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Plant Biomechanics @plantbiomechanics.bsky.social · 20d

We are excited to announce the Plant Biomechanics Webinar Series 2025!
🗓 Webinar #1: Thursday, 25 September 2025
🕑 Time: 14.00 – 15.40 (UTC+7)
🎙 Speakers:
Yamamoto M. Matsuo-Ueda R. Noviandi G.I. Hutabarat
📝 Registration: ugm.id/PBMweb1

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Webinar #1 Plant Biomechanics. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Part of Webinar Series 2025 Road to The 11th International Plant Biomechanics Conference

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Roeder Lab @roederlab.bsky.social · Aug 28

We learned a lot about plant cell wall mechanics by stretching the Arabidopsis epidermis. Now published in
‪@natcomms.nature.com‬ Fibrous network nature of plant cell walls enables tunable mechanics for development
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Erin Sparks @erinsparks.bsky.social · Aug 21

Excited for today’s #STLPlantFam25 Plant Science Family Reunion hosted by @39northstl.bsky.social. The joy of connecting with the STL plant fam is indescribable.

Image of the program cover for the family reunion event.

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Erin Sparks @erinsparks.bsky.social · Jul 27

Plant Biomechanics @plantbiomechanics.bsky.social · Feb 14

IMPORTANT: The 11th International Conference on Plantbiomechanics has been scheduled to 2026. Please take note!

The venue and host continues to be: Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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Erin Sparks @erinsparks.bsky.social · Jul 27

It was such an honor to coordinate this plenary! So much amazing science happening in Plant Biomechanics. Thanks to @radinbio.bsky.social, @geitmannlab.bsky.social, Naomi Nakayama, and Frank Telewski for sharing their work! #PlantBio2025

American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · Jul 27

Day 2 Biomechanics Plenary, Chaired by Erin Sparks @erinsparks.bsky.social, kicks off with "Evolution of Organellar Mechanosensing" by Ivan Radin @radinbio.bsky.social, showcasing his lab's testing how plant organelles perceive mechanical forces and adjust their morphology in response. #PlantScience

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Plant Cell Atlas @plantcellatlas.bsky.social · Jul 27

PCA Member Ivan Radin presented this morning at the 2025 ASPB Conference with his talk on "Evolution of Organellar Mechanosensing."

#PlantBio2025 @radinbio.bsky.social

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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · Jul 27

ASPB Fellow Anja Geitmann presents "From microstructural features to macroscopic traits" exploring her lab's work to understand the hierarchical architectural concepts underpinning metabolic processes. @geitmannlab.bsky.social #plantscience #PlantBio2025

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · Jul 27

Loved Naomi Nakayama’s talk-truly original research! #PlantBio2025

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · Jul 27

#PlantBio2025

I am excited for my awesome grad student, Olivia @ohazel.bsky.social from @science.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social presenting today at ASPB meeting in the poster session (unnumbered section).

Here is Olivia's 1st author preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · Jul 26

We @ohazel.bsky.social @jessicaa-orr.bsky.social arrived in Wisconsin to attend the ASPB meeting. We are off to a great start here and had a great time hanging out with Erin @erinsparks.bsky.social today.

Thanks Erin for making the time.

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Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm off to ASPB #PlantBio2025 tomorrow, with a poster and talk on using X-ray imaging in Plant Biology. New soybean imaging to share, like this fly-through animation of the meristematic region from an XRM scan. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · Jul 26

Congratulations @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social for your ASPB award. Well deserved! #PlantBio2025

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Brian Dilkes @briandilkes.bsky.social · Jul 10

The lab used our mutagen of choice, Ethyl methanesulfonate, and sequencing of somatic sectors to do some forward genetics in sorghum. Additional alleles in one generation to find and validate the gene! Something old, something new...

@genetics-gsa.bsky.social

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Targeted seed EMS mutagenesis reveals a basic helix–loop–helix transcription factor underlying male sterility in sorghum

Abstract. Forward genetic screens of mutant populations are fundamental for functional genomics studies. However, isolating independent mutant alleles to m

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MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · Jun 13

New data from the Bob Schmitz lab (Marand 2025) on cell type-specific cis-regulation in maize! This study, in @science.org, reveals how DNA changes impact expression and maize traits. Explore the 176 new tracks on the browser under Epigenetics and DNA binding.

