Together with @plantophagy.bsky.social, we have an opened postdoc position for a young scientist that graduated after 01/01/2025, see ad attached

Our latest for your summer reading list: how do plants control growth at the organ surface? So proud of @zoenv.bsky.social's magnum opus and grateful to all the other authors, including Annamaria Kiss, @nathan-german.bsky.social, and @moritznowack.bsky.social! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth-control program

Nemec-Venza et al. show how mechanical signals, such as tissue tension, can activate gene expression in epidermal cells at the surface of Arabidopsis roots. The expression of the edge-specific growth ...

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Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!

Very happy to share our collaborative study revealing a novel recruitment mode for Polycomb at the chromatin: The 1st cryoEM structure of a plant PRC2 complex, in presence/absence of the ULT1 cofactor! 👍🏻 @UGrenobleAlpes @IBS_Grenoble @LPCV_Grenoble @institut_curie www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

ULTRAPETALA1 remodels PRC2 recruitment to nucleosomes

Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) establishes transcriptional repression through trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3), a modification essential for developmental patterning. Here, we d...

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Happy to share our protocol for imaging double fertilization in maize! 🌽🔬 📖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We hope this resource will be useful for researchers studying plant reproduction, fertilization, and early seed development.

Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

EPFL1 and EPFL2 signaling reinforces cell fate specification during ovule initiation in Arabidopsis (Alexander M Overholt , Christina Elaine Pierce , Calen Seth Paleologos , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

EPFL1 and EPFL2 signaling reinforces cell fate specification during ovule initiation in Arabidopsis

EPFL1 and EPFL2 extracellular peptides promote ovule initiation and funiculus elongation by maintaining the separation of ovule founder and boundary cell i

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For more information on my research, please visit: www.mpipz.mpg.de/wallner

Polarity and morphogenesis of flat plant structures

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Mechanical forces & cell shape guide how plant stomata form🥬👄 @leoserra.bsky.social & Euan Smithers from @robinsonsci.bsky.social's team uncover how the interplay between cell shape & mechanical stress influences the orientation of stomata doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/mechani...

Münsterfähre mit Martinskirche und Mittlerer Brücke auf einer Postkarte von 1935. Ihren Namen "Leu" bekam sie, wie die #Fähren "Wild Maa" (St.Alban), "Vogel Gryff" (Klingental) und "Ueli" (bis 1954 Birsfelden), erst 1944 bei einem Volksfest verliehen. #basel

Celebrating Elliot Meyerowitz‘ 75th birthday! @caltech.edu

Die Maisonne bricht hell von den Münstertürmen herab durch das gotische Masswerk und verleiht seinem Sandstein einen warmen Schimmer. Guten Abend, liebes Basel 🧡

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Plant Developmental Biology // University Of Sydney www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list... The research will focus on flower development using the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana, as part of a project by Dr Marcus Heisler & colleagues. #BotanyJobs

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Plant Developmental Biology - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410768

Participate in an international ERC funded team aiming to re-engineer by design, a complex developmental system - the flower.

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Antonio García-Bellido (1936-2025) In this Obituary, Marco Milán @milanlab.bsky.social discusses Antonio García-Bellido's legacy: his distinguished career, his mentorship and appointments to the world's leading scientific bodies. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Uncover the evolutionary secrets of plant survival. Prof. Isabel Monte is rewriting how we understand signaling and immunity at the molecular level. See her live at #PlantResearch26, don’t miss your chance to engage. Make sure your abstract is in by 25 June to be part of it: vibbio.tech/48HLZAg

Now online at @natplants.nature.com ‼️ Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student @gmivienna.bsky.social & together w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short 🧵👇

Cell-type-specific autophagy in root-hair-forming cells is essential for salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana - Nature Plants

This study reveals that enhanced autophagy in root-hair-forming cells helps Arabidopsis store excess sodium, control oxidative stress and tolerate salt stress.

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Gute Nachricht - Grüne, SPD und Linke verlassen X! Politische Debatte braucht fairen Austausch, der Menschen erreicht & informiert. X hingegen fördert zunehmend Desinformation & versinkt im Chaos. Macht mit & spread the word! Gemeinsam erreichen wir, dass die Bundesregierung diesem Beispiel folgt.

Vale Peter Raven, champion of plants and biodiversity. 'In one of his lectures, he described biodiversity as “the whole business”—the sum of organisms, their variations and the communities they form. It was a plain phrase for a concept of considerable scope.' news.mongabay.com/2026/04/pete...

Peter Raven, botanist and advocate for biodiversity, has died, aged 89

Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines. Over the course of the 2...

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This is how you can reorder axis levels in #tidyplots 🚀 #rstats #dataviz #phd

View from my office.. finally spring time in Bavaria 😃

In a rare show of unity, both R and D US lawmakers agree: the scientific publishing industry needs reform. Lawmakers are worried about the literature being flooded with 'AI slop' and the high open-access fees that some publishers charge. Read more @nature.com on this week's House Science hearing

US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices

A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little agreement on what reform would entail.

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I am thrilled and beyond grateful to receive a CNRS bronze medal this year - this is an incredible honour especially for an INRAE researcher like myself! A big thanks to my amazing team and the research community @RDP for all the great science we have done together!

CNRS Biologie@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#TalentsCNRS Découvrez les médaillés d'argent et de bronze 2026 de CNRS Biologie ! Félicitations aux lauréates et lauréats ! 🎉 👉 www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

🍀🔬 Turgor reduction triggers FERONIA nanodomain assembly for osmosensing in plants @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

#Recherche en #Biologie

Journal of Experimental Botany@jxbotany.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌸⚖️ RESEARCH ⚖️🌸 Live imaging and hormone manipulation shows how auxin–cytokinin crosstalk drives differential growth at the cellular level in the gynoecium to establish the correct geometry for carpel primordia initiation – Gómez-Felipe et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬 doi.org/10.1126/scia... Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯

Michael Raissig@michaelraissig.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌵Preprint alert 🌵 5y in the works & extremely proud of this one. Xin Cheng & @heikelindner.bsky.social established the eudicot leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora as a dev model. Like in grasses, MUTE makes Kalanchoë’s stomatal subsidiary cells! 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... BSKY-tutorial 👇

And the This year’s winner of the Reinhold-von-Sengbusch prize for best Talk are: - Susanne Mühlbauer - LMU Munich - Jakob Weber Böhlen - RWTH Aachen University - Jan Multhoff – University Münster #MBP2026

📚𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 How do plants read positional cues? 🌿 ERECTA-family receptors interpret spatiotemporal peptide cues, integrating receptor activation, signaling dynamics, trafficking, and non-canonical pathways. ✍️ Bai and @keikoutorii.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70793

ERECTA‐family receptor kinases: versatile regulators of plant developmental signaling

How plant cells coordinate developmental patterning remains a fundamental question in biology. This review synthesizes current knowledge of how ERECTA-family receptors interpret spatiotemporal peptid....

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That‘s one cool paper from the Schier lab …. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis

Gene expression patterns underlie development, but their systematic detection in whole embryos has remained elusive. We introduce a whole-embryo imaging platform using multiplexed error-robust fluores...

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Full professor for plant ecology in Regensburg. #plantscience #plantscijobs jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow! Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon! www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...