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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2w ago

My time lapse of the Gironde #fire near Bordeaux, viewed on Friday afternoon from about 20 km distance. One minute compressed into 5 seconds. #GlobalHeating

Congratulations to Hui-Kyong Cho and Hatem Rouached (@hatem-rouached.bsky.social) of Michigan State University as well as their collaborators on their new article “Coumarins link iron deficiency to TOR inhibition in plants” published in Current Biology! 🌿🔬 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #PlantScience

Our fantastic PhD student Samuel Laurent received the award for the best talk by a young scientist at the Plant Energy Management meeting in Montpellier (PEM26)🤗. So proud and so glad !! By the way it was really a great meeting with an open minded and nice community! Thanks to the organizers !!🙏

En route to the Plant Energy Management-TOR-SnrK1 meeting in Montpellier It will be great! pem26.cnrs.fr

Dans un monde sans faucheur on aurait probablement eu des colza transgéniques : Résistant aux meligetes Résistant au phoma Résistant au sclerotinia A teneur élevée en lipides spécifiques Plus efficace pour la nutrition azotée Avec un égrenage réduit Au coté des variétés classiques Qui le sait ?

Beware of misinterpretations in -omics analyses! (IPS2-SPS)

Beware of misinterpretations in -omics analyses! (IPS2-SPS)

A very large proportion of false specific DEG when using few replicates and Venn Diagramms.   Omics analyses represent a crucial step in the search for condition-specific events and often rely on Venn diagrams. In stress experiments for example, the presence of differentially expressed genes exclusively under combined stress conditions is frequently interpreted as evidence of non-additive effects: the effect of combined stresses would differ from the sum of the effects of individual stresses.   In an article published in Nature Plants (Ferraro et al. 2026), to test the relevance of this line of reasoning, the Gnet team and the OGE team with several collaborators at IPS2, and the POPS, PAPPSO and Phenoscope platforms, generated a transcriptomic and proteomic dataset under a control condition, two single stresses, and the combination of both stresses, with 22 biological replicates.   Analysing this dataset, Ferraro et al. demonstrate that identifying specific responses using Venn diagrams generates many false positives. This is explained by the low statistical power inherent in most omics studies that use  too few replicates (typically around 3).   Ferraro et al. 2026 thus highlights the need to interpret any claims about the specificity of such omics datasets with caution, and advocate for improvements in statistical modeling to avoid misleading biological interpretations.   Contact : guillem.rigaill@universite-paris-saclay.fr   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-026-02303-x     Figure: Evolution of the number of true and false specific DEGs as a function of the number of replicates. (Left) Venn diagram of DEGs under single and combined stress conditions; (Right) Number of genes correctly identified as specific (blue), falsely identified as specific (red), and falsely identified as differentially expressed (gray) as a function of the number of replicates.

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TOR is also driving adaptative growth underground ! Congrats

Dhriti Singh@dhritisingh.bsky.social · last mo.

How do roots change their growth direction when water is limited? Excited to share our new paper where we explored how Glucose–TOR and Cytokinin signaling interact to shape root growth under water-deficit conditions. academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... @jxbotany.bsky.social

The European Parliament has adopted new rules for New Genomic Techniques (NGT) www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

New genomic techniques for plants to boost innovation in sustainable agriculture | News | European Parliament

Parliament has adopted new rules facilitating access to new plants that are climate and pest resistant, give higher yields and require fewer pesticides.

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Very interesting paper on the role of lipid droplets for viral propagation !

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lipid droplets: new actors of the plant potyvirus infection Jambou et al. @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @jluc-gallois.bsky.social and @inrae-bfp.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Evolutionary Rewiring of Root Cell-Type Nitrogen Responses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.05.730053v1

Over the past year, @biologyopen.bsky.social has expanded its Fast & Fair initiative to accelerate peer review. The results are impressive - take a look at their latest preprint to find out more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Daniel Gorelick@danielgorelick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A bit of sudden nostalgia: the 1988 seminal paper on kinase catalytic domains in @science.org by Tony Hunter. 65 sequences aligned manually. I read it so many times. www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

So happy and proud to share our lab’s first #plantscience research article, revealing that angiosperms have the capacity to encode memory of flooding stress. A heroic effort by @aidamaric.bsky.social in collaboration with @djgibbs.bsky.social and others. A brief 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are happy and proud to share our preprint describing an Arabidopsis mutant (named loki:) that develops cell clusters when TOR is inhibited. The mutated gene codes for a component of the conserved eukaryotic RAVE complex regulating V-ATPase activity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am starting a selection of papers dealing with the plant TOR kinase on biomed.news (plus related papers) since there are not so many :). Here is a first selection: biomed.news/bims-plator/... biomed.news/bims-plator/... Enjoy!

International Saclay Plant Sciences (SPS) Symposium 2026, register now!

