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Bobby Caine
@bc247.bsky.social
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Editorial Advisor at Plants, People, Planet 🌿🫂🌍. Senior Research Associate at The University of Sheffield in the Croft Lab 🍃💧📸🛰☀️🌾
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Jan 23
1/4 Delighted to share our latest preprint "Future heatwave conditions inhibit CO2-induced stomatal closure in wheat". We found that high CO2, high VPD heatwave treatment prevents stomatal responses to light, super-elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertiliser application. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Prof. Keiko Torii @keikoutorii.bsky.social · Jul 4
Our latest! K63-polyUb of the ERECTA receptor kinase by PUB30/31 is required for the ligand induced receptor endocytosis for stomatal patterning. Our results show that ERECTA signals at the PM. Congrats, Liangliang, Minh & the team🌱!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Jul 10
Today at SEB 2025, we have an exciting #LICOR workshop looking at plant gas exchange across scales🌿🌾💦🌏. Environmental scientist Ian Smillie will introduce cutting-edge technologies that enable leaf to ecosystem level measuring of plant performance. #photosynthesis #stomata @sebiology.bsky.social
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Jul 8
Day 1 of SEB 2025 in Antwerp. What a great venue 🏛🦁! It was real pleasure to be part of the P3 PEPG session looking at plant #photosynthesis this morning alongside speakers including @oulaghannoum.bsky.social. From now, time to enjoy the afternoon talks. @sebiology.bsky.social
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Jul 7
Looking forward to seeing many friends and colleagues over the course of the week. For an overview of all the great talks and sessions see: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025
A full interactive online programme will be made available in the run up to the conference, and printed copies will be available at the venue.
www.sebiology.org
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Jul 7
Really looking forward to SEB 2025 in Antwerp this week. A really interesting #photosynthesis session tomorrow, followed by a #stomata session on Wednesday (I'll be co-chairing with @casparchater.bsky.social). Then on Thursday, #LICOR have a gas exchange workshop. @sebiology.bsky.social
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Jul 7
There's so many great talks planned across the various keynotes and seminars: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025
A full interactive online programme will be made available in the run up to the conference, and printed copies will be available at the venue.
www.sebiology.org
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Apr 14
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Apr 14
Happy to share details of an online seminar I'll be taking part in tomorrow where I'll discuss #stomata. This will include evolution, biotechnology and "sensing" of stomata (including drone data capture). It's an early start, from 7.30am UK time - so don't forget to grab coffee ☕️. Login details 👇
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Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) Project @ripeproject.bsky.social · Apr 8
RIPE Researchers, in work done for the CABBI Project, demonstrated that increasing the Rubisco enzyme in C4 crops like sorghum and sugar cane increases photosynthesis and yield as well!

Their work was published in the National Academy of Sciences proceedings.
Adapting C4 photosynthesis to atmospheric change and increasing productivity by elevating Rubisco content in sorghum and sugarcane | PNAS
Meta-analyses and theory show that with rising atmospheric [CO2], Rubisco has become the greatest limitation to light-saturated leaf CO2 assimilati...
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Andy Plackett @seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social · Mar 23
It's been a long time coming but I'm very happy to share this preprint with folks. 🙂 Thanks again to the Royal Society for funding this research.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Plantscience
#Plantevolution
#Fernbiology
Gene networks are conserved across reproductive development between the fern Ceratopteris richardii and the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana
How plants first invented seeds is a longstanding unresolved evolutionary question. Seed-bearing plants arose from within seedless vascular plants, with ferns as their closest relatives, but how the s...
www.biorxiv.org
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Mike Haydon 🌱 🌾 🧬 ⏰ @hikemaydon.bsky.social · Mar 12
I'm looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on the function of #circadian clock proteins in wheat.
I also have a full-funded PhD opportunity.
#plantscience
Postdoc applications close on 2 April.
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...
Details : Research Fellow in Plant Biochemistry : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
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Facundo Romani @fromani.bsky.social · Mar 10
Recently, two papers showed the potential of population genetics in Marchantia from @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and Dolan's lab. Here is my dispatch for Current Biology talking about them.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Population genomics: A new chapter for Marchantia biology
The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has become a powerful model organism for plant biology. Researchers are now exploring its potential as a model system for population genomics to understand natural ...
www.cell.com
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Jim Rowe @botanicaljim.bsky.social · Mar 7
Still time to apply for this! Deadline the 17th of March.
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Jim Rowe @botanicaljim.bsky.social · Feb 7
I have a PAID 6 weeks undergraduate summer internship in my lab. You'll use #FRET #biosensors, #confocal #microscopes, and #RaspberryPi to try to discover how low humidity affects leaf development. @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

