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Section of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
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kleinevehnlab.bsky.social
Working with an international team means being invited into new worlds — including Christmas traditions I’d never encountered before.
Feeling grateful for this cultural richness. 🎄🌍

Can you guess what this is?
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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leibnizipk.bsky.social
Researchers at the @leibnizipk.bsky.social have discovered that small proteins from the SUMO family are of particular importance for the kinetochore of the model plant Arabidopsis. Their results were published in @mplantpcom.bsky.social.

➡️PR: tinyurl.com/mv8c997u
➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/ytuzspxt
December 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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atinygreencell.bsky.social
Bioengineering is so beautiful in its complete departure from any other technology humanity has ever invented. My compiler, IDE, and robotics chassis all wrapped up in goopy glooby nanomachines that undulate wetly to the rhythm of electron transport.

Aqueous code.

Bliss.
December 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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gmivienna.bsky.social
Group leader Frédéric Berger, at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social, joins special research area (SFB) “Meiosis” in the second funding round from the @fwf-at.bsky.social! The consortium consists of 9 research groups from the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social, @istaresearch.bsky.social, @jku.at & @embl.org.
December 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
European plant scientists welcome the EU Trilogue Provisional Agreement on New Genomic Techniques (#NGT), as EU-SAGE reports, the network representing plants scientists at 134 European plant science institutes and societies www.eu-sage.eu/news/Europea...
www.eu-sage.eu
December 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🌿 REVIEW 🌿

Gupta et al. provide updated insights into how nitrate reductase-mediated nitric oxide production contributes to stress adaptation, with a focus on its regulation, signaling interactions, and potential for enhancing crop resilience.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

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Fig. 2.Structure and regulation of nitrate reductase. (A) In higher plants, NR exists as a dimer, with each monomer consisting of a ∼100 kDa polypeptide chain linked with co-factors (FAD, Heme-Fe, and Mo-MPT). Two structurally flexible ‘hinge’ regions flank the Heme-Fe domain, connecting it to the Mo-MPT (hinge-1) and the FAD domain (hinge-2). The FAD domain receives two electrons from NAD(P)H, which are then transferred via Heme-Fe to the Mo-Mpt. In this process, NO3− is reduced to NO2−, and subsequently, NO2− is converted to NO at Mo-MPT. Redrawn after Xiong et al. (2012). (B) Regulation of NR by light and different PTMs. The 3D structure of the NIA2 was downloaded from AlphaFold and different amino acids undergoing different PTMs and their implications on the NR activity have been highlighted. See full paper for abbreviations.
December 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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carogutj.bsky.social
Are you interested in using synthetic approaches to promote arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis? Then our PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b...
Postdoc (m/f/d) position on synthetic approaches to promote arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis
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December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

W2 Professorship: Plant Physiology @rptu.bsky.social

Deadline: 5 Januar 2026
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Job Openings
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December 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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mpipz.bsky.social
📣🥳 We are thrilled to share that our director, Raphaël Mercier @raphmercier.bsky.social has been awarded the VinFuture Special Prize for Innovators with Outstanding Achievements in Emerging Fields 🌱✨. Congratulations 👏👏 #plantsci #genetics 👉https://bit.ly/3MtCGLW
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Professor Raphaël Mercier - VinFuture Prize
SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Innovations in the development of clonal hybrid crops Hybrid vigor, refers to the higher performance of a hybrid plant in comparison to those of its parents. Although hybrid s...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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hadrienoliveri.bsky.social
Active matter physics studies living beings as open, out of equilibrium, and emergent systems. In this perspective on plant morphogenesis, we show how such features arise from the basic hydromechanics of plant tissue and how to capture them in models. 🌱💧

Preprint 👇
arxiv.org/abs/2512.05554
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🍅

The tomato dad1 mutant lacks jasmonate biosynthesis, forming seedless fruits. Expression data shows spatiotemporal localization of jasmonate regulates fruit set primarily by modulating gibberellin metabolism - Nomura et al.

