📜 Single-cell analysis identifies genes facilitating rhizobium infection in Lotus japonicus
🧑🔬 Manuel Frank, Lavinia Ioana Fechete, Dugald Reid, Stig Uggerhøj Andersen, et al.
📔 Nature Communications
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #Symbiosis #PlantMPMI #LotusJaponicus
Fantastic program - having Paul visit the lab was a great experience for everyone involved.
We have been cooking up this story for a while and we are excited to finally be able to share!
Read on if you're interested in whole plant regeneration WITHOUT the application of hormones!
Our Expert View in the @jxbotany.bsky.social (bit.ly/47uMYTT) has found its place in the special issue "Seed biology: the birth of plant life" (bit.ly/47qcrxH).
Thanks to all coauthors, @limcheeliew.bsky.social, James Whelan, and @lewseylab.bsky.social
Made in @latrobe.edu.au and ZJU.
From what I can find, the plan is to join Pillar II, which I'm unfamiliar with. It's not the ERC/Marie Curie bit.
Saw that also - looking forward to hearing the details. If done right it'll be a huge improvement!
Latest from the lab - a comparative transcriptomic analysis of glandular trichomes from cannabis, hops and tomato plants. In it we identify which transcriptional regulators are shared and which are not doi.org/10.1111/tpj..... We also provide big datasets of gene expresison across several organs.
A reminder that the special issue of Poisonous Plants I’m guest editing with Elizabeth Neilson is ready to go. I wanted to make the deadline March but the journal convinced us to make it April 2026.
#PlantScience 🪴🌾🌱🌳
Please repost
academic.oup.com/aob/pages/sp...
Understanding cellular diversity in plants latrobe.edu.au/news/announc... #latrobeuni via
@latrobeuni.bsky.social
Searching for a PhD? 🧬🌾
A fully funded 3.5-year PhD is available at @latrobeuni.bsky.social (Melbourne) to work on engineering transcription factors for better nitrogen use in plants!
Reqd:
✅ Honours/Masters in Mol Bio, Biotech, or Plant Science
✅ Passion for sustainable ag
Contact me for details
Thanks Travis!
New collaborative preprint out in which we use @10xgenomics.bsky.social Xenium to do some (a lot!) of plant spatial transcriptomics, led by Jim Whelan's team: "Mitochondrial Retrograde Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana: heterogenous, spatial and polarised aspects" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Congrats!!
I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt
Reposts appreciated!
Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
Were you considering applying to the 2026 GRC on Salt and Water Stress? Do you want to give an oral presentation? We are over 60% full, so apply soon! Consideration for oral presentations from submitted abstracts will occur on March 9, 2026. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... Please re-post!
Fig. 1 Representative model plant and crop species studied in space, and research topics discussed at the Liverpool workshop.
#Viewpoint: Expanding frontiers: harnessing plant biology for #space exploration and planetary #sustainability
Fountain et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
We’re hiring 4 roles at UWA's Plant Synbio Innovation Centre: Facility Manager + 3 Postdocs (single-cell genomics/screening; molecular tools; construct prototyping). Apply by Jan 20 bit.ly/4qfoftG bit.ly/3MFgD59 bit.ly/4pFT6jf bit.ly/48VkgLw
Postdoc positions focused on gene editing using protoplasts and plant regeneration for genetic improvement of forest trees at NC State 🌳
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
Mobility-enhanced virus vectors enable meristem genome editing in model and crop plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11....
And the 2nd is collaboration with Tozer Seeds - Discovering Conserved Transcriptional networks driving plant immunity -
investigating the conservation of defence transcriptional networks across plant lineages. Includes placement at Tozer Seeds.
tinyurl.tools/1e6737af
Deadline for both is Jan 7th
I think that may have been edited by Olivia Wilkins at UManitoba, but I forget the journal.
Yea, that and the assays used to determine motifs are a bit crude really. They never give a precise motif - there's uncertainty at some/all bases.
**Please Repost**
Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate.
PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Deadline: October 15.
🌱🧬 "Advances in seed omics" now published in its complete form @jxbotany.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Covers how omics tech are revolutionising seed research - single-cell and multi-omics integration towards climate-resilient crops.
La Trobe (@lewseylab.bsky.social) and Zhejiang Uni.
📢 New publication ' #Strigolactones coordinate barley #tillering and grain size' by Jack Kelly, Andrew Gilmore, Apriadi Situmorang, Kenton Porker, Marek Marzec, Matthew Tucker and Philip Brewer in Journal of Experimental Botany 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Webinar with The International Seed Testing Association and The International Society for Seed Science:
Tuesday, 26 August, 2025, 13:00 - 14:30 CEST
Register here: attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/909...
#seedquality #seedtesting
Thrilled to have our spatial single-cell atlas of the Arabidopsis lifecycle in @NaturePlants. Turns out that its easy to make nice images when spatial expression of 1,000 genes is available! 1/n
@natanellae.bsky.social @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @joeecker.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
There is still time to apply 👇
#MSCA #Postdoc #Biotech #Bioinformatics #Genomics
New review out from the lab on applying 'omics technologies in seed biology, led buy @aurouxlucas.bsky.social with Lim Chee Liew. Well done guys!
dry seeds stall ribosomes at start codons — with Kozak-like motifs calling the shots
hydration triggers a sharp translational shift
a gorgeous map of ribosome positioning during germination made by Prof. Leónie Bentsink and team
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#riboseq #seedbiology #translationalcontrol
