Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI!

Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible!

#plantscience #plantbiology 🧪

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"TAIR 12 is here!"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/breaking-news#307

#News

🌟𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝🌟

Meet 𝐃𝐫. 𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐱 @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social

Asst. Prof. Biology @WashU
Asst. Member @danforthcenter.bsky.social

The Cox lab maps gene activity in plants to understand how genes are organized and regulated across tissues.
To know more👉 www.thecoxlab.org

Welcome to TPJ!!

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! And a special shout-out to the awesome women scientists in the Cox Lab! From undergrads to postdocs, I'm privileged and grateful to have the opportunity to mentor these individuals and do fun, great plant science together. 🌱👩🏽‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬👩‍🔬

Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...

Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Poster inviting participants for Gordon Research Seminar on Salt and Water Stress in Plants happening on 23-24th May 2026 at Switzerland.

🌱📢Join us at the 𝐆𝐑𝐒 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 23-24, 2026 in 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝!

💡Specially encourage ECRs to apply to present your work! Its a great forum to connect with peers and mentors in the field.

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲👉 www.grc.org/salt-and-wat...

Please repost!
#plantscience #abioticstress #ECRs

An in planta single-cell screen to accelerate functional genetics Genetic screens in whole plants are a powerful tool for functional genetics. However, elucidating gene function in highly redundant genetic programs such as signaling pathways remains challenging in b...

An in planta single-cell screen to accelerate functional genetics--very cool application of the TMV vector pTRBO by Elizabeth Sattely’s Lab 😎
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy New Year!! 🎉

We're pleased to be back with some exciting new opportunities which we will be sharing in the coming weeks.

We are again inviting host labs to share their projects for our 2026 BiPS Summer Studentships.

Head to our website for more details: buff.ly/g6vAJmM

Happy New Year! And with today being January 2nd, Happy birthday to the Cox Lab! Crazy that the lab is now 2 years old - it's still a bit surreal that I have this role. I'm grateful and blessed to have a team of individuals that are talented and fun to work with. Here's to a great Year 3!

Thanks for the shout-out! If anybody wants to get an overview of expansion microscopy techniques in plants, give this a read! 🔬

Now hold on....👀

The cover of Vol 77 | Issue 1 | 2026 of the Journal of Experimental Botany. Special Issue: Advances in Plant Cell Biology. Light brown banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre is a microscopy image of ER (yellow) and chloroplast (turquoise) localised proteins transiently expressed in Nicotiana tabacum leaves. [Image taken by Graham Burkart (Brandizzi lab).]

📣 JXB Issue 1 of 2026 is out now - and it’s a special one! 📣

🔬 Special Issue: Advances in Plant Cell Biology 🔬

📘 Guest edited by Federica Brandizzi, Zachary Nimchuk, Gloria Muday & Anna Stepanova 📘

🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...

#PlantScience 🧪 #JXBspecialissues

Live thread of the NSF biology virtual office hour:

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Reupping this perennial #MPMI question, has an apoplastic Superoxide dismutase been cloned and proven to take RBOHD O2-• into H2O2? Or are all the models still assuming?

The image shows large moss chloroplasts organized in irregular rows. The chloroplasts, in magenta, are somewhat rectangular in shape but with many irregularities. Many green tubular protrusions extend from the chloroplast surface.

This is what happens to the moss (Physcomitrium patens) chloroplasts when we grow cells on β-lactam antibiotics. β-lactams inhibit the synthesis of the peptidoglycan in the chloroplast envelope, leading to their dramatic expansion.
#microscopymonday #moss #plantcells #plantmicroscopy
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Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪

Big news! Boeing awarded the Danforth Center $125,000 for STEAM + Ag enrichment at the JJK-FAN Center—covering supplies, staffing, & programming as part of Boeing’s Our Future: Tomorrow’s Innovators.

Thank you, Boeing! 🌱🔬

#TeamBoeing #BoeingPartner

Remote Sensing of Endogenous Pigmentation by Inducible Synthetic Circuits in Grasses Plant synthetic biology holds great promise for engineering plants to meet future demands. Genetic circuits are being designed, built and tested in plants to demonstrate the proof of concept. However....

New and improved and open access! With @gehan @susanmeerdink from @danforthcenter.bsky.social Please check out the tools and all plasmids are available on @addgene.bsky.social thank you @darpa.mil for funding! doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

Nominations are now open for awards to be presented at the 2026 North American Plant Phenotyping Network Annual Conference. This is a great opportunity to recognize our outstanding colleague’s contributions to plant phenotyping research and innovation. mailchi.mp/ce99f293f3f6...

Sahyadri Symposium 2025 flyer featuring QR code for registration and profiles of Drs. Penelope Lindsay, Elena Perry, and Erica Lawrence-Paul.

Please join us for the 2025 Plant Postdocs Sahyadri Symposium featuring Drs. Penelope Lindsay, Elena Perry, and Erica Lawrence-Paul. #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Maize #Rice #Microbes #Drought

Next Friday, December 12
12 PM PT / 2 PM CT / 3 PM ET

Register here: forms.gle/XciuCZ1FP62H...

That last sentence is so relatable 😭🤣🤣

Pretty indeed! What's the green?

We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.

Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141

Geez......I hope this is just a one off thing. If this applies to MIRA, it's gonna make it tougher for early career folks to get helpful feedback...

Wait what- 👀

Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!

Research Specialist - Torii Lab Primary Work Address: 2500 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. About the Lab We are currently seeking a proactive Research Specialist to s...

🧬🌱Research Specialist Position Open🌱🧬 -Please spread the words
HHMI, UT Austin. NGS-based analyses/single cell biology to investigate environmental and hormonal control of plant stem cell differentiation. Requires both wet lab and bioinformatic skills.
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

I'm so sorry Willow 😔

Group photo of ~80 people outside a concrete and glass building

Photograph of a row of six people of African origin at a desk with attention focussed on an object to the right and out of view of the camera. Other faces in the background.

A photo of a white much with the words ‘connect, celebrate, cultivate’ in black capital letters sitting on a white branded notepad with the Black in Plant Sciences logo in green and black. These objects are on a conference chair with similar chairs out of focus in the background.

Last week we held the 2nd @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference in Leeds, full of 🌱science, 🌸art, African crops, careers & mentorship and talent. Highlight was seeing the impacts of our Research Excellence Awards & Studentships. So proud to honour and promote the excellence in our community 💓