@oeaw.bsky.social is searching for the next #director of @gmivienna.bsky.social ‼️It’s a huge opportunity to shape the future of #plantscience oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/de/job/u3g5t...

Scientific Director (f/m/x)

OeAW - Discovering the futureThe Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), is seeking to appoint a visionary Scientific Director to lea

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Happy to share our combined views on the opportunities and challenges in single-cell and spatial biology; collaborative work now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social : track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Decoding plants cell by cell: opportunities and challenges in single-cell and spatial biology

Single-cell and spatial biology techniques present new opportunities for plant research, but also come with methodological considerations, technical limita

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Join us at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) as an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Mechanisms of Disease Apply before 31st August, 2026: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...

Another #PlantSciJob here at KWS. You can follow @kwsgroup.bsky.social for regular job postings. #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs 👇

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Job opportunity! 🌱 At KWS Einbeck (Germany), we have an exciting opening for a Group Lead for Molecular Trait Analysis & Genomics. 👉 Read more & apply online: jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

Applications to join the ROOT & SHOOT SI-MI mentor training close Monday July 20!! Last chance! rootandshoot.org/simi2026/ This is a fantastic free online course, running from late August through late Nov. If you're at #PlantBio2026 ask me about it, but don't delay!

Read our new review: The life and legacy of the root endodermis: A spatiotemporal view of function and development - a very nice piece by @swatimahiwal.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

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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Now, you can find our single-cell transcriptomic dataset of the developing grass leaf in The Plant Cell (academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...). You can also screen for the expression of your genes of interest (shiny.ips.unibe.ch). Congrats to all authors, especially the brilliant @lbmountain.bsky.social

Michael Raissig@michaelraissig.bsky.social · last mo.

🌾 Grass leaves are the photosynthetic powerhouses of human civilisation. @lbmountain.bsky.social's transcriptomic atlas of nearly 70,000 cells from shoot apex to mature leaf follows the genetic programs that form a grass leaf 🧬 paper doi.org/10.1093/plce... expression browser shiny.ips.unibe.ch

🍅🧬Tomato gene SlABCG45 transports strigolactones that trigger parasitic weed germination. Knockout reduces exudation and boosts yield by 30 percent in infested fields. No yield penalty in clean fields. A CRISPR target for broomrape resistance @theinnovation.bsky.social www.cell.com/the-innovati...

Manipulation of a strigolactone transporter in tomato confers resistance to the parasitic weed broomrape

Parasitic weeds of the Orobanchaceae family cause substantial economic losses and pose significant threats to global agriculture. However, management of such parasitism is challenging, and very few re...

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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...

A co-proteomic view of metabolite-specific interactions in the Botrytis cinerea-Arabidopsis pathosystem https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.05.730517v1

Evolutionary Rewiring of Root Cell-Type Nitrogen Responses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.05.730053v1

📢 new preprint! How do commensal bacteria establish themselves on plant roots despite plant immunity? We identify Cpi1, a conserved membrane-anchored protease inhibitor in Pseudomonas that promotes early root colonization and modulates microbial community assembly. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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...

Great #PlantImmunity talk by @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social on the interplay of chemical & physical root barriers to fight off fungi (with cool data from @pascal-krohn.bsky.social). Thanks to @aspbofficial.bsky.social & @plantphys.bsky.social for organizing these public #PlantScience webinars! 👍

Plant Physiology webinar on Metabolism

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We really enjoyed attending the 11th International Symposium on Root Development in Specchiolla, Italy earlier in May 📆 🫜🥔 To celebrate our sponsorship of the meeting, we’re assembling a virtual issue on root biology 🥕🍠 #PlantScience 🧪 #Rooting2026

Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death.

The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA

Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death.

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📣 Join us May 19 (1 PM UTC) for a webinar celebrating the Plant Physiology focus collection on Metabolism, featuring talks by Hiroshi Maeda, Tonni Grube Andersen, and Pengda Ma, hosted by Sibongile Mafu and moderated by Yuzhen Fan.🌱 Learn more and register👉 blog.aspb.org/plant-physio....

We are looking for a Tomato Breeder to join our Team @kwsgroup.bsky.social in Antalya, Türkiye. jobs.kws.com/job/Eski%C5%... Our Vegetable Division is expanding at the moment, and this is a good timepoint to get on board. #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJob

#PlantScienceClassics #21: MS Medium. In 1962 Toshio Murashige & Folke Skoog published their revised plant tissue culture medium @pplplantarum.bsky.social, arguably the most high-cited #PlantScience paper of all time. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 #PlantDevelopment #PlantMethods

Happy Easter!

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established? In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A thread 🧵 [1/8]

The 7th International Symposium on Plant Apoplastic Diffusion Barriers (PADiBa2026) will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland from August 31th to September 3rd 2026. We now have a website: wp.unil.ch/padiba2026/ Registrations will open on April 1st.

During secondary growth, primary protective barriers break, and a new one forms beneath: the phellem. But what triggers phellem to differentiate and become a functional barrier? Our results show it’s mechanical cues from tissue rupture 🌱 Check out our preprint 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵/1

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob

A molecular 'gatekeeper' in plants opens the door for beneficial microbes Congratulations, @ottlab.bsky.social on a great paper in Science. www.cibss.uni-freiburg.de/news/a-molec...

A molecular ‘gatekeeper’ in plants opens the door for beneficial microbes

CIBSS researchers at the University of Freiburg are part of an international team that sheds light on a crucial step in the initiation of the symbiosis between plants and soil bacteria.

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This should be super helpful for anybody working on #PlantCellWalls, particularly #Cellulose. A step-by-step guide for quantitative(!) live-imaging of cellulose synthesis in planta. #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #QuantitativeImaging #Bioimaging #PlantDevelopment 👇👇👇

René Schneider@schneiderlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚀 Now in press at Bio-protocol! bio-protocol.org/e5634 Grounded in years of hands-on experience 👋, our protocol covers imaging cellulose synthases 🔬 from sample prep 🌱 to reproducible quantification 👩‍💻 — transferable to other fluorescent markers too ♻️. @unipotsdam.bsky.social @crc1644.bsky.social

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis! Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

John Innes Centre@johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5mo ago

VACANCY - We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social, to explore the developmental biology of host-microbe symbiosis www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po... Deadline - 25 March 2026 Salary - £37,500 - £45,350 Contract - 3 years, full-time