Was a true pleasure! - some great days!

I just realized the 3-year retroactive exclusion!! Wtf!! That is an insane decision. - also, I agree with several comments suggesting that AI + submission of only B1 in round one could have been exploited before this drastic decision!

I guess it is a common European political decision to be ok with this :-(

That’s true, the B1/B2 system could for sure be better implemented

That’s true.. the B1/B2 system could be better implemented

Well, yeah, but what else can they really do? The panel members are already overloaded and facing an unreasonable task of deciding- more or less arbitrarily - a small subset of outstanding and fundable proposals due to budget cuts

Well, yeah, but what else can they do? The panel members are already overloaded and facing an unreasonable task of selecting - more or less arbitrarily - between a lot of outstanding applications because of the limited budget.

We are looking for a Tomato Breeder to join our Team @kwsgroup.bsky.social in Antalya, Türkiye.

jobs.kws.com/job/Eski%C5%...

Our Vegetable Division is expanding at the moment, and this is a good timepoint to get on board.

#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJob

The header of the paper: PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM, Vol. 15. 1962. The title “A Revised Medium for Rapid Growth and Bio Assays with Tobacco Tissue Cultures” is shown, followed by the author’s names Toshio Murashige, Folke Skoog. Their affiliation is Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 6, Wisconsin. The paper was received for publication on April 1, 1962. To the left of the paper header is a black and white headshot of a smiling Toshia Murashige, and to the right a black and white headshot of a serious looking Folke Skoog.

#PlantScienceClassics #21: MS Medium. In 1962 Toshio Murashige & Folke Skoog published their revised plant tissue culture medium @pplplantarum.bsky.social, arguably the most high-cited #PlantScience paper of all time.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪 #PlantDevelopment #PlantMethods

Happy Easter!

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established?

In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience

▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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The 7th International Symposium on Plant Apoplastic Diffusion Barriers (PADiBa2026) will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland from August 31th to September 3rd 2026. We now have a website: wp.unil.ch/padiba2026/ Registrations will open on April 1st.

Very cool Jen! Big congrats to you and the whole team! :-)

During secondary growth, primary protective barriers break, and a new one forms beneath: the phellem.

But what triggers phellem to differentiate and become a functional barrier? Our results show it’s mechanical cues from tissue rupture 🌱
Check out our preprint 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵/1

🚨 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

A molecular ‘gatekeeper’ in plants opens the door for beneficial microbes CIBSS researchers at the University of Freiburg are part of an international team that sheds light on a crucial step in the initiation of the symbiosis between plants and soil bacteria.

A molecular 'gatekeeper' in plants opens the door for beneficial microbes
Congratulations, @ottlab.bsky.social on a great paper in Science.
www.cibss.uni-freiburg.de/news/a-molec...

This should be super helpful for anybody working on #PlantCellWalls, particularly #Cellulose.

A step-by-step guide for quantitative(!) live-imaging of cellulose synthesis in planta.

#PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #QuantitativeImaging #Bioimaging #PlantDevelopment

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Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis!

Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠

@johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Yes, it has that built-in, and we did that in a second track, but in this case we wanted to image Suberization.

Thank you @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social @the.3i.social for this awesome demo of your spinning disc system for #rootimaging

Very nice! Congrats Katharina, Pierre-Marc and the whole team! :-)

Integration of Biosynthesis and Long-Distance Transport Establish Organ-Specific Glucosinolate Profiles in Vegetative Arabidopsis Plants produce a variety of specialized compounds that are used to defend themselves against enemies. Using Arabidopsis thaliana, we provide insight into h

Thanks Rodrigo! - they don’t, they end up in the shoot when the transporters cannot retain them: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Check out our new preprint by @octaviarmn.bsky.social and @liobarueger.bsky.social in collaboration with @meikeburow.bsky.social - we investigate the spatial effect of glucosinolates on root microbiomes in Arabidopsis and Camelina! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... lots of cool stuff!

#plasmodesmata

Visualizing how a plant's leaves, stem and roots mutually communicate under environmental stress in real time How do the different parts of an adult plant communicate with each other when it suffers an injury, is waterlogged, burnt or exposed to environmental stress? Today we can answer this question thanks t...

phys.org/news/2026-02...

Motif-based substrate mapping of the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BIK1 reveals novel components and regulatory nodes of plant immunity - Nature Plants Cell surface receptors perceive immunogenic elicitors, triggering downstream signalling via receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases such as BIK1. Here the authors define and use the phosphorylation motif of...

Very impressive work identifying novel BIK1 substrates (and immunity players) in Arabidopsis 🔽!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us in Toulouse !!

@deutschebahn.com it would be cool with a sticker book like in the good old days to collect all your delay reasons. - like a bingo. First full book gets to delay 3 trains of their own choice!

Actually fits what we see in the transcriptome of pad3 and b2/b3