🚨 There is only 1 week left 🚨, if you want to submit your #plantsci poster abstract for #BT2026, the International #plantsci Conference of our @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social (DBG) 🗓️ 6 -10 Sept 2026 📍in Bochum, Germany ⏰Deadline is 3rd August 2026 botanik-tagung.de/abstract-sub...

A #MustRead by @thevirusmc.bsky.social on #autophagy & #viruses Going viral – Plant selective autophagy swiping left and right on viral infections www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Going viral – Plant selective autophagy swiping left and right on viral infections

Selective autophagy has emerged as a central interface in plant–virus interactions, acting at once as an antiviral defense, a proviral vulnerability, …

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Summer lab trip into the Westphalian wilderness - with bikes and boats 🌞

@plantphys.bsky.social is 100 years old! We are celebrating this accomplishment with a symposium at #PlantBio2026 We start with a look back at the first and current issue.

A research team led by Prof. @gatsogia.bsky.social has gained new insights into the workings of a cellular transporter — a protein essential for pathogenic fungi to absorb vital nutrients. These findings could contribute to the development of new therapeutic strategies against fungal infections.

New approaches against fungal infections discovered

A research team led by Prof. Christos Gatsogiannis at the University of Münster has gained new insights into the workings of a cellular transporter — a protein essential for pathogenic fungi to absorb...

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Researchers led by Professor Iris Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social from the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology discovered a specific chemical mark in the ‘histone code’ of thale cress that is responsible for adaptation to salt stress. #Biology

Researchers discover a mechanism for salt tolerance in plants

Researchers led by Professor Iris Finkemeier from the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology discovered a specific chemical mark in the ‘histone code’ of thale cress that is responsible for adap...

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Luciferase 💡 One of those epic tools in molecular genetics labs, yet best enjoyed in a warm summer night - non-recombinant and in vivo.

Professorship Plant Biochemistry. Bielefeld, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere...

The algal pyrenoid turbocharges global CO2 fixation. Central to its function are specialized membranes that deliver CO2. We discovered that the protein RBMP2 makes these membranes—and found that the mysterious minitubules appear to enhance CO₂ delivery! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Metabolic design considerations for recycling of respiratory CO2 in leaves　onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @theplantjournal.bsky.social

Metabolic design considerations for recycling of respiratory CO2 in leaves

The loss of assimilated carbon as CO2 due to respiration and other metabolism is an overlooked target for improving plant productivity. Here, we report the use of a constraint-based modelling approac...

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Biologist Angelica Coculla is researching the internal circadian clock of fruit flies. A recent paper published in the journal Science shows that the insects can reset their internal clock through their behaviour. With the molecular rhythm, the sleep-wake cycle returned. #Biology

A switch for the right rhythm

Biologist Angelica Coculla is researching the internal circadian clock of fruit flies. Her latest studies show that the insects are able to reset their internal clock. As the molecular clock resets, t...

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A bit more than a week to apply! W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. Great university, great faculty, awesome colleagues. Apply, if you want to be my successor. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

🔎𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 🌱 Plant metabolism depends not only on what organelles do, but also on where they are Find it here👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70987 ✍️ AR Fernie, G Decros, J Multhoff, J Sippel, JO Niemeier, P Barreto, A Sampathkumar, U Sonnewald, and M Schwarzländer

PERSPECTIVE: organelle positioning as a principle of metabolic regulation and stress tolerance

Understanding how plant cells coordinate metabolism remains a major challenge, particularly at the level of intracellular organization. This perspective proposes that dynamic organelle positioning ac...

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How plants form their stomata – and are thereby able to save water, was described in May by a team of plant scientists around Christopher Grefen and Khushbu Kumari , from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koag150 news.rub.de/english/pres...

New Paths for Developing Drought-resistant Crops

Researchers are discovering how plants form their stomata – and are thereby able to save water. This insight could open up new paths for more drought-resistant plants.

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Organelle positioning as a principle of metabolic regulation and stress tolerance 🌿🔋🍃 Looking ahead in this joint perspective 🔮 with the Fernie and Sonnewald labs @theplantjournal.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PERSPECTIVE: organelle positioning as a principle of metabolic regulation and stress tolerance

Understanding how plant cells coordinate metabolism remains a major challenge, particularly at the level of intracellular organization. This perspective proposes that dynamic organelle positioning ac...

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Our paper is out !!! NADPH oxidases and aquaporins within membrane nanodomains form a functional unit for ROS signaling. Great work by arthur-poitout.bsky.social and amazing collaborator jbfiche.bsky.social, Jose Ugalde, A Meyer yvonjaillais.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2529740123

Super exciting work after many conference talks finally seeing the light. Congrats and kudos to all authors: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A new documentary on scientific approaches to replace industrial nitrogen fertilizers is now online @artefr.bsky.social (only in DE/FR). Among them is our and @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social's work @ensa-research.bsky.social further supported by @cibss.bsky.social. www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...

