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-...

New Brief Communication: "Cell-based CRISPRa screen identifies a papillae-specific receptor kinase mediating broad-spectrum fungal resistance in rice" rdcu.be/ZZFv8dTuRi8a A RK that positively regulates fungal resistance via silicon-mediated physical & biochemical defences. #PlantScience

In our general assembly today Sophie de Vries introduced & launched YongDBG, the network for early career researchers (ECR) from undergraduate level to first junior group leader position for members of our DBG @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/sections/...

Please submit comments to the EU Commission’s Call for Evidence on how to implement the new rules for "Plants obtained by new genomic techniques (#NGT)". Submission deadline 28 Sept. Below what I submitted. #plantscience ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Really excited to share our new manuscript on how the #NLR protein #AfsR regulates #Streptomyces antibiotic production - and how we can use its similarity to plant NLR immune receptors to enhance this production! 📄🧵 (1/17) @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A conserved NLR activation switch governs global transcriptional control of antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces

Nucleotide-binding and oligomerization domain-like receptors (NLRs) are conserved molecular switches that regulate innate immunity across diverse domains of life. While best known for their roles in i...

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On behalf of 108 colleagues and friends from 11 countries, thrilled to share the first paper from our 100 #Diatom Genomes Project (100DGP). Just out @plosbiology.org | @norwichmicro.bsky.social | @ueaenv.bsky.social | @jgi.doe.gov doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The 100 Diatom Genomes Project

This Community Page presents the 100 Diatom Genomes Project, which aims to sequence the genomes and transcriptomes of 100 diatom species across major lineages, life forms and ecological strategies. Th...

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🌾🔥 Heat tolerance centers on protecting photosynthesis. Six domains: membranes, photosynthesis, metabolites, ROS, protein homeostasis, gene regulation An integrated framework for breeding heat-tolerant, high-yielding crops. #plantsci @wileylifesci.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Design Principles of Plant Thermotolerance: Integrating Photosynthesis, Reproduction, and Field Resilience in a Warming Climate

This paper reframes plant thermotolerance as a temporally stratified, interconnected system of physiological responses centered on preserving photosynthetic carbon gain under heat stress. Consequentl...

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#Spirogyra genome paper now available @theplantcell.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project! @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌱 Researchers at TUM, including Brigitte Poppenberger, professor of horticultural #biotechnology, discovered a mechanism by which plant #SteroidHormones can inhibit immune responses, freeing resources for growth: go.tum.de/634309 #PlantScience 📷️A.Heddergott

New Mechanism of Plant Immune Defense Discovered

TUM researchers in Freising are discovering how steroid hormones regulate plant immunity—leading to high-yielding, disease-resistant crops.

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New preprint online! We sequenced several hundred Zymoseptoria isolates from different fields through a field epidemic to ask what really drives short-term evolution. Fungicide selection or seasonal epidemic progression? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Standing genetic variation buffers field populations of Zymoseptoria tritici against seasonal and fungicide selection

### Competing Interest Statement AT was funded by BASF under a formal scientific collaboration agreement. BASF did not exert control over the data collection, analysis, or interpretation of results. ...

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We are very much looking forward to listen to the latest #plantsci results presented next week in the following 8 plenary sessions, at our #BT2026: Dominique Bergmann, @stanfordstomata.bsky.social (Stanford University, USA): Flipping the script: Generating stomatal form in Arabidopsis leaves 🧵1/9

🧬🌿 Why sequence an entire ecosystem? No species exists in isolation. Plants, animals, fungi and microbes are connected through complex ecological networks. Sequencing across ecosystems can help us understand not just what lives there — but how life works together. #Genomics #Biodiversity

Design Principles of Plant #Thermotolerance: Integrating #Photosynthesis, #Reproduction, and #Field Resilience in a Warming #Climate onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @plant-sci.bsky.social @plantresearch.bsky.social @plantbasednews.bsky.social @plantbiology.bsky.social

The mRNA covalent modification dihydrouridine regulates transcript turnover and photosynthetic capacity during plant abiotic stress (Li’ang Yu , Giovanni Melandri , Anna C Nelson Dittrich , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

The mRNA covalent modification dihydrouridine regulates transcript turnover and photosynthetic capacity during plant abiotic stress

Plants use a deeply conserved chemical modification, dihydrouridine, to mark mRNAs for rapid degradation, particularly under abiotic stressors such as heat

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Atypical immunity induced by extracellular water in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Atypical immunity induced by extracellular water in plants

Microbial pathogens require nutrients and water to support their growth and proliferation. Pathogen-mediated resource acquisition is orchestrated by the secretion of virulence factors that have evolve...

