The influence of electrical charge on plasmodesma conductivity | PNAS Most plant tissues are symplasms in which cells are connected by plasmodesmata, membrane-lined cytosplasmic bridges that enable diffusive and/or ad...

This is nothing less than a breakthrough. What a phantastic paper. So happy to see it out after five years.
The influence of electrical charge on plasmodesma conductivity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Explore plant #CalciumSignaling in the eponymous EMBO Workshop "Plant calcium signaling" in #Primosten, Croatia, 20–24 September 2026.

Abstract submission deadline: 1 May
Registration deadline: 31 May

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-calcium-signaling
#EMBOCalciumSignaling #EMBOevents 🧪

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from @labcosta.bsky.social! 🎄✨ Thanks to all our collaborators, colleagues, and friends for a great year together.

Before Flowers Existed, Ancient Cycad Plants Lured Insects with Heat New research on strange cycad plants offers a glimpse into the prehistoric origins of pollination

"A study published today in Science reveals that cycads, tropical plants that resemble palms, attract beetles using infrared radiation generated by their conelike reproductive structures."

#Pollination #Plants #Cycads

Blue light decreases ER Ca²⁺ in stomatal guard cells, with refilling in the dark. Our new @newphyt.bsky.social study shows how ER Ca²⁺ shapes cytosolic Ca²⁺ dynamics
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

This year’s @embo.org Workshop is held at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Open to 120 participants, it is over-enrolled with 180 attendees! Thank you to the organizers @isabelmonte.bsky.social, Aino Komatsu, @moodytomato.bsky.social, and Liam Dolan for making this event possible. #EMBOplantEvo

A manifesto for plant science education Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well-trained plant scientists....

Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

🍕 Pizza day for @lab_costa with our new guests from Spain — Jorge Morello (Miguel Botella lab, Malaga) and Pavel Brito-Gutiérrez (Maite Sanmartín lab, Valencia). Great way to kick things off!

Let’s go tide pooling!

The fantastic work of @kampova.bsky.social is finally out in PNAS: weather sensing and programmed cell death in anther dehiscence and opening. Cool science and awesome microscopy! @svosolsobe.bsky.social @handle.invalid @moritznowack.bsky.social

As we can expect PubMed dysfunction more and more or to be swamped with fake journals I suggest you get acquainted to this nice alternative: europepmc.org

Professional societies for #PlantScience on Bluesky🌱 Professional societies facilitate networking, provide access to the latest research and professional development opportunities, organize conferences or workshops, and often shape policies that impact the scientific community.

go.bsky.app/QxxL9Zo

Welcome to Plant Scientists new to Bluesky in 2025!
There are so many starter packs: here is one to get you started: go.bsky.app/Q9QiX9C

Plant Biomechanics friends and colleagues - I created a starter pack for our community. Feel free to let me know if you want to be removed from or added to the list!

go.bsky.app/D9oZmVH

MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures Researchers in the MIT Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health developed a fully open-source biomolecular structure prediction model that achieves state-of-the-art performance, at the level of Al...

MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures

With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from
@labcosta.bsky.social! Wishing you joy, success, and good luck for an amazing 2025!

Researchers develop sensors for the “charge” of biological cells A team led by plant biotechnologist Prof Markus Schwarzländer has developed biosensors that can be used to measure the ratio of NADPH to NADP⁺ in living cells in real time for the first time.

www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph...

Probes 101 – How to choose a fluorescent probe for your imaging experiment - FocalPlane Probes 101 – How to choose a fluorescent probe for your imaging experiment - Tools

📢Now up on FocalPlane: Probes 101 – How to choose a fluorescent probe for your imaging experiment.
Lina El Hajji talks us through the optimal photophysical properties & weighs up the pros & cons of FPs versus small molecule dyes & the options in between!
focalplane.biologists.com/2024/12/14/p...

🧪 We have made it easier to follow our journals and community sites with our new starter pack.

https://go.bsky.app/BwC3bSV

If you're new to #Bluesky, our #Plant Modelling Scientists starter pack can help you find users you can follow to help you get started:
bsky.app/starter-pack... #PlantScience
Let us know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added.

www.unimi.it/en/education...

Joint course UGA-UNIMI (🇨🇵🇮🇹)

#PlantScience Research #StarterPack

Part 1:
go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7
Part 2:
go.bsky.app/3NcqRCE

FERONIA adjusts CC1 phosphorylation to control microtubule array behavior in response to salt stress A receptor-like kinase controls cell wall biosynthesis under salt stress by regulating microtubule organization.

In case you're not already saturated with #FERONIA papers, here's one more linking FER to #PlantCellWalls integrity sensing during #SaltStress.

Co-first-authored by Liu Wang, who did the work for her PhD with me ☺️

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#PlantScience #PlantStress #PlantPhysiology

Utricularia is one my of fav carnivorous plants.
Their traps can suck in prey in less than one millisecond (!!), reaching up to 600g accelerations (!!), which is one of the fastest movements in the plants! #Utricularia #Plantsciences #iamabotanist #plantjoy 🧪🌱🌾
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ69...

Created a starter package for #SeedEcology researchers, if anyone here working on seed ecology are suggested to join.

go.bsky.app/EuwwU7q

Here is a working Starter Pack for Plant Ecophysiologists! Please let us know if you want to be added to this list in a comment or DM. #botany #plantecophys #PhysFam

go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7

I can see the thermomorphogenesis community is slowly growing here, so here's a Starter Pack to help with that!
Please let me know below who else to include in this list.

go.bsky.app/4afLeaR

Here is a brief summary of academic journals and news account.

Please help me add more accounts to this list!

go.bsky.app/hCfhqn

My turn to create a starter pack for scientists using live imaging in their research! Of course, I’ve likely missed many—please let me know who else I should include. Thanks!
go.bsky.app/KYYr7xc
#liveimaging #livevellimaging #microscopy