Project 5: www.rms.org.uk/community/ne...
Summer Studentships
www.rms.org.uk
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Mar 7
An interesting new story about MYB59 contribution to WUE at high temperature in #Arabidopsis by John Ferguson, Oliver Brendel and @ubechtold.bsky.social. #stomata #roots
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.27.640580v1
MYB59 is linked to natural variation of water use associated with warmer temperatures in Arabidopsis thaliana
Water-use contributes significantly to plant growth and productivity, yet the extent to which variation in water-use is a function of adaptive differentiation is unknown. Here, we studied natural vari...
www.biorxiv.org
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Mar 7
TODAY is DEADLINE DAY for abstract submissions for talks and posters at SEB 2025! @casparchater.bsky.social and I have a great lineup of Keynote speakers in our #stomata session including SEB president @proftlawson.bsky.social. Please spread the word!
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James Lloyd 🧬 @jamespblloyd.bsky.social · Mar 6
Registration is now open for the Society of Experimental Biology annual meeting in July 2025 in Antwerp, Belgium, where my friends @suruchiroy.bsky.social & Marta are hosting the 'Gravitropism and Plant Architecture' session. Please share and register here:

www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · Mar 4
Abstracts open for the JXB 75th Anniversary Symposium @jxbotany.bsky.social #PlantSci 🧪🌾🪴 www.sebiology.org/events/journ...
Journal of Experimental Botany (JXB) 75th Anniversary Symposium
www.sebiology.org
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Mar 4
If you want to present your latest #stomata research at SEB 2025, there are only 4 days until the submission deadline(7th of March)!! Excitingly, @casparchater.bsky.social and I can now also announce a brand new Workshop focused on measuring gas exchange across scales with @li-corenv.bsky.social👇👇
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Luke Dunning @luketdunning.bsky.social · Feb 27
Looking for a PhD?

Come work with us on Horizontal Gene Transfer in crops!

Deadline 14th March

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Horizontal gene transfer and its role in crop adaptation and evolution at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Horizontal gene transfer and its role in crop adaptation and evolution at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
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Peter Etchells @peteretchells.bsky.social · Feb 27
Please repost: BBSRC funded PhD opportunity. Please get in touch for further project info. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Investigation of genes regulating the intercalary meristem in barley at Durham University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Investigation of genes regulating the intercalary meristem in barley at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Feb 25
We showed that additional sulphur often enhanced wheat performance, whereas differences associated with nitrogen application rate were not readily detectable. The application of sugar to soils often hindered performance. @ukri.org @sheffielduni.bsky.social
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Feb 25
Really glad to finally share this work. The first research conducted with @drhollycroft.bsky.social, in collaboration with ADAS UK. We used #optical and #thermal data from #drones together with ground measurements to map #wheat🌾 traits and fluxes. @sheffieldpps.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Johnathan Napier @johnathan-n.bsky.social · Feb 22
Here at @rothamsted.bsky.social we are fortunate to have a very large area of GM glasshouse. Here we are growing up enough plants to transform 18 different constructs, optimising the accumulation of EPA&DHA omega-3 fish oils. Camelina is the ideal crop for such an iterative approach.
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Bobby Caine @bc247.bsky.social · Feb 21
Only 2 weeks to go until the deadline for talk and poster abstracts for SEB 2025. @casparchater.bsky.social and I are really looking forward to hosting keynotes @proftlawson.bsky.social, Dr John Ferguson and Dr Lorna McAusland for a session on #stomata and #crops. @sebiology.bsky.social Please RT!!
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Jill Harrison @jillharrison.bsky.social · Feb 5
Another great job opportunity
@BristolBioSci. This one is a lectureship in evolutionary biology, and we are looking for an academic lead to our MSc in bioinformatics, so genomics and phylogenetics will be strong cards to play!
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
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