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Jim Rowe @botanicaljim.bsky.social · 1d

I was tremendously lucky to be in @xanderjones.bsky.social's lab to watch @bijuntang.bsky.social move from technician to PhD to Postdoc and produce this magnum opus. #SalicS1 is the just reward for years of brilliance and hard work.Well done Bijun, Xander, Jing, and everyone involved! #SalicylicAcid

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 1d

Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance

Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...

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Ivan Radin @radinbio.bsky.social · Sep 8

While the first image showed the outside edge of surface mature Arabidopsis root cell, this second image from the same experiment shows the border between two root cells. The large plastid (blue due to chlorophyll autofluorescence) is squashed between the two membranes.
#arabidopsis #cellbiology

The image shows two straight magenta lines running in parallel. On either side of them, there are two wavy green lines. The oval-shaped blue chloroplast is squished between one magenta and one green line.

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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · Aug 27

🧪🌾News - How do seedlings straighten when emerging from the soil?🔬

@srobertgroup.bsky.social & collaborators have identified a protein that promotes this seedling straightening via the plant hormone auxin.

Read more about the story published in @pnas.org here👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

Eleven pale seedlings grown next to each other in a row with their yellowish tip bend downwards. Photo: Qian Ma

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Sarah Robinson @robinsonsci.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fantastic work. Congratulations.

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Zoe Nemec Venza @zoenv.bsky.social · Aug 27

Here it is! Epidermal cells in the root can figure out if they are covered by the root cap or not using mechanical signals! Thanks to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social Annamaria Kiss and all the others!

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Aug 27

Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth control programme https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.672229v1

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Sarah Robinson @robinsonsci.bsky.social · Aug 25

Really nice. I look forward to reading in more detail.

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Emmanuelle Bayer @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social · Jul 28

We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with:
1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics
2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility

Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : [email protected]. Deadline 15 sept.

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Anja Geitmann @geitmannlab.bsky.social · Aug 14

The maintenance of plant cell wall integrity involves complex molecular interactions. In this review, preetmanchanda.bsky.social summarizes the pivotal roles of RALF, LRX, and FERONIA as well as their interactions in different cell and tissue systems.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla.bsky.social · Jul 9

Cell-to-cell translocation of florigen is inhibited by low ambient temperature through abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience

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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · Jul 2

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion - Nature

A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.

www.nature.com

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Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social · Jun 24

Plz repost. Fresh Preprint led by @alexguyon.bsky.social
When a pathogen pushes into a cell already occupied by a symbiotic fungus, things change. New membrane phospholipids at pathogen haustoria! This may impact immune receptor positioning & defense secretion. -
And the roots are more resistant!

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts!
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

Promotional poster with images of an Arabidopsis flower development over time from a cluster of identical cells to the final flower and two models of Arabirbiopsis flower meristems highligting active genes. Text reads: 9th Plant Computational Biology Workshop, 8-12 September 2025, Sainsbury Laboratory, University fo Cambridge.

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Sarah Robinson @robinsonsci.bsky.social · May 25

It is a Tradescantia leaf and the yellow dots are stomata. Thanks for asking.

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · May 23

🤯 Look at this confocal image of a endomycorrhiza fungus inside a 400 million old fossil plant. Check out the new preprint by Christine Strullu-Derrien, @dromius.bsky.social and Ray from @slcuplants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... for more pictures and a video. Congratulations 🎉

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Sarah Robinson @robinsonsci.bsky.social · May 23

Lovely image. It looks like it has some stomatal spacing issues.

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Sarah Robinson @robinsonsci.bsky.social · May 23

Explaining our science at the Chelsea flower show.

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · May 22

Cool SEM images being captured at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week. We are looking for more samples - so if you know a nursery or specialist grower exhibiting at #RHSChelsea, please share this post with them.

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · May 22

Stomatal transpiration and rapid programmed cell death ☠️ triggered by lowered ambient humidity causes anther tissue collapse for effective pollen release !

Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · May 22

@binebrumm.bsky.social, together with @dromius.bsky.social team colleagues, unveiled how key proteins act as 'sculptors' in plant cells, taking on different roles to shape development

Read more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-c...
And full paper doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Trichomes on an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf (here shown using electron microscopy) are formed by a single cell adopting this spiked shape (top images). Arabidopsis plants without a SCAR/WAVE gene cannot form properly shaped trichomes, because their inner cytoskeleton control is impaired (bottom images). Images by Sabine Brumm.

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Sarah Robinson @robinsonsci.bsky.social · May 21

Having an amazing time exhibiting at the Chelsea flower show

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · May 20

We are thrilled to have been awarded a silver-gilt medal at our first Chelsea Flower Show! 🪻

An enormous thank you to everyone who contributed to this success - @eng.cam.ac.uk, Darwin Nurseries and Oakington Garden Centre!

#RHSChelsea @cambridgeuni.bsky.social

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · May 13

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Recent preprint from Chris Ambrose's lab!

The Arabidopsis WAVE/SCAR Protein BRICK1 Associates with Cell Edges and Plasmodesmata @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

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

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Leonie Luginbuehl @lluginbuehl.bsky.social · May 4

Join our group (www.luginbuehllab.com) at @camplantsci.bsky.social! Are you excited about mycorrhiza, (single-cell) transcriptomics, carbon physiology, and the model crop rice? We have a 2-year postdoc position available, starting ASAP. Closing date 23rd May 2025!

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/

Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · Apr 24

🚨Check out this amazing finding: Inactivation of a symbiosis-specific Glucan binding protein leads to increased nitrogen fixation in Medicago. Amazing work, congratulations to everyone!

Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social · Apr 24

Read & RP. New preprint by Alex Gavrin from his time in our team - Inactivation of Medicago Glucan binding protein 1 (GBP1) offers: An approach to enhance symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Brady Lab @bradylabs.bsky.social · Apr 19

We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095

Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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