ASPB Names 2026 Award Recipients | Plant Science Today The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2026 awards, which honor distinction in service, outreach, education, and research.

Warm congratulations to our Editor @diorkelley.bsky.social, who has been recognised with the ASPB's Excellence in Education Award!

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Emmanuelle Bayer

👏So well deserved silver medal from @cnrs.fr 😍

Emmanuelle Bayer @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social from @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social is an outstanding scientist 🤓 and one of a few female role model in the plant research field 🍀

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I am thrilled and beyond grateful to receive a CNRS bronze medal this year - this is an incredible honour especially for an INRAE researcher like myself! A big thanks to my amazing team and the research community @RDP for all the great science we have done together!

Nice! Congratulations to all!

#endocytosis RALF FER PI4P PI(4,5)P2 👌

Les plantes activent leur « mode survie » en quelques minutes : la clé réside dans leurs lipides ! Les plantes activent en quelques minutes des mécanismes de survie face aux stress environnementaux.

#ResultatScientifique🔎| Face au stress, les plantes réorganisent rapidement leurs lipides membranaires pour nettoyer leurs cellules et relancer leur croissance 🌱
✍️ @yvonjaillais.bsky.social
📕 @currentbiology.bsky.social
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Published @newphyt.bsky.social. We identified peptide ligand-induced K63-linked Ub sites of ERECTA, required for endocytosis & signal attenuation for proper stomatal patterning. Congrats, all authors🌱👍 @texasscience.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social
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New preprint 🌱
Segment plants in time-series images using foundation model SAM2 - without training a model 🪩. Magician Alex Abbey!
💡SAP works across species, scales, and even z-stacks.
From single cells to whole plants→ quantitative growth & dynamics .

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@biosofttau.bsky.social

We have been cooking up this story for a while and we are excited to finally be able to share!

Read on if you're interested in whole plant regeneration WITHOUT the application of hormones!

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Comparative proteomic profiling of receptor kinase signaling reveals key trafficking components enforcing plant stomatal development Proteomic mapping uncovers endocytosis adaptors that drive receptor internalization for robust stomatal development.

Beautiful! @keikoutorii.bsky.social and co!

Comparative proteomic profiling of receptor kinase signaling reveals key trafficking components enforcing plant stomatal development | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬
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Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯

The art of interdigitation: Current views on pavement cell shape acquisition Cell shape acquisition is a central feature of morphogenesis, governing tissue organization, organ development, and organismal architecture. In vascul…

Our latest review on pavement cell shape acquisition is on line! Work from @lorindaloi.bsky.social @sharmavinod.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu Kempe fondation Vetenskapsrådet (VR) MSCA

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Arrêtez de vouloir réussir (ça vous épuise) - Olivier Hamant YouTube video by Les Lueurs

In french:
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Women in plant science around the world The article series ‘Women in plant science around the world’ marks the 30th anniversary of Trends in Plant Science, a milestone that invites us to reflect on three decades of shared discoveries, international collaborations, and the diverse voices that propel the field forward. By centring 30 of our women authors from 30 countries, we honour the global community that continues to advance plant science, and we hope to inspire the next generation of women researchers, as well as researchers from other still underrepresented groups in plant science.

Women in plant science around the world #plantscience

Bumping this and flagging some corny folks - anyone know the best place for PH207 seeds (and if there are RILs or NILs)?
@jefowlerjr.bsky.social @jrossibarra.bsky.social @carolynplants.bsky.social @maizegdb.bsky.social @maizezynskihi.bsky.social

Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 logo - Shaping Life-Mechanisms of Morphogenesis. Timelapse of a developing Arabidopsis leaf imaged at 9-12 days old under a confocal microscope, with cells segmented and coloured using MorphographX software. Images by Sarah Attrill. Overlay text: Abstracts close in 7 days

📣 Call for abstracts from global #plantsci community working on plant development!

⏰ Abstracts close in 7 days (due Monday 30 March)

Registration fees due later (15 June)

Register at:
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LETTER: SCARECROW functions in root radial patterning in rice to organize multiple cortical cell layers (Jingxia Li , Shoya Minami , Katsutoshi Tsuda , Takaki Yamauchi) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

The lab of @elkebarbez.bsky.social strikes again 👇

Cell wall charge acts as a tunable electrostatic gate controlling iron availability in roots. Really nice work linking extracellular physics with nutrient homeostasis.

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.

FATE annual in person meeting! This time in Umeå! Nice day of interdisciplinary science! @stephanevrg.bsky.social @lorindaloi.bsky.social @pmarhavy.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social @uu.se @umeaplantsciencecentre.se @liu.se

Plant hormone and peptide signaling converge in the genetic network regulating cambium activation in Arabidopsis roots An intertwined network of cytokinin, auxin and peptide hormone signaling activates secondary growth in the Arabidopsis roots.

After a long journey, our new paper is out! 🌱
In this study, Tiina and colleagues show that cambium activation in the Arabidopsis root is triggered by the induction of auxin, cytokinin, and TDIF peptide signalling. 🧵1/x doi.org/10.1093/plce...

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

AF2BIND: predicting small-molecule binding sites using the pair representation of AlphaFold2 - Nature Methods AF2BIND is a logistic regression model trained on AlphaFold2 pair features to predict small-molecule binding-site residues in proteins, without multiple sequence alignments, homology models or knowled...

#Ligand-binding site predictor 😎
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Want to image apoplastic pH in plants? 🔬

Two new papers from our team offer a full workflow plus open access analysis tools.
Congrats to @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle and @lguerard.bsky.social

Nature Protocols: rdcu.be/e7R2E
BMC Methods: lnkd.in/dctpWJ3X

Happy Imaging!

Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 logo - Shaping Life-Mechanisms of Morphogenesis. Timelapse of a developing Arabidopsis leaf imaged at 9-12 days old under a confocal microscope, with cells segmented and coloured using MorphographX software. Images by Sarah Attrill.

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🪴Postdoc position - UT Austin, TX, USA
- Developmental Mechanisms of Adaptation to Underwater Environment/Genome Editing🪴
Do you love amphibious/aquatic plants? Then consider applying to the position! See the attached ads.
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Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

Fantastic paper! ‪@roederlab.bsky.social‬ @soestrauss.bsky.social