📢 Two weeks to go until the first webinar in our new series on quantitative plant imaging across scales.
We’ll hear from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy in this webinar chaired by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social.
Very much looking forward to giving a talk in Basel today.
“Plant adaptation to land - evolutionary innovations that changed the planet”
duw.unibas.ch/en/event/det...
Happy to see this out! Big congratulations to @nicolatrozzi.bsky.social and all involved! doi.org/10.1038/s443...
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
Professor Philippa Borrill
We are devastated to announce that our colleague and friend Professor Philippa Borrill died over the Easter weekend following a rare immune system disorder (HLH). She was a fantastic scientist, collaborator and mentor, and a close friend to many: www.jic.ac.uk/news/profess...
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I am excited to announce that we have two open positions on our recently funded MYBstery M-WEAVE (NWO-DFG) project!
1) Postdoc in my team at Utrecht University (NL). www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
2) PhD in the team of @lauraragni.bsky.social at University of Freiburg (DE). (See thread)
Women in plant science around the world #plantscience
Thanks to everyone who visited & helped preparing #MBP2026 by @molplantsci.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social . Your contributions made this a great meeting with lots of networking, catching up, and learning. Hope to see you all @ #BotanikTagung2026 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de for more #plantscience.
Invited speakers of the next Plant Energy Mangement Meeting, 12-15 july 2026, Montpellier, France
Visit our Web site, register and submit your abstract
pem26.cnrs.fr
@lacombeb.bsky.social @hatem-rouached.bsky.social @frannybarbs.bsky.social @msubrandizzilab.bsky.social
Thank you again for the kind invitation 🌿 I'm very looking forward! 🤩
@scourbier.bsky.social from @uni-freiburg.de @cibss.bsky.social is one of the invited speakers of #pem26. She will give a talk on the role of TOR in shade mediated hypocotyl elongation
Join us in Montpellier next july
Pem26.cnrs.fr
Very well deserved, congratulations! All the best in Halle 👏🏼
Voici l'annonce d'un congrès que nous organisons avec @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social les 24 et 25 Juin.
Les inscriptions sont ouvertes sur le site indiqué!
From right to left are @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social
Stefanie Wege
@manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social
@jmugalde.bsky.social
@sophiezoe.bsky.social
A group of happy former plantae fellow/Assistant feature editors at Plant Physiology.
Reunited once again! 🌱This time at #MBP2026. It’s always special to catch up with fellow AFEs (and Plantae Fellow 😉).
A big shoutout to @plantteaching.bsky.social for bringing us together and for the lasting impact it has on us! 🙏🌿 @plantphys.bsky.social
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.
Avoiding the shadow: how plants perceive neighbors and reshape the crop light environment (Matías Ezequiel Pereyra , Víctor Oscar Sadras , Jorge José Casal) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Excited to hear some #proteostasis research at #MBP2026 by @cnaumann123.bsky.social who talks about a new plant-specific component of the autophagic network - see also her latest preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Very excited that our review on carbon allocation to axial sink organs is published. Super writing experience and discussions with Anil and @bjazminrh.bsky.social, thank you both for your great work and ideas!
Congratulations, Julian! 💐🥳
It's even egg past egg!
Symposium preparation in progress ✂️
Name badges, last-minute logistics.
Getting everything ready for the 2026 DOMPS Symposium in Freiburg!
@kevindaniel.bsky.social
@advaitagashe.bsky.social
@rimchaudhury15.bsky.social
@Carlos
Finally officially out!!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We moved the main oxygen sensing machinery from plants to yeast and we learned a few things!
#JobAlert #PhD 🌱
We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers.
We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition.
Interested? Please get in touch for more information!
🚨 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
“My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through their research.”
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize winner and since this year ERC Scientific Council member.
Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Regulation of TOR function by chloroplast-derived metabolites. (A) Photosynthetically derived sugars exported from the chloroplast activate TOR (via phosphorylation, P) in distal plant tissues. Sugar regulation of TOR can occur via SnRK1, or potentially via other routes (dashed arrow). Notably, TOR activation by sugar in roots requires mitochondrial function. (B) DHAP, a triose phosphate product of photosynthesis, positively regulates TOR in the green alga Chlamydomonas. (C) Active TOR directly phosphorylates the ABA receptor PYL, thereby inhibiting it. ABA, whose precursors are made in the chloroplast, binds PYL. ABA-bound PYL binds and inhibits the PP2C phosphatase, activating SNRK2. Active SNRK2 directly phosphorylates the RAPTOR subunit of TOR, inhibiting TOR activity.
🌿🔁 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🔁🌿
Crespo et al. examine the central role of the TOR kinase in linking nutrient availability to chloroplast function, detailing emerging evidence of reciprocal regulation between TOR signalling and photosynthesis in plants and algae 🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Fig. 1.The core energy management machinery, comprising SnRKs, TORC, and the T6P pathway, and its interactions with multiple signals through complex feedback regulation to regulate growth and resilience trade-offs.
⚡🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 🌱⚡
🔎 The Energy Management guest editors Wahl, Hanson & Menand dive into reviews and research exploring the plant energy management machinery as a central hub for stress resilience, development, and crop improvement 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Join us at the #SEBconference Florence 2026 to discuss #Plant Robustness! 🌱🔥
@kaspervangelderen.bsky.social and I are organising the P12 session "Plant robustness from molecules to ecosystems" with the support of @greenrobust.de
Check the program and submit your abstract by March 6th! 👇