@botanyhhu
Professor of Botany at HHU with interest in iron deficiency signaling for sustainability, food diversity, biofortification, enjoys food, wine and exploring the green nature with her dog, organizer of ISINIP2024
Am very glad for this milestone!! 🌟. It has truly been a journey of growth in all ways. Super grateful to my PI Prof. Petra Bauer @botanyhhu.bsky.social for the guidance throughout. And to @ceplas.bsky.social for the funding support. Am looking forward to the next career steps.
🎉 Congratulations to Mary Ngigi @mngigi.bsky.social ! Yesterday Mary successfully defended her PhD thesis in the group of Petra Bauer @botanyhhu.bsky.social @hhu.de! We wish you all the best for the next step in your career!
Societal Impact Statement
Iron deficiency anaemia remains a major public health challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. We compiled a list of indigenous African underutilized wild food plants and examined their potential for addressing micronutrient deficiencies.
Particularly relevant because of the many displaced persons in African countries such as Sudan
Fig. 2 (shortened, full legend in paper): Leaf-by-leaf analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana at the rosette stage (RS). (A) At the RS, plants were transferred to respective Fe-sufficient (+Fe) or -deficient (−Fe) Hoagland media solutions and growth was recorded from day 0 till day 7. (B) Leaf images of leaf 1 (L1) to 10 (L10) under the two Fe conditions, as indicated. (C) Cumulative rosette convex hull area as recorded from (A). Data represent means of biological replicates (n = 3). Error bars represent ± SD. Statistical analysis was done using one-way ANOVA and Tukey’s HSD test. Means followed by the same letter are not significantly different (P < 0.05). (D) Radial charts showing the leaf areas of leaf 3 and 8 after exposure to either +Fe (control) or −Fe conditions from day 1 to day 7. Radial charts were plotted in R Studio using the ‘fmsb’ package. Plants were grown for 3 weeks before culturing in either +Fe or −Fe conditions.
🕰️🌸 RESEARCH 🌸🕰️
Ngigi et al. explore reproductive stage-dependent responses of rosette leaves to iron availability, revealing distinct growth, elemental contents, and gene expression patterns between old and young leaves and stages 🌿
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#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...
Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
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...
Whitish mature spruce somatic embryos growing on a cell callus partly coloured in red in front of a blue background
🧪🌾VACANCY - Are you expert in plant embryo development and planning your next career step?
Join the excellence initiative "SLU Future" at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and become group leader @umeaplantsciencecentre.se!
Read more here👇:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
#PlantSciJobs
zenodo.org/records/1536...
Immer noch keine Änderung, weniger Gutachterinnen = geringere Bewilligungsquoten für Frauen. Dabei gibt es einige 50+ Frauen mit viel Zeit, sie werden schlicht nicht angefragt.
Double knockout of rice OsVIT1 and OsVIT2 genes reveals a trade-off between iron biofortification and iron excess tolerance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657710v1
Zusatzstoffe, Pestizide, Gentechnik; was ist wirklich ein Risiko?
Spoiler: Nichts davon.
Die neue Folge des Lebensmittelchemie-Podcasts Food Facts befasst sich ausführlich mit dem Thema "Chemie im Essen" und damit mit einem Herzensthema von mir, unbedingt reinhören!
A graphic announcing the episode of A Botanical Podcast with Erica Lawrence-Paul.
🌼The 3rd episode of the BSA's new podcast---A Botanical Podcast!---is now available on all major streaming services!🌼
In this episode, @ehlawrence-paul.bsky.social discusses vegetative phase change in plants.
www.buzzsprout.com/2446995/epis...
#botany #plantscience #morphology #physiology
#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI
🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social
This year we are celebrating the International Day for Biological Diversity with two amazing lectures! If you are located close to Cologne,Germany join us!
Everywhere female humans live longer than males, is also the case for many other mammals, despite of the dangers in female lives - there is an evolutionary benefit to this! So many men in the world are stupid and so all other men will never be able to understand the inborn body weaknesses.
Proud of that one ! Characterization of the metal sensing properties of a plant metal transporter doi.org/10.1042/BCJ-...
Required a deep dive into biophysics from us 🤯, and friendly collaborators to help us along. Thanks to all involved.
@lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by Gregor Mendel more than 160 years ago
https://go.nature.com/3EC3eqT
Der Schmalblättrige Doppelsame wächst gerne in Pflasterritzen, aber auch in zahlreichen anderen Habitaten. Fotos: Bruno Walther
Pflanzen wachsen durch Pflasterstein, an Steinmauern entlang und wuchern an den scheinbar ungewöhnlichsten Stellen - sie trotzen vielen Widrigkeiten und passen sich an. Wie machen sie das? Und was bedeutet der Klimawandel für unsere heimischen Pflanzen? Welche Anpassungsstrategien haben sie? 1/3
Puki-App auf einem Smartphone
🌱 Kennt ihr schon PUKI? Alle können mitmachen bei der Erforschung der Anpassungen der Pflanzen an eine sich verändernde Umwelt.
Mit der App Flora Incognita werden von allen die mitmachen bestimmte Pflanzenarten erfasst.
@puki-hhu.bsky.social 1/2
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
Research Associate / PostDoc: Analysis of Brassicaceae (Camelina) multi-omics data aimed at enhancing plant stress adaptation
In @usadellab.bsky.social 's lab @fz-juelich.de
Deadline: 6 April 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
At various reproductive stages, young rosette leaves are supersensitive to iron deficiency - growth is inhibited very rapidly and gene expression and metal contents change, see Mary's revised preprint at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
3 Research Assistant / Research Associate Positions in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK
3 Research Assistant / Research Associate Positions in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK: The Department of Plant Sciences at the University…
@botanyhhu.bsky.social 's team found:
Secondary growth in proximal perennial stem zone plays a role in iron storage in perennial Arabis alpina, while distal annual stem zones may transiently store iron for seed production.
Read more #OpenAccess in Journal #PlantBiology doi.org/10.1111/plb....
New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists.
Because diversity increases excellence!
www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...
Tomorrow, we go global! 🌎🙌 #Anemiathon2025 is here to raise awareness for blood health.
Join us by posting at 9 AM local time & using #WorldAnemiaAwareness #BloodHealth. Let’s spread the message together! 🔴
Iron deficiency transcription factor FIT localizes in nuclear condensates, among the 12 selected 2024 papers, thank you
Fast track, open access, no costs, rapid pdf, top editing, a tree planted in the Forest of Biologists! Best publication experience ever! Mohr et al. 2024 The small ARF-like 2 GTPase TITAN5 is linked with the dynamic regulation of IRON-REGULATED TRANSPORTER 1. J Cell Sci doi: doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
