Fascinating talk by @noxmakunga.bsky.social on biotechnology strategies to improve sustainable exploitation of South African medicinal plants at the SABPA symposium near Stellenbosch

Fig. 2.The role of abscisic acid (ABA), ethylene (ET), jasmonic acid (JA), and salicylic acid (SA) in the regulation of tomato resilience and metabolism during different (a)biotic stress conditions. (A) Overview of the effect of different plant stress hormones on tomato resilience. Arrows and blocked arrows represent a positive and negative effect, respectively, and dotted lines represent an unclear effect of the hormone on tomato resilience in the specific stress condition. (B and C) Overview of the effect of different plant stress hormones on tomato metabolism in (B) fruit and (C) vegetative tissues. Upwards and downwards pointing arrows represent positive and negative regulation, respectively. Created in BioRender.Toçilla, S. (2025) https://BioRender.com/k49a446.

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Jaryal et al. discuss the role of four stress hormones, abscisic acid, ethylene, jasmonates, and salicylic acid, in the orchestration of signaling pathways that mediate tomato resilience and metabolism 📝

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InnCoCells: @alaingoossenspsb.bsky.social, together with 16 partners from 11 European countries, has discovered new plant-based ingredients with proven anti-inflammatory and anti-aging effects for the development of next-generation skincare products.

Read it here: home.vib.be#/news/feed/e...

Wonderful taxonomy world and research!

@sandyknapp.bsky.social opens the #SOLRUB2025 meeting talking about how wonderful are #Solanaceae species. New dating results are coming out soon. The family is older that we thought. Almost 90 MY. She closes her presentation talking about the importance of community.

Thank you Aureliano, it has been an exciting conference so far!

Plant metabolism: zoom in to the single-cell level The numerous emerging single-cell technologies allow uncovering plant metabolism regulation at higher resolution, enabling precise pathway discovery and me

A lovely joint writing effort with Robin Buell!

PAPER from @alaingoossenspsb.bsky.social in @plantphys.bsky.social
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Interested in performing a PhD on the insecticidal bitterness compounds of our national pride, chicory? Then check out these 2 positions within a joint project between ILVO, Wageningen University and my group at UGent-VIB:
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Cooperation between a root fungal endophyte and host-derived coumarin scopoletin mediates Arabidopsis iron nutrition Iron acquisition is a critical challenge for plants, especially in iron-deficient soils. Recent research underscores the importance of root-exuded coumarins in modulating the root microbiome community...

Curious about my PhD research @parkergroup.bsky.social? The paper is available as preprint on bioRxiv now!
🔬 The interaction between scopoletin and fungal endophyte F80 rescues plant growth under iron-limiting conditions by resolving the iron mobility bottleneck.
📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Postdoctoral Researcher - VIB OverviewThe group of Specialized Metabolism, led by Prof. Alain Goossens at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, and the metabolic engineering researc

Recruitment time! You're a junior postdoc and want to discover and produce bioactive fungal metabolites that are involved in the chemical warfare between fungi and plants? Then apply here!
jobs.vib.be/j/108923/pos...

TODAY: Public PhD defense of Elke Clicque from the group of @alaingoossenspsb.bsky.social. @viblifesciences.bsky.social

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Congrats Kaisa

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Plant biologists! We need you!
We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science.
Please check here and shared widely:
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That stay helped setting the foundations for a good scientific mind!

Starter Pack for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

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#PlantImmunity #MPMI

25 Ghent University scientists are ‘Highly Cited Researcher 2024’ 25 Ghent University scientists may call themselves ‘Highly Cited Researcher’ this year. The title goes to scientists who have a significant and broad impact within their field(s) of research.

Numbers don't mean everything, yet, I am happy to see my name again in the 'Highly Cited Researcher 2024' list, together with that of other PIs from VIB-UGent Plant Systems biology center @psb-vib.bsky.social! Showcases the excellent work my/our researchers perform here!
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Haha, yes, I was already planning this for a while, but the latest political evolutions demanded some real action :-)

First steps on Bluesky. Let's see how much enthusiasm I can raise to send contributions to our upcoming focus issue on Metabolism in Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social