Students out there, I have a PhD project cutting across biology, material science and biomedicine that requires a highly capable, diverse and brave applicant. if you think this is for you please Apply using the link below. All details in the website!!
Project: eb4bm.org/project/engi...
Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
ONLINE COVER Maximum-intensity projection of a confocal image of epidermal cells from the Thale cress roots, where four colors stain different cell parts. Goldy et al. demonstrate that the protein actin allows cells to override standard division rules by stabilizing the orientation of spindles, which segregate chromosomes during mitosis. This uncovers a previously under-appreciated role for actin cytoskeletons, providing new insight into how division orientation is controlled to ensure robust tissue architecture during plant growth. Credit: Camila Goldy
What could be more satisfying than this ?
✨️Congrats to all the authors ✨️
Could not be more proud of you 🥹
Credit: Camila Goldy @camilagoldy.bsky.social
New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring:
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
One week left to apply!
Latest preprint from our group together with @stephanevrg.bsky.social @wabniklab.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social
Our work supports the view that morphogenesis is not driven by growth alone, but by the integration of physical and biological regulation.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
A permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!
Fig. 2 (shortened, full legend in paper): Plasmodesmata at different cell interfaces in C4 monocot leaves. (A) In contrast to C4 eudicots, C4 monocots can be one or combination of either NADP-ME, NAD-ME, and/or PCK subtype depending on the decarboxylation enzyme present in the bundle sheath (BS). Confocal micrographs (leftmost panel) were obtained using an excitation wavelength at 633 nm and dual emission wavelengths at 650–720 nm (magenta for Photosystem II) and 720–800 nm (blue for Photosystem I) to visualize chloroplasts. Note that BS cells of C4 NADP-ME and C4 PCK leaves have agranal chloroplasts (see second panel from left) thus appear pseudo-blue under confocal microscope due to reduced Photosystem II content. The cell wall (green) was visualized at an excitation wavelength of 405 nm and an emission wavelength of 420–480 nm.
🎯🌾 DARWIN REVIEW 🌾🎯
Schreier et al. list gene targets and propose genetic strategies to begin engineering enhanced plasmodesmata-mediated cell-to-cell connectivity in crops, aiming to increase yield and improve climate resilience.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Proposed model for FASCIATED EAR 3 BARELY ANY MERISTEM 1D receptor signaling complex in Zea mays meristems.
Antagonistic interactions between CLAVATA receptors shape maize ear development
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Lindsay et al.
@penlindsay @WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience
Interested in giving a talk? Submit your abstract by 13 March to be considered.
More Information about the event and registration here: events.vbc.ac.at/gmi_events/m...
#Mendel_ECR_26 #WhereKnowledgeGrows
Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
New paper from our lab @jxbotany.bsky.social about auxin and cytokinin interactions during carpel initiation in Arabidopsis
Led by @andreagomezfe.bsky.social in collaboration with @defolter-lab.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
Fig. 3 Spatial changes in water distribution are shown by differences between the wettest and driest images for sand (left column) and loam (right column).
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/6) Early signals of water limitations begin at the root–soil interface: linking rhizosphere drying to water uptake decline
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
⏰ Last call – apply by 11 Jan!
Are you finishing your PhD or recently graduated in plant science?🧪🌾
Applications for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists (28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden) are closing soon!
👉 www.upsc.se/about-upsc/e...
Ehi, they made one with root tips and even root caps!!!
🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making!
🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.
Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?
@cellpress.bsky.social
Hormone biosynthesis and signaling is altered by hypoxia in Arabidopsis thaliana roots.
Discrete and cell-specific hypoxic responses in Arabidopsis roots resolved by single-nuclei transcriptomics
Hill et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🗓️ Mark your calendars! The Norwich #SingleCell and #Spatial Symposium with the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social returns in 2026!
Register your interest now to join us 08-09 July, exploring the latest technologies, research, and applications in single-cell and spatial genomics.
🔥 Hot new preprint before the Christmas break 🎄
Egg cell fertilization–dependent peptide receptor signaling mediates endosperm polarity
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Audrey Creff, @jackrhodes.bsky.social , Cyril Zipfel, Gwyneth Ingram and others
Folks, our research group is looking for a new recruit. A research technician position is available (48 month contract). Please repost. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Thank you for hosting me Hugues! It was great to meet you and your colleagues
Happy to share my lab’s first venture into the world of wheat from an enjoyable collaboration with Chris Burt at RAGT Seeds and Keith Edwards. My team members Katie Jeal and Sophie Carpenter did a terrific job of the bioinformatics and starting the lab work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Looking forward to Friday's Non-seed plant meeting in Norwich. Together with @karimaelm.bsky.social, we wrote a Review about the last year meeting. We discuss about the latest advances and the importance of using in models. Thanks @biologists.bsky.social and @biologyopen.bsky.social. #PlantScience
Wow congratulations! :)
PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
Pleased to be able to advertise a NERC GW4+ PhD studentship to be cosupervised by James Clark at Bath on the evolution of WOX gene function. More info on the project and application process here: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202...
Happy to take informal questions too.
An illustration of a cross-section of a tree trunk, highlighting the core labeled "Undead wood" and a glowing ring-shaped layer labeled "Alive part".
Trees are amazing! They build their bodies from thin air, move water with pressures that would crush a human, and grow using a system of living cables wrapped in layers of corpses. Watch our video to find out how they work, and why they might even be immortal: https://kgs.link/TreesAreDead
Very excited to share my first solo Tansley Insight. An integrated view on the hydraulics of aboveground plant meristems, and the framework of my future work as part of this community #PlantScience
@newphyt.bsky.social
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Congrats Juan! Looking forward to reading it!
