Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Molekylærbiologi og Genetik - Plantemolekylærbiologi, Aarhus Universitet

Highly recommended 👉 Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark
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The “Rolls Royce” of Tomatoes Is Coming to Australia Purple Bliss tomatoes are purple – but they’re also remarkable for being the first genetically modified fresh food approved for sale in Australian grocers.

More Information on www.broadsheet.com.au/national/foo... and www.nature.com/articles/nbt...

The “Rolls Royce” of Tomatoes Is Coming to Australia Purple Bliss tomatoes are purple – but they’re also remarkable for being the first genetically modified fresh food approved for sale in Australian grocers.

If you’re fine with blueberries but scared of a purple tomato, the problem isn’t the science, it’s the story we’ve been told.

🧬 GMO isn’t the enemy.
🚫 GMO isn’t the problem.
Fear-based storytelling is.

Would you eat it? 👀💬 I would love to in Europe!

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The “Rolls Royce” of Tomatoes Is Coming to Australia Purple Bliss tomatoes are purple – but they’re also remarkable for being the first genetically modified fresh food approved for sale in Australian grocers.

They activate the formation of anthocyanins, secondary plant compounds that are otherwise found in berries.

👉 Plant biotechnology can specifically improve ingredients that are relevant to our health.

This tomato was engineered to produce anthocyanins, the same antioxidants found in blueberries.
Not to survive herbicides.
Not to help Big Ag.
But to make a common food healthier.

🔬 Why purple?
Genes from edible snapdragons were introduced into the tomato.

The “Rolls Royce” of Tomatoes Is Coming to Australia Purple Bliss tomatoes are purple – but they’re also remarkable for being the first genetically modified fresh food approved for sale in Australian grocers.

www.broadsheet.com.au/national/foo... and www.nature.com/articles/nbt...
🍅💜 Hot take:
The purple tomato isn’t “Frankenfood”. It‘s the Rolls-Royce Tomato.

It’s proof that GM crops don’t have to be about chemicals or yield, they can be about nutrition.

Young scientists are invited to join CEPLAS GS!

Epidermal hydrodynamics controls water homeostasis of shoot meristems for plant adaptation to terrestrial environments Zhu et al. uncover an evolutionarily conserved water transport pathway in the epidermis of plant shoot meristems that maintains water homeostasis and regulates stem cell activity. This epidermal hydro...

Really nice work with an adaptive twist on SAM hydraulics. Congrats to @weibingyang.bsky.social and all involved 🌱🌊
#plantscience

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2/💸 CHF 400,000 raised in donations
🏠 Insurance covers some losses, but not all
🛏️ Caritas steps in for daily essentials & rent
🧑‍🌾 Businesses & farms face uncertain futures

They’ve lost so much. Let’s not leave them alone.
#SwissSolidarity #HelpBlatten

1/“In seconds, our home was gone.”
Massive rockslide buried the village of Blatten, Switzerland. One person missing. Around 300 residents lost everything, homes, memories, livelihoods.
💔
But help is coming:

🤝 Emergency support from Caritas, Red Cross, army & local authorities

Wow... Mycorrhizal fungal highways for plant signals and rhizobia  -> Legume-specific recruitment of rhizobia by hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi | The ISME Journal | Oxford Academic

After all, a country that managed to complete the Gotthard tunnel on time and within budget can probably rebuild a village too. 😉

Once the situation has calmed down a bit and assessments of further rockfall and flood risks are completed, it’ll be interesting to see how efficiently the Swiss handle things and maybe even rebuild Blatten or larger parts of the Lötschental.

Probably the most beautiful valley in Switzerland 😥

Following the glacier collapse in Blatten (Switzerland), experts now predict further rockfalls. A dammed lake poses flood risks, and nearby villages have been partially evacuated. The situation remains tense.

Not quite – the evacuation of Blatten (VS) was ordered on May 19, just days before the glacier collapse on May 28.
But you’re absolutely right: the Swiss monitoring system worked impressively. Early detection made timely evacuation possible.
Public funds well spent indeed.

