🌱 From Nature Communications: Hybrid vigor in maize may arise partly from master regulatory genes coordinating the activity of hundreds of other genes. (Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Genetics

The incomplete dominance of gene expression controlled by Trans-eQTL hotspots contributes to heterosis in maize - Nature Communications

This study shows that maize hybrids exhibit increased transcriptome activity than inbred parents in an incomplete dominance manner, contributing to hybrid vigor. This increase is primarily regulated b...

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Happy to share our recent story on the Type VII secretion system. Here were present new insights into the regulation of secretion mediated by the central pore. Thanks to all authors involved in the work. 🙂

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 5d ago

Intrinsic flexibility of Type VII secretion central pore is required for substrate translocation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.31.742005v1

Forschende des @jki-research.bsky.social in Braunschweig haben an der Wurzel der Esparsette den Bakterienstamm 𝘔𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘣𝘳𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘴 OM4 isoliert, der der Futterpflanze einen Wachstumskick verschafft, indem er die Pflanze mit Stickstoff versorgt. Bild: Wurzeln mit Knöllchen © S. Ashrafi/JKI

We're thrilled to announce the Membranes & Cell Biology plenary session invited speakers for #ICAR2027Madison! Yangnan Gu- UC Berkeley Marisa Otegui- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison Yvon Jaillais- ENS Lyon for more info & to get updates www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/icar2027 @yvonjaillais.bsky.social

Gestern Dreh, heute online. Ein kurzer Bericht über unsere Arbeit hier in Freiburg im Rahmen des @ensa-research.bsky.social Projekts und in Kooperation mit @cibss.bsky.social. Danke an @henrietteruebsam.bsky.social und das ganze Team für die Koordination und Mithilfe. www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...

Weniger Erdgas und CO2: Wissenschaftler forschen an Bakterien-Pflanzen-Symbiosen

Kunstdünger braucht viel Erdgas und schadet Klima und Gewässern. Forschende in Freiburg wollen, dass Nutzpflanzen sich mithilfe von Bakterien selbst mit Stickstoff versorgen.

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Proud of @filbinci.bsky.social and @gguarneri.bsky.social: A symbiotic MLO gene regulates root development via RALF34-triggered Ca2+ signalling in Lotus japonicus academic.oup.com/plphys/artic.... Great collaboration with @lorellanavazio.bsky.social

A symbiotic MLO gene regulates root development via RALF34-triggered Ca2+ signalling in Lotus japonicus

Abstract. Mildew Locus O (MLO) genes, initially identified as powdery mildew susceptibility factors, are increasingly recognized as multifunctional regulat

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W2 tenure track or W3 Biochemisty of Plants professorship open. www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere...

🎧 Listening tip! Jennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate and #CRISPR co‑developer, discusses how #GenomeEditing supports the development of more resilient and nutritious crops, while also promoting broad access & public dialogue 🌱 https://ow.ly/Yb3v50ZjZ24

What’s the Future of Gene Editing? | Quanta Magazine

In the first episode of the new season of ‘The Joy of Why,’ Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking technology.

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Time for another preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by @yuanyuanzhang.bsky.social and @defengshen.bsky.social. We found some surprising secrets that connect and uncouple root barrier formation with systemic nitrogen signaling in shoots. see the thread below for more details

A tunable receptor separates root barrier formation from nutrient signaling through ligand-perception states

In roots, the endodermis controls nutrient entry by forming a barrier known as the Casparian strip. Yet how barrier-associated processes interface with systemic signaling remains unclear. Here, we sho...

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Would like to see more "german" scientists fighting back against far-right plans... Scientists fight back against far-right plans to restrict academic freedom in Germany www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists fight back against far-right plans to restrict academic freedom in Germany

With the far-right Alternative for Germany leading in polls for national and state elections, institutions are facing up to proposed restrictions on academic freedom.

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Noch keine Pläne für das Wochenende? Am Samstag laden unsere Kolleginnen und Kollegen vom Julius Kühn-Institut in Quedlinburg zum Tag der offenen Türen ein. Vorbeischauen lohnt sich! Los geht es um 10 Uhr! ➡️Alle Infos: www.julius-kuehn.de/faszination-...

Thoroughly enjoyed this collaboration with @usadellab.bsky.social & @faltegoer.bsky.social groups in the @mibinet.bsky.social framework to characterize Peltigera lichen symbioses with major contributions from @ciarankelly.bsky.social & @yukiyosato.bsky.social

Björn Usadel@usadellab.bsky.social · last mo.

1/8 What if the genomic features we associate with fungal pathogens were also used by mutualists? We assembled 41 scale lichen genomes across 11 Peltigera species with 30 chromosome scale and 5 T2T revealing an unexpected genomic toolkit behind lichen symbiosis. doi.org/10.64898/202... #lichen

Vielen Dank 🙏 @davidspencer.bsky.social, dass Du mit Deinen Videos die modernen Methoden (#NGT) seit vielen Jahren erklärst! David hat auch dafür den Preis für Wissenschaftskommunikation #WissKomm unserer @molplantsci.bsky.social 2022 erhalten ( www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/aktuell-aus-...)

Thank you 🙏 @augustinsvenja.bsky.social , co-organiser of the EU-wide #GiveGenesAChance! movement, for all your #SciCom activities. Svenja had received the #SciComm-Award of our @molplantsci.bsky.social in 2024. Read details here: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/sci-comm#...