➡️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The genetic architecture of cell type–specific cis regulation in maize

Gene expression and complex phenotypes are determined by the activity of cis-regulatory elements. However, an understanding of how extant genetic variants affect cis regulation remains limited. Here, ...

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Rebel Science Union @rebelscienceunion.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨It's here!🚨
The Underground Journal Launched Today!
@lindzeamays.bsky.social is our first featured artist! Sign up to learn more about Lindsay's work as a science illustrator.

We are already accepting submissions for the next issue! So excited to see what you all create!
#sciart #scicomm

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Brian Dilkes @briandilkes.bsky.social · Jun 9

Make your own maize mutants! Raj Khangura, Norman Best and I contributed maize pollen and seed EMS mutagenesis protocols for the new maize handbook! Updated practices 1/n cshprotocols.cshlp.org/content/earl...
cshprotocols.cshlp.org/content/earl...
cshprotocols.cshlp.org/content/earl...

Uses and Opportunities for Ethyl Methanesulfonate Mutagenesis in Maize

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Jun 6

Reason number 4,517 (yes I'm counting) why @maizegdb.bsky.social is so awesome and we're so lucky as a community to have these folks. Also a great example of maize community sharing. UNPUBLISHED data already up on the community database showing conservation scores across the maize genome.

MaizeGDB @maizegdb.bsky.social · Jun 6

We're excited to share PlantCAD browser tracks: a new, unpublished dataset integrating AI techniques for plant genome analysis. Explore it here: github.com/andorfc/Plan...
We welcome the community's feedback and innovative use cases for this data!

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Erin Sparks @erinsparks.bsky.social · Jun 7

Congrats to all!!!

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larry-spears.bsky.social @larry-spears.bsky.social · May 20

Thrilled that @10xgenomics.bsky.social is sponsoring the 6th Interdisciplinary #Plant Group Root (IPG) #Biology Symposium at Mizzou!

May 20-23, 2025

IPG is a community of researchers at at MU who are pursuing novel ideas in the field of plant biology!

link below!
ipg.missouri.edu/symposium/in...

2025 Symposium Information| Interdisciplinary Plant Group | University of Missouri

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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · May 14

📣 #PlantBio2025 Plenary: Biomechanics.🌱 Learn more and register now! buff.ly/eAQJjVe

👉Advanced rates end June 10! Hurry and register soon for the best savings on the event you don’t want to miss. buff.ly/dtqtnUX

#PlantScience

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · May 11

(1/15) We are happy to share the recent preprint from the lab, in a collaboration with Erin Sparks @erinsparks.bsky.social and Norman Best.

This story is focused on cell division and auxin in presence of one of the toxic metals, lead (Pb).

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Marie-Cécile Caillaud @mc-caillaud.bsky.social · May 2

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · May 2

📜 CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls

🧑‍🔬 Maarten Besten, Joris Sprakel, et al.

📔 @naturemethods.bsky.social

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTools #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantMethods

CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls - Nature Methods

A suite of nontoxic and permeable CarboTag probes in various colors enables live quantitative imaging of a range of plant cell wall characteristics and dynamic, high-resolution mapping of cell wall ch...

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Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · May 2

🌱🦠👩🏾‍🔬 Check out Shanice and her awesome work!

HHMI @hhmi.org · May 1

Plant health is essential to food security, yet pathogens continue to threaten crops worldwide. To better understand how disease takes hold—& how to stop them—HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow @shanice-webster.bsky.social is exploring the dynamic relationships among plants, microbes, & disease-causing agents.

Shanice Webster standing confidently in front of tall grasses with a greenhouse in the background.

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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · Mar 25

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Firmly grounded: root system stiffness and plant mechanics (Journal of Experimental Botany) (Summary by Irene I. Ikiriko) buff.ly/HBp5OK5

#PlantaePSRW

Firmly grounded: Root system stiffness and plant mechanics | Plantae

Field-based technologies are essential for understanding plant mechanical behavior in field-relevant contexts. This behavior can be elastic, with temporary deformation measured as stiffness…

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · Apr 6

(1/17) We are excited to share the Ashraf and Gallagher labs collaboration on cell cycle regulation during environmental stress recovery in Arabidopsis, Brachypodium, and ryegrass.

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Apr 6

Cell cycle follows pause and play mechanism in environment stress recovery in diverse plant species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.646900v1

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