RSPS2025 | Finalist: Dr. Tonni Grube Andersen | Presentation: Jun 4 13:00-13:30 (GMT) | Of bricks and gateways: Rewriting the rules of root barriers | FREE to Watch the Live Streaming via YouTube (youtube.com/@molecularpl...) / WeChat (MolPlant Channel)

Hormonal regulation of primary root development Dynamic hormone networks orchestrate Arabidopsis root meristem growth. In this review, Nittis et al. highlight recent advances in how these regulatory systems shape root development and discuss their ...

📜 Hormonal regulation of primary root development

🧑‍🔬 Michela De Nittis, Mirko De Vivo, @raffolab.bsky.social, Sabrina Sabatini

📔 @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #Phytohormones #Auxin #Cytokinin #PlantDevelopment

Hypoxia‐activated fluorescent probes as markers of oxygen levels in plant cells and tissues Low oxygen signalling in plants is important in development and stress responses. Measurement of oxygen levels in plant cells and tissues is hampered by a lack of chemical tools with which to reliab.....

🧪🌱 Interesting study using hypoxia-activated fluorescent probes to detect low oxygen in Arabidopsis cells & tissues.
These chemical tools open new ways to study oxygen dynamics in plant development & stress responses.
#PlantScience #Hypoxia #Arabidopsis nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Streamlining the isolation of fungal hyphae: A semi-automated approach for soil substrates Extracting fungal hyphae with their natural associated microbiota from soil samples presents a significant challenge due to their small size, typically in the micrometer range, and the formation of dy...

New preprint!
We present SSC, a semi-automated method to extract fungal hyphae and their microbiota from natural soils - no glass beads, no artificial conditions.
Enables hyphal density quantification & NGS of surface-attached microbes.
Read more: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

2025 Congress ​​...​​...​2025 IS-MPMI Congress​...​​​Save the Date! Sunday, 13 July – Thursday, 17 July, 2025 Confex Conference and Exhibition Centre, Cologne, Germany​ ​ Mark your calendars for the 2025 IS-MPMI Co...

📢 Calling all PhD students, postdocs & early-career scientists! 📢

Join us at the IS-MPMI Congress 2025 in Cologne, Germany 🇩🇪 from July 13-17, 2025!

🔹 Abstract submission deadline: March 11
🔹 Submit here: www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...

Marie-Noëlle Rosso closing the session explored how fungi break down recalcitrant plant tissues, revealing a diverse enzymatic arsenal shaped by 180 million years of evolution. Her team showed that gene family expansions/contractions drive lignocellulose degradation across fungal clades. #ECFG17

Xin Xiang builds on Ron Morris’ pioneering work on nuclear migration in Aspergillus nidulans. Her talk at #ECFG17 highlights how microtubules and motor proteins orchestrate organelle distribution in fungal hyphae. Fascinating insights into the fungal cytoskeleton! #ECFG2025

In the morning session we listened to a very interesting talk by Michael Feldbrügge on the mechanistic basis of mRNA transport in polar growth of Ustilago maydis spiced with a pinch of Rhineland humour. 😀 #ECFG17 #ECFG2025

good news: Trump has refrained from sending arms and ammunition to Russia for now. 👍🏻😂🥲🙏

Great talk by Aaron Vogan on Starship superfamily and it’s Captain!

At #ECFG17, like at all major scientific conferences worldwide, the talks highlight how science thrives on global collaboration. Borders don’t define discovery - diversity and cooperation do. Meanwhile, U.S. policies seem to be moving in the opposite direction.

Save NIH and NSF Research Funding ⭑ 5 Calls On February 7, the Trump administration moved to cut billions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science …

A useful tool and a great thing to do...

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Mein Wort fürs Wochenende: glottaler Plosiv oder Glottisschlag (Student:innen, Spiegelei…) 🍳

Germany's debt brake ensures low national debt - but at the expense of the EU: low wages and export surpluses are driving neighbouring countries into debt. Time for more investment and higher wages to bring Europe back into economic balance. #Schuldenbremse #EU