Check out our new TE annotation tool for the era of pangenomes and large-scale species comparisons! 🧬🌱🪰🍄 ParTEA discovers and consistently annotates TEs across any set of genomes. Plus: phylgenomic trees and assembly QC. Developed by @tobybarilbio.bsky.social and out as a preprint! bit.ly/4BHgt2h

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☕ Got multiple genome assemblies to annotate? Want consistent TE annotations and easy comparisons across assemblies — from within species to across kingdoms? Time for ParTEA! 🫖 The Earl Grey ParTEA preprint is now online! 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #TEworldwide #TEsky #bioinformatics

New Article: "Directional water transport system resolves fertilization–dispersal conflicts in Marchantia" rdcu.be/vs1gK15R45Qa In Marchantia, the female reproductive structure evolved a directional water transport system to ensure fertilization success on land. #PlantScience

I am deeply saddened by the news that James Lloyd has passed away far too soon. He was a wonderful colleague, person, and scientist. I will always remember him fondly. research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/j...

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Calling future preLighters! We're looking for early-career researchers to join us at preLights and help uncover exciting #preprints + contribute to constructive discussions around new research. Interested? Apply by 22 November ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/news/become-...

Become a preLighter and help shape the conversation around preprints - preLights

We are looking for new preLighters to join our community of early-career researchers. If you enjoy reading preprints, discussing new ideas and communicating science to a broad audience, we would love ...

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Our latest: Reconstructing spore evolution recalibrates the timescale of land plant diversification, led by Jack Hooper, Annie Worth, with help from Charles Wellman @jameswclark.bsky.social and myself. file:///Users/glpcjd/Downloads/s41477-026-02432-3.pdf

Hide and seek: exonic sequences harbor cis regulatory elements and regulate spatial expression of brassinosteroids receptors. #PlantBiology @karimaelm.bsky.social covers a recent #preprint by Raúl Denia-Mondéjar et al. @noelponte.bsky.social #preLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/b...

Brassinosteroid receptors reveal conserved features of exon-embedded gene regulation - preLights

Hide and seek: exonic sequences harbor cis regulatory elements and regulate spatial expression of brassinosteroids receptors.

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The title really intrigued me, but I couldn't have imagined how much I would love this paper! Actually, I was so excited by the findings that I wrote a @prelights.bsky.social😄 If you haven't read it yet, go dive into this amazing paper lead by @noelponte.bsky.social 🤩 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Brassinosteroid receptors reveal conserved features of exon-embedded gene regulation

Precise quantitative and spatial control of plant gene expression is typically attributed to cis-regulatory elements in promoters and other non-coding sequences. The extent to which exon-encoded regul...

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preLights@prelights.bsky.social · 4w ago

Hide and seek: exonic sequences harbor cis regulatory elements and regulate spatial expression of brassinosteroids receptors. #PlantBiology @karimaelm.bsky.social covers a recent #preprint by Raúl Denia-Mondéjar et al. @noelponte.bsky.social #preLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/b...

Are you looking for a PhD in the area of plant evolution? If so do apply to join the lab for this competitively funded @gpsep.bsky.social PhD project to study the evolution of branching architecture by combing data from fossils, ferns and genes. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our BBSRC-funded NRPDTP Doctoral Training Partnership PhD project with tatsuyanobori@bsky.social is now OPEN for an October 2027 start 🗓️ Start date - 1 October 2027 ⏰ Apply by 30 November 2026 buff.ly/J0fezi9

Where do plants make their medicine? Mapping chemical defence one cell at a time (NOBORI_T27DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership

When a pathogen attacks, a plant fights back with chemistry. However, not every cell uses the same defence. Our recent single-cell study revealed an unexpected division of labour in infected leaves…

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Registration is now open for the @gensocuk.bsky.social #nonseedUK26 meeting, which will be held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on 15th December. Looking forward to celebrating another year of non-seed 🌱 science. You can register here: tinyurl.com/3xusawvd 😃

It's as easy as ABC...and G! Kanazawa et al report how specialized metabolites in the #liverwort #Marchantia are synthesized & sequestered in oil bodies - a process involving ABCG transporters 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience #PlantMetabolism

Next, we’re delighted to welcome Miguel Blanquez from Valencia. He is taking us back in time with his talk Before Gibberellins: The Ancestral Environmental Regulation of DELLA Activity ⏳ #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

@fernway.bsky.social from @duke-university.bsky.social in North Carolina is sharing his latest discoveries on how a plant-derived diterpenoid initiates symbiosis with N2-fixing cyanobacteria #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

The last talk of the meeting! We’re a little sad that #MAdLand2026 is coming to an end, but very happy to welcome our guest speaker, @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social from Toulouse. He will talk about the evolution of plant–microbe interactions at the water-to-land transition. 🌱 #plantsci

Still one week to apply!

Mariana Schuster@marischuster.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm excited to share that my newly funded #ERCStG FRONTERA is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers at @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱🔬 If you are passionate about plant immunity, proteolysis, membrane proteins, or proteomics, I'd love to hear from you. 🧵 Please RT/share!

Our story on DELLA in Marchantia paleacea is now published (including few updates): doi.org/10.1111/nph.... Thanks again to all co-authors!! #PlantScience

Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of <fc>DELLA</fc> in land plants

Proposed model for the stepwise evolution of DELLA functions in the green lineage.

