Exciting to see the plant science community come together at ComBio 2026! Looking forward to the latest discoveries and collaborations. 🌿 The ComBio 2026 website www.combio.org.au #ComBio2026 #AusPlantSci #Phytogen #PlantScience
Joanna Melonek
@jmelonek.bsky.social
Group Leader and ARC Future Fellow at the Australian National University
We're recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow at ANU to help strengthen Australia's preparedness for wheat blast. The project spans plant pathology, genetics, breeding and biosecurity, with collaborators in Australia and Brazil. Apply here: tinyurl.com/25zcj9yy #PlantScience #Postdoc #Biosecurity
Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level ASalary package: $91,546 - $114,906 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full-Time, Continuing (Contingent Funded) Note: This position will be primarily based at the N...
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If you're on the ANU campus today, come to this event at 3 pm in RSB👇 to hear from @emfurlong.bsky.social and Xiaoxiao Zhang! @biologyanu.bsky.social
Interested in #chloroplast or #mitochondria research? Want to discuss your research cross-kingdom and cross-disciplinary? Hurry up, to regsiter for this Gordon Research Conference (July 19 - 24, 2026); programme will be finalized March 21st! Details: bsky.app/profile/apmw...
Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬@apmweber.bsky.social · 6mo ago🧬⚡ Call for abstracts & participants | GRC 2026 ⚡🧬 Together with Vamsi Mootha, I’m chairing the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria & Chloroplasts (July 19 - 24, 2026). We’d love to see your application. Thread 🧵👇
🎓 ASPS 2026 Student Travel Grants OPEN! Support for students to attend ASPS2026 conference Requirements: ✓ ASPS member (you & supervisor) ✓ Present at conference (poster/oral) Deadline: 31 July 2026 Apply to: joseph.pegler@newcastle.edu.au www.asps.org.au/phytogen/feb... #StudentOpportunity
🌱 ASPS Membership Benefits: ✓ Conference discounts ✓ Travel grants eligibility ✓ Professional networking ✓ Phytogen updates ✓ Award opportunities Student rates available Join: www.asps.org.au/become-a-mem... #AusPlantSci
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ICYMI, Gotz Hensel's IBH Seminar from last week (Precision Plant Editing: From Barley to Amaranth with CRISPR in Hand) is available to watch here: barleyhub.org/ibh-seminar-...
IBH Webinar | Precision Plant Editing: From Barley to Amaranth with CRISPR in Hand - Barley Hub
IBH Seminar | Precision Plant Editing: From Barley to Amaranth with CRISPR in Hand
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Congratulations to the nine early- and mid-career researchers have been awarded the 2026 Thomas Davies Research Grant for Marine, Soil and Plant Biology to tackle some of Australia's biggest environmental challenges. Find out more: https://bit.ly/45tDvev
Out First Release in @science.org A pollen ligand, SIPS, binds to the female receptor, SRK. SIPS binds to a conserved region of SRK, for interspecific incompatibility, unlike the self-incompatibility factor, which binds to a different, variable region www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience
Pan-family pollen signals control an interspecific stigma barrier across Brassicaceae species
Pre-zygotic interspecific incompatibility prevents hybridization between species limiting interbreeding strategies for crop improvement using wild relatives. The Brassica rapa female self-incompatibil...
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Abbreviated agenda for the upcoming AGM:
Dr. Ashley Jones, ACT Young Tall Poppy of the Year & Alan Wilton Award winner! Genome evolution research in Aussie natives using long-read-seq reveals climate adaptation & disease resistance. "Feel like turning point for native plant science recognition" bit.ly/4oq3IC7
IN BRIEF: Emergence and evolution of canonical microRNAs: A case study in Arabidopsis halleri and A. lyrata (Pei Qin Ng) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
Emergence and evolution of canonical microRNAs: A case study in Arabidopsis halleri and A. lyrata
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small RNAs that are 21 or 22 nucleotides (nts) long and have been shown to play critical roles in various plant life proc
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📰 September 2025 Phytogen is now online! Featuring space agriculture research from Prof. Sigfredo Fuentes, antimalarial plant biofactories from Dr. Nipuni Peththa Thanthrige, etc. + conference updates! Thanks to all contributors! bit.ly/42UTBfH #AusPlantSci #PlantScience #ASPS2025
September 2025 Phytogen — Australian Society of Plant Scientists
Welcome to the September 2025 edition of Phytogen! This month, we present conference updates as we approach the registration and abstract submission deadline on 3 October 2025 . With the 2025 confe...
