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This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

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There seems to be a discussion going on there... Great 📸

If you have a 📃 #doi, it would be even better! Thanks.

Dear #Root / #PlantScientists 🧪,
Do you know of any #ProgrammedCellDeath #PCD genes that are specific for #RootHairs only?
The 🌱 species does not matter. RP pls.
#PlantScience #PlantResearch 🧬👩‍🔬

Fig. 1. of Annunziata et al. Relationship between sucrose and trehalose 6-phosphate (Tre6P) across six different species with different phloem loading strategies. (A) Diel changes of sucrose and Tre6P. Data points are means ±SD, n=3–5. (B) Pearson correlation between sucrose and Tre6P for daytime (open symbols, dashed line) and night-time points (closed symbols, solid line) are shown. Regression lines for daytime (dashed) and night (solid) are given; the regression line of the combined dataset is not shown. FW, fresh weight; ZT, zeitgeber time (time after dawn). Pearson correlations coefficients (r) and P-values are summarized in Table 1. The original data are in Supplementary Table S1.

🍬 INSIGHT 🍬

"The sucrose–trehalose 6-phosphate nexus: what’s next for plant vigour and productivity?"
Brian Ayre comments on research recently published in JXB by Annunziata et al.

🔍 Insight: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
🔬 Research: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪

Thanks @binebrumm.bsky.social 🐝, though there is no way i will learn the spelling for that 😂

#BirdOfTheDay
#LongBeaks
...I did not know this was a thing! 😁
#BirdsOfBluesky

A great blue heron standing in the shallow water on a gloomy day.

A close up of a great blue heron, the feathers on the chest are prominently visible.

A great blue heron standing on the far shore of a river and looking to the side.

I think this is a Robin! A sparrow- like, little bird, with red breast is perched on a tree stump

For no particular reason, here are a few from a walk in a nature protected area in #NRW 🇩🇪
Can someone confirm if the little one is a #Robin?
#photography
#BirdPhotography
#greatheron
#greatblueheron
#Neuss
#Selikum
#naturephotography

MYCs coordinate secretory structure development and specialized metabolite biosynthesis in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), citrus (Citrus spp.), and cotton (Gossypium hirsutum).

#TansleyInsight: Plant epidermis‐derived secretory structures: from glandular trichomes to secretory cavities

Xiang et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#plantscience

The 'Hell-Plant' of Death Valley offers hope to a hotter world We humans are a delicate bunch. We don’t have bark, boney exo-plates, or lush fur to protect us from hostile environments, so we have to steal what other creatures produce just to survive in regions a...

"Tidestromia oblongifolia took only two days to increase its photosynthetic capacity to produce energy and thrive in extreme heat, and by day 14 reached its ideal photosynthetic temperature of 45 °C (113 °F)"

#PlantScience #PlantStress #ClimateChange

Original paper: www.cell.com/current-biol...

#readinglist
🧪 #PlantScience

Gratuitous X-ray microscopy imaging, a "bouquet" of developing soybean flowers.
@zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
@danforthcenter.bsky.social

These are gorgeous.

Slight improvement by team members 😅

TNA - Microbes4Climate Transnational Access (TNA) facilitates access to cutting-edge Research Infrastructures (RIs), which provide services, and resources across multiple countries.

🗣️ (RP please) The #Microbes4Climate trans-national access call, including access to #plant #phenotyping infrastructure is now open, deadline 08.03.2026.
more information below:
microbes4climate.eu/tna/
and
www.fz-juelich.de/de/ibg/ibg-2...
#PlantMicrobeInteraction #PMI 🧪🌾🦠🔬

Graphic with Arabidopsis thaliana plant. It says in the text: We're hiring: 5 PhD positions, apply by 10 January, 2026. Over the caption, there are keywords: Plant Physiology, Epigenetics, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Bioinformatics. At the bottom there are logos of IMPRS, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, University of Potsdam and the Max Planck Society.

Looking for a #PhDposition in #PlantScience ?
Our #IMPRS @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social and @unipotsdam.bsky.social is #hiring !

📅 Apply by 10 January 2026

More info:
👉 www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD

Please share this post to plant it in the right feed 🌱 #PlantSciJobs

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit: #Phylogenie und #Evolution der Pflanzen

In Prof. Wissenmanns Lab @jlugiessen.bsky.social
Start: 1 April 2026
Deadline: 8 Januar 2026

www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...

