We are recruiting a Junior PI to join CRC 1664 @snp2prot.bsky.social, funded through the FEM POWER programme supporting women in STEM. own budget, a funded PhD position, outstanding infrastructure + supportive colleagues. More information: snp2prot.uni-halle.de/2026/06/05/j...

Excited to share that our work on VIH2-dependent inositol pyrophosphate signaling and arbuscular mycorrhiza is now out in Science Advances! In this study, we explore how VIH2 contributes to the regulation of AM in Lotus japonicus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Lotus japonicus VIH2 is an inositol pyrophosphate synthase that regulates arbuscular mycorrhiza

Inositol pyrophosphate messengers regulate arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis and phosphate uptake in Lotus japonicus.

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The May Special Issue celebrates 30 years of Trends in Plant Science with “Big concepts – shaping the future of plant science”.Also introducing a new series on “Women in plant science around the world” featuring 30 women scientists from 30 countries www.cell.com/trends/plant... #plantscience

Back in the field: Eneza @enezer.bsky.social, Maria, and this year’s students are on Spiekeroog again in 2026, continuing to phenotype wild Arabidopsis in 2026. The dataset grows, and the story continues: Watching climate shape plants - in real time, in real environments.

Sascha Laubinger@saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to share our latest preprint. Arabidopsis thaliana has been the leading model for plant genetics - but most of what we know comes from growth chambers. Can this model also help us understand how climate shapes plants in the wild and reveal gene functions under real environmental variability?

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 🧵

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

Really cool work from @plantevolution.bsky.social and colleagues! In Montalvão et al., they show that native Arabidopsis transcriptomes are strongly shaped by interactions with biotic stressors.

PlantEvolution 🌱🌾@plantevolution.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share our latest preprint. Arabidopsis thaliana has been the leading model for plant genetics - but most of what we know comes from growth chambers. Can this model also help us understand how climate shapes plants in the wild and reveal gene functions under real environmental variability?

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in native Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.709013v1

Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology. Deadline 09/03/2026. Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...

Postdoctoral position in biology (m/f/d) (2/2026)

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle) offers a Postdoctoral position in Biology

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Wow, we received 10 times more applications than places for the ECR Network Meeting! The applications are fantastic and we’re already very much looking forward to the event. We’ll screen applications as quickly as possible. Thanks to everyone who applied!

Sascha Laubinger@saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu

ECR’s hurry up, only 2 days left, if you want to take part in 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 ⏱️Application deadline is 23rd Jan 2026 #PlantSci ➡️ www.plant-ecr-networking.eu

Sascha Laubinger@saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu

ECR's: if you want to take part in the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting remind the deadline, which is on 23rd January www.plant-ecr-networking.eu

Sascha Laubinger@saschalaubinger.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu

Finally! The European Union allows the use of genome editing! 🌱🌾🫛🇪🇺🧬 www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...

EU einigt sich auf Lockerungen für gentechnisch veränderte Lebensmittel

Für viele gentechnisch veränderte Lebensmittel soll es künftig keine Hinweispflicht mehr in Supermärkten geben. Darauf einigten sich Vertreter aus dem Europaparlament und dem Rat der EU-Länder.

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We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes. Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Next generation of 1001 Genomes Plus browser and data download

Please indicate all features you would like to see in a browser that displays features of completely sequenced Arabidopsis thaliana genomes

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And now we have Arabidopsis plants with 8 chromosomes instead of 10 and no obvious phenotypic differences, this week in @science.org #PlantScience Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis

The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...

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CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Very nice work from Holger Puchta & colleagues

CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis

The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...

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👀 Early Career Researchers in #PlantSci: There are only 4 days left ... if you want to join Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef, Germany Registration + abstract submission end on 🗓️ 23rd November 2025 www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting! 🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution 🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible) 📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de ⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... Do get in touch or share 😊

Professorship in plant genetics. The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See: www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus

Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...

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📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Ich suche eine*n TA für meine Arbeitsgruppe! Gern weitersagen 🤗🌾 #plantscijob

Leibniz IPK@leibnizipk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Sie haben eine Ausbildung als Biologielaborant*in oder Biologisch-technische*r Assistent*in? Und Sie haben Erfahrungen in der molekularbiologischen Laborarbeit, insbesondere PCR und Klonierungen? Dann haben wir am @leibnizipk.bsky.social ein spannendes Jobangebot! ➡️Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/2rkbby5t

New Review from our fellow @snp2prot.bsky.social members @saschalaubinger.bsky.social, Clara Schöder, Panos Kastritis and the excellent ECRs Cecille Scholl, Lars Grosch and Jana Baradei! Check it out: www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Form follows function – structural interplay between DCL1 and pri-miRNAs

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) guide post-transcriptional gene silencing in plants and shape developmental outcomes and environmental responses by precisely tuning gene expression. miRNAs originate from primary t...

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Our review in discusses how pri-miRNA and DCL1 structures shape plant microRNA biogenesis, and why collaboration between plant and protein scientists is key ☘️🤝

Trends in Plant Science@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Form follows function – structural interplay between DCL1 and pri-miRNAs #plantscience

Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa... #plantscience

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

W1TTW2 Professorship in Membrane Biology (m/f/d)

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1/2 What's best: a field-first or lab-first approach? No easy answers but differences between lab and field should not be seen as failure but motivate further inquiry and allow complementary discovery. Read our thoughts on this here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lab to field: Challenges and opportunities for plant biology

Plant-microbe research offers many choices of model and strain and whether a field-first or lab-first approach is best. However, differences between l…

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Before this #PlantBio2025 thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists. 1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31 plantae.org/2026fellowsa... 2. @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15. blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...

This work started nearly 10 years ago and was once my main postdoctoral project at @plantevolution.bsky.social before I slowed work on it to a trickle because it became confusing. But it always remained extremely interesting. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A major trade-off between growth and defense in Arabidopsis thaliana can vanish in field conditions

In controlled greenhouse conditions, Arabidopsis thaliana plants with a hyperactive allele of the ACD6 gene have stronger pathogen defenses but are smaller and make fewer seeds, in a classic fitness t...

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