Beautiful !

Near‐complete genome assembly of a transformation‐efficient elite inbred line LH244 and its comparison with B73 Analysis of a near-complete assembly of the genome of the highly transformable maize inbred line LH244 revealed its high genetic similarity to B73 and will serve as a much-needed resource for functio...

✅Crucial #crop #plant
✅Valuable model organism.

🌽This near-complete reference #genome of an important transformable #maize germplasm provides a valuable resource for functional genomics & genome editing.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
@wileylifesci.bsky.social
#PlantScience #agriculture

Making Better Rice: The quest to feed the world by hacking plant evolution YouTube video by University of Oxford

Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security.

Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg

PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share!
Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? We’re recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham.
Deadline 15th February.
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#plantscijobs #plantscience

Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi Prototaxites fossils are distinct from Fungi, suggesting that they represent an extinct lineage of eukaryotic life.

It was a joy to contribute to this paper led by @sandyheth.bsky.social, Corentin Loron and Laura Cooper. We show the Devonian fossil, Prototaxites, is not a fungus but is in fact an organism from an as yet unknown extinct eukaryotic lineage.

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

@dcu-lsi.bsky.social

📢 The first newsletter of 2026 is out!

Updates from our nodes, recent events, training opportunities, job offers... everything you need to know about France-BioImaging is inside.

How to read it? Click here ⤵️
france-bioimaging.org/newsletter/j...

The hard truth about how hard it is to publish in Development Every researcher knows the anticipation and trepidation that come with submitting a paper to a journal. Years of effort have been distilled into a few thousand words and a handful of figures containin...

"revision requests can expand beyond what is feasible...we've been told reviews are unnecessarily harsh... reviews can seem formidable but usually represent constructive critiques"

Interesting reflections and introspection from editors of Development 1/n

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The importance of stupidity in scientific research I recently saw an old friend for the first time in many years. We had been Ph.D. students at the same time, both studying science, although in different areas. She later dropped out of graduate school...

Like Martin said, you go on until you feel stupid.

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

📢 The September newsletter is out!

Updates from our nodes, recent events, training opportunities, job offers... everything you need to know about France-BioImaging is inside.

How to read it? Click here ⤵️
france-bioimaging.org/newsletter/s...

11th International Symposium on Root Development (2026) Mon 4 May, 4:00 PM - Thu 7, 1:00 PM [EDT]: Rooting 2026 is the upcoming edition of a well-established symposium that brings together scientists from diverse fields, including plant…

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: 11th International Symposium on Root Development🌱

👉 buff.ly/Y29T13z

#PlantScience

Incredible Molly Herring wrote a story on the philosophy behind the work we do at PrakashLab. Wonder & curiosity.. even more important to share when every day is a new attack on the fundamental principles of scientific explorations. Thanks @quantamagazine.bsky.social for this interaction.

JXB 75th Anniversary Symposium PLENARY LECTURE 17 September | 5 PM | Edinburgh Prof Jane Langdale University of Oxford Regulation of venation patterning in grass leaves: understanding maize with a view to engineering rice

🌟 JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟

On Sept 17th, we will hear from our plenary speaker Prof Jane Langdale on the regulation of venation patterning in grass leaves 🌱🔬

⏳ Time is running out – register by 19 Aug! 🗓️

👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75

#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @janelangdale.bsky.social

A cytokinin response maximum induces and activates bifacial stem cells for radial growth
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#plantscience

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

(1/5) – I am very excited to share our publication in QPB with @aribidopsis.bsky.social ! Before working with Arif, I thought I knew at least the basics about the plant cell cycle, but shortly I realized that I knew almost nothing. If this sounds relatable at all, then this review is for you!

Thrilled to see our work now online @nature.com
This study reveals how individual root cells sense and respond to real, compacted soil environments.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

beautiful spatial transcritomics of rice root in gel & soil conditions and huge credit to Mingyuan and colleagues.

Three vibrant Zinnia flowers (Zinnia elegans) displaying the species' characteristic diversity of colors and forms. A bright red zinnia with prominent ray florets and a yellow center disc, a magenta double-flowered variety exhibiting dense petal arrangement, and a fully double yellow cultivar.

📝 Botanists Trip Over The Light Fantastic When They Try To Understand Flower Colour 🧵
https://doi.org/n45f


What humans see in a flower is nothing like the multi-stage sensory journey that guides insects to blooms.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief

REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION for the International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) 2025 Conference are now OPEN. www.ipgsa2025.org
Deadline for discounted registration and abstract submission for talks is April 15 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Colorado! #plantscience

Please spread the word, PhD position in our group!
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

This is a great resource by @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social

We normally prepare different ones and then choose those that are color blind friendly.

Sometimes is hard to choose 👇🏽 What's your favourite ?

@focalplane.bsky.social @cellcommlab.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social #SciArt

More details on our recent pre-print:
Alignments of stomata have been described in many species, here are 2 examples: Thym from my kitchen, and Leucadendron from a 1935 paper (Smith 1935 on the orientation of stomata)
What is directing these alignments is unknown 1/12
doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Stomata form alignments in many species, we do not know how. So, we forced a lot of cells to differentiate into stomata, and we watched them dividing, with modelling, and mechanical perturbations, we conclude that they were aligned by mechanical stress derived from differential growth

We are happy to report that our journals and community sites now have Bluesky accounts. Follow them at:
@dev-journal.bsky.social
@jcellsci.bsky.social
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
@dmmjournal.bsky.social
@biologyopen.bsky.social
@the-node.bsky.social
@prelights.bsky.social
@focalplane.bsky.social

In our Tansley review, we attempted to establish the stem cell concept in vascular cambium the way we see it. I hope that this is useful also for the other cambium enthusiasts. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Please RT: We are looking for a new group member to study cell fate determination in Arabidopsis
@UmeaPlantSci

@_SLU
! Dead line August 10th 2024! I will be
@ipmb2024
in Cairns in a few days and
@PADiBa2024
if you would like to meet! Check our group: srobertgroup.com

A CUC1/auxin genetic module links cell polarity to patterned tissue growth and leaf shape diversity in crucifer plants | PNAS How tissue-level information encoded by fields of regulatory gene activity is translated into the patterns of cell polarity and growth that generat...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Who needs goodies and printed abstract book? Let's provide space for breastfeeding and/or expressing (if time and furnitures allow it) and even better: an onsite childcare for parents to attempt conferences 😊

Last month, Mothers in Science has twitted that "they asked moms in [their] community why they declined attending conferences after having kids."
Breastfeeding came in 2nd!
So I'm very gratefull to the organisers of the
SFBV international conference for letting me feed my baby during breaks 👏🙌

At first there were NOGs, then along came the SNOGs… 🌱 🧬

A prion-like protein regulates the 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional growth transition in Physcomitrium patens - read our preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…