Very late repost but we loved writing this News and Views article on these super cool papers that enhance our understanding of how the auxin response is fine tuned.

Angle dependence as a unifying feature of root graviresponse modules | PNAS Gravitropism, the patterning of postembryonic growth in relation to the gravity vector, allows plants to optimize the use of limited and nonhomogen...

Discover how roots “feel” gravity:
Our latest PNAS paper shows that root gravitropism isn’t just on/off, but is unified and angle-dependent, tied to auxin shifts driven by PIN protein and statolith behaviour in columella cells.

Read more: tinyurl.com/22awa3pf

Best practices in plant fluorescence imaging and reporting: A primer Abstract. Microscopy is a fundamental approach for plant cell and developmental biology as well as an essential tool for mechanistic studies in plant resea

Honoured to have been asked to contribute to this newly published Plant Cell paper on current best practises for plant fluorescence imaging. If you're interested in plant bioimaging, do check it out!
academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Sunflower gravitropism in action in our back garden today! Photos sent this morning by my husband, who has clearly been well trained to take pictures of plants after all this time 😅

Thank you for joining across a funky time zones @jamespblloyd.bsky.social! I loved hearing about your modelling approaches to predict root architectures in lunar and Martian gravity!

What an amazing week hosting @gwenkirschner.bsky.social, @matesf.bsky.social, @awaisfarooq724.bsky.social and @jamespblloyd.bsky.social amongst other amazing speakers at the ‘Gravitropism and Root Architecture session at the 2025 Society of Experimental Biology at Antwerp! We hope you enjoyed it!

An exciting issue!

We are still accepting abstracts for the ‘Gravitropism and Plant Architecture’ session at the 2025 annual SEB meeting in July! Send abstracts to my colleague at marta.delbianco@asi.it

TIR1-produced cAMP as a second messenger in transcriptional auxin signalling - Nature cAMP produced by the TIR1/AFB receptors of the main endogenous developmental plant hormone auxin acts as a true second messenger, revising the established paradigm of transcriptional auxin signalling.

and we thought auxin signalling was "kind of solved"..

TIR1-produced cAMP is essential for auxin response (in Arabidopsis thaliana) 🔽

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Registration is now open for the Society of Experimental Biology annual meeting in July 2025 in Antwerp, Belgium, where my friends @suruchiroy.bsky.social & Marta are hosting the 'Gravitropism and Plant Architecture' session. Please share and register here:

www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025 All the information you need about registration can be found here. Early bird registration deadline: 16 May 2025

Also I’m very pleased to confirm the possibility of online registration, in case you cannot make it in person. To register for online attendance, click virtual registration when booking.

They can find out more about registration by clicking: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

Hope to see you there!

SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025

Registration is now open for the SEB annual meeting in July 2025 in Antwerp, where we are hosting the 'Gravitropism and Plant Architecture' session with an exciting line up of speakers! Please share and register here: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...