My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available → authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
Lee Sweetlove
@leesweetlove.bsky.social
Professor of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
It's time to apply for the New Phytologist #TansleyMedal for excellence in #PlantScience. Open to early career researchers with 3 to 5 years experience post-PhD. Applications close on 1 November. Don't miss out! www.newphytologist.org/grants-award... #ecrchat #phdchat
Great opportunity! Applications are open for @theplantjournal.bsky.social Fellowship scheme - provides support and mentorship for early-year PIs establishing themselves as independent group leaders. Also great chance to learn about the editorial side of #JournalPublishing #PlantScience #PeerReview
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The Plant Journal@theplantjournal.bsky.social · 10mo ago📢Announcement! The call for 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is now open! 🌟 It is designed to offer support and mentorship to researchers transitioning from post-doctoral scientists to principal investigators Info: 👉http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1365313x/homepage/TPJ-fellowships & in 🧵
Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper. #plantscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It's hard to find the words. There won't be many people in the plant sciences community who won't feel the loss of such a generous soul and penetrating scientific mind.
Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬@apmweber.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe are deeply saddened by the news that Andrew D. Hanson (@adhansonlab.bsky.social) is no longer with us. He was an exceptional scientist, mentor, and leader in multiple fields. He constantly reminded us that over-promising would backfire. Rest in peace, Andrew.
I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs
Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Sharing this in case anyone else missed this in @theplantcell.bsky.social. Arabidopsis research remains essential. The phenomenal resources mean complex pathways are so much easier to understand at the genetic level, and it's a great model organism! #plantsci #plantscience 🧪🌿
North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee@naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · last yr.I’m happy that our commentary is out! (It would be wonderful if this made a difference!) In defense of funding foundational plant science academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
Great write up of work by @anyalb.bsky.social while in my lab on the use of biomolecular condensates for metabolic engineering. Thanks @ciara-obrien.bsky.social Some incredible papers highlighted in the roundup - well worth a read
Mary Williams @PlantTeaching@plantteaching.bsky.social · last yr.Plant Science Research Weekly June 27 2025 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Special issues: Plants and Heat, Crops Under Stress; Review: Differences in sodium and potassium transport in Arabidopsis and crops; Suppression of lateral root formation in air gaps by IAA3 multimerization (1/3)
Interested in trying out life as a scientific #editor? Based in the UK? Background in #PlantScience? The @plosbiology.org crew is expanding (again!), so a place in our lovely team might be for you...
Nonia Pariente@npariente.bsky.social · last yr.I am recruiting - if you have a background in plant mol cell bio, a keen interest in sustainability and planetary health and are looking to move away from the bench, this may be for you! Have a 👀 and please reach out if Qs 1yr FTC, remote in the UK job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46...
Out First Release in @science.org today, nice work finding that redox regulates multimerisation of Aux/IAA proteins during root xerobranching: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Redox-regulated Aux/IAA multimerization modulates auxin responses
Reactive oxygen species function as key signals in plant adaptation to environmental stresses like drought. Roots respond to transient water unavailability by temporarily ceasing branching through the...
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Itaconate, the poster-child for metabolic reprogramming in animal immunity, now comes out to play in plants! www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
My pick for In Other Journals this week: Sugar signaling boosts wheat yields - field trials of a trehalose-6-phosphate spray that boosts yield, probably via upregulation of starch synthesis and CO2 fixation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paper here: rdcu.be/enUzK #PlantScience
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Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature
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𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞! 🌱Plant engineering: advances, bottlenecks, and promise onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... Focused Reviews & Technical Advances 🌿Plant transformation tech 🧬Gene editing & synthetic biology 🔧Emerging engineering strategies breakthroughs & challenges 🧵⬇️
Special Issue: Plant Engineering — Advances, Bottlenecks, and Promise: The Plant Journal
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Outstanding work by @anyalb.bsky.social in my lab - she targeted enzymes to synthetic biomolecular condensates in plants and showed increases in metabolic pathway activity, likely due to protection of the introduced enzymes from proteolysis #PlantScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The metabolic signal that regulates TOR is the Calvin-Benson cycle-derived metabolite DHAP. Activation of TOR by DHAP is also true in animals....
