My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available →
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
It's time to apply for the New Phytologist #TansleyMedal for excellence in #PlantScience.
Open to early career researchers with 3 to 5 years experience post-PhD.
Applications close on 1 November. Don't miss out!
www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...
#ecrchat #phdchat
Great opportunity! Applications are open for @theplantjournal.bsky.social Fellowship scheme - provides support and mentorship for early-year PIs establishing themselves as independent group leaders.
Also great chance to learn about the editorial side of #JournalPublishing #PlantScience #PeerReview
Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper.
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It's hard to find the words. There won't be many people in the plant sciences community who won't feel the loss of such a generous soul and penetrating scientific mind.
makes sense....
I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...
Closing date 31st July. 🙂
#PlantScience
#PlantSciencejobs
Sharing this in case anyone else missed this in @theplantcell.bsky.social. Arabidopsis research remains essential. The phenomenal resources mean complex pathways are so much easier to understand at the genetic level, and it's a great model organism! #plantsci #plantscience 🧪🌿
Great write up of work by @anyalb.bsky.social while in my lab on the use of biomolecular condensates for metabolic engineering. Thanks @ciara-obrien.bsky.social Some incredible papers highlighted in the roundup - well worth a read
Interested in trying out life as a scientific #editor? Based in the UK? Background in #PlantScience? The @plosbiology.org crew is expanding (again!), so a place in our lovely team might be for you...
Out First Release in @science.org today, nice work finding that redox regulates multimerisation of Aux/IAA proteins during root xerobranching:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Itaconate, the poster-child for metabolic reprogramming in animal immunity, now comes out to play in plants!
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Sadly, human scientists have been writing generic concluding sentences long before AI was around to help them do so! Good editors and writing mentors remain super important
My pick for In Other Journals this week:
Sugar signaling boosts wheat yields - field trials of a trehalose-6-phosphate spray that boosts yield, probably via upregulation of starch synthesis and CO2 fixation.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here:
rdcu.be/enUzK
#PlantScience
Is there anything this enzyme doesn't do?!
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞!
🌱Plant engineering: advances, bottlenecks, and promise
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Focused Reviews & Technical Advances
🌿Plant transformation tech
🧬Gene editing & synthetic biology
🔧Emerging engineering strategies
breakthroughs & challenges
🧵⬇️
A diagrame of the molecular parts used to make a synthetic biomolecular condensate and confocal microscopy images of the condensates
Outstanding work by @anyalb.bsky.social in my lab - she targeted enzymes to synthetic biomolecular condensates in plants and showed increases in metabolic pathway activity, likely due to protection of the introduced enzymes from proteolysis
#PlantScience
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The metabolic signal that regulates TOR is the Calvin-Benson cycle-derived metabolite DHAP. Activation of TOR by DHAP is also true in animals....
The ever fascinating phenomenon of plant thermogenesis...
Great Review on TOR signalling: A Master Regulator in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Responses #PPStasis #proteostasis #autophagy #Stressbio #Plantsci
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Hornworts reveal a spatial model for pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in land plants www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureplants.bsky.social
Lots of excellent advice in this piece. The core message - only through writing do you really think and order your thoughts into logical sense. Makes a case for not using AI for 1st draft because you bypass the thinking step
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturebiotech.bsky.social
#PlantScience
😀 CAM will undoubtedly push central metabolism into non-canonical spaces. I look forward to hearing / reading about what you find out! If you need any help, let me know...
If you want to find out why metabolism may look different to what you were taught, and why this matters, dip into to our review 'Non-canonical plant metabolism' www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureplants.bsky.social
#PlantScience
As well as CO2 Rubisco reacts with O2: plants evolved photorespiration to deal with the consequences. It works, but synthetic biology can do better! 🔄 We used metabolic modeling to compare alternative pathways to boost crop yields 🌱 🧵 #ScienceAdvancesResearch
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Yes, that's a proteasome! Guess where it is....in the apoplast! Nice to see Richard Vierstra's work out! #PPStasis #proteostasis #proteasomes #PlantSci
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Katherine Denby on stage at MBP2025. Her slide has the headline "How do I choose a journal to publish in?" The points are: Scope - look at journal content, read author guidelines Ownership - at least part society owned Integrity Author experience - timelines, editorial board culture Diversity of editorial board Promotion of papers Contribution to the scientific community
Very informative talk by @katherinedenby.bsky.social, EiC of @theplantjournal.bsky.social, on scientific publishing in the #PlantSciences. #MBP2025
Her points on how to choose a journal to publish in are below.
Happy to see that my favorite journals fit the bill. 👌
