The N-degron pathways move from basic to applied science.
This pathway will prove to be of key importance for agricultural improvement. Very happy to have been a part of this work led by Chen Lin and colleagues. #plantscience #nendrule #hypoxia
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Very cool work, congrats!
Tiny shoot apical meristems demand precision and patience. During my PhD, I measured oxygen directly by inserting a 3 or 10 µm microsensor into the meristem.
Very happy that this work is now published in Molecular Plant.
Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...
Multifaceted roles of MTL/NLD/PLA1 in plant reproduction:
In addition of inducing haploid embryos, loss of OsMTL function in rice 🌾 could lead to triploid embryo formation !!
@newphyt.bsky.social
▶️ doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Annual experimental plant sciences meeting in the Netherlands. Here we go!
Today it’s @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social Annual Meeting.
I am happy to present one of my favorite projects developed together with @panicuccigabriele.bsky.social, @jannehageman.bsky.social, and @daanweits.bsky.social, which has resulted in a tool for studying oxygen distribution in plant tissues.
Thanks for your hospitality @thomaswidiez.bsky.social
Chatting with the excellent scientists at @rdplab.bsky.social was like a breath of fresh air!
What features are required to shape hypoxic niches enclosing meristems? We @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social in collab @pieterverboven.bsky.social found that a combination of cuticle barrier, densely packed tissue and metabolic activity all uniquely contribute to maintain shoot apical meristem hypoxia
Great to see this out: Plants respond very fast (within 5-10 minutes 😱) to hypoxia and the N-degron pathway can be sufficient for this rapid induction.
Congrats @mikellavi.bsky.social and team!
#JobAlert #PhD 🌱
We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers.
We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition.
Interested? Please get in touch for more information!
Thanks Sjon!
This work would not have been possible without our wonderful collaborators from @pieterverboven.bsky.social Bart Dequeker Leen Van Doorselaer and Bart Nicolai from KULeuven and Pierdomenico Perata @theplantlab.bsky.social
and local team work @panicuccigabriele.bsky.social . Thanks folks!
We believe that our findings provide a foundation for exploring other hypoxic niches (like lateral roots, anthers and young leaves), aiding in their identification, characterization, and potentially predicting their formation in previously unstudied tissues or plant species
What features are required to shape hypoxic niches enclosing meristems? We @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social in collab @pieterverboven.bsky.social found that a combination of cuticle barrier, densely packed tissue and metabolic activity all uniquely contribute to maintain shoot apical meristem hypoxia
🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share!
#PlantScience #PlantSciJob
We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment.
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www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Great opportunity!
Awesome group, supportive supervisor and a really interesting project. What's not to like? Check out this open PhD position in @dorotakawa.bsky.social team!
New in Science of Plants: "Inferring hypoxia-responsive regulators of cell fate in plant meristems throughsingle-cell transcriptomics" rdcu.be/eXYvw
Rainfall patterns during barley seed development underlie genomic variation for germination after flooding (Eva Maria Gómez-Álvarez , Margherita Marazzini , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested!
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
13th Utrecht PhD Summer School Environmental Signaling in Plants Aug 24-26 2026 Speakers: Laura Ragni, Roeland Berendsen, Mariana Silva Artur, Matthew Paul, Ari Sadanandom, Beatrice Giuntoli, Bruno Guillotin, Priya Ramakrishna, Caroline Gutjahr, Niko Geldner, Laura Bacete and Marcel Beukeboom.
We are beyond excited to reveal the full line-up for our Environmental Signaling in Plants summer school 2026!
Registration is now open here eps.sites.uu.nl - we look forward to seeing you in Utrecht on 24th-26th August!
AP presenting on stage.
Finishing the symposium with our second keynote @apmahonen.bsky.social - so many cool and impactful stories rolled into his talk!
Seminar room full or people
EPS Theme 1 (plant development) symposium today in Utrecht!
Exciting talks so far and very lively Q&As! Proud to be part of this community 🌱
@epsgraduateschool.bsky.social
@violawillemsen.bsky.social
@renskevroomans.bsky.social
@uuplants.bsky.social
New lab / new life 🌱
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
How does leaf age affect flood resilience? 🌿🌊
New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Stoked to share our review advocating a whole plant perspective on resource balancing strategies with Joe Earle, Lucila Salvatore, Bas van den Herik and Kirsten ten Tusscher
How coupling resources and development ensures whole plant homeostasis url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
Happy to share our recent thoughts on how grasses form and pattern stomata
doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾
Congrats to
@lbmountain.bsky.social
on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!
#ThrowbackThursday to last week Thursday at #ISPLORE2025JP where we took a group picture of our fantastic community. Missing those conferences vibes? Scroll back through the #ISPLORE2025JP hashtag for some of the best moments 🌱🌊
