Do you want to know how to build an organ from a single cell?

Check out our paper about phyllid development in moss by Weney Lin @irbv.bsky.social

Colaboration with Yoan Couder @ensdelyon.bsky.social and and Richard Smith @johninnescentre.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Targeting of the barley cell-surface receptor SRF3 by the Blumeria hordei effector AVRA13 overlaps with AVRA13 recognition by MLA and the induction of NLR-mediated cell death. Pathogens secrete effector proteins to promote virulence. Despite their recognition by barley Mla resistance genes, the structurally-related Blumeria hordei ( Bh ) AVRA effectors are maintained in the...

Wei Shi @wshisky.bsky.social & Merle‘s work is online. Wei really pushed this work from scratch and Merle linked it to MLA diversification…3rd (co-)first author paper in her PhD. Very proud PI!
And only possible through collaboration with G. Döhlemann, @grandpahiro.bsky.social &, Matt Platre. (1/x)

Hope to see all of you (again) at our international #BT2026

organized by #MBP2026 @molplantsci.bsky.social
co-host Christopher Grefen

📍 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de in Bochum, Germany.
📆 6 – 10 September 2026
bsky.app/profile/plan...

Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪

Deadline: June 30, 2026
Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn...
Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event)
For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

In Vivo Monitoring of Energy Metabolism with Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors All organisms fuel and build themselves through their energy metabolism. While classic biochemistry conceptualizes the fluxes of energy and matter, our understanding of how energy metabolism works in ...

Freshly online 🗞️
In Vivo Monitoring of Energy Metabolism with Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors 🌱🔋🌈🔬

@jan-oleniemeier.bsky.social
@morganlab-saarland.bsky.social
@uni-muenster.de
doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Plant genome sequencing workflow. Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12623-z

Need a genome sequence of your favourite plant? We laid out instructions for a complete workflow based on ONT sequencing:

"Cookbook for plant genome sequences"
doi.org/10.1186/s128...

#Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

In just two months, we’ll host our 4th yearly departmental symposium! We’re excited to welcome keynote speakers Malcolm Bennett (from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social) and Margot Smit (from @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social), alongside hands-on workshops, poster speed dating, and group talks.
👥🌱👥Can’t wait! 🎉

PhD position in biology (m/f/d) (1/2026) Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle) offers a PhD position in Biology

Please share! We are looking for a PhD student (4 years) starting from 01/05/2026 at @ipbhalle.bsky.social!
If you are interested in plant immunity, receptor biochemistry and evolution, consider applying! Deadline 09/03/2026.

Application portal: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/10-phd-posit...

A true gift to the community that literally takes plant imaging to new levels. Congratulations to everyone involved!

@labcosta.bsky.social Out now in ScienceAdvances
our new work with @AndreaBassi78

MAcro Plant Projection Imaging (MAPPI): An open, scalable platform for whole-plant fluorescence real-time imaging | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This week we will hear @federicalocci.bsky.social (from @parkergroup.bsky.social, @mpipz.bsky.social) talk about "How not to die", workings of TIR-networks in damage and systemic resistance.

📅 Jan 16 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience

If you want to know more, check out their review below. 👇🏼

The Genetic Basis and Domestication of Root System Architecture in Cereals Cereal root systems are critical for nutrient and water uptake as well as for anchorage and thus for plant productivity. This review synthesizes the current understanding of the morphological and cell...

Our review on the genetics and domestication of cereal root systems is now online.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Four Images: A scientist in a lab looking at a pipetting robot, a greenhouse with lots of pots containing plants, a scientist with drones and other euipment in a field, and a tractor driver with lots of high-tech equipment in the cockpit. The text is: TalentCampus@KWS May 29, 2026 A look behind the scenes: All KWS research and development departments open their doors

The headline and text says: May 29, 2026 in Einbeck, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Seeding the future – breeding combines sciences and talents The image is a wheel showing all the R&D contributions to plant breeding, incl. Molecular Biology Experimental Fields Cell Biology Breeding Phytopathology Chemical Analytics Greenhouse Phenotyping Digitalization

Highlights of the program Information stands Breeders of our main crops explain their work From sowing to harvesting: all the special machines of a breeding station Digital tools for field trialing Root phenotyping: how roots grow in the soil Phenotyping with drones: multispectral from a bird's eye view Phytopathology: insects, fungi, nematodes and other pathogens Chemical Analytics and process analysis Catch crops - concepts for agriculture, soil health, CO2 balance Biological seed treatment Breeding technologies – data and genomics specialists support breeding Genome Editing: new breeding technologies and their application at KWS Regulatory Affairs: paving the way to approval From lab to market: how KWS protects intellectual property Marker lab: examine the DNA The art of engineering for seed production Career opportunities at KWS Hands-on activities The start of a new generation of varieties: crossing plants by hand Tissue culture: placing plant parts on a special diet in vitro Leaf harvest for the marker lab Live view of root growth: navigate a camera through the soil

If you're interested in #PlantScience R&D work at a plant breeding company: @kwsgroup.bsky.social is hosting its annual R&D TalentCampus here in Einbeck on May 29th.

More info here:
www.kws.com/corp/en/care...

The Plant Cell welcomes 2026 Assistant Features Editors.
In an exciting turn of events, this year I get to work with the Plant Cell Assistant Features Editors (AFEs) as well as Plant Physiology AFEs, because Nan Eckardt, long-time Plant Cell Features Editor, has retired! 🎉
doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Small molecule, big impact: H2S contributes to pathogen-induced stomatal closure Plants are sessile organisms and must integrate information from a range of external stimuli to respond appropriately to their environment. Stomata form a

Small molecule, big impact: H2S contributes to pathogen-induced stomatal closure url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Really nice News & Views on the new paper from @charliemdq.bsky.social’s lab 👏

academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Blue light decreases ER Ca²⁺ in stomatal guard cells, with refilling in the dark. Our new @newphyt.bsky.social study shows how ER Ca²⁺ shapes cytosolic Ca²⁺ dynamics
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Graphic with Arabidopsis thaliana plant. It says in the text: We're hiring: 5 PhD positions, apply by 10 January, 2026. Over the caption, there are keywords: Plant Physiology, Epigenetics, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Bioinformatics. At the bottom there are logos of IMPRS, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, University of Potsdam and the Max Planck Society.

Looking for a #PhDposition in #PlantScience ?
Our #IMPRS @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social and @unipotsdam.bsky.social is #hiring !

📅 Apply by 10 January 2026

More info:
👉 www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD

Please share this post to plant it in the right feed 🌱 #PlantSciJobs

We are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables.

This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands.

jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening...

#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob

Autophagy restricts symbiosis-associated cell death and regulates colonization by Serendipita indica in Arabidopsis Autophagy acts as a pro-survival mechanism in plant roots during beneficial fungal colonization by restricting fungal proliferation and immunometabolic cel

My former colleague Patricia Zecua, me and the Zuccaro group published a new story about how autophagy restricts cell death and regulates root colonization by beneficial fungi:

academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

An AINTEGUMENTA phosphoswitch controls bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth | PNAS Plant stem cells have the remarkable ability to give rise to distinct tissues and organs throughout development. Two concentric cylinders of active...

It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.

🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#PlantSciences

Why are leaf cells of so many different sizes?
Our paper explores how giant cells form!
We also provide automatic cell-type classification and perform statistical quantification of cell spatial organization.
If interested, check it out in @plosbiology.org. Thanks Pau and @roederlab.bsky.social

My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!

🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution

🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)

📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de

⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025

🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...

Do get in touch or share 😊

Undergrads visiting @PuckerLab during the summer of 2025. Details: https://www.pbb.uni-bonn.de

We are looking for undergrads to visit us over the next summer!

If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬

Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR

Do excellent science in Bonn next summer!

@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

A Banner that shows the open call for the international PhD program on interdisciplinary Plant Biology in Cologne Germany between University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research. A button reads "apply now!".

We’re #hiring! Our #IMPRS @mpipz.bsky.social & @unicologne.bsky.social recruits 4 PhD students. We look for candidates with a keen interest in experimental & computational plant biology to join us in 2026!

Find details at www.mpipz.mpg.de/imprs/imprs-... and apply by Jan 5.

#PlantSciJobs

Countdown: there are only 9 days left ... if you want to join

Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef

Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025

www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

Now online in its final version. Plz surf to doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

A common pathway controls cell size in the sepal and leaf epidermis leading to a nonrandom pattern of giant cells Arabidopsis leaf epidermal cells have a wide range of sizes and ploidies, but the mechanisms patterning their size and spatial distribution remain unclear. This study shows that the pathway controllin...

Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Maize Genetics Cooperation, Inc Meeting

Registration for the 68th Maize Genetics Meeting from February 26 to March 1, 2026 in Cologne, Germany is now open! #MGM2026
www.mgcmeeting.com

Huge congratulations @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social 🥳

We are pleased to announce that @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social has won the Young Investigator Award by the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists.

The award ceremony and the recipient's lecture will take place at the next Tokyo Annual Meeting on 14 March 2026.

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