🔬🌱 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🌱🔬 Rodríguez et al. present SuB3, a simple, fast, and inexpensive method to separate nuclear and cytoplasmic contents of plant cells to study where genes are active and how they are regulated. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Our new study on EgrARF10 documents the first evidence of a Class C Auxin Response Factor in wood formation, showing that its overexpression in poplar alters secondary cell wall chemistry without causing a growth penalty or other obvious morphological alterations. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Eucalyptus grandis Auxin Response Factor 10 (EgrARF10) is associated with the modulation of secondary xylem cell wall chemistry - Tree Genetics & Genomes

Auxin Response Factors (ARFs) are of vital importance in plant growth and vascular development. Class A ARFs are the core auxin-driven drivers of embryogenesis, vascular pattern development, (pro)camb...

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New Article: "Non-native and invasive tree species are abundant in neotropical secondary forest but decline over time" rdcu.be/fvZt6 Decline of non-native trees suggests that native forest recovery can limit their abundance. #PlantScience

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

We welcome you to contribute to this exciting new Frontiers Research Topic! Manuscript summaries are due 17 Sep 2026, manuscript submissions due Feb 2027🌿 #CAZymes #carbohydrates #cellwall #abioticstress #bioticstress @frontiersmedia.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Frontiers | Integrated Roles of Carbohydrates and CAZymes in Plant Health, Stress Resilience and Microbial Interactions

Plant structural and non-structural carbohydrates are central to plant health, growth, development and yield. Under optimal conditions, structural carbohydra...

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Plant SynBio Australia launches Adelaide node

Plant SynBio Australia launches Adelaide node to accelerate biomanufacturing for agriculture and industry

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This is why we love #CalciumSignaling Look how mechanical damage triggers long range Ca2+ waves in this plant !! By @annalisabellandi.bsky.social, who is now around here ;) Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org #microscopy #cell #mechanobiology 🧪🔬

The main problem are the Scientists who continue to publish with such journals, using the lame cop-out that they need it to have a career. Nobody(!) needs a NatComs paper to have a career. They want the Nature logo on their paper to feed their ego. That's all. #scipub #scientificpublishing

Alex Holcombe@alexh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Nature Publishing Group finding more dastardly ways to lock us in, well beyond what I complained about in my letter declining reviewing for them

Moss (Physcomitrium patens) protoplasts (wallless cells) transformed with chloroplast envelope protein tagged with mGFP (green). The chlorophyll autofluorescence is in magenta. The protrusions of the chloroplast envelope are called stromules. #microscopymonday, #plantcells, #plantmicroscopy, #moss

🥦📈 RESEARCH 📈🥦 Inhibition of brassinosteroid biosynthesis in cauliflower reduces stem competition with the curd for resources and can increase crop yield – Hu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Announcing a Transformation Lead role (level B) at the Adelaide University node of Plant Synthetic Biology Australia (international applicants welcome)! For more information on PSBA, see plantsynbio.au More details on the position: lnkd.in/g3GZSRT8

New collaborative preprint out in which we use @10xgenomics.bsky.social Xenium to do some (a lot!) of plant spatial transcriptomics, led by Jim Whelan's team: "Mitochondrial Retrograde Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana: heterogenous, spatial and polarised aspects" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Tiny plant, giant genome! 🌱🧬 We’re excited to share the final version of our paper in @GigaScience: the first complete telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembly of the liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia. Thanks @ncn.gov.pl Check out the full open-access study here: doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Giant chromosomes of a tiny plant—the complete telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the simple thalloid liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia (Jungermanniopsida, Marchantiophyta)

AbstractBackground. The liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia, a dioicous, simple thalloid species, is notable for its cryptic diversity, habitat adaptability,

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✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) CLE peptides in plant biotic interactions nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Today I learned that the common houseplant Zamioculcas (the zz plant) is monocot w/ pinnately compound leaves. So called leaves are in fact leaflets. Unlike most species w/ compound leaves, the leaflets of zz plants are highly regenerative, from which whole plants can be readily regenerated.

2023 to 2025 were the three hottest years on record.

New Brief Communication: "A CRISPR-based sequence proximity binding protein labelling system for scanning upstream regulatory proteins" rdcu.be/eZLUP CRISPR-based proximity labelling system to profile DNA-binding proteins such as PIF4 transcription factor .

New Article: "Esterified-pectin-coupled polar stiffening controls grass stomatal opening" rdcu.be/eZLT4 Esterified pectin localized at the stiff poles of maize stomata, modulating stomatal opening. Novel targets for stomatal engineering and higher water use efficiency.

I haven't achieved 70% within target range in weeks! Hoping to keep it up this year #T1D #Dexcom

We’re hiring 4 roles at UWA's Plant Synbio Innovation Centre: Facility Manager + 3 Postdocs (single-cell genomics/screening; molecular tools; construct prototyping). Apply by Jan 20 bit.ly/4qfoftG bit.ly/3MFgD59 bit.ly/4pFT6jf bit.ly/48VkgLw

A fully funded PhD position is available in my group to develop genome editing protocols in almond trees and to engineer self-fertility in self-incompatible varieties, starting early 2026. EOIs can be lodged on the Adelaide University website until 17 Nov 2025.

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A fully funded PhD position is available in my group to develop genome editing protocols in almond trees and to engineer self-fertility in self-incompatible varieties, starting early 2026. Expressions...

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Plant Synthetic Biology Australia at Adelaide University (PSBA-AU) is recruiting our first plant transformation technicians! 🌱🧪🧫🧬🔬 careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51... careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

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What a treat to visit long-time @csiro.bsky.social Collaborator Dr Colleen MacMillan in Canberra and check out her team's "Pink Cotton Candy" dye-free cotton. Link: publications.csiro.au/publications...

"The happiness of Mankind, the real salvation of the world must come about by every person in existence being taught to read and induced to think." #PalaceOfIntellect #Melbourne

I just asked ChatGPT to summarise recent studies on a specific question. It provided a reference that I couldn't find. I queried the reference. It then told me that "upon review, [the reference] does not exist." We should NEVER use ChatGPT as a reliable source of information.

A few white cypress-pines (Callitris glaucophylla) clinging to life, and several that have not quite made it #Ikara-FlindersRangesNationalPark

A view of the Murray River as I head over to the Yarra Valley for a Bioplatforms conference.

I just lost two months of work.

Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

The dismantling of American Science continues. The Organismal Response to Climate Change grant call has been cancelled. The NSF Director is a disgrace