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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology@jipb.bsky.social · 3d ago

This new #JIPB #OpenAccess #review explores how #melatonin seed priming enhances abiotic stress tolerance and proposes an integrative roadmap of advanced molecular and breeding tools to design next-gen, stress-smart #plants. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci #CropSci

#Apoplastic pH modulates #gene expression, the #proteome, and #ABA content in Vicia faba #guard cells and is accompanied by reduced #stomatal aperture under #salt stress academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... #PlantScience #SciComm @jxbotany.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social

Open questions on facultative #C4–CAM #photosynthesis in #Portulaca academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... #PlantScience @jxbotany.bsky.social @photosyntheticaieb.bsky.social @ripeproject.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @plantresearch.bsky.social @plantbiology.bsky.social @plantphys-cam.bsky.social

Open questions on facultative C4–CAM photosynthesis in Portulaca

C4–CAM photosynthesis confers high resilience under abiotic stress, yet little is known about the mechanisms that facilitate this integration. We highlight

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Beneath our feet, clover quietly fixes nitrogen and feeds livestock, but climate change is testing its ability to persist. New genomics research at Earlham Institute is uncovering the genetic basis of cold tolerance to breed improved cultivars. 🌱🧬 #CropScience #PlantScience

Unlocking the agricultural value of clover

Across fields and grasslands, clovers often go unnoticed beneath our feet, but for PhD researcher Jhih-Sheng Liu, they provide a fascinating opportunity to understand how genomics can deliver tangible benefits for farmers and the environment.

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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!

Check out our🆕 #OpenAccess review on how #melatonin seed #priming strengthens plant #resilience against #abiotic stresses. We discuss emerging #molecular insights and future #breeding strategies toward designing next-generation, stress-smart #crops 🪴🌾🧬 🖇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology@jipb.bsky.social · 3d ago

This new #JIPB #OpenAccess #review explores how #melatonin seed priming enhances abiotic stress tolerance and proposes an integrative roadmap of advanced molecular and breeding tools to design next-gen, stress-smart #plants. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci #CropSci

Let’s take a look at leaf & flower timing. Synanthy (adj.: synanthous) is when flowers and leaves occur together at the same time. There are lots of good examples of this, as it’s very common. Here’s an example: Magnolia virginiana. #Magnoliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱 1/4

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@ithinkwellhugh.bsky.social · 3d ago

#7PhDSecrets Secret 3: Be realistic “The best is the enemy of the good”. Which in practice means that by striving for a perfect thesis you will find it very hard to finish any thesis. The best thesis is a finished thesis. From: buff.ly/32cMaBK #PhDforum #PhDChat

PhD Funded Position in Plant Epigenetics at the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences, Versailles, France PhD position open – Plant Epigenetics: A 3-year PhD position is available at the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences (IJPB)...

PhD Funded Position in Plant Epigenetics at the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences, Versailles, France

PhD position open – Plant Epigenetics: A 3-year PhD position is available at the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences (IJPB), Versailles (France) in the EPIREP team. The project looks at how DNA methylation and small RNAs control seed viability in plant crosses. It involves Arabidopsis, sequencing, CRISPR, and plant transformations. Start: Oct 2026 – Jan 2027. See flyer attached below:

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Grateful to have presented my thesis work on "Chronic Heat Stress Effect on Early Tomato Fruit Development"🍅, at #PlantBiology2026 in Ottawa. It was a great opportunity to connect with the plant science community! @aspbofficial.bsky.social #PlantBiology #PlantScience #HeatStress #Tomato

#plantbio2026 Come see me at my poster tonight 000-018 and learn about the Assistant Features Editor program of @theplantcell.bsky.social & @plantphys.bsky.social 💚

PhD Opportunity at Clemson University! Join our lab to develop cutting-edge AI methods for gene regulatory network inference from single-cell multi-omics data. Research areas include PU Learning, MIL, Flow Matching, and GFlowNets at the intersection of AI and single-cell. Contact me and please RT

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟱: From the identification of ‘Cells’, to Schleiden & Schwann’s Cell Theory, to Confocal #Microscopy and GFP lighting up the Plant #Cytoskeleton, and on to Super-Resolution Microscopy with Single Molecule Tracking: Here’s... 𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 #PlantScience

A Short History of Plant Light Microscopy

When the microscope was first introduced to scientists in the 17th century, it started a revolution. Suddenly, a whole new world, invisible to the naked eye, was opened to curious explorers. In respo....