Dünger der Zukunft: Die Stickstoff-Revolution - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Ohne künstlichen Stickstoffdünger wären die hohen Erträge der industriellen Landwirtschaft undenkbar. Doch der intensive Einsatz schädigt das Klima. Weltweit wird nach klimafreundlichen Alternativen g...

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Focus issue editorial: ecophysiology (Wagner L Araújo , Florian A Busch , Tracy Lawson , Christine Scoffoni , Xinguang Zhu , Agustin Zsögön) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Focus issue editorial: ecophysiology

Plant ecophysiology is an experimental discipline dedicated to understanding how plants respond to their physical, chemical, and biological environment. At

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PAPER from @vanbreusegemlab.bsky.social and @moritznowack.bsky.social in @theplantcell.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Shedding light on plant proteolysis: genetically encoded fluorescent sensors as tools for profiling protease activities

Genetically encoded FRET-based fluorescent sensors enable real-time, high-resolution visualization of protease activity and proteolytic signaling in living

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Durchbruch für die Pflanzenforschung in Europa: Die DFG begrüßt die Zustimmung des EU-Parlaments zur neuen Verordnung zu Züchtungstechniken, für dessen wissenschaftsbasierte Differenzierung sich die Senatskommission für Grundsatzfragen der Genforschung über Jahre eingesetzt hat: sohub.io/csi8

Neue Züchtungstechniken bei Pflanzen: DFG begrüßt Zustimmung des EU-Parlaments zu neuer Verordnung

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Grünes Licht für innovative Pflanzen von Morgen!🌱🧬 Gestern hat das EU-Parlament die Neuregulierung von genomeditierten Pflanzen (Neue Genomische Techniken, NGTs) angenommen. Ein Sieg der Vernunft! 💪 #GiveGenesAChance Unsere Pressemitteilung ⤵️ oekoprog.org/pressemittei...

Pressemitteilung zur EU-Regulierung von Neuen Genomischen Techniken (NGTs) in der Pflanzenzüchtung - ÖkoProg

Unser Statement zum Abschluss der EU-Verordnung zur zeitgemäßen Regulierung von Neuen Genomischen Techniken für die Pflanzenzüchtung.

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Happy to celebrate the first of my former PhD student George Greiff’s first author papers from his funded PhD work in my lab today. Aiming to analyse CLAVATA/WOX interactions in Physco, a first step was to address PpWOX13LC function, which he found to suppress polysety. Moss photo: Des O’Callaghan

🌿💧 Flooding triggers ethylene and hypoxia signaling. Plants anticipate, acclimate, recover, and remember. Stress memory helps survival against future floods. Integrative signaling for resilience. #plantscience @jxbotany.bsky.social @hartman-plantlab.com academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Anticipate, acclimate, recuperate and remember: How spatiotemporal signal integration controls flooding stress resilience in plants

Abstract. Flooding is a major abiotic stress that restricts terrestrial plant growth and survival. A plant tissue’s ability to avoid or sustain critical ox

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Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Out now in @natplants.nature.com: A cell type-specific antagonism of autophagy and age-induced programmed cell death controls root hair life span www.nature.com/articles/s41..., back to back with another story on root hair-specific autophagy by @plantophagy.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Applications are now open for the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞! Are you an early-career PI? The TPJ Fellowship offers mentoring, editorial board engagement, a £2,000 travel award, & opportunities to contribute to TPJ 📅 Apply by 6 July 2026 More details 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... +🧵

The Plant Journal: 2026 Fellowship Scheme

The TPJ Fellowship scheme was first launched in 2020, and we are pleased to announce that we have now opened applications for the 2026 TPJ Fellowship scheme.

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Pleased to share our preprint on “Loss of PSAE redirects PGRL1 to photosystem I and enhances PGR5-dependent cyclic electron transfer in Arabidopsis” @profmattjohnson.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We have an open PhD position in our Mol. Biochemistry of Plant-Microbe Interactions Lab Saurlab.com. Please see details below, share and consider applying. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

With Head of EMBO Press Bernd Pulverer part of the executive committee, EMBO is glad to support the #TrustSeal initiative in providing the community and funders with an objective and transparent tool to evaluate science journals: hubs.ly/Q04j1D500 #ResearchAssessment FASEB

Scientific Societies Launch “Trust Seal” to Strengthen Confidence in Science | Newswise

Scientific societies and scholarly publishing organizations launch the Trust Seal, a new community-led initiative designed to strengthen confidence in science by supporting trustworthy publishing practices, transparency, and independent governance across the research ecosystem.

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