@mjmallenponce.bsky.social · last yr.Glad to share our latest paper published in Science Advances! In this work, we show that #light and #CO₂ regulate #TOR through cytoplasmic #dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP), revealing a key metabolic link in TOR signaling.@ibvf-sevilla.bsky.social @science.org science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1240
The ever fascinating phenomenon of plant thermogenesis...
Plant Physiology@plantphys.bsky.social · last yr.Multiscale Imaging Locates Thermogenic Tissues and Reveals the Role of Ca2+ in Floral Thermogenesis (Miao Yu, Siqin Wang, Lingdie Kong, Mengsha Huang, Jin Zhang, Jing Li, Ruohan Wang) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
Great Review on TOR signalling: A Master Regulator in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Responses #PPStasis #proteostasis #autophagy #Stressbio #Plantsci www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Target of Rapamycin (TOR): A Master Regulator in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Responses | Annual Reviews
The target of rapamycin (TOR) is a central regulator of growth, development, and stress adaptation in plants. This review delves into the molecular intricacies of TOR signaling, highlighting its conse...
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Hornworts reveal a spatial model for pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in land plants www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureplants.bsky.social
Hornworts reveal a spatial model for pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in land plants - Nature Plants
Hornworts are the only land plants with a pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanism. This study presents evidence that some of the key components in algal pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms ...
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Lots of excellent advice in this piece. The core message - only through writing do you really think and order your thoughts into logical sense. Makes a case for not using AI for 1st draft because you bypass the thinking step www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturebiotech.bsky.social #PlantScience
An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write
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If you want to find out why metabolism may look different to what you were taught, and why this matters, dip into to our review 'Non-canonical plant metabolism' www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureplants.bsky.social #PlantScience
As well as CO2 Rubisco reacts with O2: plants evolved photorespiration to deal with the consequences. It works, but synthetic biology can do better! 🔄 We used metabolic modeling to compare alternative pathways to boost crop yields 🌱 🧵 #ScienceAdvancesResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Alternatives to photorespiration: A system-level analysis reveals mechanisms of enhanced plant productivity
Computational modeling reveals how engineering plants with alternative pathways to photorespiration could boost crop yields.
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Yes, that's a proteasome! Guess where it is....in the apoplast! Nice to see Richard Vierstra's work out! #PPStasis #proteostasis #proteasomes #PlantSci www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very informative talk by @katherinedenby.bsky.social, EiC of @theplantjournal.bsky.social, on scientific publishing in the #PlantSciences. #MBP2025 Her points on how to choose a journal to publish in are below. Happy to see that my favorite journals fit the bill. 👌
Reposting because I forgot to tag the #PlantScience feed. Please spread the news about this postdoc opportunity *in the UK*
Rebecca Mosher@rm0sher.bsky.social · 2y agoI'm happy to announce a postdoctoral position is available in my lab. We have lots of great data to analyze with respect to transposons & epigenetics and cool biological questions to answer. Please reskeet and share.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... They "identified many highly conserved positions that tolerate mutation and rare mutations that improve CO2 affinity. These data indicate that non-trivial biochemical changes are readily accessible" #PlantScience
A map of the rubisco biochemical landscape - Nature
A massively parallel assay developed to map the essential photosynthetic enzyme rubisco showed that non-trivial biochemical changes and improvements in CO2 affinity are possible, signposting further e...
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📜 Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots 🧑🔬 Michelle Gallei, Sven Truckenbrodt, Johann G. Danzl, et al. 📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantSuperRes
Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots
The development of expansion microscopy in the Arabidopsis root enabled the imaging of molecular targets in tissues at diffraction-unlimited resolution.
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#PlantScience Research Weekly, Jan 7, 2025 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Focus Issue: Hypoxia and Plants; Special Issue: Parasitic Plants; Unlocking photosynthetic efficiency through BOOSTER; A “GAME” changer in specialized metabolism; A fresh starch: Granule morphologies in potato tuber (1/2)
this is a really great conference for early career scientists. Recommended...
New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 2y agoNew Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 takes place on 4–7 August at the University of Birmingham! Don't miss your opportunity to join this unique meeting of early career plant scientists! Apply to attend by 27 January: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent... #PlantScience #npnextgen