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Our new study gives some insight into how Ppd-1 influences source:sink interactions in wheat by regulating an amino acid transporter doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
CATION AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER1 encodes an arginine transporter whose expression is influenced by daylength and Photoperiod-1
Abstract. Flowering and inflorescence development of wheat involve coordination of organ development, tissue growth, and remobilisation of nutrients from s
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Accommodation info for the conference: Conference at Flinders Bedford Park campus - don't get caught at the wrong campus! Special accommodation deals available for ASPS 2025 attendees: www.asps.org.au/asps2025-acc... #ASPS2025 #Adelaide
Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS)@asps-oz.bsky.social · 11mo agoAbstract Deadline Reminder: Abstract submissions for ASPS 2025 close Oct 3. Don't forget to use the provided template when submitting. Registration early bird rates also end the same day (www.asps.org.au/asps-annual-...). Plan accordingly and head to Adelaide! #ASPS2025 #AbstractDeadline
Plant’s developmental decision to either abort a flower or set seed #plantscience
Plant’s developmental decision to either abort a flower or set seed
A significant proportion of flowers in crop plants fail to produce seeds, particularly under heat and drought stress. This outcome reflects a regulated developmental process of reproductive abortion, shaped by a complex interplay of genetic, hormonal, and environmental factors that limit crop yield. Unlike abscission, reproductive abortion can occur at multiple developmental stages. In this review, we examine how internal and external cues disrupt the development of florets, ovules, embryos, and seeds in major food crops, including cereals, legumes, and brassicas, under both optimal and stress conditions. Drawing from research in arabidopsis and extending to crop systems, we identify conserved and crop-specific mechanisms, highlight critical knowledge gaps, and propose strategies to enhance reproductive resilience and seed set under abiotic stresses.
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New preprint on the role of MutS2 genes in rescuing stalled/collided ribosomes in chloroplasts, led by Amanda Broz and many other contributors from the lab. Never expected to go down this road when we started working on plant MutS2 years ago. Feedback appreciated! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions
We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...
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Your research brings together fundamental plant biology & applied research to enhance crop traits? 🌱🌾🎓🏭 Join us as professor in 'Molecular Crop Improvement' @uni-muenster.de & @fraunhofer.bsky.social Please PM if you got questions. stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...
Professorship (W2-level) in “Molecular Crop Improvement”
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🆕REVIEW: Ludwig & Heidorn-Czarna discuss recent advances in the study of mitochondrial #proteases and #mitophagy across #plants, #animals, and #yeast, providing fresh insight into the mitochondrial protein quality control system in plants 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #Organelles #PlantScience
Mitochondrial proteases and their roles in mitophagy in plants, animals, and yeast
Abstract. Mitochondria play a central role in cellular respiration and other essential metabolic and signaling pathways. To function properly, mitochondria
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Here’s the article link: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/YSYTCXLWO0... @rmwhitford.bsky.social
New genomic resources to boost research in reproductive biology to enable cost‐effective hybrid seed production
Wheat pollination in line and hybrid varieties needs to be secured in a changing climate. Cost-effective hybrid wheat seed production requires selection for outcrossing floral organs. Wheat breeding.....
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🌾 New in The Plant Genome: Global public–private alliance unites to boost wheat floral biology research & enable cost-effective hybrid seed production. 🔬 Better pollination 🌱 Higher yields 🌍 Climate resilience #HybridWheat #Genomics #FoodSecurity #AgInnovation
Scott Boden@scottboden.bsky.social · 12mo agoHere’s the article link: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/YSYTCXLWO0... @rmwhitford.bsky.social
Discovery: mRNA vaccine candidate blocks malaria from reproducing inside mosquitoes, cuts transmission by up to 99.7%. Built on cryo-EM insights into parasite’s fertilisation machinery. A key step towards elimination. In @science.org 🔗 www.wehi.edu.au/news/reveale...
Looking forward to the plant mitochondrial meetings next year in Kagoshima, Japan! icpmb2026.jp
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ICPMB 2026 14th International Conference for Plant Molecular Biology May 18-22, 2026 Kagoshima, Japan
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Our first wheat stripe rust Avr effector story. It is a short one that points to suppressors in this pathosystem while we could not link this Avr effector to a described R gene. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A conserved stripe rust effector elicits variable resistance responses in wheat
Plant resistance (R) and pathogen avirulence (Avr) gene interactions are central to pathogen recognition and disease resistance in crops. However, functional characterisation of Avr effectors in Pucci...
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Cryo-EM of fertilisation complex Pfs230-Pfs48/45 from malaria parasites! 💕💗 🦟 Transgenic parasites without Pfs230 D13D14 do not transmit 🦙 💉Nanobodies + mRNA induced antibodies reduce transmission New in @Science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceResearch #Malaria #WEHI
Regulatory elements in RNA. Excellent review nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
RNA elements and their biotechnological applications in plants
Engineering of plants for improved traits and efficient heterologous protein production can be achieved by modifying or introducing cis- or trans-acting RNA elements. The function of these elements d....
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