International Saclay Plant Sciences (SPS) Symposium 2026, register now!

Registration is now open for the International SPS Symposium 2026 “Today’s research, plants of tomorrow”, taking place from October 14 to October16, 2026.

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@scourbier.bsky.social from @uni-freiburg.de @cibss.bsky.social is one of the invited speakers of #pem26. She will give a talk on the role of TOR in shade mediated hypocotyl elongation Join us in Montpellier next july Pem26.cnrs.fr

⚖️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ⚖️ Busche et al. review dynamic regulation of plant growth and development in response to stress through the TOR signaling network, with a focus on maize development and growth–defense trade-offs in agriculture and beyond 🌽 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

📣 Check out JXB's newest Special Issue 📣 📘 Issue 5 of 2026 📘 ⚡🌿 Energy Management: Molecular Mechanisms and Signalling 🌿⚡ 📘 Guest edited by Benoît Menand, Johannes Hanson & Vanessa Wahl 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 SEBiology

🚜What are the underlying processes behind the positive effect of protein hydrolysates on growth/yield? 🌱Its clear and robust effect on Arabidopsis growth goes with changes at transcriptome & metabolite levels. https://bit.ly/4pZATMI @meyerchrisscience.bsky.social @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social

Waou… Il y a des jours où je n’ai plus les mots. À 17h, déjà 149 records de chaleur ont été battus en France, y compris dans des stations installées au XIXᵉ siècle. En FEVRIER, s'il vous plait (quel délire !), on approche les 30°C au pied des Pyrénées, plus de 25°C sur la moitié nord. 1/5

Radicle, dude! 🏄 Liu et al show that 'target of rapamycin' or TOR signaling regulates #maize radicle development by modulating starch metabolism and energy homeostasis 🌽 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Target of rapamycin kinase is involved in regulating maize radicle development through starch metabolism

Abstract. Target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling plays a pivotal role in regulating various cellular processes, including energy metabolism and growth. In thi

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Visit our Web site, register and subit your abstract for the next Plant Energy Mangement Meeting next july on Montpellier pem26.cnrs.fr @frannybarbs.bsky.social @lacombeb.bsky.social @franzificht.bsky.social @ccf-claire.bsky.social @msubrandizzilab.bsky.social @hatem-rouached.bsky.social

Houlalala le suspens est insoutenable : ce reportage va t il être anti OGM ? quand on itw - Une chercheuse qui a témoigné au procès des faucheurs volontaires en leur faveur - une ancienne ministre farouchement antiOGM - une ONG anti ogm - le Criigen (au secours) - un député PS anti ogm Suspens

Yann Duroc@durocyann.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Je découvre un projet de documentaire d’etudiantes de master sur les NGT …je me dis chouette, des jeunes qui s’intéressent au sujet et apparemment leur démarche est vraiment honnête, cool Et patatras, une vidéo Instagram qui dit que l’UE a redéfini le mot naturel avec une enfilade de perle anti ogm

Indeed a great story illustrating how the plant TOR kinase can control the balance between growth and defense against pathogens !

Jose M. Estevez@estevezjosem.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Great story of joing efford leaded by Fucheng Lin and Yan Liang (Hangzhou, China) and collabs include me :)) published in Molecular Plant. New actors in the TOR pathway, uncovered a phosphorylation circuit where pathogen recognition activates the a kinase LORE, a phosphatase LOPP to inactivate TOR.

Thank you to @ronaldpierik.bsky.social, Liên Bach, Christian Meyer, @fabien-senechal.bsky.social and Jean Colcombet for evaluating his work!

🍄 🛠️ TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🛠️ 🍄 In this technical advance, Decouard et al. show how to identify plant metabolites in root exudates specifically produced in the presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in an aeroponic-based system. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Our preprint is finally out 🌿 “𝒑𝒑𝑮𝒑𝒑 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉-𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒅𝒐𝒑𝒔𝒊𝒔” Its been a journey- first spotted by Matteo Sugliani over ten years ago, carried forward by Shanna Romand, and brought to the finish line with help from many collaborators. #PlantScience tinyurl.com/wpf3bp25

Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) signalling promotes high-light tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) is a hyperphosphorylated nucleotide originally discovered in prokaryotes and found in the chloroplasts of plants and algae. In plants, ppGpp signalling plays a role as...

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Happy to share our latest preprint: Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella @cibss.bsky.social #Physcomitrella #moss Please check it out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella

Target of rapamycin (TOR) is a conserved protein kinase and an important signalling hub in eukaryotes. The moss Physcomitrella (Physcomitrium patens) is a model organism for plant physiology, developm...

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So glad to share a part of the PhD work of our student Justine Broutin that is now published in Physiologia plantarum! We explored the mechanisms of biostimulation by protein hydrolysates in plants using Arabidopsis and multi level phenotyping. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/3P7572...