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Fig. 8 (shortened, full legend in paper): A working model for JA-mediated regulation of tomato fruit development. In the wild type (WT), the jasmonic acid (JA) biosynthesis gene SlDAD1 is specifically expressed in the filaments before anthesis, particularly at −2 days after anthesis (DAA). During this period, JA levels (red) transiently increase in the filaments and ovules, thereby suppressing ovary enlargement prior to anthesis. Consequently, in the absence of pollination the ovaries fail to develop into fruits. The signal, which is probably emitted through the ovules (dotted arrow), is not clear. In contrast, the Sldad1 mutant exhibits markedly low JA levels in both the filaments and ovules before anthesis.
December 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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maddyseale.bsky.social
Out in @science.org this week:
PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division.

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

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#PlantSci
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics
The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

PostDoc position: Plant genomics and quantitative genetics.

In @mgstetter.bsky.social’s lab @unicologne.bsky.social + @ceplas.bsky.social-member

Start: a.s.a.p.
Deadline: 14 December 2025

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Stellenausschreibungen in Pflanzenwissenschaften und Botanik
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December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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scheuring-lab.bsky.social
New preprint from our lab: Salicylic acid- induced alkalinization of the apoplast requires TMK1 and results in growth attenuation

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Big thanks to all who contributed @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
@julien-gronnier.bsky.social
@kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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somssich.bsky.social
This is an interesting read on the famous penicillin discovery story; by @kevinsblake.bsky.social for @asimovpress.bsky.social.

Today, students are taught how to properly "sell" their results. Maybe in 100 years, this selling will result in a detective story to uncover the truth...

#SciCom
The Penicillin Myth
Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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somssich.bsky.social
I really enjoyed the opportunity to hear Mark Estelle, Maarten Koornneef & @plantevolution.bsky.social speak about their careers at the recent @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social #PlantScience Awards.

As always on such occasions, I found myself looking up the old papers mentioned. I compiled them here 🧵👇
2025 PNBenfey Arabidopsis Lifetime Achievement Awards
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December 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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scheuring-lab.bsky.social
New preprint from our lab: Salicylic acid- induced alkalinization of the apoplast requires TMK1 and results in growth attenuation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Big thanks to all who contributed @julien-gronnier.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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plantevolution.bsky.social
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
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October 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
📖 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 📖

In this review, Wang et al. describe the protease, chaperone-like, and substrate processing working modes of plant FtsH, and summarize the role of FtsH in organelle protein homeostasis 🔄 🌱

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Box 1. Key developments in understanding FtsH functions for organelle protein homeostasis in Arabidopsis The schematic illustration shows the primary and 3D structure of FtsH (A–C) and highlights recent advances in understanding the roles of plant FtsHs localized in chloroplasts (D, E, and H) and mitochondria (F and G). See paper for full description of Box 1.
October 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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natplants.nature.com
New Article: "A mobile DELLA controls Medicago truncatula root cortex patterning to host arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" rdcu.be/eJO9O

Mobile transcriptional regulators DELLA and SHORT-ROOT control the number of root inner cortex cell layers able to host symbiotic AMF.
October 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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theplantcell.bsky.social
Identification of a cleaved aberrant RNA associated with the initiation of transgene silencing (Marianne C Kramer, Thivanka Sandaruwan Ratnayake, Seth A Edwards, Harper L Lowrey, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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kenichitsuda.bsky.social
This is interesting!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Growth arrest is a DNA damage protection strategy in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications
This study demonstrates that growth arrest under stress in Arabidopsis protects meristem cells from DNA damage, challenging the idea that it is merely due to energy trade-offs and highlighting its rol...
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July 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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botbml.bsky.social
A SynBio explosion: a whole new world for Rubisco engineering

From @laura-gunn.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
A SynBio explosion: a whole new world for Rubisco engineering
This article comments on:Archer J, Kathpalia M, Lee B, Li S, Wang T. 2025. Effects of chaperone selectivity on the assembly of plant Rubisco orthologs in E
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July 4, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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ceplas.bsky.social
Pflanzen, Forschung & ein bisschen Campusgeschichte!
Gestern waren wir unterwegs auf einer kleinen Zeitreise durch die Pflanzenforschung @hhu.de . Von Gewächshausern bis zu Hightech-Gebäuden: viel hat sich getan in den letzten Jahren!
Danke an alle, die mit uns auf Entdeckungstour waren! 💚
July 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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talbotlabtsl.bsky.social
Great talk by @ecarmosilva.bsky.social on the challenges of improving rubisco efficiency for enhanced photosynthetic resilience under climate change. Fascinating insights. @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM