We are looking for a Scientist in #PlantCellBiology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social in Einbeck. The position is in our Doubled Haploid Research Unit, and the work can be done onsite or remote! This is a two-year contract. jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-... #PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob #PlantScience

🌾 We're hiring a postdoc! Join the Stomatal Biology group in beautiful Bern @unibe.ch How do grass leaves spatially coordinate development of veins & stomatal rows? 2 years (plus possible extension), funded by @snsf.ch @dfg.de within @cerealcell.bsky.social RU5325 jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... It's been a long time coming, but delighted to say that the first major output from my Royal Society Fellowship is now published. 🙂 #PlantScience

The post-fertilization archegonium gene network of seedless plants contributed to the origin of seeds - Nature Communications

The authors identify conserved gene networks across fern and angiosperm reproductive development, including between the sporophyte ovule and the fern gametophyte egg-chamber. Repurposing of this netwo...

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That’s just awesome

Jeff Groh@jeffgroh.bsky.social · 2w ago

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/...

🚨 Call for the 2027 JXB Editorial Interns is now open! 🚨 🌱 Designed for ECRs, interns will gain behind-the-scenes publishing experience and write commentary pieces that will be published in the journal 📝 Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns #PlantScience 🧪 SEBiology

🥝🌸 RESEARCH 🌸🥝 Gene editing and overexpression show that LEAFY genes control branching and floral organ development but not flowering time in kiwifruit, unlike the flowering-time function proposed in other plants - Peng et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Thanks to all our speakers at our symposium at the @sebiology.bsky.social meeting in Florence. Great discussions, awesome science, fabulous city! Thanks to @ucdearth.bsky.social for the support!

Great pleasure to summarize the up-to-date findings and share our thoughts on the functional evolution of Type I MADS-box genes! Many thanks to Journal of Experimental Botany and the editor, Rainer @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social for the invitation!

Journal of Experimental Botany@jxbotany.bsky.social · last mo.

🌸 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🌸 Qiu & Köhler synthesize the current knowledge of land plant Type I MADS-box transcription factors, highlighting their evolutionary history and divergence patterns, and their key roles in diverse reproductive programmes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Today at #SMBE2026 we kick off with the plenary from ERGA member @emmateeling.bsky.social lead of ERGA Associate Partner Bat1K Project @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social #biodiversity #genomics @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @official-smbe.bsky.social

Mary-Dell Chilton, plant transformation pioneer, passed away on June 24th. www.facebook.com/story.php?st... See also Plant Science Classic #6: bsky.app/profile/soms... #PlantScience 🧪

Marc Somssich@somssich.bsky.social · 3y ago

#PlantScienceClassics #6: The T-DNA. In a 1977 paper, Mary-Dell Chilton & colleagues identify the Transferred DNA (T-DNA), the bit of DNA that Agrobacterium tumefaciens inserts into the plant genome, to kick off the race toward the first transgenic plant. doi.org/10.1016/0092...

As everyone's winding down on #evol2026 we want to share our survey link with you again. Whether you work in reproductive biology specifically or not, please take a minute to help us understand how the scientific community uses reproductive terms in research! And hope to see you at #SMBE!

Cool review on one of most popular transcription factor family in plant reproduction

Plant Science Spotlight@plant-sci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌿🧬TypeI MADS-box genes regulate gametophyte & endosperm. TypeII controls sporophytic development including flowers Both originated from ancient duplications & drove plant terrestrialization @fallspringyc.bsky.social @claudiakohler11.bsky.social @jxbotany.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Cool article: Mass extinctions and land plant evolution The big five - five mass extinctions and their importance for plant evolution. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Mass extinctions and land plant evolution

Feng discusses how the Earth’s major extinction events affected the evolutionary trajectory of land plants.

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Love those live posts of my talk 🤩

Marc Robinson-Rechavi@marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

Rainer Melzer: unlike animals, plants keep developing all the time. Plant development is also very plastic. #EED2026

Now online! We summarize recent progress in understanding salicylic acid biosynthesis and signaling, a central regulator of plant immunity. Hope you enjoy reading it. Grateful to my coauthors, particularly @ouyang-yi.bsky.social, for making this work possible. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How does salicylic acid activate plant immunity?

Salicylic acid (SA) is a phytohormone central to plant immune responses, orchestrating both local defense and systemic acquired resistance (SAR), a br…

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So proud to share our latest publication @CellCellPress! Yue Rui reveals that the same enzyme that makes the wall, cellulose synthase complex (CESA), also tethers the plasma membrane to the wall during water-deficit stress, providing resilience. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Two PhD positions available to work with me on the GREEN CELL FACTORY (Advancing Plant Cell Biotechnology for Sustainable Production of High-Value Metabolites). Details below. Application deadlines are 7th June 2026 (PhD1_cell bio), 31st August (PhD2_bioinf)

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study the evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genomics, genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3u73csma

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models

Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih

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🌊🧬 13th International LASDB Congress 📍 Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 📅 October 2027 We’re excited to announce the 13th Conference of the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology 📢 More information coming soon!

🌾🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬🌾 Recent advances in understanding homologous and homoeologous meiotic recombination in allopolyploid plant species have led us to propose a model for wheat homoeologous recombination and improving introgressions - Sourdille et al. #PlantScience 🧪

This rare cloud-free image of Ireland, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 29 April 2026, provides an exceptional view of the island, revealing its surface in full spring detail. eu-space.europa.eu/components/e...

A paper is not just its underlying data but also the narrative the authors have decided to use. How authors interpret and explain their results is important. Different readers can then read and interpret differently, but that initial narrative is relevant.

Teach your kids to love mass spectrometry. They will never have enough money for drugs* *and if they do they can at least check identity and purity

Co-dominant inheritance bsky.app/profile/wolk...

Daniel Segmüller@wolkenpumpe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Vererbungslehre in 1 Bild erklärt:

If you are a plant scientist & speak Italian, then this a book for you! The review in Corriere della Sera is impressive: "I have never read a scientific essay that is so rigorous, both in its personal and political account" "I challenge anyone not to be moved—to the point of tears" #PlantScience 🧪

Vittoria Brambilla@vittoriab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I have some news! Fabio Fornara and I published a book! We are very happy of it!

I am super excited to announce that I am recruiting a new post-doc to join my team at UWA & @plants4space.bsky.social to work on plant synthetic biology, with a focus on genome engineering. If you are interested, please apply or reach out to me. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

Here is a question to ponder: If you could construct a terrestrial ecosystem from scratch, for example for use on another planet, as an enclosed system containing plants and a soil-like substrate: would you include plant pathogens or pathogens in general? Why or why not?

I think we, at CSH Protocols, should do more to cover areas within the fields of #ecology and #evolution. What areas do you think would benefit from a curated, high-quality collection of methods-centered reviews and step-by-step protocols? I'd be happy to explore and discuss!

Excited to see this published in @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph.... Our model may explain why Cannabis develops male, female and monoecious plants. The summary is available in 7 languages: Irish, Urdu, Spanish, French, Italian, English and German! Awesome support by @researchireland.ie!

University College Dublin@ucddublin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌱🍺 UCD researchers have identified a genetic “switch” that determines the sex of cannabis plants, and found that the same system may exist in hops. 🧵 🕵️‍♂️ @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social @ucdscience.bsky.social @researchireland.ie