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New Article: "Evolutionary tuning of the molecular charge state of UBP24 shapes responses to high temperature" rdcu.be/fCfWE A conserved heat-adaptation mechanism in plants and yeast. Elevated temperatures increase protein negative charges, stabilizing key proteins. #PlantScience

Can the pretrained transformer-based architecture TabPFN predict plant organismal complexity based on their complement of transcription factors? Yes it can: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Happy to hear your thoughts! @dvarshney.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Prediction of plant organismal complexity based on transcription factor annotation: an AI approach

How morphological complexity evolves is still enigmatic. While there is evidence in algae and plants as well as animals that diversification of the repertoire of transcription factors (TF) is causativ...

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📣 Job alert! PhD position on Regulation of Pattern Scaling in Plant Stem Cell Niches in Marja Timmermans's lab and co-supervised by @cecilialaram.bsky.social The project is part of the @cerealcell.bsky.social consortium. The position is available from October 1st Apply now or share it! #PlantSciJob

NEWS - Arabidopsis research community makes lifetime award to JIC group leader Congratulations to Prof. Dame Caroline Dean FRS 👏 https://okt.to/ZkcYx7 @North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee

Arabidopsis research community makes lifetime award to John Innes Centre group leader | John Innes Centre

Professor Dame Caroline Dean FRS has been given a lifetime achievement award by the international Arabidopsis research community...

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I am super excited to finally share our article on the identification of AvrWTK4, the first wheat powdery mildew Avr recognised by a tandem kinase protein thanks to an integrated HMA-like domain 🍄🌾 check it out! ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

An HMA-like integrated domain in the wheat tandem kinase WTK4 recognises an RNase-like pathogen effector - Nature Communications

The wheat powdery mildew avirulence effector AvrWTK4 is recognised by the integrated HMA-like domain of the tandem kinase resistance protein WTK4. Wheat powdery mildew evades from WTK4-mediated recogn...

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Finally online! It took ut 9 yars from formulating the hypothesis to actually finalizing the last experiments... but there it is!

Mélanie Rich 🌱🍄@melaniekrich.bsky.social · 3w ago

New preprint alert! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... The conclusion of a long-lasting obsession about lipids, plant terrestrialization and the origin of plant symbioses 1/7 🧵 @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social @katharinamel1.bsky.social @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social

New preprint alert! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... The conclusion of a long-lasting obsession about lipids, plant terrestrialization and the origin of plant symbioses 1/7 🧵 @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social @katharinamel1.bsky.social @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social

Nuclear auxin signaling and temperature: perception and response across scales #TansleyInsight by Sageman-Furnas and Strader @luciastrader.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

🚨 Job alert! Project D02 of the DFG-funded CRC #SNP2Prot is hiring a Research Associate (m/f/d) in Plant Bioinformatics at @unihalle.bsky.social. Work on pangenomes, ML, and proteoform prediction. Apply by 6 Sept 2026. 🌱🧬 www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS... #Bioinformatics #PlantScience

A single genetic innovation at the origin of plant terrestrialization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.14.744897v1

Please check out our latest preprint from the team @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and many more! Happy to have contributed to this really cool story!

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 3w ago

A single genetic innovation at the origin of plant terrestrialization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.14.744897v1

Arabidopsis Col-0 is not one thing "Genetic and epigenetic divergence among Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 laboratory lineages since the 1950s". #PlantScience From: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Genetic and epigenetic divergence among Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 laboratory lineages since the 1950s

The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana has been a workhorse of plant biology since the 1950s, when the Columbia-0 (Col-0) accession was widely adopted by the research community as a reference genotype. ...

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Our latest views on deep ARF evolution are finally out in New Phytologist! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs: from transcription factors to auxin effectors

Molecular evolution of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR (ARF) effector function.

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Mark your calendars‼️ The SNP2PROT team hosts the "Plant Genetic Variation meets Protein Architecture" international conference, 21-23 June 2027, at the Leopoldina, Halle (Saale). Join us for interdisciplinary discussions, coffee and networking! Registration opens: 17th October, 2026 ⏰ #SNP2Prot

A wheat immune receptor pair executes cell death through a helper MLKL www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A wheat immune receptor pair executes cell death through a helper MLKL

To promote disease resistance, plant nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors often require paired co-receptors. In many cases, paired NLRs comprise one NLR to perceive effectors...

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