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𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟰: From spring & winter wheat to the Lamarckist transmutation theory, to the tragedies of #Lysenkoism in Soviet Russia, to the elusive florigen FT, and plant natural variation & epigenetics research. Everything is covered in this... 𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 #PlantScience

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟯: The 1977 discovery that Agrobacterium inserts a specific bit of DNA into the plant genome triggered a race for the first #PlantGMO. It ended in 1983 with four labs publishing their GMO plant cell lines. Who won the race? Here’s… 𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 #PlantScience

A short history of plant transformation

The 1977 discovery that Agrobacterium tumefaciens inserts a specific piece of DNA into the plant cell genome triggered a race towards the first transgenic plant. Three groups were initially involved i...

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𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟮: The CaMV 35S promoter is the most widely used promoter in plant biotechnology - despite not being derived from a plant, but from a pathogenic virus. How and why did that happen? Here’s… 𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗠𝗩 𝟯𝟱𝗦 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿 #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

A short history of the CaMV 35S promoter

In an organism, be it plant, animal or human, almost every gene has its own promoter sequence, which is typified as a DNA stretch that controls how a gene is expressed in a cell. Hence, the activity o...

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𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟭: 75 Years ago 𝘈𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 was first suggested as a Model Plant – But when was it formally adopted? And how did Arabidopsis Col-0 become the standard natural accession in use today? This is... 𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘼𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙥𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙖 (𝗟.) 𝗛𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗵. 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗮-𝟬 #PlantScience

A short history of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. Columbia-0

75 Years ago Arabidopsis thaliana was first suggested as a Model Plant – But how did Arabidopsis Col-0 become the standard natural accession? This is a short history of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh...

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Awesome MPMI Symposium at #PlantHealth2026. Translating Molecular interactions into disease management. First up - Sheng Yang He. Effectors that induce watersoaking and nutrient release coupled with inhibitors of these processes. 1/n 🧵

We are Hiring a Research Technician! Join the Lee Lab at WV State University for plant stress adaptation research. To apply: rdemployment@wvstateu.edu Full Description: drive.google.com/file/d/1TPrV... #CropScience #ResearchJob #PlantStress #ResearchTechnicia

Dr. Rubi Jain presented a poster on an ANN-based deep learning model to predict plant responses during abiotic–biotic stress interactions at #MIPAM2026. 🌱 #PlantScience #AI #PlantStress

Isabel Bäurle from IBB @unipotsdam.bsky.social delivers a #EpiPlant keynote on the interplay between transcription factors and chromatin to regulate heat stress memory in plants.

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!

We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

1/5 Every paper has a story. Ours started with a dataset and ended with a conceptual advance. But what I'm most proud of is the development of the people behind it. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

SHOOT GRAVITROPISM 9 links sensory timing to the initial lateral root growth angle | PNAS

Plants strategically respond to gravity and actively set defined growth angles. These gravitropic set-point angles (GSAs) shape the width and depth...

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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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🌱 Plant roots decide which way to grow much earlier than expected. #CIBSS researchers revealed how the SGR9 protein helps young lateral roots sense gravity & set their growth angle at a surprisingly early phase of development. 🔗 kurzlinks.de/yi3a #PlantScience #RootArchitecture

Welcome to our hub for #PlantStress science! We’re here to feature and discuss the latest on how plants cope with #drought, #temperature, #metals, and other #abiotic challenges. Got relevant work? Tag us! #PlantScience @plantresearch.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @jipb.bsky.social @fao.org

Welcome to our hub for #PlantStress science! We’re here to feature and discuss the latest on how plants cope with #drought, #temperature, #metals, and other #abiotic challenges. Tag us! @plant-sci.bsky.social @plantbiotech.bsky.social @plantnet.bsky.social @stomata-tweets.bsky.social @fao.org

Abiotic Stress in Plants@abioticstress.bsky.social · 3w ago

Publishing new research on #AbioticStress in plants? 🌱 Tag @abioticstress.bsky.social in your posts, and we may repost your work to help it reach the #PlantScience community @planteditors.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @jipb.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social @plecevo.bsky.social @fao.org

High #temperature leads to a loss of isohydry in #Pinus radiata academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... #PlantScience #PlantStress @jxbotany.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @planthealthprog.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @plantscientist.bsky.social @plantstress.bsky.social

High temperature leads to a loss of isohydry in Pinus radiata

Abstract. Pinus radiata has been characterised as strongly isohydric, which means that it tends to close stomata to maintain leaf water potential relativel

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