special! And super meaty, even though it is about #plants #evolution! 🌵🌿🫛🍃🌱 This is all you need to read this week! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

Thrilled to share our latest land plant deep divergence paper on SMBE!! @jandevries.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/offi...

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#SMBE2026 S12: Reconstructing the deep Tree of Life: challenges and new approaches 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 3:50pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

#SMBE2026 S12: Reconstructing the deep Tree of Life: challenges and new approaches 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 3:50pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

Now online! The rise of polyploids during environmental upheaval

The rise of polyploids during environmental upheaval

From the dating of 132 ancient whole-genome duplication events across 470 angiosperms, paleopolyploidization events cluster around pivotal periods of environmental upheaval and extinction, notably the Middle Miocene Disruption, the Eocene-Oligocene Transition, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, and different oceanic anoxic events.

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Could duplicate genomes (polyploidy) have helped saved some flowering plants from the dinosaur-killing asteroid? Read more in Cell: spkl.io/63320AA0h2 @heche.bsky.social, @yvdp.bsky.social & colleagues @cp-cell.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Thrilled to see the final chapter of my thesis now publish on Cell! It's been a long journey. @yvdp.bsky.social @almeidasilvaf.bsky.social @stevenmaere.bsky.social In this study, we try to tackle a "polyploid paradox".

The rise of polyploids during environmental upheaval

From the dating of 132 ancient whole-genome duplication events across 470 angiosperms, paleopolyploidization events cluster around pivotal periods of environmental upheaval and extinction, notably the...

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Very happy to share our recent publication in @currentbiology.bsky.social, showcasing the cell systems response of a close relative of land plants to UV-B light by utilising a multi-omics approach. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Chemodiverse cell system responses to UV in an algal sister of land plants

Plant terrestrialization necessitated overcoming a barrage of stressors.1 Embryophytes (land plants) use an integrated response network to adjust thei…

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We had a great time taking part in Science Goes City in Göttingen on Sunday, in the beautiful St. Johannis Church. It was a joy to share our passion for #Plantsci & #Evolution with many curious people. Big thanks to Göttingen Marketing & @uni-goettingen.de for the organization. #Scicomm More below👇

The VIB-UGent Center is seeking a postdoc in evolutionary systems biology to study whole-genome duplication impacts on plant evolution. Apply here: https://jobs.vib.be/j/133506/postdoc-in-evolutionary-systems-biology. #postdoc

Postdoc in Evolutionary Systems Biology - VIB

About us The VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology (PSB, www.psb.vib-ugent.be) is a world-leading plant science institute with the mission to unravel the biology of plants and use the in

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‼️ Registration for the Annual MAdLand Meeting 2026 is now open! Join us in Göttingen from Sep 29–Oct 2, 2026 to discuss the latest trends in plant science & reconnect with an amazing #Plantsci community #MAdLand2026 #Evolution 🌱 Learn more and register here: madland-meeting.de/2026/

📣 Job opportunity: ERC-funded position as a Five-Year Postdoctoral Researcher (all genders welcome) in @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen, Germany. Find more info here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... #plantsci

Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO2-concentrating organelle in land plants

In many algae, photosynthesis is boosted by biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms, which pack the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into liquid-like organelles called pyrenoids. Engineering C3 crops with a...

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Highly repeatable phenotypic consequences of whole genome duplication in Spirodela polyrhiza https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.23.701260v1

We wish everyone happy holidays and a healthy New Year 🎄💫 We are already looking forward to 2026 and the next MAdLand Meeting! 🌱

Delighted to share our latest work on the deep divergence of land plants! @jandevries.bsky.social #Phylogenomics #Embryophytes #Terrestrialization www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Rooting the deep divergence of land plants

Unravelling the deep phylogenetic structure of embryophytes is essential for understanding their evolutionary success on land. However, pronounced phylogenetic dispute remains: while recent phylogenom...

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Our paper on the evolution (duplicated) gene expression divergence in spatially resolved plant transcriptomes is now out @theplantcell.bsky.social w/ @yvdp.bsky.social #PlantSci #Evolution academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Gene expression divergence following gene and genome duplications in spatially resolved plant transcriptomes

After gene and genome duplications, expression divergence across cell types is not random, and it can be explained by a combination of gene age, gene funct

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Fantastic conference and very nice to meet colleagues working on algae and land plants!

MAdLand@watertoland.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thank you all for coming! It was great to have you in Osnabrück this year. Have a safe trip home and we hope to see you all next year in Göttingen. Stay tuned 🌱 #MAdLand2025 #Plantsci

Resolving the stasis-dynamism paradox: Genome evolution in tree ferns url: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/..., nice work from @52ying.bsky.social!

Resolving the stasis-dynamism paradox: Genome evolution in tree ferns

Abstract. The paradox of evolutionary stasis and dynamism—how morphologically static lineages persist through deep geological periods despite environmental

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Free-to-read link @natgenet.nature.com: rdcu.be/eHzSP News & Views: "The dawn of bryophyte genomics is here" rdcu.be/eHzS2

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants

Nature Genetics - A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than...

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Tatsuya Nobori@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This has been great: #Phylogenomics unveil a recent origin of morphological complexity in Coleochaetophyceae. With @ikeririsarri.bsky.social @maaikebier.bsky.social Chuck, + more @uni-goettingen.de @watertoland.bsky.social #streptophytes #charophytes #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My first paper is finally out! 🥳 We explored how genes get lost in the process of rediploidization following polyploidization and found out that this loss primarly occurs through DNA deletion, rather than pseudogenization. #polyploidy @yvdp.bsky.social @zhen-li.bsky.social rdcu.be/evxBs

The subordinate role of pseudogenization to recombinative deletion following polyploidization in angiosperms

Nature Communications - Extensive gene loss is a hallmark of rediploidization following polyploidization, but its molecular basis remains unclear. Examining pseudogenization from ancient...

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