#PlantScience Research Weekly, June 5 2026 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Special issues: Crop resilience, also AI in plant science; Review: walls of streptophyte algae and land plants, Review of SCOOP signaling; Plant OpenCRISPR1 in rice (1/2) @ntnuchanlab.bsky.social

Congratulations to Prof. Eva Stukenbrock on her appointment to the Leopoldina. Her research on fungal pathogens helps us better understand evolution and protect crops. www.evolbio.mpg.de/3882989/eva-... #EvolutionaryBiology #Leopoldina

Team effort from @fxrico.bsky.social, Oded, Pierre, Andrea, @hmchen93.bsky.social, Larissa now out in @pnas.org The Kelch phosphatase BSU1 is a PP1-like serine/threonine phosphatase involved in cell cycle regulation, not a tyrosine phosphatase in brassinosteroid signaling 👍 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

New lab, similar setup - still working… kind of 😅 First barley–mycorrhiza experiment for me in Freising. Colonization isn’t quite where I want it yet, but found some really nice arbuscules 🔬 Here, a barley root cell with F. mosseae arbuscule, stained with WGA-Fluorescein #Microscopyfriday

We proudly support this Edard Strasburger Workshop exclusively for #ECR s

Plant Energy Biology Lab@schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣APPLY NOW Complexome Profiling in Plants: Exploring Organellar Protein Networks 🌱🧪 Amazing opportunity to learn on-site from the leading experts!! FREE Eduard Strasburger Workshop exclusively for ECRs @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us/...

🚨 Hurry up, if you want to save on registration fees to take part in our international conference, the Botanik-Tagung #BT2026 📍 in Bochum, Germany 📆 6 - 10 September 2026 Early bird rates end this Thursday, 30th April botanik-tagung.de/registration...

🚨 Paper out now in #ScienceAdvances @science.org 🌱🦠 Pathogens don’t just target protein degradation—they also hijack host translation. "Bacteria use P-body condensates to attenuate host translation during infection" ⚖️♻️ led by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Preprint alert 🚨 (1/10) 🧵 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺: It can promote resistance, susceptibility, or restrict cell death 🤯 So what is its actual role? We show it acts as a spatial organizer of immunity across cell types 🌱🦠 #proteostasis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New #preprint 😍‼️ led by 2 incredible postdocs @ninizhani.bsky.social & Ranj Papareddy: transforming #UFMylation from a local ribosome rescue pathway to systems level regulator of mRNA splicing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short 🧵

Big congratulations to Thorsten Langner who recently moved to Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), where he now heads the Department of Phytopathology and Plant Protection #plantsi #ecr #tenure

MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It’s time to say farewell to ERC Research Group Leader Thorsten Langner after nearly 3 years at the institute. He reflects on his time here, key milestones, and what’s next: tinyurl.com/2vce2d6k Congratulations on your new position—we wish you and your team all the best for the future!

Teams around Stefan Hoth @uni-hamburg.de + Lars Voll (Marburg) generated a compound by chemical modification that can efficiently rescue growth without decreasing immune response of the autoimmune mutant chs3-2D. Read more #OpenAccess in our journal #PlantBiology DOI: doi.org/10.1111/plb....

Chemical treatment rescues reduced growth of the autoimmune mutant chs3‐2D without compromising its immune responses

We generated a compound by chemical modification that can efficiently rescue growth without decreasing the immune response of the chs3-2D autoimmune mutants, thus chemically uncoupling its growth–def...

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🧪🌾VACANCY - Postdoc in fungal ecology & modelling🧬 This 2-year postdoc focuses on mycorrhizal fungal biogeography using large-scale metabarcoding data and species distribution models.🌍 Join the group of @frewecologist.bsky.social and work with us @umeaplantsciencecentre.se! 📅 Apply by 30 April

Adam Frew@frewecologist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Postdoc (2 years) in mycorrhizal fungal biogeography & species distribution modelling @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Work with large-scale metabarcoding data and modelling. Deadline is 30th April www.umu.se/en/work-with...

We are pleased to support the DOMPS Symposium taking place in Freiburg this week: dompssymposium.wixsite.com/domps The New Phytologist Foundation supports events that further innovation and advancement in plant-focused research around the world: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...

DOMPS Symposium 2026 - Freiburg

Symposium taking place in Freiburg from 25.03-27.02. With this symposium, we aspire to strengthen the connection between members of the Department of Molecular Plant Sciences (DOMPS). We especially…

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Importance of cysteine residues in the C-terminal region of PGRL1 for PSI photoprotection in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... @plantphys.bsky.social

Importance of cysteine residues in the C-terminal region of PGRL1 for PSI photoprotection in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Proper conformation of the C-terminal region of PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION5 (PGR5)-LIKE1 is essential for PGR5 accumulation, which mediates photosystem I p

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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 👇

I really wish more plant scientists, and especially influential big name plant scientists, would publish with eLife. Their new publishing model is a fantastic way forward and to get us out of the #ScientificPublishing mess we have gotten ourselves into and to which we claim we are held hostage.

eLife@elife.bsky.social · 5mo ago

2/ Alongside today's blog, eLife Editor-in-Chief, Timothy Behrens and Deputy Editors Yamini Dalal and Diane Harper assess the past three years and outline some of the changes that will be made over the course of 2026. buff.ly/O5IFD7j