What we are also missing is the awareness and feeling of responsibility of each individual. If we can only do a little, that little is better than doing nothing...🌡️🥵⚡⛈️🌊🌬️🧪
#ClimateChange
#FridaysForFuture
#NoPlanetB

👥👇S.Sanow @ucdavisplants.bsky.social M.Mantz, @degradomics.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de E.Sturm @unicologne.bsky.social A.Bhatnagar & U.Roessner - Metabolomics Australia R.Walker, M.Watt @unimelb.bsky.social @gabrielschaaf.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
H.Wiessel, A.Lücke, J.Kelm &🙋@fz-juelich.de

Systems-level Plant Responses Reveal Pseudomonas-Mediated Growth Promotion in Brachypodium Under Nitrogen Limitation Plant molecular adaptation to plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) under nutrient stress remains unclear, yet is essential for advancing PGPB use in agriculture. The model grass Brachypodium dystach...

In our new pre-print 📝we dissect how #plants🌾 adapt their metabolism under #Nitrogen limitation when #beneficial #Pseudomonas 🦠are present. You can compare #Noninvasive #Phenotype 📸 during 3 weeks with #lipidomc and #proteomic results at specific 🕰️.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧪 #PlantSci #PMI

Wheat That Makes Its Own Fertilizer UC Davis scientists have developed wheat plants that produce their own fertilizer, opening the door for less air and water pollution and lower costs for farmers.

UC Davis scientists developed wheat plants that stimulate the production of their own fertilizer by using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, opening the path toward less air and water pollution worldwide and lower costs for farmers: ucdav.is/471PBwz

#FromLabsToLives #SpeakUp4Science

Amping up reproducibility of microbiome studies through standardized protocols and fabricated ecosystems | Plantae There is ample evidence for the impacts of plant microbiomes to plant growth and metabolism, but there are also challenges to obtaining reproducible data. In a first of its kind multi-laboratory…

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Amping up reproducibility of microbiome studies through standardized protocols and fabricated ecosystems (PLOSBio) @borjana-a.bsky.social (Summary by Indrani Kakati @indranik18.bsky.social) buff.ly/qQFJWna

#PlantaePSRW

Thank you @plantteaching.bsky.social So cool when I see our work is useful for others. The reference is for journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
🧪#PlantSciene #PlantMicrobeInteractions
#PMI #EcoFab

Freeze‐tolerant frogs accumulate cryoprotectants using photoperiod: A potential ecological trap Climate change is disrupting the reliability of photoperiod as a cue signalling seasonal changes in temperature. We show that gray treefrogs under a late-season photoperiod accumulated large reserves...

🐸 Frogs and false signals

A new study finds that grey treefrogs use daylight length to trigger 'antifreeze' buildup for winter. But as climate change warms winters, this cue may mislead them into preparing too early or too late.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com

Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research Reproducing microbiome experiments across laboratories is a major challenge in soil and plant health research. In a collaborative effort involving five laboratories, this study achieved consistent, in...

👇Is our recent effort 2 make #PMI research more reproducible. Check out this 📜 done on 3 continents🌎, by👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 in5 diff. labs, using the🌾 #brachypodium and 2 #SynComs
journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/...
🧪 #PlantMicrobeInteractions #EcoFAB #PlantSci @fz-juelich.de @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @unimelb.bsky.social

For Science 🧪enthusiasts in #NRW & beyond: our #Research Center @fz-juelich.de is opening it's doors
on 07.09.2025.
Talk to 👩‍🔬 about the🔬questions addressed here. Try #HandsOn #experiments.

More on www.tagderneugier.de/en
#TagDerNeugier #TdN25 #STEM #SciComm #ScentificCommunication #PlantScience

A door detail in Oxford, UK depicting a male figurine photographed in profile.

Sunshine and shadow on the River Cherwell.

The bridge across the Shire Lake Ditch close to Christ Church meadow in the sunshine. The water reflects the greenery around.

The Meadow Building (Christ Church)

The compulsory #Photography samples that accompany each of my scientific meetings. #CityPhotography #Oxford #Naturephotography.

But seriously check out the news from the
#18thSymposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation with #non-legumes
🧪 🦠 #BNF #16ENFC