⚠️⚠️

@jacquet-chris.bsky.social and I are organizing the 2nd "non seed plant" French meeting.

As for the one in 2025, the goal is to better structure our emerging community across French institutes.

It will take place in Toulouse, June 24th-25th.

Registration 🔽

nonseedplants26.sciencesconf.org

Please RP 🕊️: Postdoc position in my budding group at OIST. Looking for a colleague to work at the interface of chloroplast biology, evo-devo, and synthetic biology. More info here 📃: www.oist.jp/careers/post...

Great discussions today with @daanweits.bsky.social who visited our @rdplab.bsky.social in Lyon, France.

Plenty of fresh ideas on plant oxygen sensing, the room definitely had good O₂ levels! 🌱🫧

We search for a postdoc focusing on the molecular ecology of #bryophytes 🌱🧬🔬. Join our work @sgn.one Institute for Plant Form and Function and @uni-jena.de

🗓️Deadline: March 29, 2026
👉 More Infos and Apply here: www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan...

Students out there, I have a PhD project cutting across biology, material science and biomedicine that requires a highly capable, diverse and brave applicant. if you think this is for you please Apply using the link below. All details in the website!!

Project: eb4bm.org/project/engi...

The mechanical properties of Arabidopsis thaliana roots adapt dynamically during development and to stress Brillouin microscopy reveals in vivo dynamics of mechanical properties during plant development and response to stress.

Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ONLINE COVER Maximum-intensity projection of a confocal image of epidermal cells from the Thale cress roots, where four colors stain different cell parts. Goldy et al. demonstrate that the protein actin allows cells to override standard division rules by stabilizing the orientation of spindles, which segregate chromosomes during mitosis. This uncovers a previously under-appreciated role for actin cytoskeletons, providing new insight into how division orientation is controlled to ensure robust tissue architecture during plant growth. Credit: Camila Goldy

What could be more satisfying than this ?

✨️Congrats to all the authors ✨️

Could not be more proud of you 🥹

Credit: Camila Goldy @camilagoldy.bsky.social

Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...

New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group ⁦‪at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!

🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring:
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience

One week left to apply!

Latest preprint from our group together with @stephanevrg.bsky.social @wabniklab.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social

Our work supports the view that morphogenesis is not driven by growth alone, but by the integration of physical and biological regulation.

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

A permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!

Fig. 2 (shortened, full legend in paper): Plasmodesmata at different cell interfaces in C4 monocot leaves. (A) In contrast to C4 eudicots, C4 monocots can be one or combination of either NADP-ME, NAD-ME, and/or PCK subtype depending on the decarboxylation enzyme present in the bundle sheath (BS). Confocal micrographs (leftmost panel) were obtained using an excitation wavelength at 633 nm and dual emission wavelengths at 650–720 nm (magenta for Photosystem II) and 720–800 nm (blue for Photosystem I) to visualize chloroplasts. Note that BS cells of C4 NADP-ME and C4 PCK leaves have agranal chloroplasts (see second panel from left) thus appear pseudo-blue under confocal microscope due to reduced Photosystem II content. The cell wall (green) was visualized at an excitation wavelength of 405 nm and an emission wavelength of 420–480 nm.

🎯🌾 DARWIN REVIEW 🌾🎯

Schreier et al. list gene targets and propose genetic strategies to begin engineering enhanced plasmodesmata-mediated cell-to-cell connectivity in crops, aiming to increase yield and improve climate resilience.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪

Proposed model for FASCIATED EAR 3 BARELY ANY MERISTEM 1D receptor signaling complex in Zea mays meristems.

Antagonistic interactions between CLAVATA receptors shape maize ear development

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Lindsay et al.

@penlindsay @WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience

Mendel Early Career Symposium 2026 Register below for the 2026 Mendel Early Career Symposium21-22 May 2026 at the Campus-Vienna-Biocenter, AUSTRIA   Please select the events you would like to attend and add them to the cart in order ...

Interested in giving a talk? Submit your abstract by 13 March to be considered.

More Information about the event and registration here: events.vbc.ac.at/gmi_events/m...

#Mendel_ECR_26 #WhereKnowledgeGrows

Cow Tools!

We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them

It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS

Here I describe our study

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social

New paper from our lab @jxbotany.bsky.social about auxin and cytokinin interactions during carpel initiation in Arabidopsis

Led by @andreagomezfe.bsky.social in collaboration with @defolter-lab.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Fig. 3 Spatial changes in water distribution are shown by differences between the wettest and driest images for sand (left column) and loam (right column).

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/6) Early signals of water limitations begin at the root–soil interface: linking rhizosphere drying to water uptake decline
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

⏰ Last call – apply by 11 Jan!

Are you finishing your PhD or recently graduated in plant science?🧪🌾

Applications for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists (28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden) are closing soon!

👉 www.upsc.se/about-upsc/e...

Why Are There No Holes Around Trees? YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Ehi, they made one with root tips and even root caps!!!

🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making!

🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.

Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?

@cellpress.bsky.social

Hormone biosynthesis and signaling is altered by hypoxia in Arabidopsis thaliana roots.

Discrete and cell-specific hypoxic responses in Arabidopsis roots resolved by single-nuclei transcriptomics

Hill et al.

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

Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium 2026 Bringing together the international single-cell and spatial community for a two-day discussion across model and non-model systems.

🗓️ Mark your calendars! The Norwich #SingleCell and #Spatial Symposium with the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social returns in 2026!

Register your interest now to join us 08-09 July, exploring the latest technologies, research, and applications in single-cell and spatial genomics.

🔥 Hot new preprint before the Christmas break 🎄

Egg cell fertilization–dependent peptide receptor signaling mediates endosperm polarity

📖
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Audrey Creff, @jackrhodes.bsky.social , Cyril Zipfel, Gwyneth Ingram and others

Folks, our research group is looking for a new recruit. A research technician position is available (48 month contract). Please repost. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Thank you for hosting me Hugues! It was great to meet you and your colleagues

Phylogeny, chromosomal mapping and expression analyses of wheat CLAVATA pathway components suggest differential selection on receptor‐like kinases, CLEs and T3 WOXes The Arabidopsis CLAVATA pathway regulates shoot apex and fruit size, and disrupting CLAVATA function has led to yield improvement in crops. Despite its central position in agriculture, the potential ...

Happy to share my lab’s first venture into the world of wheat from an enjoyable collaboration with Chris Burt at RAGT Seeds and Keith Edwards. My team members Katie Jeal and Sophie Carpenter did a terrific job of the bioinformatics and starting the lab work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Non-seed plant research in the spotlight Summary: With non-seed plant research gaining momentum and a vibrant community emerging, this Meeting Review highlights the growing impact of diverse model systems on key questions in plant evolution.

Looking forward to Friday's Non-seed plant meeting in Norwich. Together with @karimaelm.bsky.social, we wrote a Review about the last year meeting. We discuss about the latest advances and the importance of using in models. Thanks @biologists.bsky.social and @biologyopen.bsky.social. #PlantScience

Wow congratulations! :)

PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!

How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.

Application deadline Jan 6th

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social