Looking for reviewers before Christmas

Since I became an editor I have stopped submitting manuscripts in December.

I did - about 20plus years ago while still in Cologne. We added inhibitors of the ETC and measured effects on oxygen evolution. I do not know if I remember enough.

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Group Leader at the University of Essex and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Her work focuses on boosting photosynthesis & water use efficiency in rice for climate-smart agriculture. A journey spanning 🇮🇳, 🇺🇸 & 🇬🇧 fuels her cutting-edge research

I would like to express a recombinase in the germ line of #Arabidopsis for a short time. Can somebody recommend a promoter? Egg cell might make most sense? Needs to be weak as I am looking for incomplete recombination #plantscience #generegulation

The 2025 EMBL Annual Poster, listing all of the courses and conferences taking place in 2025 at EMBL

Hi Bluesky community! 👋

Are you looking forward to 2025 as much as we are? 👀

We just updated our 2025 Annual Poster to include even more events for you to join, so go and have a look!

➡️ s.embl.org/poster-bl

#EMBLEvents #molecularbiology #lifesciencetraining

This conference looks like a fabulous opportunity to rethink concepts. I’d be most interested in the role of noise in regulation. Alas I am teaching.

Everyone is talking about how science bluesky is taking off. So I am back on social media.

Also, maybe not quite coincidentally, I am also back in other ways. Just got notice that our Future proofing plants application was funded by @dfgpublic.bsky.social

Apply for it. I very much look forward being there! ispl2024.unl.edu

Are you kidding me? What a cool tool. I can think of four running projects in which we could use this. Quite amazing!

Nice. You will see the sun!

Have fun, I remember my teaching in that program very fondly.

Make that hustle and bustle. Oh my.

great hall, Bielefeld University

This is the “great hall” of my university. All our buildings here have a central connection. I love watching the hussle and bussle here

I am just out of my lecture for first years. They are a delight. I love my job. (admin work in twenty minutes)

Ok getting going. Plant biologists please follow for a follow back. Let's rebuild this thing in a better environment than Musk world.

Hello!

JXB is now on Bluesky. Please reconnect if you knew us from Twitter.

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If you know another researcher who would like our botany posts, we would be grateful if you tag them in the comments below (if they wouldn't mind)!

PhD program poster

[Please repost] Looking for a PhD program that goes from molecules to ecosystems? Look no further, and apply to us! I'm offering two projects, on the 1001 Genomes Plus project and on investigating functional diversity in the plant immune system
www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/8387/detlef-...

Boron response in oilseed rape. The connection to defense responses surprised me. I’d shed my flowers, too, if I thought they carried a pathogen.
This one took a long time, very proud that Bart Verwaaijen saw it through! Great collab with the Bienert lab.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@donat.bsky.social handed his thesis in. The last one of the first round of PhDs to hand in. A few more papers to go. And then I only see them at conferences and - hopefully - reunions.

Onwards!

“certainly maybe” - interesting way to put it. We definitely need to know if we are overlooking C2 species since they are harder to identify. I hope you find a great candidate.

Please add me to the science feed. 🧪 I add my google scholar for verification.

scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Fabulous work! A highland teosinthe introgression. I’d never guessed that. I especially like the ancient sample data addition. (And the structured abstract is really easy to read and understand, so I highly recommend opening the link posted below).

The Light Eaters Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabiliti...

I just finished a galley of THE LIGHT EATERS, by Zoe Schlanger, and I cannot say enough good things about it.

If you liked AN IMMENSE WORLD and thought, "But what about plants??", then Zoe has written the book for you. I see it as a sister publication to mine.

Out next May. Pre-order now!

Image of an email from a student asking if sources "from the late 1900s" are acceptable.

I will never recover from this student email.

Or just acknowledge that you won’t and delete (or put in “dealt with”)

How many A. thaliana transformants do you have to screen to find a knock-in event now?

Photosynthetic enhancers I might want to add to the title. I need to read this one again. The light dark changes are intriguing.

“may be surprisingly malleable, even on ecological timescales”

Gene regulation as a quantitative trait with precise description. Fascinating read.

I have wondered about how different N-sources affect increases in carbon assimilation. Still wonder about the mechanism but this at least is a fact - in wheat.

Arabidopsis fertilization with ammonia or nitrate or mix in high CO2 chambers. Did anyone do that already? #plantscience

Thanks!