We had to show you some more presentations from last night's poster session, but we're still sad we can't highlight them all! Be sure to stop by the #Botany2026 Exhibit Hall to check them out. Follow along all week for updates from the conference 🌿 #plantpeopleFTW

Last night's poster session was a botanical blast! Here are some fun moments from 5 poster presentations, we wish we could show you them all! Be sure to stop by the #Botany2026 Exhibit Hall to check them out. Follow along all week for updates from the conference 🌿 #plantpeopleFTW

Day 1 of #botany2026 concluded with a whole day of great talks in Developmental & Structural, beautiful cacti and mountains, approaching monsoon, and my two students doing an amazing job presenting their work!! #proudpi #plantpeopleftw

www.nature.com/articles/s41... It's been a long time coming, but delighted to say that the first major output from my Royal Society Fellowship is now published. 🙂 #PlantScience

The post-fertilization archegonium gene network of seedless plants contributed to the origin of seeds - Nature Communications

The authors identify conserved gene networks across fern and angiosperm reproductive development, including between the sporophyte ovule and the fern gametophyte egg-chamber. Repurposing of this netwo...

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Hey #Botany2026! I'll be presenting a new video series in the Education & Outreach session that might be of interest to the herbarium crowd 👀🌿 Come by San Luis 2 at 11:45!

Aaaaand that concludes our workshop! I had so much fun and really appreciate everyone attending and having great discussion!! #botany2026 #plantpeopleftw

闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD@minyaaa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It went so well last year so we decided to offer our graphic design and figure making workshop again at #botany2026!

And 9% are postdocs. That's 96 amazing peeps at #Botany2026 who could turn up for Monday's Postdocs in Botany affinity group social in the Arizona Grand Ballroom. #plantpeopleFTW

Chris Martine | Plant People FTW@martinebotany.bsky.social · 4d ago

Current numbers for #Botany2026! 1079 registered attendees (43% are students) 825 presentations 24 countries repped #plantpeopleFTW

At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.

Monkeyflower blooms at St Marys Glacier now 🌿

#botany2026 app link!

Karolina Heyduk@kheyduk.bsky.social · last wk.

Try this? apps.apple.com/us/app/botan...

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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Honored and delighted to share this piece — every scientist really does have a role to play in advocacy, even if it doesn't look like what you'd expect. I hope this encourages others to find their own way to advocate, whatever form that takes. 🔬💛

Gladfelter Lab@gladfelterlab.bsky.social · last wk.

You're probably already doing science advocacy — you just might not call it that. Our new commentary (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) makes the case that every scientist has a role, and that advocacy takes many forms. Find and embrace yours! @natcellbio.nature.com @vfarm15.bsky.social

🌱SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS🌱 #AppsPlantSci is accepting proposals for a special issue highlighting video & imaging techniques that are driving novel research in plant science Proposal deadline: 5 Oct 2026 More info: bit.ly/4c3rLCw @noraflora10.bsky.social @drfloeem.bsky.social #botany

Omg you FINALLY announced!!! So excited to have you here!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Also Brent and I are gonna team teach upper level Evo-Devo together. Yep you hear that right: we are doing both plants and animals! It’s gonna be 🔥🔥🔥

M. Brent Hawkins@homeobox.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am excited to open my lab at @ibioillinois.bsky.social in Spring 2027! We will use zebrafish & other fishy friends to reveal the genetic basis of large scale changes in the vertebrate body plan, and how this impacts both human health and evolution. Join me at UIUC! 🧬🧫🔬 www.hawkinslaboratory.com

Just telling people now that if that graphical abstract made with AI 🤖 is published, I WILL include it in my collection: bit.ly/academic-slop

Jeffrey Perkel (he/him)@jperkel.bsky.social · 2w ago

Also new @nature.com, how to use #AI to create a graphical abstract in minutes. By Ananya Thakur. 🧪🎨🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hi #plantbio2026! My amazing student Angelique will give a fascinating talk on Tu. be sure to check it out!🌱🪴 She’s also flying solo at the conference so please say hi to her! 🤗 We are very grateful for the @aspbofficial.bsky.social Recognition Award that provided a full ride for her attendance! 💚

Announcing the ICAR2027-Madison Keynote Speakers! Adrienne Roeder, Cyril Zipfel, Doris Wagner, and Keith Slotkin. #icar2027 www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/icar-2027-keynotes @roederlab.bsky.social

New favorite way to color code microscopy data: this is a real 3D confocal image of an unidentified larvae stained for actin (muscles fibers here). Looks like a watercolor painting! #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday

Hi #plantbio2026! My amazing student Angelique will give a fascinating talk on Tu. be sure to check it out!🌱🪴 She’s also flying solo at the conference so please say hi to her! 🤗 We are very grateful for the @aspbofficial.bsky.social Recognition Award that provided a full ride for her attendance! 💚

A neuronal growth cone photographed through a microscope. Microtubules and actin filaments are shown. Technique: DIC and widefield fluorescence microscopy. #CellBiology

Modeling of gene regulatory networks: an annotated glossary: Trends in Plant Science www.cell.com/trends/plant... This was a fun project with @morpholosophist.bsky.social to write a modeling glossary for my NSF CAREER grant together with students in my course.

I can highly recommend Mary-Dell's autobiographical article in @plantphys.bsky.social: "Agrobacterium. A Memoir" academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... It's always best to read about great scientific discoveries from the scientists themselves. #PlantScience

Agrobacterium. A Memoir

This little memoir is not a review; the reader is directed to current authoritativeAgrobacterium reviews with genetic (23) or cell biology emphasis (24). L

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Marc Somssich@somssich.bsky.social · last mo.

Mary-Dell Chilton, NC biochemist who revolutionized agriculture, dies at 87 www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a... #PlantScience #PlantBiotech 🧪

Do these tech bros actually believe it? I think they kinda do, which is possibly the more disturbing option.

Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · last mo.

At Cosyne, Chris Olah from Anthropic told us that neuroscientists had “3-4 years left to make a contribution” Why was not clear. Perhaps he was hinting at the below graph accompanying today’s Claude Science launch. Apparently we’ll all be obsolete soon.

1/ Excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint! "4D spatial transcriptomics reveals nodule identity emerges through stacked parallel developmental programs" 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202... Using Xenium, we generated a 4D (3D space + time) atlas of nodule development in Medicago truncatula.

I thought I saw stomata! 🙈 which it's an important part of plumbing system in plants so I'm not too far off 🙉

Society for Developmental Biology@socdevbio.bsky.social · last mo.

🌳Like a glowing tree in the making ✨ The embryonic mouse kidney is already building an intricate network of tubules 🩵 while interstitial cells 🟡 help shape the surrounding landscape 🔬💧Proof that even future plumbing can be beautiful 📷 Image by Ewa Langner #FluorescenceFriday

Pedigree of world record yield maize hybrid. What I wouldn’t give for sequences of this pedigree. Hundred years and essentially every meiosis tracked.

Introducing the Guido Girolami Award in Botany! This new BSA award honors scientists 20+ years post-PhD whose influential work reflects the mission of the BSA. Awardees receive a $6,000 award & present a lecture at the Botany Conference. Nominations open early 2027. botany.org/home/awards/...

I'm very excited and so grateful to receive an NSF CAREER award - we'll be testing ideas about how CAM evolves using C3+CAM intermediate species and teaching students how plant physiology and genomics can simultaneously inform our understanding of plant biodiversity. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/... 1/2

Our paper on the origin and evolution of phloem, a big part of my PhD work, is out in Current Biology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...