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Katharina Melkonian@katharinamel1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨ It is my pleasure to share: "Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants" Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia doi.org/10.64898/202... #PlantScience A thread...

You select the isolates, we sequence the genomes — for free! 🧬 Inspired by @ismpmi.bsky.social #MPMI2027 we announce that the latest @GetGenome Call for Projects is now open! @GetGenome “Road to Jeju” #GGRoadToJeju2026 invites applications from global community getgenome.net/callforproje...

Decoding plants cell by cell: opportunities and challenges in single-cell and spatial biology (Lieven De Veylder , Maite Saura-Sanchez , Bert De Rybel , Tatsuya Nobori , Klaas Vandepoele , Lorenzo Caputi , Sarah E O’Connor , Jian Xu) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Registration now open for the Non Seed Plant Meeting in Edinburgh on Dec 15. All welcome. Registration link and poster below www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-...

📣 Please share! We’re recruiting to build predictive models of gene regulation in plants. We’d love to hear from anyone with strong foundations in regulatory genomics or ML and fluency with coding agents. Any career stage; no plant background needed. noborilab.org 1/5

Nobori Lab | The Sainsbury Laboratory

Decoding the molecular and cellular basis of plant-microbe interactions. Single-cell and spatial omics of plant immunity. Led by Tatsuya Nobori at TSL, Norwich, UK.

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Tatsuya Nobori@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to launch our ERC project ImmuneCellState 🚀 We’ll investigate how individual plant cells respond to pathogens and explore new dimensions of plant immunity research by integrating single-cell/spatial omics, deep learning and genome editing. @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Very happy to have @mattbnt.bsky.social from @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social here at INRAe Orleans for the EPiMYC day ! Amazing talk on the role of lncRNAs during AMS & RNS 🤩 congrats @ibrahimkeita.bsky.social & @melissa-simonnet.bsky.social for this very nice work👏🏼

Matthias Benoit@mattbnt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Great discussions on the roles of lncRNAs in the regulation of plant-microbe endosymbiosis at @inrae-france.bsky.social Centre Val de Loire. Thanks @stephane-maury.bsky.social, Claire Veneault-Fourrey & @karimaelm.bsky.social for the invitation in frame of the EpiMyc project: anr.fr/Project-ANR-...

We are hiring! Together with @bastien-boussau.bsky.social, we are looking for a motivated candidate in bioinformatic and deep-learning to develop an approach for non-coding regions prediction in eukaryotes. More information and application here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

I am thrilled to share our last work on the evolution of plant antiviral immunity @cragenomica.bsky.social !. Please, let us know what you think! biorxiv.org/content/10.648 98/2026.05.18.725958v1 🧵

Think preprints are invisible? 👀 They’re not! Discover how preprints are findable, citable, and transforming scholarly communication in the ASAPbio Myth Busting whiteboard video.🎬 🎥 Watch here → buff.ly/W3c11Uo #Preprint #OpenScience #ScholComm #ScientificPublishing

Myth 3: Preprints are not discoverable or citable

Myth: “Preprints are not discoverable or citable.” Truth: Preprints are an established part of today’s research ecosystem—they have DOIs, appear in major databases, and are recognized by both…

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Less than a week left to apply! Come join us at UU Plants!

Leonardo Jo@leonardojo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm very excited to announce that the Jo Lab is hiring our FIRST EVER PhD candidate! f you're eager to drive discovery in plants, join us at UU Plants! More info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Lab website: thejolab.org #Plantbiology #Phd #Job

Just published: A helper NLR challenges the membrane localisation dogma "Plant NLR immune receptors are astonishingly diverse - functionally and structurally. We have only scratched the surface, and there are many more surprises in store." medium.com/p/a-helper-n...

A helper NLR challenges the membrane localisation dogma

PUBLISHED: 30.04.26 | THE SAINSBURY LABORATORY

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“failure of the research enterprise to provide the time and space for individuals to fail without fear of the consequences risks failure of a grander kind” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We need to talk about failure in science

Failure is part and parcel of research, but discussing it sometimes seems to be taboo in science. It doesn’t need to be.

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We revisited the evolution of plant actins (last paper was in 1999), with the aim to understand why plants have many actin isoforms and how these isoforms can be functionally different. Strikingly, unlike e.g. the auxin response factors, actins are completely segregated per taxonomic lineage. (1/n)

I just published: Leave the red shirt out: Scientists, stop complicating the story Scientists are brilliant at finding details. We are less brilliant at knowing which details to shut up about. medium.com/p/leave-the-...

The research, led by Dr Edith Forrestier whilst at the @jimhaseloff.bsky.social lab @camplantsci.bsky.social is published in ‘Communications Biology’: tinyurl.com/ypfd54xr @fromani.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk #PlantsAtCambridge

Spatial distribution of isoprenoid enzymes and MpABCG1 transporter influences sesquiterpene accumulation in Marchantia polymorpha oil bodies - Communications Biology

A study maps terpene biosynthesis in Marchantia polymorpha oil bodies and identifies the ABC transporter MpABCG1 as a key factor for endogenous sesquiterpene accumulation in oil bodies, informing future metabolic engineering strategies.

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