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Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social · 5d

Light-mediated balances and trade-offs in plant energy and resource management academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

Light-mediated balances and trade-offs in plant energy and resource management

Abstract. Light is a central environmental signal that coordinates plant development, metabolism, and stress responses. By integrating external cues with i

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 5d

A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization

Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

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Ben Field 🌿 @benfield1.bsky.social · 8d

Discovery of a chromatin-associated complex (CACG) of ~16 proteins that negatively regulates the expression of nutrient-starvation-induced gene. CACG is of course controlled by TOR! #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nutrient-driven TOR signalling controls a chromatin-associated complex for orchestrating plant growth and stress tolerance - Nature Plants

A chromatin-associated complex, which is dynamically regulated by TOR kinase at the translational level, functions to suppress the transcription of stress-responsive genes marked by histone acetylation, thereby coordinating plant growth and stress tolerance.

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Ben Field 🌿 @benfield1.bsky.social · 9d

📄 New paper: A massive photosystem I–fucoxanthin chlorophyll supercomplex has been discovered in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi. 🌊🌱
www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Cascales Lab @cascaleslab.bsky.social · 10d

We will have soon an Open position for a PhD thesis position to work on bacterial secretion systems !

Stay tuned !!

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Cascales Lab @cascaleslab.bsky.social · 10d

Open position !!
Either at the Engineer or post-doctoral level, to work on filamentous phages. Collaboration between Laetitia Houot's group and Thierry Doan @thicoz.bsky.social.
To apply at the E level:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
To apply at the post-doc level:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 16d

A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com

130 bryophyte genomes!

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Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics

A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 21d

'How to be a scientist in a post-journal world'

@pracheeac.bsky.social & @mbeisen.bsky.social beautifully explain how a post-Journal world would look, work, & why it would indeed be a better world. 👍

#ScientificPublishing #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #Preprints #OpenScience

How to be a scientist in a post-journal world

When we created this site to write about things in science that need to be fixed, we chose not to start with publishing, even though it has been our preoccupation for decades.

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 21d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

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Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

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Wolfgang Dröge-Laser @wdl1.bsky.social · Sep 7

Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th

www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
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Ben Field 🌿 @benfield1.bsky.social · Aug 29

Fascinating study on the regulation of chloroplast protein accumulation via the coordination of chloroplastic translation and cytosolic transcription during dark-light transitions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Synchronization between chloroplastic and cytosolic protein synthesis for photosynthesis complex assembly

Through symbiosis, subunits of chloroplastic complexes are encoded in distinct genomes in the nucleus and organelles. For plant cells to maintain the stoichiometry of subunits and respond to environme...

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Ben Field 🌿 @benfield1.bsky.social · Aug 27

"Bidirectional regulation between TOR kinase and chloroplasts: emerging connections in photosynthetic organisms." Now with journal formatting for easy reading! 😁 #PlantScience academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...

Ben Field 🌿 @benfield1.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our new review with Benoit Menand and Jose Crespo on the emerging connections between TOR, chloroplasts and photosynthesis 😎 in plants 🌿and algae 🦠 #PlantScience url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...

Schematic figure showing how different chloroplast-derived metabolites can influence TOR signalling.

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Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · Aug 22

Coming out in @NaturePlants today (rdcu.be/eBScJ): The mechanism for essential amino acid transport across the chloroplast envelope. We identified RETICULATA1 (RE1) as a new type of transport protein. #PlantScience #AminoAcidTransport #Chloroplasts. @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · Aug 22

New OA Article: "RETICULATA1 is a plastid-localized basic amino acid transporter" rdcu.be/eBUNM

RE1 enables basic aa exchange across the plastid inner envelope. Loss-of-function mutants reveal its essential role in aa homeostasis, plant development and seed production.

See thread below.

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Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social · Aug 21

Elongation factors regulate the repair of photosystem II oxido-reductively: Trends in Plant Science www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Elongation factors regulate the repair of photosystem II oxido-reductively

Photoinhibition of photosystem II (PSII) limits the fixation of light energy by photosynthesis and, thus, the productivity of plants everywhere. Photosynthetic organisms are equipped with a system tha...

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Ben Field 🌿 @benfield1.bsky.social · Aug 21

Plant Plastids: From Evolutionary Origins to Functional Specialization and Organelle Interactions url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

Plant Plastids: From Evolutionary Origins to Functional Specialization and Organelle Interactions

Abstract. Plastids are highly diverse organelles that play critical roles in supporting life on Earth. Among them, chloroplasts enable photosynthesis, prov

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · Aug 18

New OA Article: "Assembly-dependent translational feedback regulation of photosynthetic proteins in land plants" rdcu.be/eBbQ6

Algae fine-tune protein synthesis to assembly demands of photosynthetic complexes. In land plants, this feedback control varies or is absent.

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Ben Field 🌿 @benfield1.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our new review with Benoit Menand and Jose Crespo on the emerging connections between TOR, chloroplasts and photosynthesis 😎 in plants 🌿and algae 🦠 #PlantScience url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · Aug 14

First comprehensive fact check of the DOE ‘critical review’ of climate science..

Multiple pinocchios!

interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...

Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Aug 8

An exciting negative result!

Liana Lareau @lianafaye.bsky.social · Aug 7

At the same time, we made thousands of synonymous mutations in endogenous yeast genes and measured their growth. We used careful statistics and controls. Only 3%, 204 of 6874, had a fitness effect! This goes against a controversial recent result that most synonymous mutations had fitness effects.

Scatterplot showing fitness effect of ~7000 synonymous mutations in yeast: read count at start vs log2 fold change. Most data points are not significant but 204 points are significant outliers, either advantageous or deleterious.

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

Acclimation of photosynthesis began with a Cu-binding superoxide detoxifying enzyme https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666786v1

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Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social · Jul 27

Acclimation of photosynthesis began with a Cu-binding superoxide detoxifying enzyme www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Acclimation of photosynthesis began with a Cu-binding superoxide detoxifying enzyme

Plant acclimation is a growing scientific concept, at molecular, cellular and global scales. All photosynthetic organisms that created an oxic atmosphere on earth possess a gene of unknown function, A...

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KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social · Jul 26

Plz check out this new preprint from a collaborative effort with many great groups. Spoiler alert: Its about 🌱 plastids 😜. Thx to everyone who contributed, Serena Schwenkert from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social for leading the project, and of course @dfg.de for funding: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Role of Chloroplast Lipid-Remodelling Protein 23 During Cold Acclimation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Cold acclimation is a crucial physiological process that enables plants to adapt to low temperatures. A key aspect of this adaptation is lipid remodeling, which preserves membrane fluidity and integri...

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · Jul 25

Wow. Scientists have edited mosquito DNA to prevent the spread of malaria to humans "while supporting essential physiological functions... and negligible fitness costs" to the mosquito population.

Potentially ending the mosquito-born spread of malaria to humans.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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